• Employee paying less retirement contribution than entered.

    I only have this error on one employee. Our retirement plan match's up to 3% of gross pay. We have several employees that only match up to that 3% limit. For some reason it calculates this one employee's contribution at 2.94%. The employer contribution…
  • Year end processing: from W-2, 943 and 1099-NEC

    Year end processing: Issue #1: form 943 input screen does not show line 11 or line 13 calculation until return is printed, does not allow manual change to line 10. Why?, Issue #2: Child employees under age of 18 are exempt from paying social security…
  • W-2 not pulling correct data

    I've searched everywhere and this is getting frustrating because,when checking the W-2 withholding amounts for employees all Social security withholding is not correct in Box4. All other tax reports are pulling the correct social security withholding…
  • Payroll

    I need Help with Payroll Salary Employees, for years I have entered in their fields amounts for Bonus and Commission. Now after the update, they will not open for me to enter the amounts for the Salary only.
  • I need help with a user maintained payroll formula.

    We have a new part-time employee who has "head of household" for income tax deductions. When I go to add her hours for her 1st paycheck, Sage50 tells me that a formula does not exist - VAC-REM 20 Head/Household. It says to go to File, Payroll Formulas…
  • Retro-active Payroll Adjustments

    Can someone help me with an issue we're having in how to handle a retro-active payroll adjustment for "hourly" employees. Occasionally, HR is late in provided pay rate adjustments and we need to make an addition to a current check for unpaid "Back-Pay…
  • Autorenewing Sage Business Care Shows Plan Level:None

    Hello All, I am new to this forum, but have been a Peachtree/Sage50 user for a long time. This is the second problem with Sage in last 2 weeks...I still wonder if there is a bug in the 27.1.00.0154 build...Sage says there is not. Anyway, when I tried…
  • What are the Journal Entries to record Payroll completed and Paid by an outside payroll company

    Hello, What are the final journal entries to record Payroll by an outside payroll company that has already completed and paid all of the payroll taxes? Am I able to just record the expenses or is there still liability entries that need to be completed…
  • Direct Deposit - Month End and Bank Reconciliation

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    Direct Deposit pulls funds for Aug 2 payroll on July 31. The transaction shows up on my bank statement for July but in Sage in August. What's the proper way to clear the amount from the direct deposit to reconcile the bank account? Thanks in advance.
  • Payroll checks not showing up in the bank rec

    All the January payroll checks are missing from the bank reconciliation. Any ideas of why we see all the checks outstanding, but not the ones from payroll?
  • Handling non-cash employee compensation in Sage 50

    Help! I have a small company that this year distributed a non-cash award to eligible employee. The value was $500.00, so we need to treat it as income and withhold/pay taxes. How do I enter this in Sage so that the appropriate taxes are recorded but the…
  • How to show wages payable in balance sheet when employee receives partial salary?

    Hi, When entering in the payroll for an employee, the employer decided to pay partial salary of an employee, what is the right way to do this? Will we create new salary2 and select GL account for wages payable under other current liabilities? BR,…
  • How to pay a part time employee in SAGE 50 Premium

    I want to set up an administrative employee (we do not bill her time out or want to assign it to any projects) with an hourly rate and no set amount of hours, as her hours vary from week to week, what is the easiest way to do this? I don't need the payroll…
  • Pastor salary

    I have a new payroll client, a minister. He receives a salary and housing allowance. I was told this is not taxed for Federal, SS and Medicare but it is for state and local. How can I set this up?
  • Payroll Formula Help

    I need to create a formula that excludes portions of Gross Pay from Retirement contribution. For example: RegularPay (Include) OvertimePay (Include) Incentive (exclude) Holiday (exclude) The employee must contribute 5% in accordance with the…
  • Issue calculating automatic tax deductions

    So I'm having a problem calculating automatic tax deductions in payroll. In payroll entry, no deductions are listed in the taxes - benefits - liabilities section. I checked the employee's withholding info tab in the maintain employees section and they…
  • Hourly payroll rates on the employee pay info tab

    I have the employee set up and up until I upgraded to Quantum, I never had a problem. My problem is his rate is $27.00 per hour. I need to change it to $27.32. It won't let me do the cents. It let's me type it, but then reverts back to the $27.00.
  • Posting payroll so that it goes into job reports

    I have been using Peachtree/Sage for 18 years, and in my entire career, to process payroll I've always just gone to tasks > payroll entry, and then posted the hours for whoever worked. Obviously then this won't show up on reports, so I've created spreadsheets…
  • Word SICK_ACCRUE not recognized?

    When i try to complete the KB: How to setup a vacation/sick formula based on hours worked and hours earned, i receive the error message saying, the work SICK_ACCRUE not recogized by Sage? What am i doing wrong, if i am following the exact steps in the…
  • US based organization paying Canadian independent contractor tax question

    Could anybody tell me if it would be ok to send a 1099 to a recently hired Canadian employee? If so, what tax ID do I use for him? Additionally, do I send a 1099 to the Canadian Fed, or does it need to be a different document?
  • Anyway to do a special overtime calculation in Sage 50?

    One of our Worker's Comp providers wants to see payroll records where the dollar amount for regular is incremented by the (base hourly pay) * (number of OT hours) and the same sum is subtracted from the dollar amount from the OT field. Really! ----…
  • how to manage loan to employee?

    My company is situated at qatar and we are using sage 50 u.s quantum accounting. We provides loan to employees and it is interest free. Most of the employees are expatriate. So, loan to employees includes immigration fee, visa fee, renew passport and…
  • KY Employee Taxes Formula

    Does anyone have a tax formula for KY employees? I have a new employee that lives in KY but my business is in TN. I'm trying to set up the KY payroll formula but am having trouble doing it. You can email me directly at [email protected] or…
  • Latest information regarding the Sage 50 2014.2 update

    Exciting news – The new Sage 50 2014.2.1 update is now available. In addition to the changes to help you be better prepared for the coming Healthcare Act requirements, this new release streamlines the conversion process, reducing the time it takes for…