Outside Payroll Processing - System Transactions

[jlallo]

After 6 months of learning the IN’s and OUT's of PowerChurch's payroll functions, our church has decided to start using an outside payroll processor. My concerns as Treasurer should be obvious - how do I keep my system "totals" in line when I am not pulling the payroll strings in the system.

What I was planning on doing:

1) On my Test system, I was going to restore back to my installation point where I have no transaction history in any of my accounts.
2) Set up one employee in the system and apply any form of deduction that would represent the cumulative type of deductions across my staff
3) Run one test payroll.
4) Run an Account Activity report to see what accounts are impacted by the payroll.
5) With the accounts above noted, I can request from my payroll processor to provide me the details that match these changes when they process my payroll
6) I can then create a single GE entry after each payroll to get my balances in line.

I am looking for some guidance from someone else who has done this.

[Zorak]

You can still process these payments through the Payroll module, if you wanted to internally track the YTD and tax accumulations.

The important thing, when trying to match someone else's tax calculations per check is to change each deduction item's tax table to the word "NONE". This will open the Amount field so you can type in whatever the deduction amount was, without having to deal with pennies different in the tax calculations.