Payroll in AccountEdge
AccountEdge Payroll is robust and full-featured. Here’s a look at just some of the ways AccountEdge Pro accommodates your payroll needs, along with a look at payroll tax update services.
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Payroll Processing
Process your payroll and print paychecks, or directly deposit your employees' checks electronically, while keeping track of all payroll information in a single location. Pay your employees based on an hourly or salary rate, keep track of payroll taxes and deductions.
Easy Payroll Setup Assistant
We don’t leave you hanging. The AccountEdge Payroll Easy Setup Assistant will walk you through each step of getting your payroll up and running. It will help you load your payroll tax tables, check your payroll year, set up your default payroll information and the general ledger accounts you want to use for payments and expenses, and your payroll categories. It also walks you through setting up your employee cards with all their details, and timesheets if you use them.
Once you complete the Easy Setup Assistant for payroll, you have your payroll structure in place. As an AccountEdge Payroll Tax Service member, you’ll have easy download access to updated payroll taxes as they change during the year.
Manage Wage, Deduction, And Expense Categories
AccountEdge lets you manage your employees' payroll wage categories, such as hourly, salary, overtime, and commission, deductions like 401k and health care, sick and vacation time, and expense categories. AccountEdge Pro includes the payroll categories most likely needed, but you can add your own or start new for full customization.
Employees
Employee payroll information is conveniently located on a single card, with drill downs to details, including employer expenses for that employee, payroll history, deductions, wages, accruals, taxes and personal details.
Timesheets
Easily track employee time either by filling in the timesheet, using recurring pay, or copying from the previous timesheet. Optionally, use AccountEdge Connect to let employees or contractors enter time remotely, to be synced back to AccountEdge desktop.
Pay Employees
Select to pay all employees based on pay schedule criteria and time frames, or pay individual employees.
Review and Edit Paychecks
Before recording payroll, AccountEdge Pro provides opportunities to review and edit individual employee paychecks, and to preview a paycheck report for the payroll criteria selected.
Print Paychecks and Email or Print Pay Stubs
AccountEdge Pro lets you print paper checks, print or email pay stubs, and has an optional Direct Deposit service to send checks electronically.
Customize Paychecks
AccountEdge Pro allows you to customize your checks by adding and moving fields, adding text fields, and inserting images, logos and shapes.
Pay Employer Liabilities
Pay accrued payroll liabilities, such as deductions, expenses, or taxes for a selected period by selecting the category and amount you want to include.
Payroll Reports
21 payroll reports help you keep track of your liabilities and compliance, employee details and summaries, employer accruals details and summaries and more.
Prepare Payroll Tax Forms
Process your W2s and W3s with AccountEdge Pro. If you want access to over 330 more federal and state forms to be filled out directly from AccountEdge Pro, we offer an optional Payroll Forms Service.