Set options in the Enter Batch Handwritten Payroll screen

Bank Account

: Select a default bank account for this client. If you leave this field blank, the application uses the 1st active bank account listed alphabetically for the client.

Primary Sort Order

: Select the default sort order to display employee information in the Rapid tab and Detail tab of the Enter Batch Handwritten Payroll Checks screen for this client. The field defaults to

Employee ID

, but you can also sort by

Department

,

Employee name

, or

Location

. You can choose to sort in ascending or descending order.

Secondary Sort Order

: This field is available only if the Primary sort order is set to

Department

or

Location

. When active, the field defaults to

Employee ID

but you can also sort by

Employee name

. You can choose to sort in ascending or descending order.

Suppress GL account verification

: When this checkbox is marked, the application won't alert you when you save checks for which GL accounts are missing for 1 or more distributions.

Suppress benefit accrual verification

: When this checkbox is marked, the application won't alert you when the number of accruable benefit hours used on a payroll check exceeds the accruable benefit hours available for the employee.

Convert hours to decimal

: When this checkbox is marked, the application will accept work hours that were entered as hours and minutes in the

Enter Batch Payroll Checks

screen and will convert them automatically to the decimal equivalent. Examples: The application will convert 30.15 (30 hours and 15 minutes) to 30.25 and will convert 30.75 (30 hours and 75 minutes) to 31.25.

Suppress generate liabilities prompt

: When this checkbox is marked, the application won't display the

Generate Liabilities

screen when you select

Enter Batch

.

Display taxes that have zero wages and amounts

: Mark this checkbox to have the application display tax items in the

Enter Batch Handwritten Payroll Checks

screen even if they have zero taxable wages and zero tax amounts. By default, check entry screens do not display tax items that have not yet reached the threshold required to begin calculating (such as the Additional Medicare Tax item) nor tax items that have exceeded their limits (such as FICA-SS, FUTA, or SUI). So, if this checkbox is unmarked, no tax information is displayed in the

Enter Batch Handwritten Payroll Checks

screen for this employee until you enter taxable wages for that employee.

Mark the checkboxes in this section to hide columns in the

Rapid tab

of the

Enter Batch Handwritten Payroll Checks

screen.

Use the fields and grid in this section to choose the columns and fields to be displayed in the

Rapid

tab as well as the order in which they are displayed. By default, the

Display all pay items and employee tax items

option is selected. To begin customizing the columns, select

Display selected payroll and/or tax items

.