This window displays a list of all the employees who are paid with the frequency you selected in the first step of the Process Payroll Assistant. Use this window to review, edit and record employee payroll transactions.

Reviewing and editing payments

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 made in the Card Information window for the employee.

Recording employee payments

When you're satisfied with entries for each employee, click the Next button and the transactions will be recorded in your MYOB AccountEdge company file.

Note:  Any changes you make using the Process Payroll Assistant windows are used for the current payroll processing session only

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

• To review or change the payment method.
  
  To review or change the payment details (information about your employee's bank accounts to which funds will transfer electronically) in the Applied Payment Details (payroll) window

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

• To review the default entries, including 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 manually distribute employee pay to one or more jobs (Allocate Jobs window)]

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

To distribute vacation and sick pay
To distribute "other" types of wages
To use the Special Pay pay frequency

Dates

Payment Date: Use this field to enter the date that you want to appear on each employee payment. When you change the date here, the date field (read-only) in the Pay Employee window for each employee is changed.

Pay Period Start and Pay Period End: These are read-only fields. They display the dates you entered in step 1 of the assistant.

Picture

If you've linked a picture of the employee using the Card Details tab of the Card Information window and you highlight the employee's name in the list, the picture will appear here. (Card Information window - Card Details view)

Summary amounts

When you highlight an employee name in the employee list, a summary of the payroll transaction for the employee is displayed.

Gross Pay -- the sum of all amounts applied to payroll categories of the type Wages.

Deductions -- the sum of all amounts applied to payroll categories of the type Deductions

Taxes -- the sum of all Amounts applied to payroll categories of the type Taxes.

Net Pay -- the calculated value of the payroll transaction (the gross pay amount with deductions and taxes subtracted).