Changing an employee to salary from hourly with sage 50 2024

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Apparently with the new build you cannot change an employee from hourly to salary.  You have to create a new record with all new information - you cannot copy the record you have to re-key everything.  Sage then "sees" the new record as a duplicate and asks if you want to merge.  So you don't have duplicate tax records.  Not great but workable.  But if I'm understanding this correctly, if an employee has direct deposit, you have to re-enter all of their banking info and then send a new prenote.  So there's a 3-5 day lag time before you can process any payroll for this person.  Has anyone else run into this issue?  It's a mess from where I am looking at it.  

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    I just had a client with this same scenario and didn't even realize they were switching the pay method back and forth.  Instead, we just created a new hourly pay type rate factor.  They used $10, they would then adjust the hours accordingly on the payroll check to achieve the pay amount needed.  This will save them a ton of time with the number of employees they have in payroll and will be much easier than having separate employees.