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title: "How do I create tasks for all pay periods within a payroll?"
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# How do I create tasks for all pay periods within a payroll?

Within **Cintra iQ**, you have the ability to create a **Task** list for a payroll using the **Payroll Task** functionality. This is so that you can check that required tasks are performed for the payroll.​

You can create a default task list for all periods within a payroll. This list will be used to pre-populate the **Payroll Period Task** list within **Payroll Period Tasks** when you move a payroll forward.

## To set up a default task list

1. Navigate to the **PAYE** and **Payrolls** tab.

Go to **Cintra iQ**: Payroll > Payroll Setup > Employers Setup > Employer > PAYE & Payrolls tab > Payrolls associated …pane > Payroll
2. Right click: **New** in the **Payrolls associated...** pane. The **New Payroll** form appears.
3. Enter the relevant information.
4. Click the **Next** button. The **... Payroll** window appears.
5. Select the **Payroll Task Settings** tab.
6. Click the **New** button. The **New Payroll Task** window appears.
7. Select the sequence in which the task appears in the list.
8. Enter the subject.
9. Enter the description.
10. Click the **OK** button. The task appears in the **List of Task** pane.
11. Continue to add existing tasks, if necessary.

> [!NOTE]
> **Information:** You can edit and delete a payroll period task, reset the payroll to the current payroll period tasks and/or copy tasks from one payroll to another.