The National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority (NAERSA) assesses employees for auto enrolment based on payroll information reported to Revenue.

Find the step by step guide for how to process Auto Enrolment in BrightPay here.

In order to instruct an employer in BrightPay to enrol an employee into My Future Fund an Automatic Enrolment Payroll Notification (AEPN) must be sent by NAERSA.

Within BrightPay, the first step for processing payroll is to retrieve your RPNs with the tax credits and cut off points for employees. This can be actioned under > Update Employees in the Payroll section.

BrightPay has simply added a second update option to retrieve the AEPN from NAERSA. Once the RPN has been retrieved and updated, the option to ‘Check For and Retrieve AEPNS Now’ will be available.

The response will come back from NAERSA if any employees need to be enrolled in My Future Fund with the percentage rate information and enrolment status and date.

To update the employees from the AEPN please select ‘Apply Selected Updates’. Employees auto enrolment status will be updated.

Select an employee in the Payroll section. Under the Additions and Deductions heading you will see My Future Funddetails including the Employer and Employee Contribution rates.

On the right of the screen under ‘This Period’ tab you will see the amounts for the Employer and Employee Contribution for My Future Fund. The Employee’s Contribution amount is deducted from Net Pay.

The status has been updated on the right hand side of the screen for the employee that an RPN and AEPN were retrieved and the employee’s details match.

Once the payroll is processed and the payslips are finalised you need to send your Auto Enrolment Contribution Submission to NAERSA on the pay date before 6.30pm You can do this after or before sending the PSR to Revenue. Select ‘Send AECS to NAERSA’.

A summary of the information to send including Employees’ names and the Employer and Employee Contribution amounts. Select ‘Continue’.

The submission details including employer information, totals and individual employees’ details are available to check before sending. Select ‘Send to NAERSA’ in order to send the AECS.

Once the AECS is sent to Revenue the information is updated on the Submit Amounts icon and the Submit status on the Payroll Summary screen.