This is a bug not an enhancement. Are we asking too much of
a payroll system?
"Wilmoth, Deb" wrote:
a payroll system?
"Wilmoth, Deb" wrote:
>
> I quite agree, Debbie!!!!!! My enhancement request was really two fold.
> 100% agreement with you on multiple vacation checks on one payroll run
> (without skewing the withholding taxes to a higher bracket) and two, that
> any $ amounts paid to an employee be calculated accurately regardless of
> check dates.
>
> Tim Ligas and Calvin - is it time to be thinking about enhancement requests
> yet?
>
> Deb
> Reeder & Kline Machine Company, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Debbie Armbruster [mailto:debbiea@...]
>
> A nice enhancement would be to allow multiple vacation checks to be printed
> per employee, within the same payroll run. Our previous software allowed
> this and we never ran into this problem, until Vantage.
>
> ----------
> From: Wilmoth, Deb[SMTP:Deb@...]
> Reply To: vantage@egroups.com
>
> Carol, this same problem arises in 4.0 also. When we have multiple checks
> for employees, we consciously chose a later date. But inevitably, we seem
> to get tripped up on this. We issue advanced vacation checks which are
> separate check runs posted after the regular payroll checks are posted, and
> are
> dated the same day. This doesn't cause any problems, its the situation that
> you
> describe, dating a check prior to an already posted check date that causes
> the problem. Time to start building our enhancement requests. I forget
> this one come spring/summer.
>
> Deb
> Reeder & Kline
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Engen [mailto:cengen@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:03 AM
> To: vantage@egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Payroll bug bites again! W2 effected!
>
> Another glitch (we are on 3.0). We had an employee that received two
> checks
> in one week (this will happen frequently for anyone who has salespeople).
> The first check was dated Friday (completed on a Wednesday and posted) as
> that is our regular payroll run (weekly). The second check was dated
> Thursday. The system did not recognized that maximum had already been
> reached on the Friday check. Maximums effected could be anything from
> State
> Unemployment tax to Social Security Tax in addition to your 401(k) item
> mentioned below. We caught it with 941 reconciling and edited the W-2 and
> issued a refund to the employee.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Konecny [SMTP:jkonecn@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:45 AM
> To: Vantage List
> Subject: [Vantage] Payroll bug bites again! W2 effected!
>
> An old payroll bug bit us again when printing W2's. You cannot have
> two checks with the same check date for the same person. The ytd
> deduction for 401K is wrong forever for some employees in our system
> because we have multiple checks. The earnings report shows the
> correct amount but employee tracker (and W2's) are wrong. Tech
> "recommends" that you never have two checks for a person with
> the same check date. Vantage however doesn't prevent this, nor
> does the documentation mention it. You can edit the effected
> W2, however you cannot print a single W2. You must run the whole
> batch again.
>
>
>
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