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Our church recently purchased PowerChurch. I have been doing Payroll Setup, and I find it difficult. I have set up new accounting software in business before and never had the trouble I am having. Has anyone else had a difficult time with payroll setup?

sheron wrote:Our church recently purchased PowerChurch. I have been doing Payroll Setup, and I find it difficult. I have set up new accounting software in business before and never had the trouble I am having. Has anyone else had a difficult time with payroll setup?

If you're using the setup wizard it shouldn't be that hard. What are the problems you're seeing, please be specific.

Also, remember Powerchurch was designed for churches, and regular business software is designed mostly for accrual accounting.

I also am having a difficult time setting up payroll.
When I go into pay an hourly employee, I have missing screens that allow me to put in the amount of hours that person worked.

acctmom10 wrote:I also am having a difficult time setting up payroll.
When I go into pay an hourly employee, I have missing screens that allow me to put in the amount of hours that person worked.

What version of Powerchurch are you using ?

Hi, My name is Nancy. I have been trying to learn PCPlus since January. I was able to learn the contributions module easy but, the accounting module is so much different than Quickbooks. I have a degree in accounting but, I have never had to set up software before. I had to restart the acct. module several times to be able to understand it. I am now trying to set up payroll. I have using version 11 by the way.

What I am trying to do is pay an employee that is an hourly employee. The screen that allows me to put in the hours that she worked is missing or I have done something wrong.'
Thanks for anyhelp that you can give me.

acctmom10 wrote:What I am trying to do is pay an employee that is an hourly employee. The screen that allows me to put in the hours that she worked is missing or I have done something wrong.'
Thanks for anyhelp that you can give me.

In version 11, you should have created a payroll item for your hourly employee. If you have more than one hourly employee say a custodian, and a secretary, you should have two as there are probably different hourly pay rates.

You should have the pay items assigned to the employee: pay rate, taxes, other deductions. Under Maintain List of Employees you should select your hourly employee, then go to the Pay Items tab. Double Click on the income item for this employee. You should then see a screen where you can set the Rate Type. Make sure its set at HOURLY, you should have entries for the hourly pay rate, and an area to enter hours. However, you don't need to enter anything there.

When you process payroll, you will see a list of employees, both salaried and hourly. As you progress through the process payroll dialog, you will be given a screen that will let you enter the normal/overtime/other hours.

However, you have to have the pay item setup properly under the Maintain List of Employees to be able to see the hourly entry screen.

I would have included screen captures to show you what to look for, but for some reason I couldn't upload them.

Thanks Neil, I am using Ver. 11 and I was able to get the hours in for my hourly employee. The problem I have now is it didn't remove any taxes from the check. Could you help me again?

acctmom10 wrote:Thanks Neil, I am using Ver. 11 and I was able to get the hours in for my hourly employee. The problem I have now is it didn't remove any taxes from the check. Could you help me again?

it sounds like you don't have any Tax pay items setup for the employee. The employee should have tax items assigned just like your salaried staff. If you don't have your tax tables setup, you'll need to setup your Federal and State tax tables, then create Married/Single tax pay items and assign them to the employees as needed.

May I also suggest that you look at this tutorial about maintaining tax tables:

https://www.powerchurch.com/support/kb. ... 140&type=1

Not knowing what state you are located in, I can't refer you to the Knowledge Base article for your state, but if you go to the main Powerchurch.com site, under Support -> Knowledge Base, do a search for "tax tables statename" , and substitute your state for statename. You'll get a tutorial on how to update the tables for your state.

I would have advised that you take the online Payroll class, but that was scheduled for this morning, I suspect the next will be schedule for next month. Its worth the money.