This guide will walk you through enrolling workers to NEST.
Once your employees have been automatically enrolled into the pension scheme, you must inform NEST of their membership to the scheme. You can produce a summary of which employees have been automatically enrolled by running the Pay Period Activity report, which can be found under Auto Enrolment > Reports > Pay Period Activity. Any employee listed as ‘Automatically Enrolled’ and is assigned the NEST pension will need to be submitted to NEST.
Enrolling the workers
Navigate to Auto Enrolment > NEST Submissions > Enrol Workers (New Members). If you have not saved your login details for NEST, you will be prompted to enter your login details. For further information on storing your login details click here.
You will be prompted to specify the pay frequency and tax period which you are submitting members for. Press ‘Submit’ once set.
Upon pressing submit, the software will send the members to NEST. You will receive a message that the submission is successful however is awaiting processing.
You can retrieve the status of the response by navigating to Auto Enrolment > Retrieve Pending Submissions.
Press ‘Retrieve Submissions’ and the software should report successful under the ‘Submission Status’.
