There are several times that I've encountered where the customer needs to process payroll for a future Quarter when the Current Quarter is not closed. For example, lets say its April 1st and the customer is on a weekly payroll period. They have not closed Q1, but need to process checks in April (Q2).
Right now, the current process requires them to close Q1 and then they can process/print Q2 checks. If they process Q2 checks, they cannot close the Quarter/Period for Q1 since it says Payroll Data Entry is in Progress. In order to cut the checks before processing Quarter End, they need to clear out Payroll Data Entry, Close the Quarter, and then reprocess it again. This opens up potential mistakes or paying the employee twice.
Ideally, they would like to be able to Print the Q2 checks and have the payroll data entry batch remain open. While that batch is still open, they would like the ability to Close the Quarter/Period and ignore the open batch of payroll data entry. After they are able to Close the Quarter/Period, they can then post the batch of checks to Q2.
Having this flexibility makes it easier so they can process payroll sooner for employees while giving the customer more time for the Quarter End/Year End Process. From my experience, this has happened several times.
by: Alain S. | 8 days ago | Payroll / Job Cost
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As a suggestion, perhaps there should be a checkmark or some type of flag to ignore payroll data entry to allow this to happen.