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      Maintaining Your Holiday Records: 2025

      Use your current Holiday Template and Holiday Pay Policy to set up next year's holidays.

      If you have yet to set up a holiday template and pay policy, check out Set Up Holiday Pay Policies for Your Time Off Calendar.

       

      Add Holiday for the Upcoming Year
        - Edit Holiday Template Name
      Regenerate Pay Policy

      Add Holidays for the Upcoming Year

      IMPORTANT: After making any change to your Holiday Template or Pay Policy, you must regenerate the Pay Policy. 

      If you have already set up a Holiday Pay Policy, follow these steps to add holidays for the upcoming year.

      1. Navigate to HR Admin → Time Off Center → Holiday.

      2. Select your current Holiday Template (e.g. “2024 Holidays”) by selecting the green Holiday button. This will open the Holiday editing page.

        1. A screenshot of the Holiday Template page.
      3. Select the Add New button in the top right of the Holiday editing page.
        1. A screenshot of the Holiday editing page, highlighting the "Add New" button.
      4. In the New Holiday pop-up enter the Holiday Name and Date. The date entered will be the date the holiday hours are applied. For example, if your check date is 07/10/2025 with a pay period from 06/28/2025 to 07/04/2025, then the 07/10/2025 payroll will contain the holiday hours for the 4th of July.
        1. A screenshot of the New Holiday pop-up, with the Name field filled in as "Independence Day", the Date field as "07/04/2025", and the Pay Policy Time Off button checked.

      5. The Attendance Worked Holiday checkbox only applies to Checkwriters clients using Attendance, specifically employees utilizing Time Clock. Please see the Worked Holiday section of our Set Up Holiday Pay Policies for Time Off Calendar to learn more.

      6. The Pay Policy Time Off checkbox is used for dates you would like to pay employees for as a day off. Check this box if you do not expect employees to work on the date you’ve entered.

      7. Select Save when you have finished entering all the appropriate information for the holiday.

      Note: If the holiday falls on a weekend and you want to pay out holiday hours for the Friday before or Monday after, you must input the date of that Friday or Monday. 

      Once you have individually entered and saved all of your holidays for the year, select Cancel to be brought back to the Holiday Template page.

      A screenshot of the Holiday editing page. An arrow points to the "Cancel" button and reads "Finished? Select Cancel to go back to the Holiday Template page. 

      Edit Holiday Template Name

      Now that you’ve added next year’s holidays to your current template, you might want to change the name of your template. For example, you can change the current “2024 Holidays” template to simply be “Holidays”.

      • Select the A screenshot of the Orange Edit button. Edit button beside your current Holiday Template.

      A screenshot of the Holiday Template page, highlighting the Edit button. 

      • Type in a new Holiday Group name, then select Save.

      A screenshot of the Holiday Group name editing pop-up. 

      Regenerate Pay Policy

      After updating your holidays, you must regenerate your Pay Policy. Navigate to HR Admin → Time-Off Center → Pay Policy. Then, select Regenerate for the appropriate policy.  2024-11-04_10-50-16

      Please contact Checkwriters Client Support at support@checkwriters.com for additional assistance.