Payroll Command Centre

The Payroll command centre enables you to control all the payroll information and activities in your business. This includes creating and editing payroll categories, entering timesheets, paying your employees, printing paycheques, and paying your payroll liabilities. You can also prepare your end of year payroll forms and summaries.

As with any command centre, you can also click To Do List to display business tasks that affect your company on a regular basis, click Find Transactions to view summary information about transactions, click Reports to print or view reports, and click Analysis to analyze aspects of your business.

Payroll command centre tasks

Payroll Categories

Click Payroll Categories to open the Payroll Category List window, where you can create, edit and delete payroll categories for wages, deductions and employer expenses.

Enter Timesheet

If you use timesheets for time billing or payroll (or both), you can enter your employees’ hours in the Enter Timesheet window. Timesheets can be used to record the hours worked by your employees. You can link these hours to specific activities.

Process Payroll

Click Process Payroll to open the Process Payroll Assistant. The Assistant guides you through your payroll processing.

Pay Liabilities

Click Pay Liabilities to open the Pay Liabilities window, where you can record payments of payroll liabilities for a selected period.

Print Paychecks

Click Print Paycheques to open the Review Cheques Before Printing window, where you can print cheques to pay employees.

Print/Email Pay Stubs

Click Print/Email Pay Stubs to open the Review Pay Stubs Before Delivery window, where you can print and email pay stubs for your employees.

Print T4 and RL-1 Forms

Click Print T4 and RL-1 Forms to open the Set Up T4 and RL-1 Forms window, where you can select a T4 or RL-1 form for preparation and printing.

Transaction Journal

Click Transaction Journal to open the Transaction Journal window, where you can view information about all transactions entered in the your company file, for all journals. Click the zoom arrow next to a transaction to view it in the original transaction window.

Other tasks in the Payroll command centre

To Do List

Click to open the To Do List window, where you can view a list of tasks that need to be performed regularly, such as recording recurring transactions. You can also use the To Do List to automatically perform tasks, such as creating a purchase when an item’s quantity becomes low.

The To Do List window automatically displays tasks related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different task in the To Do List window, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required task from the list that appears.

Find Transactions

Click to open the Find Transactions window, where you can view summary information about accounts, invoices, bills, cards, items, payroll and jobs. You can click a zoom arrow in this window to display the original transaction details.

The Find Transactions window automatically displays the transaction type related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different type of transaction, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required transaction type from the list that appears.

Reports

Click to open the Index to Reports window, where you can prepare, print and customize your reports or export them to Microsoft Excel using the OfficeLink feature.

The Index To Reports window automatically displays reports related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different type of report, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required report type from the list that appears.

Analysis

Click to open windows that allow you to analyze the key aspects of your business. For example, you can analyze sales and profitability trends, estimate short-term cash needs, see who owes you money and chart your progress on jobs. Many Analyze windows display your company's information in table or graph form.

When you click Analysis, a window appears displaying an analysis of information related to the current command centre. If you want to display a different type of analysis, click and hold down the mouse button and select the required analysis from the list that appears.

Task Drawer

Click the task button on the bottom right of the command centre or press SHIFT+COMMAND+T to display the Task Drawer list. You can add windows you use frequently to this list. Any window that can be opened from the command centre or from a menu can be added to the Task Drawer list.

To add a window to the Task Drawer list, open the window you want to add, then go to the Window menu and select Add to Task Drawer.

 

Related Topics

■	Paying your employees