Payroll

Payroll 5.4 features:

  • Integrate with the Project and Job Costing module to track committed and actual quantities and costs by contract, project, and category (as well as resource for standard contracts).
  • Print a Certified Payroll report in U.S. Payroll.
  • Automatically post General Ledger journal entry batches from Payroll.
  • Take advantage of improved overtime calculations for salaried employees – including the ability to override the overtime calculations.
  • Have more control over earnings and deductions for non-annualized wage bracket calculations, incremental wage bracket tables, increased accrual periods, and percentage above maximum.
  • Calculate the maximum earning and deduction amounts at the employee level.
  • Print additional reports using expanded selection criteria.
  • View a list of timecards in one place.
  • Use the expanded selection lists within Payroll for easier processing.
  • Consolidate multiple EFT files.
  • View details of individual employee paychecks.
  • Drill down from General Ledger to Payroll.
  • Copy timecards.
  • Take advantage of usability enhancements for employees, forms, manual checks, and updating TD1, taxes, earnings, and deductions.
  • Utilize cost center overrides.
  • View a listing of checks.
  • Allow your employees to enter Piece Rate Table and Commission Table earnings in Employee Timecards.

Payroll 5.3 features:

  • Define and use all the optional fields and values you require within your payroll system. The new Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator application is required.
  • Streamline your timecard entry by providing support for self-service timecards. Employees can now easily enter and manage their own time records from any location (remotely or at the office) they can access a Web browser. Timecards entered by your employees can follow an approval process that lets employees enter new timecards and when complete set the status to Ready to be Approved. When later verified by a payroll clerk, the status can be set to Approved so that the timecards can be processed in a payroll run.
  • Benefit from the enhanced integration with EFT Direct Payroll. The integration:
    • Supports a new EFT tab on the Employee window. The EFT tab lets you set up your employee’s bank information. A utility is provided on the Payroll CD that lets you create an import file from EFT Direct Payroll 4.1 or ACCPAC Plus Canadian EFT Direct Payroll 6.5 or U.S. EFT Direct Payroll 6.1.
    • Provides enhanced security. EFT Processing security access rights now appear within the security access rights for the Canadian and U.S. Payroll applications.
    • Handles the reversal of EFT checks within Bank Services.
    • Supports additional calculations for multiple bank accounts. When your employee’s check is split across multiple banks, you can now calculate the portion to allocate to each bank based on a fixed amount, percentage of gross and a percentage of net (remaining balance).
      Note that EFT Direct Payroll is still a separate Sage Accpac Options product that is sold separately and requires a separate activation code (license).
  • Benefit from the enhanced integration with eFile. The integration:
    • Lets you generate T4 files in the new XML file format.
    • Lets you generate R1 files.

Note that eFile is still a separate Options product that is sold separately and requires a separate activation code (license).

  • View employee statistics and checks using the new Employee Activity window. The new Employee Activity window provides month-to-date, quarter-to-date and year-to-date amounts paid and hours paid and accrued for an employee. If you require information concerning the checks paid to an employee, the new Employee Activity window also provides a listing of the checks. If you require additional information, you can drill down to Check Information.
  • Assign an earnings or a deductions code automatically to a range of employees using the new Assign Earnings/Deductions to All Employees window.
  • Process payroll in a currency other than your functional currency. For example, you can now use U.S. Payroll in a Canadian functional company.
  • Easily determine if your employees have duplicate SIN or SSN numbers using the new Find Duplicate SIN for Canadian Payroll and Find Duplicate SSN for U.S. Payroll windows.
  • Automatically default a bank in the Payroll Checks and Manual Checks window.
  • Specify an inactive date for your employee.
  • Print timecard and manual check dates and times on the Payroll Register, Pre-check Register and the new Hours Analysis Detail report.
  • Define multiple Workers’ Compensation policies.
  • Take advantage of additional support for T4s. Canadian Payroll now supports Box 77 (WCB) and Box 32 combined with Box 14.
  • Take advantage of the many reporting enhancements:
    • 941 report prints on the current form.
    • Employee Information report lets you:
      • Select the information that you wish to print (address, profile, taxes, earnings and deductions and other).
      • Include EFT information when a license exists for EFT Direct Payroll.
      • Include optional field information.
      • Print by an additional Employee Name sort option.
      • Print by a specified date range. You can now print by a last maintained date, birth date, hire date, last review date, last raise date, inactive date and termination date range.
    • Earnings/Deductions Summary report lets you print by an additional Employee Name sort option.
    • Earnings and Deductions report:
      • Lets you print the information you require. You can now select the report format. Choose:
        • Detailed Information. The selection prints all details for the earnings and deductions.
        • Employee Listing. The selection prints a listing of all employees that have been assigned the specified earnings and deductions.
        • Included in Listing. The selection prints a listing of where the earning or deduction is used with other earnings and deductions. For example, HOURLY is included in the Base Earnings Include of the Calc Base of GARN and RPP.
      • Prints the General Ledger account description.
      • Lets you include optional field information when a license exists for Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator.
    • Tax Profile report:
      • Lets you print the information you require. You can now select the report format. Choose:
      • Detailed Information. The selection prints all details for the tax code.
      • Employee Listing. The selection prints a listing of all employees that have been assigned the specified tax codes.
      • Prints the General Ledger account description.
      • Lets you include optional field information assigned to each tax code when a license exists for Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator.
    • Options report prints the General Ledger account description.
    • Pre-Check Register and Payroll Register reports:
      • Prints General Ledger account descriptions.
      • Lets you Include EFT information when a license exists for EFT Direct Payroll.
      • Lets you include optional field information when a license exists for Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator.
    • Manual Check report:
      • Prints General Ledger account descriptions.
      • Lets you include optional field information when a license exists for Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator.
    • Accrual report provides:
      • A new detail report.
      • Accrual and payment details for both the detail and summary reports.
    • Timecard report:
      • Prints General Ledger account descriptions.
      • Lets you print a summary of each timecard (a single line for each timecard).
      • Lets you print a listing of all timecards.
    • Tax Profiles report for U.S. Payroll lets you print a listing of the employees that have been assigned the specified tax codes for both tax types – Federal and State Taxes and Local and Custom Taxes types.
    • Overtime Schedules report lets you print detailed information or a listing of employees assigned to overtime schedules.
    • Workers’ Compensation Codes report lets you print detailed information or a listing of employees assigned to each Workers’ Compensation code.
    • Class Code report lets you print detailed information or a listing of employees assigned to each class code.
    • New Hours Analysis report prints the hours paid or accrued for each earning and deduction included on an employee’s check. The hours printed included regular hours, overtime hours, shift hours, accrued hours paid, total hours paid, and hours accrued.
    • New Employee Timecards report prints the details of the self-service timecards entered by your employees. You can choose to print those timecards that are new, ready for approved, or approved.
    • New selection in the Quarterly Wage report to print on the DE6 – California Quarterly Wage form.
    • New EFT Options report prints the EFT options you have selected. The report is available when a license exists for EFT Direct Payroll.
    • New Optional Fields report prints a listing of the optional fields used in Payroll. The report is available when a license exists for Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator.

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