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csacs100
May 11, 2021
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Advanced payroll - Annual leave

  • May 11, 2021
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Good morning,

 

I have an issue with annual leave, whereby the annual leave taken by an employee is not being deducted from their leave balance. We do not use time sheets, nor are we currently using the employee portal to approve leave applications. These are managed manually and entered into the pay run manually.

 

The images below are for the Annual leave category, Annual leave allowance template, Annual leave balance for the relevant employee and finally the earnings element of their payslip showing 32 hours of Annual leave paid out.

 

My issue is that the 32 hours of leave paid out are not showing as a deduction in the Annual leave balance.

 

Which of my settings is incorrect to cause the leave taken to not show up in the leave balance?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

Best answer by csacs100

Thanks for updating us, @csacs100.

 

Since the annual leave balance still isn't reduced, I recommend contacting our Payroll Support team. They have tools that can help resolve this issue.


Here’s how:

 

  1. Go to the Help menu.
  2. Type in/click Talk to a human.
  3. Enter your brief concern in the field.
  4. Select I need a human until you see a Get help from a human option.
  5. Choose a way to connect with our representatives.


Here are some QuickBooks Online Payroll resources that you can read to learn more about leave accrual and its categories:

 


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Thank you Madelyn,

I had a Chat with Support as suggested.

 

The way to get this to work properly (i.e. enter Leave days, show Annual Leave Income and get the Annual Leave days balance correct) is as follows:

 

Payroll settings

Leave Categories

Annual Leave - and then adjust the Payment Setup from Basic to the below:

When you want to pay annual leave, go to the pay run, select the relevant employee, click the Action button on the right, select Take Leave, select Annual Leave from the drop down, then enter the units (days/hours) and select Save. With the above setting you will still need to adjust Hourly pay or Salary pay hours downwards for the holiday days/hours to get the correct total pay.

 

This will automatically add Earnings, Annual Leave Taken and the relevant pay, as well as reducing the Annual Leave days balance.

 

If you only have hourly paid workers you can adjust the setting to the below, which would automatically adjust the hourly pay hours, but that wouldn't work for salaried employees.

If you only have Salaried employees, you could change the Hourly Pay above to Salary and that would work.

 

It is possible that setting up different Annual Leave categories for Salaried and Hourly paid staff might work, but I haven't tried that (yet).

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Ashleigh1
May 11, 2021

Hello Csacs100, 

 

Welcome to the Community page, 

 

So you aren't using the 'take leave' option in the advanced payruns themselves, so you are likely just using the annual leave pay category. 

 

 

So if you go and run a payrun and click on an employee you will see a green action box, if you click on that then click on leave taken to be able to show the leave going down. otherwise the leave category isn't being interacted with in that way. So basically a transfer when you do it like this, where you say they take however many hours, it then transfers to annual leave. otherwise its like you are being paid for something else, it has no origin. 

 

So all you need to do so it shows the leave taken going down is to make sure you have it showing in the payrun my clicking on the employee in the payrun and then clicking on action>leave taken and then fill in the info needed and click save. 

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csacs100Author
May 11, 2021

Thank you Ashleigh.

 

That updates the leave balance but does not appear to do anything to earnings, so it would appear that I have to enter the information twice, once as Annual Leave taken for the earnings and again for Leave Taken, Annual leave to update the Leave balance.

 

Is that correct?

 

Thanks

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ShiellaGraceA
May 11, 2021

Thanks for getting back to us here, @csacs100.

 

I'd like to share some information about the annual leave. Aside from using the "Take Leave" option mention by my peer above, you'll want to add it as earnings instead. This way, it'll be added to the employees' pay. Also, this process won't let you enter the info twice.

 

Here's how to do it:

 

  1. Open the employee that you wish to add the earnings line to and click on their name in the list of employees in the pay run to expand their pay run details.
  2. From the blue Actions button in the bottom right corner tick Add Earnings. This will add an earnings line that is pre-filled with the employee's primary pay category.
  3. For this earnings line, choose the annual leave pay category.
  4. Once you have entered the details for the earnings line, click Save and the earnings line will be applied to the pay run.

 

After that, delete the previously entered annual balance.

 

Want more details? Check out these links below.

 

 

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Please know that we're always here for you if you still have questions or concerns with payroll. Don't hesitate to reply anytime. Take care and stay safe.

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