Deleting payroll with timesheets and superannuation submitted

Question

Last year we changed from AccountRight to Advanced.  There were two weeks that I was running both side by side to ensure all issues had been resolved in Advanced.  The STP's were submitted from Advanced.  However the Super was sent through AccountRight as it had not been set up correctly in Advanced and we pay Super weekly.To ensure Payment Summaries are correct I need to delete the two weeks in AccountRight.  It will only let me reverse the pay.  When I click on the reverse it comes up the pay must be deleted due to timesheets attached.  I have reversed the super payment hoping that would allow me to delete but it did not work.  I have also deleted the payroll payment.  Is there any way this can be fixed?

Steven_M · Accepted Answer

Hi @Swiftyv2

I would recommend taking a look at my post on Deleting/editing a processed pay for more information deleting payroll transactions. Basically, to delete a payroll transaction you need to start at the end and work backwards i.e. you can't delete that payroll transaction before you delete the secondary transactions (electronic payment or pay superannuation transaction...).

In terms of your situation, I get the impression that the superannuation has been paid and thus the pay superannuation transaction can't be deleted and that payroll transaction has been locked. Now, if I read correctly, it seems like you want to fix something for payroll reporting purposes. If so, my recommendation would be to enter a pay for those employees as a negative amount. What this will do is update the employee's year-to-date information and thus when you next report (or by doing a zero pay event) within that file that new year-to-date information is reported through to the ATO.