Payroll: Ability to remove categories used on timesheets

This has my vote!!

 Hi there teeisfortango,

Thank you for your vote and comment.

We do encourage anyone else who would like to see the ability to remove payroll categories that have been used on timesheets implemented into future releases of the program show your support for this feature by casting your vote (simply click on the '+ VOTE' button next to the subject heading).

Cheers,

Tallie

This is causing a lot of problems with our electronic time keeper.  I have to do a lot of manual checking and changing rather than a simple import. Please fix this! :(

How on earth this basic functionality (converting an employee from Salary to Hourly & Vice Versa) is still allowed to be broken by historical time-sheets is saddening. 

Can old histroical timesheets be purged these days?

Can you please fix this.  We only have one employee that this issue applies to, but after reading the forum I will now have to go back and delete his payslips and set up a new card for him as I was hoping this would be resolved when the payroll rollover was done in July.

Completely agree with include the option to deselect a payroll category that has ben linked to timesheets from an employee's card.  It must be a very common occurrence for an employee to change status, particularly from hourly part-time basis to full time salary basis of employment.  Who needs the extra admin???

I used "Back Pay" for a one-off payment to a staff member numerous years ago.  Our normal daily payroll category is "Base Hourly".  When typing it in, it's really annoying that I can't just select Base Hourly for this employee.  Surely it's an easy thing to allow it to be deselected on a staff member's file, and added if required.

Hello Jaydup

Yes it is an easy thing to do.

Open the employee card then Payroll details and then Wages.

take the tick off Back Pay.

Yhat will fix it for you.

Very easy.

cheers

David

Hi David.

That was the first thing I tried.  If it was that simple, I wouldn't have had to message this forum.

When I do that, I get an error message:

"Error

One or more payroll categories cannot be deselected as they have been used on recorded timesheets"

Hello Jaydup

Thanks for the additional information.

Are you are saying that you cannot remove the tick against Back Pay on the card?

When that tick is on then when you are entering payslips and type the letter "B" you see both Back Pay and Base Hourly payroll categories, and I understand your annoyance.

But when the tick is taken off then you only see the Base Hourly.

I cannot understand why that does not work for you.

Another option is to change the name of the Back Pay categor to something else. For example Missed Pay or zBack Pay.

cheers David