## Zoho Payroll Documentation Index

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# Configure Prior Payroll

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**Prior payroll** is pay you have already processed outside Zoho Payroll earlier in the same tax year (6 April to 5 April), for example with another payroll provider.

You need it only if you have already paid employees this tax year outside Zoho Payroll. If this is your first payroll of the tax year, click **Disable Prior Payroll**.

**Warning:** If you need prior payroll, finish it before you process a pay run.

## Configure prior payroll from Getting Started

**Getting Started** always includes **Configure prior payroll**, whether you answered Yes or No when you created the organisation.

1.  On the **Getting Started** page, click **Complete Now** next to **Configure prior payroll**.
2.  If you have not saved a pay schedule, click **Configure Pay Schedule**.
3.  If you chose **No** when you [created the organisation](/uk/payroll/help/employer/basics/access-zoho-payroll.html), click **Enable Prior Payroll** only if you have already paid employees this tax year.
4.  If no employees have been added to Zoho Payroll yet, add the employees you paid this tax year, then import your latest FPS file.

If you do not need prior payroll, click **Disable Prior Payroll**.

For the full steps, and FPS import, refer to [Prior Payroll](/uk/payroll/help/employer/prior-payroll.html).