Card: Employee - Standard Pay don't automatically refresh when wages changes are made

Hi,

I spoke with Dale Dixon some time back about this and suggested that when you make a change in the employee's card that will cause the standard pay to change, you should get a popup message asking if you want it to automatically change, or just leave it alone.

Best of both worlds??

AlanT

I also would like to see the automatic function removed.   

We use timesheets.  I employ multiple bookkeepers.  Every time I have a new bookkeeper learning to process wages in AccountRight, and a new employee card file is created they invaribly fail to go to 'Standard pay' section and '0' the automatic hours.  (Yes I coach them to look out for this!)  This results in the new employee bieng 76 hours overpaid.  It has happened with multiple bookkeepers over many years. 

It also happens each time a cardfile wage rates are modified, (eg annual payrises).   It is all very well to tell bookkeepers they need to always remember to go in to standard pay and '0' each time.  However it reality it does get missed and on several occasions has resulted in employees being overpaid 76 hours.  Nothing worse that trying to recoup overpaid wages. More frustrating when the bookkeepers have not made a mistake as such, rather, the problem is create by MYOB automatic updating of standard pay.

Even if the error is picked up before wages are paid to the bank, deleting an electronic payment through bank register; reversing the pay (essential due to STP); amending the card file; reprocessing the wage; reprocessing the electronic payment to get an .ABA bank file is time consuming.   All this could be avoided if there was no automatic population in the standard hours section.

I and our bookkeepers will be very happy when this automatic function is removed. (praying hands)

I also am surprised this has not been changed yet so that we have a choice.  I pity anyone with a lot of Employees, as it is time consuming to go through each employee one by one.  Surely It wouldn't be that difficult to change or give an option?

Hi, this issue is still ongoing and also causing a lot of issues for our business. 
We have a lot of staff and when everyone is auto-populating with 38hrs then it is incredibly time consuming to manually change them all back to 0.

Has a fix been created yet?

Hi   Just a reminder that if this issue is still a frustration for your business, perhaps ask your colleagues or subscribers to vote on the first link above and add their comments below.

A way I got around it was jobbing. I go into Standard pay and job every line except for base hourly. That way if something triggers it, then I can go back in and delete what is in there. 

I also reduced the hours to 0.001 that way, if I do miss it, it is only paying 2 cents. 

Hope this helps. 

This is ridiculous.  I have some operational employees paid off a timesheet because their hours of work varies and others in admin who only get a standard pay.  I delete off the standard pay details when I set up new operational employees.

I had to make some changes to pay rates, and set up new payroll categories.  MYOB just decided to recreate standard pay details for my operational employees.

I had to restart a pay run 5 times today to go out and fix this up, and something that should take an hour has taken all morning.

Software is supposed to make the processs more efficient, but MYOB seems to have forgotten that.

Hi there, I'm actually surprised that this hasn't been rectified yet. You would imagine it wouldn't be that hard to give users a choice.