Per diems can be entered in the 5-2-2 window by selecting the next available row and entering the date, job, phase, cost code, comp code and department as if you were entering regular hours on a record. The only difference is the pay type and pay rate. Pay type for per diem is 8 and the pay rate is the amount of the per diem. No hours or pay group should be entered. In fact I believe the system will not allow entry of hours for pay type 8.

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Per diems can be entered in the 5-2-2 window by selecting the next available row and entering the date, job, phase, cost code, comp code and department as if you were entering regular hours on a record. The only difference is the pay type and pay rate. Pay type for per diem is 8 and the pay rate is the amount of the per diem. No hours or pay group should be entered. In fact I believe the system will not allow entry of hours for pay type 8.

Hope this helps.

Yes, thank you, the type 8 was not set up. Anyway to not have it classified as payroll?

What do you mean by "classified as payroll"? Do you mean appearing as "Labor" in the job costs or in the GL as a payroll liability?

The check should be payroll and the amount of the per diem is added to the payroll check as "Adds". Unfortunately the per diem amount is added as "Labor" for job costing. That is something I wish Sage would allow you to change. Unfortunately I haven't been able to discover a way to alter this.

On the GL, I believe Sage is be set so the per diem calculation is applied to the Travel expense account. not payroll liabilities. If your setup is applying per diem to payroll liabilities, you might check the Per Diem payroll calculation in the 5-3-1 window and make sure the calculation is set to the right expense accounts

Hope this helps.

Thank you it helps.