Starting Payroll Amounts

Starting Payroll Amounts

If you are starting Unique at the beginning of the calendar year you will not have to enter any starting payroll information for your employees.  

If you have already paid your employees this year previous to running Unique you will want to enter the amounts you have paid to each employee so far. This will let Unique calculate their proper year-to-date payroll totals for their Gross and Net pay, as well as the taxes they have paid.  

This is important so that future tax withholdings will be properly calculated and the W-2/1099 reports and forms that are printed at the end of the year will be correct. 

Entering Starting Payroll Amounts in Employee Withholding History: 

To include the starting payroll information in the Financial reports generated by Unique, the starting payroll amounts should be entered under the Employee Withholding History section.  

To do this select Employee Withholding History from the Payroll menu .  

Then select Edit/Add and enter the employee code and the starting payroll amounts for the Gross, Tips, Net Pay and all the tax information.  

For the check date, enter the last date you ran a payroll before you started using Unique. 

This insures that the payroll totals will be calculated correctly and show up on the proper payroll reports.