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helsbels's avatar
helsbels
Contributing User
2 years ago

Duplicate superannuation payment

Unfortunately I think the STP issues have impacted my payment of superannuation.

 

In the Payroll area, in the Pay Liabilities screen, in payment of the liability type superannuation, I was able to create 2 separate superannuation payment transactions, both for the same amount, both for the same transactions, essentially doubling the amount that was actually due and payable for the specified period (June_.

 

Usually in this area, once you specify the period for the payment (June), the outstanding records are listed and I tick the items I need to pay and once this is done, they don't appear again (as they have been paid). However something has happened and when I chose the same dates as the June period (that I had already completed the transaction for), the items that already had been paid showed as unpaid, so I ticked the items to pay again. I don't want to reverse or delete either transaction as I don't want to create any further issues since it is with payroll. Any ideas on what to do here? Is there a script that can be written to correct this?

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  • Princess_R's avatar
    Princess_R
    MYOB Moderator
    2 years ago

    Hi helsbels 

     

    Thank you for your post. 

     

    Once the transactions has been paid this will automatically dissapear under "Pay Liabilities". However, if these transactions are still showing and sitting under pay liabilities window. It means that this may have been incorrectly paid.

     

    Our Help Article, Removing a paid amounts from the Pay Liabilities window, has detailed information to assist with this.

     

    Please feel free to post again I'm happy to assist.

     

    If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.

     

    Cheers,

    Princess

     

  • helsbels's avatar
    helsbels
    Contributing User
    2 years ago

    Hi Princess_R 

     

    I have read through the Help Article and refer to the following: 

     

    "If there are amounts showing on the Pay Liabilities window which have been paid, it means they may have been incorrectly paid using a Spend Money or General Journal transaction."

     

    I have paid correctly through the Pay Liabilities window. I can prepare the journal entry as shown in the Help article which will correct the Balance Sheet account balances, but there will still be duplicate amounts showing in several of the payroll reports below which will impact my end of payroll year reporting:

     

    Liabilities payment register

    Payroll Category Transactions

    Superannuation Payments by Employee

    Superannuatino Payments by Fund

     

    I have had instances in the past whereby a problem has occurred in payroll and MYOB wrote a script to clear the incorrect items in the "Pay Liabilities" screen. Is this something that needs to be done again? The transactions should not have been able to be paid twice from the Pay Liabilities screen and occurred when MYOB was having issues with STP. Or do I reverse both superannuation payments and see if the transactions only appear once? Either way, as the issue with payroll, I am extremely hesitant to perform any corrections in this area, as MYOB should not have shown any transactions in the Pay Liabilities screen once the first superannuation payment was correctly made.

     

    Thanks

  • helsbels's avatar
    helsbels
    Contributing User
    2 years ago

    Princess_R @myob

     

    Still waiting on a response for this one. It's rather urgent as it involves a MYOB software issue and end of financial year payroll.

     

    Thanks

  • Doreen_P's avatar
    Doreen_P
    MYOB Moderator
    2 years ago

    Hi, helsbels 

     

    Thanks for getting back to us.

     

    As per checking, there are possible reasons why a super transaction is showing more than one transaction even though you've already paid for it. Here's why:

     

    • If a reversal has been processed through the Manage Payments window and
    • there is a pending payment through Pay Super.

    Were you able to reverse the pay super transaction? Or you processed a void pay run with the super amount in it?

     

    Best regards,

    Doreen

  • helsbels's avatar
    helsbels
    Contributing User
    2 years ago

    Hi Doreen_P 

     

    To clear things up, as per my original post, the payment is simply the payment transaction in MYOB, it has not been processed through "Pay Superannuation, as stated it has been paid through "Pay Liabilities". As such, per your queries:

     

    1 No reversal has been processed as it was NOT paid through "Pay Superannuation"

    2 There is no pending payment as the payment was not made through MYOB 

     

    I have not reversed anything yet as I still believe that it is a software issue. I did process a void pay run for the EOFY payroll figures to reconcile, but the pays that went through at $0 did not have any superannuation or any other entitlement or anything else attached to the $0 payroll that was processed.

     

    Any more ideas?