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1. Log in to DCI with an appropriate profile
2. Click Payroll on the main menu
3. Click Batches on the submenu
4. Click Actions
5. Select New Payroll Batch from the drop-down menu
6. Add batch name (required) and description (optional)
7. Click Add From File (see example file headers below)
8. Click Upload tab delimited TXT file and locate the .txt file to upload
9. Click Open
10. Click Next
11. Review batch summary
12. Click Save and Yes to confirm

The batch is now submitted, and the system shows the batch details page. The batch is in pending status and must be validated. Process as normal.

Example file headers: 

Add Entries to Existing Batch

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1. The batch starts in Pending status 
   1. If negative paycheck validation is Active the first step will be Validate. Proceed to step 4. If negative paycheck validation is Inactive the first process will be Process. Proceed to step 5.
2. When the batch in Pending or Validated status the user can review, remove entries, add entries, merge the batch, or split the batch. 

3. During the payroll batch steps Validate, Process and Approve the button will be greyed out while processing. Proceed with other tasks within DCI while the payroll batch step runs.

   1. If messages templates Processed or Approved are Active, the user will receive a message and optionally a notification, when the step is completed OR

   2. Refresh the browser to update the batch processing status

4. Click Validate button then Yes to start validation process. This process includes the following status:
   1. Validate InProcess
   2. Validate Process Started
   3. Validate
5. Click Process buttonthen Yes to process batch. This process includes the following status: 
   1. InProcess
   2. Process Started
   3. Processed
6. Click Approve buttonthen Yes to proceed with processing. This process includes the following status: 
   1. Approved InProcess
   2. Approved Process Started
   3. Approved

7. When the payroll batch processing is complete the status changes to Transmitted

8. Batch processing is now complete, proceed to the Reconcile step if needed

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