21st Century Payroll Program Changes

Program Update 3.3.02

To review Program Update 2.1.14 — 3.1, click Previous Update.

Enhancements in Version 3.3.02

Payroll. The ability to change the names of Payroll Pay Periods at any point has been added. (Previously, Payroll Pay Period names could be changed only when you closed the pay period.)

Payroll/Configure/Company Information. The configuration option to not print employees' hourly pay rates on paycheck stubs has been added in Company Information.

Payroll/Print/Remittance Checks. A complete batch listing is now available when you print Remittance Checks.

Payroll/Print/Accrual Balances. The Payroll/Print/Accrual Balances report shows accrual hours earned, taken, and available for employees for the selected date range. If the "Include only employees with accrual information" box is checked then only employees with available hours remaining before the specified date range and/or activity within the date range will be included.

System/Company/Export/Custom.../. Export capabilities have been added for the following data.

Problems Fixed in Version 3.3.02

Payroll/Print/941 Information. When processing a 2011 quarter, lines 5a and 5b produced incorrect amounts for Social Security withholding. This has been corrected.
After installing this Program Upgrade and the January 5, 2011 (or later) Tax Update, the Social Security withholding amounts for lines 5a and 5b will be correct for 2010 and 2011 941 processing.
At this time the IRS has not made the 941 form for 2011 available. The 941 Information command will continue to use the 2010 form layout and text for 2011 quarter processing until the official 2011 form is made available.

Accounts/Print/Check Register. When you printed the Check Register for a range of check numbers, sometimes checks with numbers outside the selected range were included. This problem has been corrected.

Payroll/Print/Paychecks. Accrual factors with YTD information but which were no longer assigned to the employee were not included in the check stub balance. This problem has been corrected.

Payroll/Print/Income Summary, Deductions Summary, and Non-cash Benefits Summary. The pay period column amounts on these reports were accumulating across department breaks when the company was departmentalized. This problem has been corrected.

Payroll/Print/Taxes Activity. The Earnings subject to Social Security on the Taxes Activity report were incorrect for employees with reported tips. This has been corrected.

Payroll/Employee Adjustments and processing issues. Users often opened a pay period in order to make employee adjustments and then closed the pay period. This created a pay period with no associated month and quarter, which could cause processing problems. The Employee Adjustments pay period window now requires a month and year, in order to correct the problem.

Enhancement in Version 3.2.05

Payroll/Clear Checks. The new Clear Checks function displays all the outstanding checks in the system for a given bank account. You indicate which checks have cleared the bank to provide a record for your reference. Cleared checks appear on the Payroll Check Register as "Reconciled."

Problems Fixed in Version 3.2.05

System startup or company selection. A warning message resulted if the Pervasive database engine was not running at the source of the software and company location. This message ("Pervasive not installed or functioning") failed to provide customers with sufficient information. The message has been modified for clarity and a full explanation with diagnostics for different environments is now an online "Hot Topic."

User login. A security issue was fixed in an earlier version by enforcing the rule that prevents any User ID from being logged in at more than one workstation at a time. The resulting new error message caused some users to believe that only one person could log in at a time. An online "Hot Topic" is now provided to explain that each person in the office who works on 21st Century Accounting now simply needs a separate User ID.

System/User IDs. Attempts to delete User IDs produced errors. This problem has been corrected.

Import Timecards. The system allowed you to import timecards that included pay factors that were not configured for the employee. This problem has been corrected.

System/Company/Backup. The problems some users had backing up to CDs using the Windows CD Writing Wizard have been corrected. You can now use the Wizard with the System/Company Backup function.

System/Company/Backup. The backup function did not allow you to change the name of the backup file in the Backup location field. This has been corrected so you can now modify the filename in the Backup location field. As always, you can use the Browse button to select a different backup location and change the backup filename.