Creation of an "inactive" button for Payroll Categories. For example, when a employee has left the company & you don't want to see / choose that category from the list anymore you can't delete it because the system sees it as being used. So, it would be helpful if you could have something like an "inactive" button on the each categories, so it can be seen, or not seen from the selection list.
"Inactive Button for Payroll Category List"
There are a few threads for this request. It's silly how we can't even hide them from the list, or remove them from payslips or setups.
If you add all the threads' votes together it's over 120 votes, so can we get on this please, MYOB?
We would like to archive Payroll-Wage Categories that are no longer used BUT have been used on previous payrolls.
This means we will not have the unused "categories" in the current payroll
My understanding is that if used within a timesheet MYOB will not allow you to uncheck this payroll category from an employee card file. Therefore I would like to request an option to hide a payroll category if you cannot remove it. Simply so that pay categories that no longer relates to an individual do not show during a pay run.
Example:
An employee may have increased their Saturday or weekend clinical pay rate a number of times over the course of their employment....as other staff members may still be on the lower pay rates the amount cannot simply be changed.
We have many employees who have been with us for an extensive period of time so I am now having a very lengthy list of categories show within a single pay run, which is not only confusing but has the potential to incorrectly pay the individual.
The list of payroll categories in the file I have inherited in my new job is horrendous. We are at the point of considering starting a new file from scratch for the new financial year. If there was more flexibility in this area, that wouldn't even be on our radar. Ditto to all of the above comments and the original post.
Is this possibility on the planned changes/programming list? Honestly I feel that this is essential. If I was able to inactivate my list of payroll categories that are no longer in use, the ones I actually use would be so easy to manage.
Perhaps as an option for now it would be nice to be able to change the name of a payroll category if not being used in the current payroll year. Then I could add all the old ones to the bottom of the list by placing a Z at the start of the name.
Please, please can this be put to the top of the list?
Hi H-TS I am using AccountRight 2020.2 and when I attempt to add the Z to the start of the name of the individual payroll category I get an error;
WagesPayrollCategory_ExcemptionsNotDeduction
Perhaps I will search the forum for this error and see if perhaps I can resolve it by getting this sorted.
Thanks for letting me know.
I understand that a payroll category can not be removed from an employee record if it has previously been used, however it would be really helpful that in the employee card you could the flag this payroll category as inactive so it stops showing up when entering timesheets and processing payroll.
Regards
It would make my payroll must cleaner and easier to understand what current pay categories apply to each employee if I could make the old ones inactive for that employee. Currently if I am not using a category for an employee it has to stay there. Some employees have 10+ categories and makes it very messy. I understand that for history I can not remove it completely from the card however surely under there card/wages I should be able to select it and then have the option to make it inactive if I dont need it any more
This is urgently needed. Especially now with STP2 and we are supposed to be tidying up payroll categories.
