Overview of the Process Payroll Assistant - Select & Edit Paychecks window

Process Payroll Assistant

Select & Edit Paychecks

In the first window of Process Payroll, you selected the pay period and pay frequency you want to pay. In this window you select the employee payments you want to process.

For each payment, you can also open the Pay Employee window, where you can review the details of the payment and make any changes you wish.

Note: Changes made using the Process Payroll windows are used for the current payroll processing session only

When you're satisfied with entries for each employee, click the Record button to record the transactions in your MYOB AccountEdge company file and move to the next Process Payroll step.

Select employee payments

This window displays the one employee you selected in first step of Process Payroll or a list of all the employees who are paid with the frequency you selected in the first step of Process Payroll.

If you don't want to process pay for a certain employee, click the mark next to the name of the employee to remove it. If you wish to include a certain employee and a mark doesn't appear in the Checkmark (Process) column, click the column to add it. Click the gray box at the top of this column to mark all the employees in the list. Click again to clear all marks from the column.

Edit an employee payment

To view and edit the employee payment, click the zoom arrow next to the employee's name; the Pay Employee window will be displayed. The payroll information for each employee is based upon the entries you've made in the Card Information window for the employee.

You may want to select and edit the payroll transaction for the following purposes:

To select or change the payment method.

To select or change the payment details (information about your employee's bank accounts to which funds will transfer electronically) in the Banking Details window -- if the payment method is Electronic.

Note: You must subscribe to MYOB Direct Deposit to make electronic payments to employees

To edit the default entries, including hours and wages.

To distribute an employee pay amount to one or more jobs. If any of the pay amounts on the payroll transaction should be allocated to a job, enter a job number on the line item for the payroll category. Click the search icon in the Job column of the line item for the payroll category to distribute the pay amount to multiple jobs.

To distribute sick and vacation pay or other types of wages, if necessary.

Warning: Changes made in the Pay Employee window do not update the Timesheet