• Employee Payroll Advance

    1. An employee was given a cheque $178.56... as an advance that will come off of his next paycheck. I minus deductions from $184.00 to find $178.56 and write a cheque out manually from our cheque book. Was I right to minus deductions on this advance?…
  • When To Enter Payroll That Carries Over Into New Year: Before Closing Current Year Or In New Year?

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    Hi, I have a question about payroll. I haven't yet closed 2016. The pay period carries over from 2016 to 2017. I am wondering if I enter payroll before closing 2016 or after I start the new year, 2017? Any help would be appreciated :)
  • Is updating the Payroll feature worth it for 1 employee?

    I have a company that only has 1 employee on their payroll that they need to do paycheque deductions and remittances for. I have just received an Auto Renew Notification that is "Sage 50 with Support - Payroll" for $728. This seems like a lot of money…
  • Payroll was entered manual and now entering in module -- Different amounts

    Taking over a client who entered payroll in GJ from the online CRA payroll calculator. The journal entries have wrong calculations (for income tax) and one employee was CPP maxed but she continued to post/deduct. When I am re-entering the information…
  • Payroll Register

    This is so disappointing to me what Sage has done with the Payroll Module. I will have a very hard time recommending Sage to my clients, I have my own business in bookkeeping and have many clients who ask me who they should use for an accounting program…
  • New Income Category removes tracking of ROE Insurable Hours

    I want to add a new income category to pay out Banked Time Used as I am tracking Banked Time earned in a separate spreadsheet. I don't want vacation calculated on this new income as it is over time that is banked. When I rename the new category, link…
  • Importing incomes using API

    Hi, I am trying to import overtime of employees from excel book using Sage 50 API, but I have not found any example or reference in the SDK. Anyone have any idea if this can be done or I can give reference on the subject. Thank you
  • RE: Employee benefits

    Hello Erik79, I tried the setup based on the knowledge base. Is it correct? Section I: Creating a Group Deduction Add deduction: $20 for employee contribution Linked account: Health care payable Section II: Creating a Group Benefit Add income: $40 for…
  • Made an error deducting union dues...

    Hi all, Just finished submitting my payroll info for direct deposit, and noticed an error when doing my reports. I deducted too much for union dues from one employee. I contacted the union, and they said to forward them the correct amount, and make…
  • RE: Payroll linked accounts

    Please check if you are using Expense Groups. This can be found in Setup> Settings>Payroll>Linked Accounts>Expense Groups Your employee(s) may be setup under different expense groups
  • Simply posts 2 identical cheques for same person with different cheque numbers

    I am using the payroll cheque run and on 3 separate dates at least one employee had 2 identical cheques for the same date but with different cheque numbers posted. Only one printed but I had to back out one cheque. I don't want to see an employee dinged…
  • Employee Deduction set up

    Does anyone know how to pull a report that will show how an employee's deductions are set up? When I look at the Employee Summary, it only gives me YTD deductions. Thank you!