About entering payroll records

For each non-salaried employee, you enter a separate record with a breakdown of his or her time on the Timecard tab. On each timecard line you can enter the hours worked on a specific job, or the hours worked performing repairs and maintenance on a piece of equipment. Each timecard line also requires a pay type, which indicates the type of wages to compute the wages for the line. When you final-compute the payroll, Sage 100 Contractor creates the job and equipment costs based on the timecard lines.

There are two ways to enter payroll records for salaried employees. Most salary records only require the salary amount and do not need a breakdown of the employee’s hours. If you need to create job or equipment costs for a salaried employee’s time, you need to classify his or her time on the Timecard tab.

Payroll records for hand-computed checks, advances, and third-party payments do not use timecard information. A hand-computed check lets you adjust the payroll calculation balances stored in an employee’s record. You can enter a bonus as a separate record from a timecard, or you can include in on the timecard.