Sage BusinessWorks

Will it be similar to the Oregon STT withholding? I missed the Oregon STT announcement. I'm just hoping to be prepared for this one.

We have had to add new Other Pay additions for the 2020 year and we are having an issue with the fact that the taxes on these Other Pays are not breaking out departmentally, even though the Other Pay is set up to break out departmentally. Is there another…

We use a payroll service as part of our Nonprofit requirement. I match our Sage Business Works Number to their numbers. Ever since January 2020 none of the numbers for federal or California withholding match. The Sage numbers are all lower than the Payroll…

We re-installed the corrected BW2020 to fix the state tax issue. After we re-installed we changed 2 employees Federal Tax Withholding (extra withholding). We made the changes and then processed payroll (for this week). The check totals were the same as…

I just finished processing W-2's and closing payroll for 2019. I checked the box for all terminated employees with no history to be deleted. All were deleted except one. The last transaction I posted for him was in June 2018. His record was marked terminated…

Can someone give me step by step instructions for paying a deceased employee's final check? We need to divide her final pay between three children. Thanks!

How is the Actual Payroll Overhead calculated for the Phase Overhead cost in Job Cost, does anyone know? Thank you, Teri

Help!!! We just received a report from our third party insurance company showing a STD check was issued to one of our employees in December 2018. We have already closed out our 2018 Payroll. Is there anyway, other than having to restore prior backup,…

So we had a fringe benefit that we needed to calculate on the last payroll of the year, which happens to be today's payroll day, and the entered the deduction according to the Sage Support pdf document titled How To Set Up and Process Fringe Benefits…

We are getting ready to process our EOY bonuses for our staff and wanted to know if there was an easier, more efficient way of processing this in Business Works. First let me tell you that we usually run our payroll on a bi-weekly basis. We have been…

Is it possible to set up multiple hourly rates for the same employee? We are implementing a new system whereby employees will be paid a different hourly rate based on the type of work performed. I'm not seeing a way to set this up through Maintain Employees…

We recently upgraded from BW2012 to BW2018 & run PR in house. Haven't had any problems until this week. I have one employee with 2 entries-one is phantom and one is what I entered. I can delete the one I entered but cannot delete the phantom. ???????…

In 2016 we made a payroll check with a deduction of $21.33 for a loan repayment. But we neglected to make a journal entry to debit the account and because it is in a prior year we are unable to make any new entries. I viewed knowledge base article #18022…

A clerk made a manual calculation of OASDI taxes and overwithheld $7000+ from the owner's bonus check. I found it while preparing the 941. How do I fix that through payroll? Thanks!

Where can I go to print the instructions for setting up and using Direct Deposit? I tried to print the instructions via Business Works in Payroll but the pop up appears on top of the list so this is useless. The list is great but I need the detail printed…

Our current Illinois SUI is now 3 decimal places, 0.525%, but the Enhanced Tax Reporting feature rounds this off to 0.53% for calculations, resulting in extra tax... Can this be fixed or is there a work-around?

My CA SDI tax percentage is correct in the tax tables. However, the calculation is not matching/correct? Does anyone know a fix?

I need to set up a payroll deduction for Roth contributions. The only suggestion I can find in the Knowledge base is for Sage 100 which recommends setting the deduction type to pension and deselecting all taxes. Is this the same for Businessworks?

We have had a delay in closing December and 2016 because of my accountants unexpected absence from work. We have payroll tomorrow. Can we run January payroll without closing the month AND or year (2016). thanks for fast answers here.

Do I just need to close my current month (December) first and download the service pack? Will the service pack change my w-2 numbers because of the new 2017 tax tables even if December is closed before it is downloaded? Can I still make changes to…

Does anyone do deferred compensation through payroll? We have some employees who do on call work, and have the option of deferring compensation. We have to pay the FICA on the compensation when it is funded, but other taxes are paid upon distribution…

I just recently upgraded to Businessworks V2015, and realized that I can no longer do an Employee Global change to put employees on and take them off HOLD all at one time...do I now have to do each employee individually? What a pain! Thank you, P…

Hello, I recently upgraded to V2015 and when I ran payroll for the first time today, I noticed that my NC withholding amounts were different than before. Upon further investigation, it seems that all of my employees were changed to Head of Household…

Somehow, my 2015 tax tables got changed and reflect the federal and state limits for 2014. So, the Social Security limit of $117000 was used in 2015 rather than $118500. The withholding allows was off as well by the $50. Other than the tax brackets, most…

Somehow in the process of voiding and re-entering a payroll advance check, the Payroll system thinks there is an extra advance out there. It does not show up on any report but when we enter a timecard for this employee it wants an advance repayment. Is…