Payroll: Ability to create an ABA/electronic payment file to pay employees

Thank you very much for contributing your vote Lincoln07.  I'm sorry to hear that this feature has been sorely missed in Essentials.  As Essentials is a basic accounting platform, creating .ABA files was not initially part of the design but hopefully given sufficient demand we can look forward to it being included in a future release.

I was told by my bookkeeper to go to MYOB essentials from QB onilne and to be honest life was much more easier from user and payroll point of view with QuckBooks online. Such an important and basic function like .ABA is missing from an accounting software and they are already charging much more QB online and offer much less features. I hope they add it soon but seems unlikely given that this thread has been going on for ages. Waht a shame :(

Hi AmitSahni1978

Thank you for your feedback in regards to MYOB Essentials.

Along with commenting for an idea on the MYOB Essentials Idea Exchange if you would like to see an idea added to the program you can vote for that idea. To vote for an idea select the + VOTE button to the left of the idea's name.

Having used other MYOB software for years and processing pay via ABA files, I have just signed up to MYOB Essentials to make life easier for my accountant to reconcile only to find I've made my life more difficult.  I can't believe I manually have to enter a bank account each time I want to pay someone - is it really that archaic?

Acutally, even the $17.5/month Quickbooks is able to create.ABA file. MYOB just doesn't care small business's need.

Andrew Tao

Hi Everyone

Thank you for your feedback and showing your support for this idea.

I'm pleased to announce that you can create an ABA file  for paying your employees in the recent MYOB Essentials update. Do take a look at Making tracking your invoices and paying your employees even easier for more information to this process.

Once again thank you all for your comments and voting for this idea.