TRAVERSE Global v11.1

Post Checks

Use the Post Checks function to post checks that have been calculated or entered manually and printed.

What happens when you post checks?

• Employee History and Employer History tables are updated.
• If you elected automatic accrual of leave time in the Business Rules function, the remaining leave hours are updated for each employee on the Employee Information screen's Pay tab.
• If you elected to save check history in the Business Rules function, check history is updated.
• The Hours Accrued and Hours Taken amounts in the Accrual Adjustments function are updated.
• Department records are updated. Employer taxes are posted to the department records and employee hour and piece information is updated.
  
  If you entered no time tickets for a salaried employee, the employer withholdings and deductions are always posted to the Home department you selected in the Department box on the Employee Information screen's Pay tab. If you entered time tickets for a salaried employee working in different departments, but you selected Home in the Employer Taxes/Costs to Home or Worked Department field in the Business Rules function, the employer withholdings and deductions are posted to the employee's home department.
  
  To post taxes and employer costs to the Worked department for salaried employees with time tickets, you must select Worked in the Business Rules function.
  
  Note: Earnings excluded from employees' net pay (such as reported tips) are not posted to Department records.
• If you interface Payroll with General Ledger, pay period information is posted to the GL Journal.
  Note: Earnings excluded from employees' net pay (such as reported tips) are not posted to the General Ledger.
• If you interface Payroll with Bank Reconciliation, posting checks in Payroll creates summary disbursement entries for the checks in the Bank Reconciliation Transactions table for the bank account you specify.
• Payroll information for the current pay period is cleared from all Payday Work functions to make way for the next pay period's check run.
• The next check number is incremented on the Payroll Information screen's Employer Bank Info tab.

1. Complete these tasks:
   • Prepare and print checks.
   • Enter leave Accrual Adjustments and print the Leave Report.
   • Back up all data files.
     
2. Print these reports:
   • Check Register
   • Paycheck Received Report
   • Withholding Report
   • Employer Tax Report
   • Pay Period Deduction Report
   • Department Expense Report
3. Select the payroll tax month to which you want to post checks from the Post to Payroll Tax Month field.
4. Select the bank account from which you paid checks from the Bank Account ID field.
5. Select the Created the Direct Deposit File checkbox, if applicable, if you have created the direct deposit file.
   Note: This check box only appears if you use the Direct Deposit application.
6. Enter comments for the post, if applicable, in the Comments field.
7. Click a command button to
   

Click	To
OK	Begin posting checks.
Activity	Display the Activity Log to view posting activity.
Reset	Set all fields to their default values.