Paying your furloughed employees (Monthly Salary)

I appreciate you for watching the webinar last April 9 about paying furloughed employees in QuickBooks Online Standard Payroll, @Dawn Robinson. Rest assured that I've got more insights about this, and how to take care of this issue. 

Businesses, like yours, must pay your employees at least 80% of your employees' usual gross wage. You can elect to top up the remaining 20% of their earnings, but you're not obliged to do so. With this, I'd suggest consulting your accountant to help you determine the correct amount to enter in the box. They can check your NI figures when the payment setup is 100%. They can also verify if you'll need to enter 80% as the furloughed amount and add the 20% as their normal salary. This way, your payroll details will be accurate before you can claim for the wages costs from the HMRC. For more information, see the How much should I pay my Employees? section through this article: COVID-19: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. 

Additionally, I recommend visiting this website: HMRC Guide. It has in-depth details about eligibility, before, during, and after the claiming process. 

Please know that I'm always here to help if you need anything else. Keep safe always, @Dawn Robinson.

thank you for your response much appreciated.  I have looked further into this and you will need to enter the following in order for NI to be correct.  I've also tried the payrun as 100% to see what the NI contributions come out as - they are both the same.

create new payroll payment type (call it Furloughed Salary for example)

you will need to enter figures manually  for above @ 80% of main salary.  if you as a company intend to pay the remaining 20% to employees you will have to enter the remaining amount under salary.  When viewed in draft it shows the two amounts on the employees wageslip.