Banking: Allocating multiple bank transfers to the one payroll transaction
Hi there, I recently experienced an issue where my payroll was entered correctly, but the payroll officer made erroneous take home bank transfers to the staff. As soon as she realised her mistake, she made a second transaction to those staff members that were underpaid to ensure that they received the correct take home amount. So, everything is correct - it's just that some staff were paid for one pay week in two transactions. Unfortunately, the MYOB live Accounts does not allow you to allocate multiple bank transfers to the one payroll transaction. I thought there must be a way, so I went onto online support to see if they could help. As it turns out there is no way and the recommendation was to redo 2 payrolls to precisely match the two net amounts remitted. I believe that this is a very poor solution. The integrity of the payroll records should be maintained. The payroll record is absolutely correct. It records the hours worked, gross, tax, super and take home pay. It's just that the take home pay was paid in 2 transactions. I should not have to fabricate 2 payroll runs to match the two bank transfers. I strongly believe that the accounting software should allow the allocation of multiple bank transfers to the one payroll transaction. The software already allows for employees to receive pay "split" into seperate amounts within the Employee Pay setup section - but this is not the same scenario. Additionally, some staff were overpaid. In order to adjust for this, the payroll officer paid a lesser amount (by the amount of the overpayment from the previous week) in the following weeks pay to those overpaid staff members. In this event, we have 2 payroll runs and two payments. The individual transactions for the two weeks do not match, but they do reconcile precisely to the right payment having been remitted. I think basically what needs to be able to happen is that any payment should be able to be allocated to any outstanding payroll transactions (or part there of). Would be interested to hear developer thoughts on this. "Allocating multiple bank transfers to the one payroll transaction"
Setup: BAS Preparation
Hi there At the moment MyobLive doesn't seem to have much automated functionalityfor BAS. Given that the system already calcuates the BAS it seems really odd that the user has to manually create a spend journal or a reversal to allocate GST Paid, Collected, PAYG instalment etc, and also fill in the ATO forms. Surely this could all be automated, afterall it's the most confusing thing for small business and the one where MYOB already does much of the heavy lifting (in my case, the main reason for using the package in the first place). Df "BAS Preparation"
Setup: Add a budget
Hi Feedback from our clients tells us that many clients would like a simple budgeting feature. One suggestion was to enter in either a monthly, quarterly or yearly budgeted figure for each account and then areport to print at intervals to see how the actual expenses are comparing. "Budgeting"
Bank transactions: Transfer - Auto-populate manually create transfer transaction
If I transfer money from one account to another and it comes up in a bank feed, When I press the option to allocate it to a transfer between accounts, and then manually create an entry, i wish the amount would be pre-entered into the form. I always have to go back, look at the amount, write it down and then go to manually enter the transfer again. Massive pain. "Record a transfer between accounts"Bank rules: Turn off auto allocation
Hi, Just wondering if there is a way to turn off the auto allocation in LiveAccounts as I find it is constantly matching wrong payments to the wrong customer or supplier invoice. Twice I have thought that a bill had been paid as it was cleared out of the system only to receive an overdue notice from the supplier and when I go through and check it has in fact been auto reconciled by LiveAccounts with another incorrect payment "LiveAccounts - Turn off Auto Allocation"
Bank rules: Create rule per bank account
Hi, We have several bank accounts with transactions of the same name allocated to different categories. It would be very helpful to be able to filter payments on different bank accounts. As an example We manage two holiday houses and want to separate the expenses for westnet into different "Category accounts" TELEPHONE, INTERNET AND TELEVISION HOUSE 2 TELEPHONE, INTERNET AND TELEVISION HOUSE 1 Currenlty all expenses relating to each house is paid from separate bank accounts however when I try to filter the transaction in rules there is no way to differentiate between the two expenses. Sugest: Separate filter box for Bank accounts "within the bank account" or: Alternatively the search box could be extended to include "If the bank Transaction and or bank account description contains" "Allocation Rules"
Setup: Prepare Bank deposit feature
For more than seven years I used I used the desktop version of MYOB. It has the VERY USEFUL "Prepare Bank Deposit". I was convinced to use MYOB Essentials as it would allow me to get invoicing done quicker but with the current TAKE PAYMENTS issue and the lack of the Prepare Bank Deposit, I'm considering going BACK to the OLD FASHIONED way. PLEASE FIX THIS or else I'm going to have to pay my bookkeeper again to do the Historical Balancing when converting FROM the cloud based system BACK to the Old Fashioned way. If you ask me, you shouldn't have ever taken out the most useful function in transfering money from one account to another. I know I can do it using Journal Entries but really.... every time I do it, I have to refer to previous entries so I know what column to put each enty in (CR/DR) "prepare bank deposit"
Bank transactions: Match partial invoice values
I think Myob should be able to match uneven amounts that are deposited. This is particularly troublesome for me as I receive eftpos deposits containing several progress payments across multiple invoices. This makes matching to invoices incredibly difficult and I have to enter customer payments. This makes having bank feeds redundant to a degree. There already is a column for matching called "amount to apply" but you cannot edit it. It would be ideal if this feature could be added. Thanks, Cathy "Matching uneven deposit amounts"
Report: CashFlow statement
I need to run off a cashflow statement report in LiveAccounts & you can't. The best I can do is aP&L mthly on cash basis or print off a bank trans report mthly. But either way I will still need to enter the data separately on say an excel spreadsheet. I need to show that my client can meet repayments on new equipment they want to lease. I would have thought seeing that a cashflow statement report is bank oriented, that it wouldn't be hard to have it set up without too much trouble? thank you "Cashflow statement in LiveAccounts"
