21st Century Payroll Program Changes

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Program Update 2.1.13

Changes in Versions 2.0 - 2.1.13

Timecards and Calculate Payroll.

Automatic Transfer to Adagio Job Cost. You can now identify work that you record on 21st Century Payroll Timecards with Adagio Job Cost codes. Then when you run Calculate Payroll and post Payroll transactions that originated on Timecards, 21st Century Payroll automatically transfers the JC job-related data to the Adagio Job Cost database in the data path that you have configured.
You can then retrieve and post the batch from 21st Century Payroll in Adagio Job Cost.

Line-item Date. A line-item date called "Workdate" has been added to Timecards. Employers can use Workdates to break down the employee’s Timecard period into sub-units. Or you can continue to process each job on the Timecard as a unit for the entire period covered by the Timecard.

Import Timecards: Online Help Special Task. The Payroll application comes with a generic import file that can be used to import Timecards. Addition of the Workdate field to Timecards in the current Payroll revision may require action on your part if you import Timecards. For instructions, see the Special Task called "Updating Timecard Import Files" in the Payroll online Help.

Configure/Custom Pay Summary and Print/Custom Pay Summary.

The following have been added to the Data Types available for defining a column:
Full Address
Postal Code
Phone Number
Employment State

Reports with definitions that did not include any amount columns — reports that were designed to print only employee personnel information, for example — printed only a blank page. Such reports will now print correctly.

Whether you turn on Summarize at one level of a Custom Pay Summary report determines the reporting behavior possible at the next higher level. For example, when a report is summarized by employees across multiple pay periods, it is logically impossible to subtotal by pay period. (In fact, the pay period numbers have actually become super totals!)
If you select Summarize at any level, the Subtotal option at the next higher level is automatically disabled.

Printing: Multiple Printer Management. The management of multiple printers is improved. Sites with multiple printers can print successfully with any connected printer.

Print Checks.

The pay period dates did not always print properly on paychecks and on the Payroll Register. This problem has been corrected.

Payroll has been printing the overtime multiplier on the paycheck stub. The actual overtime rate now appears on the paycheck stub and in the Payroll Register.

Workers’ Compensation and Direct Deposit. With the Direct Deposit add-in installed, workers’ compensation history was not being recorded for employees who were paid by Direct Deposit. This problem has been corrected.

Calculate Payroll.

If your company is configured to "Auto-calculate accrual pay amount," then you could not override the number of hours worked on a Salary pay factor in Calculate Payroll. You can now override Salary hours worked in Calculate Payroll.

Deduction pay factors with an employee contribution that has an annual ceiling, and with an employer contribution, continued to calculate the employer contribution after employee withholdings reached the annual ceiling. The program now correctly stops calculating the employer contribution once the employee reaches the annual ceiling.

Taxes with amount-per-hour contributions and Configure/Income .

When you edited and saved an income for any reason, the program erroneously removed that income from the "Hours include" box for taxes that are based on amount-per-hour contributions. This problem has been corrected.
The instructions in the next paragraph may apply to you.
Users should run Payroll/Configure/Taxes and review any taxes that are calculated by the amount-per-hour method. Make sure that the "Hours include" box includes all the incomes required to calculate the correct number of hours worked for your employees.

Click the System/Exit command to close. To prevent accidental shutdown of 21st Century Payroll, the (X) button on the main menu bar will produce a confirmation dialog.