Payroll Activity Summary vs Payroll Register Summary report
Hi Everyone As it is the end of the payroll year we thought we do an overview of two key payroll reports that are great to use at the end of the payroll year. These can be used to ensure that you have the correct values ahead of preparing your payment summaries. If you go to Reports>>Payroll>>Employees you have two reports; Activity Summary and Register Summary. Both reports do appear identical but are drawing their information from two different locations. The Payroll Activity Summary report is looking at the actual Payroll transactions recorded in payroll, whereas the Payroll Register Summary report looks at the employee’s card – in particular, the Payroll History section of the Payroll Details tab. Ideally, both of these particular reports will match as the payroll transactions recorded will match up with the employee’s card. What if the Payroll Activity Summary and Register Summary reports don’t match? If these particular reports don’t match it is likely that the card history has been updated manually. To get them to match do follow the below instructions: Run the Activity Summary and Register summary on a per month basis, to narrow down the month(s) that the reports don’t match Once the month(s) have been determined where it doesn't balance, check the payroll transactions in those months to ensure that they have been recorded correctly When that has been checked navigate to the pay history section of the employee's card -Card File>>Cards Lists>>Employees>Select the relevant employee's card>>Payroll Details tab>>>Pay History (left-hand side) Select to Show pay historyfor that particular and overtype that value to be same as the payroll transaction recorded Rerun the relevant reports to ensure that they do match. Once you Activity Summary and Register Summary reports do match, you are in a great position to prepare your payment summaries.
STP: Reportable Employer Super Contributions not showing up in STP reports
Hi, I'm trying to finalise our STP reporting for the 2019-20 year, and not all of the Salary Sacrifice (Superannuation) entries appear to have made it across to the single touch payroll as Reportable Employer Super Contributions. Here is an example for our Payroll Activity (detail) report: Compared with our STP report for the same employee / director: For some reason only 4500.00 of the 14996.00 of salary sacrifice payments have shown up as RESC amounts. All other amounts are carried over, and there is no difference in any of the salary sacrifice entries. The only thing I can think of that would be unusual is that the salary sacrifice entries were all entered into payroll on days where no other wages were recorded, for example Base Salary was 2250.00 and Directors Sal Sac Super was -2250.00, giving a zero amount paycheque. However this was true for all entries to make up to the 14996.00 amount. They were all submitted using STP. I don't understand why only some of these entries made it across to STP reporting. Please help!
