Paying your employees > Entering employee payroll information
Once you have created payroll categories (see Creating payroll categories) and an employee card (see Creating employee cards), you can enter the employee’s payroll information.
User IDs can be set up to restrict access to employee payroll, banking and contact information stored in the card file and in reports. You can select broad restrictions, such as disallowing access to the employee card file, or you can set specific restrictions, such as viewing employee banking details.
If you want to prevent a user from editing and viewing all payroll details, you need to restrict access to payroll reports as well as to employee card information and Payroll command centre functions. You can set these restrictions in the access profile of each user ID. For more information, see Managing user accounts.
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Click the Employee tab and select an employee.
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Click the Payroll Details tab
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Enter your employee’s personal details, such as start date, employment category, employment status and employment classification.
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If the employment classification you require does not appear in the list of classifications, you need to add it to the list. You can do this in the Employment Classification List window (go to the Lists menu and choose Employment Classifications).
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Select how you will deliver the employee’s pay slip. If you select email, enter the employee’s email address in the Pay Slip Email field.
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When you select a pay basis, the corresponding payroll category for paying wage amounts is automatically selected in the Wage list. If you select Hourly, the Base Hourly wage category (or the name you assigned to this category) is selected. If you select Salary, the Base Salary wage category (or the name you assigned to this category) is selected.
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Select the employee’s pay frequency in the Pay Frequency field.
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If the employee’s wage expense account is different from the default account, in the Wages Expense Account field, type or select the required account.
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Click in the select column (
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Click Superannuation and enter the employee’s superannuation details.
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To meet your choice of superannuation fund obligations, you need to provide eligible employees with a Standard Choice Form and make contributions to their nominated complying fund. For more information about your obligations, contact the ATO.
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If you need to provide a Standard Choice Form to this employee, click Print Superannuation Choice Form and then click Print in the Review Employees Before Printing window that appears. The Card Information window reappears.
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In the Superannuation Fund field, type or select your employee’s nominated fund. If your employee’s superannuation fund does not appear on the list, you need to create it. For more information, see Superannuation reporting.
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Type the employee’s fund membership number in the Employee Membership # field.
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Click in the select column (
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Click Entitlements and click in the select column (
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Click Deductions and click in the select column (
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Click Employer Expenses and click in the select column (
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Click Taxes and enter the employee’s tax details.
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Select the employee’s tax table from the Tax Table list.
note: Do you employ working holiday makers?
If you've registered with the ATO as an employer of working holiday makers, you need to assign the appropriate working holiday maker tax table to these employees. The tax tables are available in AccountRight v19.14.
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If you selected Withholding Variation from the Tax Table list, type the variation rate in the Withholding Variation Rate field.
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If the employee is claiming a tax rebate, type the total rebate amount in the Total Rebates field.
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Amounts entered in this field reduce the tax payable over the year in instalments based on the employee’s pay frequency. For example, if the employee is paid monthly, 1/12th of the rebate is applied to each pay.
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If the employee requests additional tax to be withheld from their pay, type the amount to be withheld each pay period in the Extra Tax field.
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If necessary, change the employee’s default pay details by overriding the values that appear in the Hours or Amount column next to a payroll category.
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If you use timesheets to record all hours worked by an employee, enter zero as the default hours for the Base Hourly payroll category.
The value of a payroll category with Calculated displayed in the Hours or Amount column is calculated when you process a pay. For example, tax amounts and entitlement hours where hours are calculated as a percentage of the gross hours paid.
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[Optional] If you want to assign a job number to a payroll category for this employee, click in the Job column and enter or select a job number.
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[Optional] If you track financial information using categories, select a category from the list.
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If you have already paid the employee in the current payroll year, click Pay History and type the amounts you have paid in the Activity column next to each relevant payroll category. You can enter pay history for specific months, quarters or for the year to date.
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Amounts entered in the Pay History window appear on payment summaries and reports not derived from payroll activity (such as register reports). They are not recorded as transactions in your accounts.
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If you use the Time Billing function to track time the employee spends to complete work for clients and customers, click Time Billing and enter the employee’s time billing rate and cost per hour. For more information, see Billing for time.
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Click the Payment Details tab and select the method you use to pay the employee in the Payment Method list.
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Select the number of bank accounts (up to three) the employee wants their pay to be distributed to.
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Enter the statement text (Account 1 only) you want to appear on the employee’s bank statements.
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If you are distributing to more than one account, in the Value field, type the amount or percentage of the pay to be deposited into the account and select the distribution method (Percent or Dollars) from the list. Note that the final account will receive the remaining amount of your employee’s net pay.
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