Payroll Terminology Reference

Summary

This page records confirmed payroll terminology reference behavior and marks incomplete boundaries explicitly.

Payroll users, developers, QA and support engineers, architects, and implementation reviewers.

Term	Confirmed meaning
Payroll period	Tenant month/year lifecycle record
Payroll run	Period calculation aggregate
Run detail	Employee-level calculated outcome within a run
Salary calculation	Persisted summarized calculation evidence
Freeze	Reversible lifecycle transition that locks native run/detail outputs and applies confirmed recovery changes
Unfreeze	Native reversible transition that clears freeze state and creates recovery reversals where applicable
Projection	Payroll-owned local copy of upstream workforce, Attendance, Leave, or Expense facts
Compatibility	Legacy-facing API/UI behavior backed by Payroll persistence during transition
Payslip	Structured Payroll output; PDF rendering is a separate response boundary
Outbox intent	Durable local record requesting later integration-event publication

Terminology does not imply payment, accounting, statutory filing, or irreversible finalization.