Spit a pay into categories
I have been asked to separate our business into two divisionss, repairs and construction, and plan to use categories to achieve this. For the most part that should be straightforward. However we have one employee who works some days each division so i need to work out how to split his pay.
We use timesheets to manage overtime and allowances but i don't think timesheet entry accommodates categories and it looks like i can only allocate his entire weekly pay to one category or the other.
Is there a way to journal the split or what other alternative do i have? I use jobs for another use so I'd rather keep categories for division splitting
Hi TheRob
Categories in AccountRight are added on a per transactional basis, with only one category allowed to be added to the one transaction. This is unlike jobs, which are transactional line basis thus allowing multiple jobs to be allocated to the one transaction (or with payroll to a transactional line).
As the Category function only allows one category per payroll transaction you would not be able to split a pay between multiple categories naturally. The only way to do it through the Payroll module would be to process one pay associated with the one category and then process a second pay for the employee with the second category.
