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# One-time Payments

> With Payroll, you can make one-time payments to your employees outside the monthly payroll process.

## Use Cases

One-time payments are beneficial when your employee is:

* Remunerated for an ad hoc project.
* Receives a performance incentive or other bonuses like a retention/joining bonus.

<Warning>
  **Watch Out!**

  You must **NOT** use one-time payments for the following:

  * **Not for salary payouts**: Do not make salary payouts such as the following using one-time payments:
  * Run payroll for just one employee.
  * Disburse your employee's last salary.
  * Pay employee's skipped salary.
  * Clear any outstanding salary arrears.

  If any salary component is yet to be paid to your employee, add it to the immediate next payroll cycle.

  * **Not for compliance payments**: PF, TDS, PT and other compliance components are a part of the payroll process, and you must process them in **Run Payroll**.

  * **Not for paying Advance Salary**: The amount paid to employees using one-time payments gets added to their next gross pay and causes double entries and errors.
</Warning>

## Make One-time Payments

To make one-time payments:

1. Log in to the Payroll Dashboard.

2. Select the employee from the drop-down menu under **Who do you want to make the payment to?**

3. Select Component:
   * **Half Yearly Bonus:** Prorated Tax deduction
   * **Incentive:** Instant tax deduction
   * **Yearly:** Instant tax deduction

<Warning>
  **Watch Out!**

  * **Prorated Tax Deduction**: Tax is spread across remaining months of the financial year, reducing immediate tax impact on employees.
  * **Instant Tax Deduction**: Full applicable tax is deducted immediately in the same payment cycle.

  4. Add the amount payable in the **Total Amount** field.

  * You can view the status of the one-time payment on the queue bar displayed on the screen or in the bottom right under the **Queued One-time payments** section.
  * To check the history of all one-time payments, click on the **Ledger** section on the page.
  * The one-time payment will reflect in the upcoming month's payslip for the employee. Tax is deducted as applicable if you have selected to deduct tax in the future payroll.
</Warning>

### Related Information

* [Salary](/payroll/salary)
* [Run Payroll](/payroll/run-payroll)
* [Exceptional Pay Cases](/payroll/exceptional-cases)