Stand-alone Christmas Bonus Check

[RLM]

Most likely I will not get an answer to this before I cut payroll, but after doing a search of the POWERchurch forum I could not find an answer that applied to my situation.

I have been asked to cut $50 checks to the staff to be presented on the Sunday after Christmas. Knowing that the proper thing to do is run it through payroll I am conflicted on how to do this. I want this check to be solely for BONUS and not be 'added' to the regular weekly payroll. I cannot find a way to do that in payroll. I want the checks to be 'independent', or 'stand alone' if you will, from regular payroll. How can I do that without totally manipulating the normal Employee Pay Items and showing ONLY the STAFF BONUS and then going back in and re-building the Employee Pay Items.

[tborgal]

You can choose not to process each pay item. Go to Maintain Payroll Items for each employee and double click each payroll item. In the upper right corner you can select the radio button NO for each item you do not want to process. When you are finished with each check you can then go back and select the YES radio button. You will not have to rebuild the pay items. If you have the BONUS item set up correctly the amount will be included on their W2 as it should since this is taxable income for each employee. I am not sure if each of the items will print on the check stub however. I just did this myself a couple of weeks ago but can remember if all the items print on the stub. If this is a problem just remove the stub before you give them the check.

Hope this helps and is in time for you to use this process before you cut the checks.

[RLM]

Thank you so much Tom....