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Error: 'No Nominal Code' showing in journal report

'No Nominal Code' showing in journal report under Description and/or Account column header.

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Written by Debs
Updated over 4 months ago

If you're seeing "No Nominal Code" in the description and/or account column headers of your journal report, there is an issue with your nominal code configuration for the pay element.

It is important to note that where a payslip label is applied, you need to map the pay element as originally named; this is the most common cause of this error text being seen in journal reports.

Check for a root pay element name

  1. Open the relevant payroll company.

  2. Click Reporting.

  3. Open the Paycircle Pay Element Report.

    • Note: If you cannot see this report, add it to your report pack.

  4. Locate the problematic element within in the Change Label column header.

  5. Once you have found the element, make a note of the Company Element Name on the same row.

    • Note: This is the name of the root pay element.

  6. Close the report.

Apply the journal mapping

  1. Click Settings.

  2. Under Reports & Journals, click Journals.

  3. In the right side panel, type the Company Element Name you made a note of earlier.

  4. Map the returned pay element to the relevant Nominal Code.

What if I cannot find the element in the report, or it doesn't have a change label?

If you ran through the above steps and were not able to find a resulting element in the report, it may be that the element has since been deleted and no longer exists in Paycircle, or that the original element was removed and a new element with the same name was added.

If the original pay element was deleted

To resolve for a historical period

  1. Rollback the period

  2. Remove the change from the employee that was added with a pay element that was since deleted.

  3. Create a new pay element you wish to use

  4. Re-add the change to the employee.

  5. Add the element to a nominal code.

  6. Re-run the payroll.


To resolve for a current period

  1. Remove the change from the employee that was added with a pay element that was since deleted.

  2. Create a new pay element you wish to use

  3. Re-add the change to the employee.

If the original pay element was removed and replaced by a new pay element with the same name

  1. Remove the change from the employee that was added with a pay element that was since deleted.

  2. Re-add the change with a new element.

  3. Ensure the new element is allocated to the relevant nominal code.

Re-run the journal report

Now that you have mapped the original element, re-run your journal report. The "No Nominal Code" text should no longer be present after following these steps.

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