Enter the payroll group that you are setting up the pay period for. Press F4 for a list of valid groups from PR Groups.

Initially defaults the last accessed pay period for the current user.

Enter the date that will be used to identify this pay period for the PR Group. Generally this is the last day of the pay period.

Enter the first date of the pay period; the date must be equal to or earlier than the date that you enter in the Pay Period Ending Date field. A warning displays for timecards posted to this pay period that fall outside this range of dates.

Check this box if this pay period’s expenses and/or payments will be posted in more than a single month. For example, if the end of a month falls in the middle of a week, you may have earnings from the first part of the week expensed to Job Cost in the first month and earnings from the remainder of the week expensed in the second month.

Do not check this box if this pay period's expenses and/or payments will be posted in one month. When unchecked, all earnings and payments will be posted in the first Month, and the system disables the 2nd Month, Cutoff Date, and Limit Month fields.

Setting Up a Split-Month Pay Period

Enter a month that is open in the PR GL company. All timecard batches posted to this pay period must use this month, unless this is a split-month pay period where earnings may be expensed in both the first and second months. Payments may use either the first or second month. This field cannot be changed if non-interfaced payments exist for the pay period.

For split-month pay periods only. The system displays this field when you check the Expensed and/or Paid in More Than One Month box.

Enter the second month in which expenses or payments will be posted for this pay period. The month must be open in the PR GL company, and must be one month later than the date in the 1st Month field.

It is important to correctly identify the month the checks are paid in since this determines the month the Employee Accumulations are updated. The date of the check should be posted to the calendar month paid to comply with IRS regulations. This affects the month reported on Quarterly taxes.

For split-month pay periods only. The system enables this box when you check the Expensed and/or Paid in More Than One Month box.

Enter the last day to include in the first accounting month. This date will be compared to the timecard date when determining to which month expenses or payments will be posted. For example, if you entered 03/02/XX in the Pay Period Ending Date field, 02/24/XX in the Beginning Date field, and 02/28/XX in the Cutoff Date field, all expenses posted on or before 02/28/XX will be posted to month 02/XX. All expenses posted after 02/28/XX will be posted to month 03/XX. If you enter a cutoff date that is prior to the beginning date (e.g., 02/23/XX), all expenses posted on or after 02/24/XX will be posted to month 03/XX. The expenses posted to the first month will include the wage and burden expenses for the hours worked through the cut off date.

Enter the month to be used when applying monthly deduction and liability limits. If this is a single-month pay period, this field defaults the first month and cannot be changed. If this is a split-month pay period, this field defaults the second month, which can be overridden.

Enter the total number of straight time hours in the Pay Period. Typically, this value is 40 for weekly and 80 for biweekly. This field is used to calculate rate per hour Automatic Earnings and for tracking unemployment hours (as required in a few states).

Enter the total number of working days in the Pay Period. This field is used to calculate rate per day automatic earnings (if you checked the Posting to All box in PR Employees, Add'l Info tab) and rate per day deductions and liabilities.

Enter the total number of weeks for the Pay Period. This field updates accumulations for state unemployment reporting.

This field is enabled for weekly and bi-weekly pay periods.

Enter the maximum number of regular hours for the week; this field initially defaults to 40.00 for U.S. and Australian users and to 0.00 for Canadian users.

You can use this field to compute automatic overtime pay for holiday weeks. For example, an employer might pay overtime based on 32 hours for the week; so, any additional hours are paid as overtime.

This field is enabled for bi-weekly pay periods.

Enter the maximum number of regular hours for the week; this field initially defaults to 40.00 for U.S. and Australian users and to 0.00 for Canadian users.

You can use this field to compute automatic overtime pay for holiday weeks. For example, an employer might pay overtime based on 32 hours for the week; so, any additional hours are paid as overtime.

This field appears for Australian companies only.

Enter the number of payments to be made during this pay period. This field initially defaults to 1, but you can change this field if you are paying employees more than once due to time off that crosses pay periods.

When you specify more than one payment, the system withholds the correct amount and prevents unwanted overstatement of PAYG withholding due to a higher payment for the pay period.

The value that you enter in this field defaults automatically for employee records in the Number of Payments Covered field in PR Employee Pay Seq Control, where you can override the value as necessary.

This field displays the user who is currently using the pay period during an update (PR Ledger Update and PR AP Update) or during a check print run (PR Check Print). When a user name displays here, no other user may access the pay period. The system clears this field once the update or check print is complete.

When adding a new pay period, this field defaults to 1, and the Description field defaults to Sequence #1. You can override the Description field, but the sequence number cannot be changed.

Additional sequences may be added as necessary. Sequence numbers can be between 1 and 255. It is important to set up the proper sequence numbers here before processing a payroll because deductions and liabilities, automatic earnings, etc., can be limited to calculate on certain Payment Sequences.

Enter a description of this payment sequence, to be used on reports (e.g., Regular Payroll, Layoff, Bonus, etc.). This field defaults to "Sequence #1" for the initial payment sequence.

The Bonus checkbox on the PR Pay Period Control form, Payment Sequence tab.

Select this checkbox if this is a bonus payment sequence.

For US users:

You must have set up any associated deductions to calculate as a rate of gross for bonus sequences in PR Deductions and Liabilities (that is, selected the Calculate as Rate of Gross on Bonus Seq checkbox and entered a rate entered in the Bonus Rate field).

For Canadian users:

Selecting this checkbox triggers a special bonus tax routine during processing to calculate Federal and Provincial taxes. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you set up a separate payment sequence for bonuses (such sequence #2) and select this checkbox for that pay sequence.

Check this box if you want to issue checks for all employees that normally receive direct deposits. Employees that already receive checks are unaffected by this selection.

Do not check this box if all employees will be paid by their regular payment method for this pay sequence.

In both cases, the system updates the Payment Method field in PR Employee Pay Seq Control accordingly, and the system sets the sequence to not processed.

Enter a valid frequency code that will be active for the pay period. These codes identify which Automatic Earnings to post and which Employee-based deductions and liabilities to calculate. The description field is display only.

Adding or removing Frequency Codes from the grid after Automatic Earnings are posted or deductions and liabilities are calculated will have no effect, unless the PR Post Automatic Earnings or PR Payroll Process forms are rerun.

Enter a holiday date for automatic overtime calculations.

The holidays you specify here are used for overtime calculations when the overtime schedule indicates holiday pay is to be included.

Check this box if all employees (craft and non-craft) should be paid overtime for the holiday (if worked). For craft employees, the holiday is paid in addition to any other holidays defined for the craft.

If you do not check this box, then only non-craft employees will be paid overtime for the holiday (if worked). Craft employees will only be paid overtime for the holiday if the holiday is defined for the employee's craft in PR Crafts.