Sage BusinessWorks

Business Works appears to get locked up when I try to run the Automatic Payroll Calculation. Other features seem to be fine. All timecards are entered.

Hello, it seems every year I have the same issue, the report for the UCT-6 unemployment tax shows a different amount due then where I go to post in BW. I ALWAYS install my sp's before the initial payroll of the year. I paid $55.34 due per the BW report…

Any way to do this without retyping each line and calculating?

In SP 13 the taxable wage base for Michigan unemployment tax is set at $9,000. However information provided to me from Michigan unemployment says the taxable wage base for 2023 is $9,500. Was wondering why the deference? In 2022 I was notified by Michigan…

Hello, Colorado has now issued a new OPTIONAL form for employees to use for Colorado income tax wage withholding adjustments. This is form DR 0004. I do not see any changes for the employee election in the payroll module under the Status tab to apply…

As we enter the 4th quarter I want to ask about a change in payroll taxes for the state of Colorado that will be effective Jan 1,2023. Colorado is adding a new payroll tax for the FAMLI Leave Act. The tax will apply to both employees and the employer…

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.

When employee has over 40 hours per week, some of the hours are showing as OT1, some OT2 - how is this determined

We the current situation our vendors are sending use notices of temporary price increases. Is there a way that I can add a flat % to a quote, similar to the freight charge? Also, is there a way to add an option for an additional line for adding a % for…

When I try to reprint customer invoices that were created using OE - Direct Invoice, the amount of the payment received sometimes changes. This has happened even when I reprint an invoice on the same day the invoice was created. We use a separate company…

Is it possible to have different vacation accrual limits for different employees? It appears that there is one global maximum accrual limit that would apply to all employees. However if I wanted to offer some employees 80 hours and other employees 120…

To Massachusetts Customers, We have discovered that BusinessWorks' implementation of the Mass. PFML tax caused the Employer portion of the tax to be added to employee's gross wages. We have just finished issuing corrected W-2c forms. The 941 is also…

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…

See previous thread below. I had marked an employee that changed their W-4 this past quarter's last pay period to Exempt for FWT & SWT. The Company Totals did not reflect the pay in FWT and SWT totals; however, the full gross amount paid for this employee…

I realized that the 401k deduction is "unclicked" for all taxes and should not be. All of the boxes are grayed out and not able to be changed. How do I change what boxes are checked for 401k deduction?

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

My county has implemented a sales tax surcharge of 1% on sales over %000. So if a product costs $20000, sales tax is calculated as $5000 @ 75 and $15000 at 6%. Is it possible to set sales tax rates to calculate sales tax correctly? Businessworks 2017…

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…

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 just began offering paid sick leave this year when mandated by the state. BW is including sick pay in total wages used to determine how much is due for unemployment insurance, but according to ESD sick pay is not to be included in wages. Has anyone…

I would like to be able to start accruing use tax at the time of invoice entry in A/P to make it easier to do our quarterly S&U tax report. After trying to test this in a test company, it does not seem that this is a possibility in BW 2018. Can someone…

This is the first time we've had an employee claim exempt from state and federal withholding. We marked him as exempt under status in Maintain Employees. His wages do not show up in FWT Taxable Pay on the Company Totals Report which is what we match to…

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?

Using bus works 2015, what do the pricing terms margin, markup, and absolute pricing mean?