This walkthrough will provide you with a basic understanding of the design and functionality of Accounting CS Payroll.
Accounting CS and Accounting CS Payroll
Accounting CS
includes features for write-up, trial balance, accounts payable and accounts receivable processing, after-the-fact payroll processing, customizable reporting, and complete financial statements.
Accounting CS Payroll
is licensed separately and supports after-the-fact payroll processing plus robust features for live payroll processing as well as customizable reporting.
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You can select
Help
,
About
,
Trial Licenses
, then mark the
Payroll
checkbox to activate a trial license for Accounting CS Payroll.
Client and employee templates
Understanding and using client templates can make onboarding new clients easier and help you to add new client records and payroll information more efficiently and accurately. With the templates, you can set up common firm-level policies such as:
Staff assignments
Payroll time entry methods
Check printing defaults
Billing options and fee schedules
Impound options
Workers' compensation codes
Custom fields
In addition, if you have a number of clients working in similar industries (for example, if you have a number of restaurant clients), you can set up a client template with chart of accounts information, departments, payroll items, and accruable benefits that would apply to all of those clients.
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If you use a template, you can still modify information that's unique for each client.
A client template can contain employee templates as sub-templates. For example, all restaurant-type clients require similar employee types such as waitstaff or management, and each type would use particular types of payroll items. You can set up an employee template and link it to a client template or to a particular client.
After adding a new client record or a new employee record based on a template, you'll need to proceed through the normal client or employee setup steps to be sure that all unique and pertinent information is included.