HR-Payroll System Status

NCFS Help Desk: Email Help Desk or call (919) 707-0707

Current Status

System	Status
Integrated HR-Payroll System	Weekend outage, see below
Fiori Interface	Weekend outage, see below
BI/BOBJ	Weekend outage, see below
The Integrated HR-Payroll portal will be unavailable due to maintenance between the hours of:	Weekdays from 8 PM - 9 PM (ET) Sundays from 2 PM - 8 PM (ET)

Latest Updates

Date & Time	Status
January 27, 2026 at 2 PM	The HR-Payroll, BI, Fiori systems will be unavailable starting Saturday, January 31, 2026 8:00 AM due to Maintenance. The system will be available again by Monday, February 2, 2026 6:00 AM.
January 30, 2026 at 7 AM	Budget Staff Fiscal Staff BCC: Funding Approvers The Position Budget Program (in the HR-PY Integrated System) which matches the budgeted salary to the employee’s salary and ensures all positions are at least at the minimum salary, will be stopped only on 2/1-2/8/2026 in anticipation of any possible Legislative Increase and other system processing required during this period. While the nightly program is turned off, it is required that agency (OM Funding Approvers) use the FN-04 Annual Salary and Budget Salary Comparison Report – SAP Transaction - ZPAR012 report which is a tool to determine the employees where salary does not match budgeted salary. To ensure accurate LI reporting to State Budget (OSBM), manual processing may be required to fix those mismatches. The Business Process Procedure (BPP) is located under the Help Documents – Topic -Finance on our OSC web page. Remember, as always to carefully review your positions’ account distributions and their impact on the upcoming December payroll processing results. If you have any questions or comments on this information, or how to process your position’s budgeted salary accurately – put in a ticket to BEST Shared Services – best@osc.nc.gov or call (919) 707-0707.
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM	Budget Staff Fiscal Staff BCC: Funding Approvers The Position Budget Program (in the HR-PY Integrated System) which matches the budgeted salary to the employee’s salary and ensures all positions are at least at the minimum salary, will be stopped only on 1/1/2026 in anticipation of any possible Legislative Increase. While the nightly program is turned off, it is required that agency (OM Funding Approvers) use the FN-04 Annual Salary and Budget Salary Comparison Report – SAP Transaction - ZPAR012 report which is a tool to determine the employees where salary does not match budgeted salary. To ensure accurate LI reporting to State Budget (OSBM), manual processing may be required to fix those mismatches. The Business Process Procedure (BPP) is located under the Help Documents – Topic -Finance on our OSC web page. Remember, as always to carefully review your positions’ account distributions and their impact on the upcoming December payroll processing results.

Date & Time

Status

January 27, 2026 at 2 PM

The HR-Payroll, BI, Fiori systems will be unavailable starting Saturday, January 31, 2026 8:00 AM due to Maintenance. The system will be available again by Monday, February 2, 2026 6:00 AM.

January 30, 2026 at 7 AM

Budget Staff
Fiscal Staff
BCC: Funding Approvers

The Position Budget Program (in the HR-PY Integrated System) which matches the budgeted salary to the employee’s salary and ensures all positions are at least at the minimum salary, will be stopped only on 2/1-2/8/2026 in anticipation of any possible Legislative Increase and other system processing required during this period.

While the nightly program is turned off, it is required that agency (OM Funding Approvers) use the FN-04 Annual Salary and Budget Salary Comparison Report – SAP Transaction - ZPAR012 report which is a tool to determine the employees where salary does not match budgeted salary. To ensure accurate LI reporting to State Budget (OSBM), manual processing may be required to fix those mismatches. The Business Process Procedure (BPP) is located under the Help Documents – Topic -Finance on our OSC web page.

Remember, as always to carefully review your positions’ account distributions and their impact on the upcoming December payroll processing results.

If you have any questions or comments on this information, or how to process your position’s budgeted salary accurately – put in a ticket to BEST Shared Services – best@osc.nc.gov or call (919) 707-0707.

December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM

Budget Staff
Fiscal Staff
BCC: Funding Approvers

The Position Budget Program (in the HR-PY Integrated System) which matches the budgeted salary to the employee’s salary and ensures all positions are at least at the minimum salary, will be stopped only on 1/1/2026 in anticipation of any possible Legislative Increase.

While the nightly program is turned off, it is required that agency (OM Funding Approvers) use the FN-04 Annual Salary and Budget Salary Comparison Report – SAP Transaction - ZPAR012 report which is a tool to determine the employees where salary does not match budgeted salary. To ensure accurate LI reporting to State Budget (OSBM), manual processing may be required to fix those mismatches. The Business Process Procedure (BPP) is located under the Help Documents – Topic -Finance on our OSC web page.

Remember, as always to carefully review your positions’ account distributions and their impact on the upcoming December payroll processing results.