Use this area to enter and maintain employee’s regular payments, including any allowances as well as to select how commission and/or casual payments will be taxed and superannuation calculated if applicable.

1.       Click on the Administration button.

2.       Select the Staff Settings > Staff menu option.

3.       Double click on the Employee in the Grid List of records area.

4.       The employee details will appear in the Active Window.

5.       Click on the Entitlements tab.

6.       Select the Wages > Periodic Payments Tab.

7.       Click on the  icon to display both lines of the Periodic Payment record. The second line of
          the payment record is used to set the percentage of payment types other than    
          Wages that are to be paid when this employee takes Holidays or Sick Leave.

8.       Click in the right hand side of the white area under the Payment Type heading. Select the

appropriate payment type from the Drop Down list. e.g. Wages.

9.       Press the key and select the appropriate Wage Group from the drop down list. Note:

The wage groups are setup in the Administration > Setup Tables > Wage Groups area and are used to split up all wage and commission payments into appropriate departments for your general ledger reporting.

10.     Press the key, enter the Amount

11.     Press the key and indicate if the payment type is Taxable.

12.     Press the key and if the payment is to be deducted (debited) from a commission

balance, select the Deduct from Commission . Note: If these payments are to be debited from another employee please nominate this employee in the Entitlements > Wages > General > Deduct debitable payments from field.

13.     Press the key and enable the if Company Super is payable on this Amount.

14.     Press the key and enable the if Deduct Super from Commission is

applicable.

15.     If Deduct Super from Commission is selected, this will be deducted from the employee

whose name appears in the Entitlements > Wages > General > Deduct debitable payments from field.

16.     Continue selecting each payment type as required, entering the required information for each

record. Click on Save and Close to save the information entered, alternatively click on the X at the top right corner of the Active screen, a message will appear “Do you want to save changes?” Select Yes, No or Cancel accordingly.

Note: So that the system can determine if Tax and/or Super is payable on Casual employee payments and Commission payments; a Periodic Payment record for the relevant payment type (i.e. Wages for casual and Commission for commission) must be added with the appropriate selected. The amount for these records should be left as zero.

Note: If an employee is to be receive 1/12th annual leave with each periodic payment and/or commission payment; an additional Periodic Payment record for this payment type must be added with the 1/12th amount setup for the periodic payment and appropriate selected. Commission payments will have 1/12th annual leave calculated if the Entitlements > Leave Entitlements > 1/12th Annual Leave paid on commission field is selected and will use the settings on this periodic payment record line to determine if Tax and/or Super is payable and debitable.