Sage Construction & Real Estate

Management would like to see our job cost transactions show payroll as a set $ amount per hour as agreed upon by each project owner. These set rates would vary between project. For example, project X would have a billable labor rate for Project Manager…

Does anyone happen to know the 'behind the scenes' math for the 5-3-2 Workers' Compensation table window? I need to know how to set it up for the most accurate job/employee costing. For example does the Liability column calculation run after the Employer…

Has anyone set up the new Portland, OR metro and multnomah county tax? It's optional for 2021 and required for 2022.

I was curious as to how to handle 401k deductions for states like Pennsylvania where the deduction is part of the taxable income for the state tax which differs from Federal. Since there isn't a spot to mark the deduction type within the set-up, I wasn…

What is the process for calculating a gross-up oon a check? Example: relocation allowance after taxes to equal $2000. Does the system have a way of calculating this or do I have to do it manually?

It looks like this question has not been asked for a few year - so here's to hoping: Does anyone know if it is possible to calculate overtime based on two (or more) Pay Types? For example, an employee works 35 hours of REG and 10 hours of TRVL. Is there…

Hi Sage, I have an employee who wants to contribute 100% of his bonus to his 401K. The FICA taxes calculate on the full amount, so I reduced the contribution by the FICA taxes and now it calculates a state tax, which there shouldn't be a state tax…

Is Article ID 26573 in the knowledge base still applicable to set up HSA for direct deposit? Also, can I copy and paste the formula as shown in the article when I create the formula?

Just wondering if anyone out there is already ultilizing a vacation accrual approach based upon an employees calculated years of service (based upon dates of hire/rehire)? If so, would you mind sharing your forumals and how its setup? TIA

We received our medical loss rebate check which will be distribute to participants in the form of a premium reduction. The employee premiums are pre-tax so I need to add the rebate amount to each employees gross pay. How do I add the rebate to the pay…

We just updated our Pay Rate Tables for the updated Union hourly rates. However, when we attempt to process payroll this week, the hourly rates do not appear after processing which gives the employee a $0 check. The only thing that was done was to update…

Is there a way to setup a payroll formula to set up a new Pay ID that adds a premium to regular rate for a shift differential? We do not want to add the shift column to our time entry since we use hh2 and it would cause changes in how we import time from…

I’m processing my first new employee under the 2020 W-4 form, and I cannot reconcile using the IRS tables to verify Sage’s calculation. Anyone see where I am going wrong? Single, $2000 for dependent, $860 taxable this week, state is NH (no income tax…

What is the best way to track the Emergency sick leave (FFCRA)that goes into effect today? Can we set up a new payclass or create a dummy job??

I have recently taken over bookkeeping for a construction company and am finding that there are some employees that do not have a WC code entered in their employee setup. Do all employees need to have a WC code in their setup? Or how is the system calculating…

We are running Sage 18.4.1. We just went live a couple weeks ago and noticed something was off with our fringe calculations. In the Union set up the pays and fringes are set to total hours as the calc method. The fringes should be only calculated based…

Hi guys, I do have the most recent version of Sage 300 (18.4 Update 2) but I think I found an error with the Federal Tax Withholding calculations, unless I'm interpreting something very wrong. Whenever the new year starts, I spot check tax withholding…

Anyone else having an issue with the YTD Gross Payroll improperly printing on checks? The system is picking up the Misc Deductons Total for the current period instead of the employee's YTD Gross on the employee's pay stub.

I am new with the company, and not as familiar with SAGE 300. Has anyone set up a Non-Qualified deferred compensation plan? I am trying to work with Sage support, but so far two people i've talked with don't even know what a deferred compensation plan…

I did advance checks for salaried employees, and now am entering the time cards to job cost and get the taxes. All the checks are a 0.00 dollar amount, can I use the advance check number for these checks or do I need to print the 0 dollar checks?

When I go in AP to set invoices up for payment ... AP - Tasks - Select Invoices to Pay - On Screen List. Is there a way to show subtotals for each of the vendors / suppliers I am paying? I do see that I can go in and view the total (by going into…

The IRS did a major change to their tax brackets in February 2018, but I didn't get a Sage update and used the old tax rates all year. In looking through Sage City, I don't see that there were any federal tax updates that I missed. Several employees are…

Is there a formula I could use for partial direct deposits where the net check after Process Payroll is less than the amount to go to that account? Example: Employee wants $750 to go to a specific account, with reminder going to another. This week,…

Payroll Calculation - OR statewide Transit Tax Effective 7-1-2018 - rate .001 ---Wondering how to set this payroll employee calculation up in Sage?

Looking for a formulaa to simply look into the PR-Check table and return to me an employees maximum date within the Pay Period End Date field . As the help file suggests, the MAX function is only used for numbers and Sage doesnt like it when I try to…