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Set up payroll items for employees who earn tips

Accounting CS handles the calculations needed for employees who receive tipped wages. Typically, you'll need to set up a pay item for tipped wages and a pay item for reported tips. If you need to, you can set up multiple pay items for different types of reported tips.

Set up tipped wages

Select Setup
then Payroll Items
for your client.

Select Add
.

Select Pay
from the Type
field, then enter the Description
and Report Description
for your employee's wage item.

Select Hourly rate
under Calculation Type
.

Select Tipped wages
under Special Type
.

Enter an Alternate minimum wage
if you need to.

Enter any additional information under the Main, Tax Exemptions, Special Timing, and Workers' Compensation tabs.

Select Enter
.

Set up reported tips

Select Setup
then Payroll Items
for your client.

Select Add
.

Enter the Description
and Report Description
to represent the amount of tips for your employee.

Select Fixed Amount
under Calculation Type
.

Select Reported Tips
under Special Type
.

Verify or edit the settings under Exclusions
. By default, new reported tips pay items are excluded from gross pay presentation and net pay. When a pay item is excluded from net pay, the amount doesn't post to the general ledger.

Enter any additional information under the Main, Tax Exemptions, Special Timing, and Workers' Compensation tabs.

Select Enter
.

note

You can assign multiple pay items that use the Reported Tips
special type to an employee for recording the different types of tips an employee may receive (for example, cash tips or credit card tips). When verifying an employee meets the minimum wage requirements, Accounting CS combines the amounts from all Reported Tips
items used on the check during this verification.

This article applies to:

Product: Accounting CS Client Access
Subject: Payroll checks,Setup

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