I would like a feature to set up the payroll period eg. Pay week is Monday to Sunday, payday Tuesday etc.
when the pay roll is run on Tuesday the dates for the payroll start and end dates would default to the previous monday and sunday, or what ever the user has set as being the start/end dates for the payweek.
"Payroll period start and end date"
It would be great if you could set your system with the start and end days for a pay week. For us, the week begins on Thursday and ends on Wednesday, and I pay on Thursday. I have to change these dates every week for 4 separate payrolls.
Surely it makes no sense that the end date is the same date as the payment date - how can you know how many hours someone has worked if they haven't finished their shift? Surely the end date nearly always needs to be prior to the payment date.
This would be another time saver.
Hello georgieh
Firstly you do not need to change your pay cycle. Your pay cycle does not have to relate to the job keeper fortnight.
What you do need to consider is in which JobKeeper fortnight your pay date is.
To explain this- you had a pay week that commenced Thursday 26th of March and ended on Wednesday, 1 April. Your payday was Thursday, 2 April. This payday of 2 April falls within the first job keeper fortnight 30 March to 12 April.
You would use the. JOBKEEPER-START01 payroll category to advise the ATO through STP that you are in the system from the beginning of April. You only need to use this 01 code once. As long as the ATO has been advised of the START01 you should get your $3000 per employee in early May.
If you have already completed pays for April then you may need to do an additional pay run for make up pay and to advise the ATO with a one cent pay as per the MYOB instructions.
I hope this helps. Cheers David
Hi David,
I wasn't talking about JobKeeper - just in general. Something that's been bugging me since I started using MYOB 18 months ago!
Thanks,
Georgie
hi georgieh
yes i agree.
Our payrun is Monday to Sunday, and each week I have to change the start and end dates for the payrun. It would be great if in settings we could set our standard pay cycle and it would default to that. And while at it, it would be good if it could also default to your normal payment date too (every Tuesday in this example)
It would be very handy if there was something in Payroll Setup to allow you to set the regular pay period. For example our pay period is weekly Monday to Saturday.
When I go to Process Payroll and enter the Payment Date, it would be very handy if MYOB automatically completed the Period Start and Period End fields.
Whilst the Payroll setup asks for the start day of the week the Process Pays Wizard uses the current system date less seven days. Hence, if a payday is the day after the close of the pay period the wrong dates are suggested.
Can a fix be applied please?
We regurlarly have employees who submit changes / new timesheets for previous weeks. To be included in the current payrun, the payroll period needs to be adjusted backwards. with multiple people entering timesheets, this becomes impossible, so the pay period always starts on the first day of the payroll year - I would rather see that as the default.
I'm really tired of having to select start and end payroll dates by one day every. single. fortnight. I'm very glad we don't have a weekly payroll. Surely MYOB can work out that our timesheets start on a Friday so payroll should start on a Friday. Or at least remember the end date of the previous fortnight that was processed? Or have a setting to choose a start day? I don't know what the best option is but the current one is driving me nuts.
When processing payroll, it would be extremely handy for AccountRight Plus to "remember" the last pay period paid and automatically defaulting to the next period, similar to payroll in MYOB Essentials. At present, AR Plus shows the current date as the payment date and defaults to the the last week/month for the pay period. Businesses don't always pay on the last day of the pay period and entering the start and end dates for every payroll is time consuming.
An alternative is to setup the pay week /fortnight / month when setting up the payroll.
For example, the pay week may be from Thursday to Wednesday, with payroll run being made every Friday, or
salaried employees may be paid in the middle of the month for the entire month.
I would also an option to pay all employees, both monthly and weekly, rather than doing 2 seperate pay runs.
Regards
Deborah Spruce
excellent idea which would save time and prevent errors
Agreed - great idea
I would like to have an option of preset week endings for wages other than the day on which I am processing the actual wages.
I process wages on Wednesday but our pay week ends on Tuesday. This means that every week I have to change the date on the period over which I am calculating wages.
If we could preset the format to have the wages finish on a particular day of the week, then it would alleviate the need to alter the date each week, as it would automatically set the date for the ending day of the week.
Thank you.
Is there a way to have this field default to the current period being paid? I am manually changing it for each employee, but it would be a lot easier if I could set a default option
Just a thought.
I suppose you could always copy and paste the required data.
How many employees do you have?
