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Payments (User Manual)

Payments (User Manual)

The Payments section manages the full payment workflow for Social Protection benefit disbursements. Payments are configured using three building blocks, set up in the following order:

  1. Payment Plan — defines the calculation rule and parameters that determine how much each beneficiary receives

  2. Payment Cycle — defines the time period during which a payment run is executed

  3. Payroll — brings a Payment Plan and a Payment Cycle together to generate the actual payment records for beneficiaries

An optional fourth concept, Payment Point, can be configured to represent a physical disbursement location for offline payments.

Both unconditional and conditional (timesheet-based) cash transfers use this same workflow. The difference lies in the Calculation Rule selected in the Payment Plan.

ℹ️ Navigation note: Payment-related screens are currently located under the Legal and Finance menu in the openIMIS navigation bar.