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    #1

    Payroll software

    Has anyone written an after-the-fact payroll program ?? If so, I'd sure like to hear from you. Thanks.

    Jim Christianson
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    RE: Payroll software

    I am not sure what you mean by after-the-fact, but I track employees paid hours and create a summary report which I use to fill out forms for a Payroll service. Then when the payroll comes back (after-the-fact?) I enter the employer taxes for each employee and finally run a jobcosting report that spreads the payroll costs including gross and taxes so I can put a single journal entry in my accounting that disperses the costs appropriately.
    The Alpha Five side is actually not that difficult. The hardest part was getting the payoll service to give a report of employer taxes by employee... When I got that I created the form for data entry to match.

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      #3
      RE: Payroll software

      Stephen, your utility program sounds useful. Would you mind zipping
      along a copy?

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        #4
        RE: Payroll software

        Umm - it is buried inside a rather complex application. I would have to start from scratch to make something up to zip it up. Yeah - its useful. The payroll piece is not that hard to build, but you need the billing, which builds on the estimating and it gets to be overkill.

        Rather - what exactly is needed - let me tutor you through?

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          #5
          RE: Payroll software

          Thanks for you reply. I do my payroll in-house and do not use a payroll service. By after-the-fact I mean that payroll entries can be made at any time prior to the end of the quarter and these entries are then used to prepare the federal and state quarterly reports and the W-2's/1099's at the end of the year.

          Have been gone for a couple weeks or would have gotten back to you sooner.

          Jim Christianson

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            #6
            RE: Payroll software

            I was just wondering...nobody likes creating an Alpha Five solution to a problem more than I do. But with the many relatively inexpensive payroll programs available (Peachtree, Quicken), why re-invent the wheel?

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              #7
              RE: Payroll software

              I agree with you to some extent. The software you cited is definitely good but an overkill and too much money for a small office environment such as mine. The package I now use is from AME and I consider it a very amateur attempt at programming but marginally functional. And the price charged for the product reflects the minimal effort put into writing the software.

              I was inquiring to Alpha with some hope of finding something but mostly out of frustration with my existing software. Regardless, till something better comes along, I'll struggle along with what I'm now using.

              In any case, thanks for your reply. I appreciated hearing from you.

              Jim Christianson

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                #8
                RE: Payroll software

                Jim,
                I have been using a payroll program from Medlin accounting for many years. It is shareware and comes with the state and federal tables loaded. Only downside is you have to order a new one every year with the updated tables. Only $35 and well worth it for a small business. Keeps hours, fed and state taxes for multiple states, writes checks (if you want) and gives all kinds of summary reports as well as doing the W2's at the end of the year. I believe their website is medlin.com.

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