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Specialty's avatar
Specialty
Cover User
2 years ago

STP2 error "must specify category'

Alloctaed categories to all payroll. Had message 'all good' categores complete. i.e. no 'to be allocated'. Still get error 'must specify category'. How do I fix this?  
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Sean_DC
MYOB Moderator
2 years ago

Hi Specialty 

 

Thank you for your post. I'm glad to assist you with this.

 

You need to check if your Payroll Categories are correctly assigned to your employees. Also, there are ATO Categories that you need to assign for each Payroll Category that you will be using for your pay runs. 

 

Another thing to check is your Categories or kind of like labels for transactions. You may have a look at this Help Article, Categories, and check if your categories are enabled. To check you will have to:

 

  1. Go to the Setup menu and choose Preferences.
  2. Click the System tab.
  3. Select the Turn on Category Tracking option.
  4. If you want to make the selection of a category mandatory for all transactions, choose Required from the list.

 

 

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

 

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