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title: "Planning your groups"
slug: "setting-up-cintra-groups"
updated: 2026-06-26T12:10:50Z
published: 2026-06-26T12:10:50Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/setting-up-cintra-groups"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Planning your groups

Before you begin work in Cintra People, you should work create the following lists:

- Groups you would like to setup (for example, company hierarchy).
- Pay elements you would like to be entered for each of the groups.
- Employees to be added to each group.
- Managers and which groups they need access to.

Once you have finished planning, you will need to consider the following:

1. [Manage the heading sets](/payroll/docs/manage-heading-sets)
2. [Create the group and assign users](/payroll/docs/create-a-group)
3. **Create your group hierarchy**: [Create a sub-group](/payroll/docs/create-sub-groups) and [Move a group](/payroll/docs/move-a-group).
4. **Assign managers**: This takes place in [user management](/payroll/docs/manage-payroll-user-accounts), where you must create / select a user, select a suitable groups user type, then select which payroll(s) they will receive the role’s permissions for.
  - The manager will only be able to access groups containing payrolls they have been given access to.
5. Activate the group.