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Is Employee ID field/number new??
Hi, This may be a silly question, but today is the first day I noticed the greyed out 'Employee ID' field (not the 'Card ID' field) in employee's records. I haven't updated to 2019.4 as I'm very...
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Hi SharonSL
As soon as you enable Payroll Reporting in a company file the employee ID field becomes shown. If not enabled, then it will not appear for that employee's card. So, it possibly could have been listed on the employee's card since July if you enabled Payroll reporting in July.
Thanks Steven. I don't open employee files very often but had to enter a new employee today so that's probably why I didn't notice it before. ;)
Thanks!
Hi SharonSL
By way of explanation, when a new card is added to a MYOB company file (whether Employee Supplier or Customer, MYOB allocates a unique RecordID being the next consecutive card number. MYOB uses this number in the database to identify the Card, it does not use the Name or Card ID, always the Record ID. Every MYOB file since 1990 has used this approach.
When STP was introduced, a unique Payroll or Employee ID was required for each employee. MYOB decided to use the existing Record ID as this is always a unique number. They decided to display this EmployeeID as it is used for STP.
So while the numbering won't be consecutive if you look just at employees, if you export all Cards you will see the Record IDs are consecutive (once you combine all cards and sort).
Regards
Gavin
