Note: Payroll transactions are different from other recurring transactions. For information about other recurring transactions, see Using recurring transactions.
By their nature, employee payments are recurring transactions -- transactions that you create time and time again. You'll use Process Payroll to create employee payments for one or more employees.
The Card Information window - Payroll Details view - Recurring Pay displays a summary of the payroll entries you've made for an employee. The entries in this window are the entries that will appear in the Pay Employee window when a payroll transaction is created. (Some of the payroll entries are amounts that MYOB AccountEdge will calculate when the payroll transaction is recorded. The term <Calculated> is used to represent those entries.)
After you've set up the payroll details for your employees, you can, though, edit and add values in this window to override the entries for some of the payroll categories you created.
A change you make here does not affect the entries in any of the other Payroll Details windows, but is used in all subsequent payroll transactions for the employee, until you return to those entries by clicking the Reset to Original Amounts button or changing them manually.
For example, you may want to set up a recurring amount for a deduction for which you have a fixed amount for an insurance premium that is different for each employee. You'll use the Recurring Pay window to make recurring entries. (Which payroll fields can be edited using the Recurring Pay window?)
You can also use the window to assign a job number to a payroll category for a employee. The job number you enter will be assigned to the payroll category whenever a payroll transaction is created for the employee.
Important Notes:
Entries in the Recurring Pay window override entries in other Payroll Details windows
If you receive the alert message "This change will impact the Recurring Pay information for this employee"
Use the Reset to Original Amounts button to return to default amounts
If you want to pay a salaried employee exclusively from activity slips
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