Background:
Due to the Washington Insurance Industrial Tax setup and nature of having to manually define rates, like Worker’s Compensation, the tax is not naturally supported. The major differences between normal Worker’s Compensation Insurance and this tax are:
1. This is an actual Tax that is always allocated and withheld from each pay run.
2. The insurance is withheld at the Employer AND Employee level. Whereas Worker’s Comp does not have a direct impact on employee wages from payroll.
Feature Description:
This tax is supported through a new UI that allows the user to specify both Employee and Employer rates to withhold against based on the Risk Classification for that employee's work (or Position).
Feature Highlights:
Will I, as the reader, benefit from this feature?
All clients that have workers in Washington will benefit and should utilize this functionality.
Who can use this feature?
All Greenshades Payroll Clients
Workers Compensation for Washington:
Setup for the Washington Industrial Insurance Tax:
Navigation:
Workers Compensation Settings: Greenshadesonline.com > Settings Tab > Company Info > Company Structure > Position > Add Workers Comp Override
Washington Industrial Insurance Tax Settings: Greenshadesonline.com > Settings Tab > Company Info > Tax Rates > Other Taxes > Add Tax > Washington Industrial Insurance Tax
Background:
Up until now, clients have had no way to see the results of Cost Reporting transactions. This data provides a granularly broken-down version of all data related to client cost (Employee Earnings, Employer taxes, and Employer Benefits). This information is key for financial reporting like Project Accounting Analysis. Moreover, this data serves as an input that can be used for downstream processes like billing.
What’s new?
A new report has been added to the payroll reports list called the “Cost Report". This report is only usable by Payroll clients as the payroll results are only broken down in a cost reported manner by Greenshades own payroll processes. By the nature of this report, it will have more input options and fields than typical GS reporting – Primarily due to “Aggregate by” option, which will summarize the data based on your chosen parameters.
Will I, as the reader, benefit from this feature?
All payroll clients should be aware of and utilize this report, but it is most impactful for clients looking to facilitate Cost Reporting like Job Costing, Gross Margin, Billing, etc.
Who can use this feature?
All Greenshades Payroll Clients
Where to access the Cost Report:
Ex: Cost Report Output
Navigation:
Pay Run Reports: Greenshadesonline.com > Payroll Tab > Reports > Cost Report
Background:
After making the update to expand information on the employee Work Location Assignment in the employee card, it was quickly identified that the pay run wizard would also greatly benefit from this type of enhancement. The problem is the same in the fact that clients who use a common name, but different codes and address info, lack the information they need in the Pay Run Wizard location selections.
What’s new?
Pay Run Wizard Work Locations display with additional information, namely the code name, during and after a selection is made on relevant wizard screens.
Will I, as the reader, benefit from this feature?
All payroll clients can benefit, but it is most pertinent to those with more complex location setups (i.e. One base location name to more than one address)
Who can use this feature?
All Greenshades Payroll Clients
Pay Run Wizard Earnings Work Location (Editing):
Pay Run Wizard Earnings Work Location – Add Manually (Editing):
Navigation:
Pay Run Wizard Work Locations: Greenshadesonline.com > Payroll Tab > Start / Continue Pay Run > Hours & Earnings > Work Location
Background:
Downloading an ACH file will error or be restricted from use whenever there are problems for generating it. The most common error scenario is when an Employee’s Direct Deposit information is not valid.
What’s new?
In error scenarios, the UI will intelligently display the reason for the error. In the case of invalid Direct Deposit information, the user will be told exactly which employees have an issue with their DD settings.
Will I, as the reader, benefit from this feature?
Whenever a client experiences an errored ACH file, they will benefit from the new error information.
Who can use this feature?
All Greenshades Payroll Clients
Ex: ACH Cannot Download due to invalid DD account Post Payroll ACH Files: Greenshadesonline.com > Payroll Tab > View Payroll (past pay runs) > Download ACH File
