Payroll

To control costs, we have implemented a spousal carve-out coverage provision if a spouse has health insurance available at their employer but chose to be on our plan instead.  There is going to be an additional set “premium” amount above and beyond what just their spouses coverage would cost.  What is the best way to handle this in ACU payroll? Does it need to have it’s own new deduction code set up? or can we simply just reduce the amount of the company’s contribution and increase the employees contribution by that set amount?  Since it is an additional premium, it is pre-tax similar to the regular health care premium contributions.We want to be compliant but keep it as simple as possible.  

 This page contains information about the tax updates for Canadian and US payroll. The update is installed when you run tax maintenance. If you process payroll in any of these regions, please review this document as some updates require actions in Acumatica ERP and additional configuration might be necessary.  **Hot Topic** The One Big Beautiful Bill was signed into law on July 4th, marking a significant change that is expected to impact nearly every American employer. An informative article, What Employers Need to Know About No Tax on Tips and No Tax on Overtime, provides valuable insights into this new legislation, helping you stay informed and prepared.   UPDATE:Please see Known Issue: Missing Report for estimated qualified tips prevents verification and W-2 Box 14 compliance under OBBBA | Community for Tips and Known Issue: Missing FLSA Overtime reporting prevents verification and W-2 Box 14 compliance under OBBBA | Community for FLSA Overtime. Release:    2025-12.47.0             

HelloI’m having an issue in Canadian payroll setup, and I’m wondering if anyone else has run into this and has any suggestions.We have set up a deduction and benefit codes for paying vacation at 4% of total earnings to one of our employee groups. It is a payable benefit, and on the Employer Contribution tab, I have indicated that it should be included in Box 14 for Federal Reporting. According to government websites, we should see that vac amount populated in boxes 14, 24 and 26.On the CAN Tax Setting tab, I have CN at Source selected in the Code Type box.When I process pay it calculates properly, shows on the pay stubs nicely and looks correct, but when we look at the T4, we do not see the amount added in to Box 14 as we would have expected.Appreciate any advice anyone has as documentation is limited. Thanks in advance! 

Does anyone have a solution for how to setup PTO Banks for Sick and Safe time where it is time earned per 30 hours worked?

Canadian payroll year-end is around the corner—make sure your team is ready.Our latest Canada Payroll Year-End Webinar is now available to watch on demand, covering the essential updates, troubleshooting steps, and provincial changes you need to close 2025 smoothly and confidently.In this session, our payroll experts walk through:Key federal and provincial changes for 2025–2026 CPP/QPP, EI, and employment standards updates T4 and RL-1 preparation essentials Common year-end pitfalls—and how to avoid them Reports and tools to help you balance faster and with fewer errors Tips straight from Support on preventing escalationsWhether you’re finalizing December payrolls, preparing slips, or validating data, this session gives you the clarity and checklists you need for a clean year-end.Watch the webinar👉 here:If you have questions after viewing, our team is here to help.Let’s make this your smoothest year-end yet.

I had tried not activating the EI taxes on the Employee Payroll Settings but get an error when calculating the paycheck.  How do I set up this employee so EI insurable earnings & premiums are not calculated for this employee and that their T4 will show that they are EI exempt?

Hi,I was wondering if anyone else is having issues with the Pay Activity Detail Data report since the recent MYOB Acumatica update. Current version is now Build 2025.101.100.4760 [25.101.0153].This report has suddenly become extremely slow. After entering the pay run number, it now takes around 1 minute 15 seconds just to refresh. Then after removing the default value in the Employees field (it automatically populates with the <NEW> flag, which is already frustrating), it takes another 1 minute 15 seconds to refresh again.So in total, it’s nearly 3 minutes just to run a simple payroll report. This never used to happen and is becoming frustrating when using the report multiple times a day.Is anyone else experiencing the same slowdown?And does anyone know if MYOB is aware or planning a fix?Ta

I’m trying to find a method to configure Acumatica Payroll to withhold a flat dollar amount for Federal Withholding for a specific employee.Consider the scenario: the employee is an owner of the company, and has other streams of income. The owner’s/employee’s tax accountant has told her that she needs to withhold $38,000 in federal tax this year to avoid a penalty. So, on the bi-weekly check, she needs $1462 of federal tax withheld. How can this be configured in Acumatica?

Hi,I'm running into an issue in Acumatica 2025 R2 (25.200.0248) when trying to print checks from the Payment Batches screen (PR305000). When I click Print Checks, I receive the following error:  This only occurs in 25R2 I verified the same report (PR641010.rpx) in Acumatica version (24.105.0036) — it works without any errors and the report definitions are identical. I would appreciate any guidance or suggestions you could provide to help resolve this.Thanks in advance.Premalatha N

Has anyone setup Quick pay in Payroll.  I see options to set that up for salaried employees, but don’t see any place to configure it. Thanks,

Hi there,We are looking to find a solution where we can set up overtime pay items that incur superannuation up to 76 hours a fortnight, so we don’t have to review each staff member every pay cycle manually.Does anyone have a solution or suggestion on how to set this up?Appreciate everyone’s thoughts on this.Cheers,Matt 

Hi all — I’m looking for a GI pattern to display weekly totals of specific day fields from EPTimeCardSummary (e.g., Sun, Mon, …) only when IsBillable = true, including combos like Sun+Sat or Sun..Mon — but without using Group By on the main grid (I need to keep row-level detail intact). Available fields: EPTimeCardSummary.IsBillable (bool/bit) and EPTimeCardSummary.Sun..Sat. What’s the recommended approach to surface these weekly billable totals on an ungrouped grid (e.g., self-join to a grouped alias, other best practices), and any example expressions you can share? Thanks!

I am wanting to set up prevailing wages, and fringe benefits for our certified projects in Acumatica. I was able to figure out how to set up the wages, but need assistance with the fringe benefits. Can anyone teach me how to set this up? Or point me in the right direction? Thank you!

We have had this issue every year. I was told that it was a bug and new update would fix it but it is stillt he same issue. Anyone else?PTO Accrual - We accrue a certain amount of vacation and sick time throughout the calendar year and have a limit each year. This has been set up and worked in years past, but this year Acumatica seems to have exceeded the accrual, even though the maximum for the year has been reached. Anyone experiencing this same problem? I checked the PTO codes and they are all still set up correctly. 

When you create a Weekly time card entry for a number of users that belong to the workgroup.The timecard entry is created with an On Hold status. A User is required to submit the timecard to remove it from the On Hold status.  For our customer this is workers who does not have access to  Acumatica hence an administrator need to update the timecard entries.  Is it possible to set the Workgroup timecard entries to Balance status? I am considering import scenario or review Action automation to update the timecards. 

The employer over-withheld pre-tax health insurance.  He then repaid the over deduction by creating an earnings code called additional pay and removing the taxes so the employee was paid the full amount.  This takes care of the employee.  However, the pre-tax deduction is over-stated by this amount.  It appears you cannot enter a negative pre-tax deduction on an adjustment to correct this.  What is the best way to move the additional pay to a reduction in the pre-tax deduction? 

Hi everyoneHoping someone can help.  We have a staff member who is going on 6 months leave.  So he doesn't accrue and leave etc, how do I set that up in Myob Acumatica, in Australia.thanks heaps E 

Is there an existing connector or integration between AllianceHCM (https://alliancehcm.com/) and Acumatica Cloud ERP?

While working on 2Q reporting we realized that some employees either had the wrong State SUTA codes or no SUTA codes at all. Does anyone know of a way to correct that to get it into their payroll files? I think we can create a paycheck adjustment to record the tax but not sure how to get the reportable wages to calculate correctly. Thanks

In Australia we pay Pay-roll Tax per State/Territory. Example there is NSW Payroll Tax and ACT Payroll Tax. This is not the PAYG Withholding Tax.We have had two new employees set up under NSW Pay-roll Tax when in fact they should have been ACT Pay-roll Tax. I need to fix the pays, so the report has the correct data in it.I fixed up the Pay Details for each employee I then did a pay adjustment for each employee (reverse and re-processed)But the report still has the same figures on it which are incorrect.Is there a specific process to fix this up? 

Can Acumatica handle tracking Leave Without Pay?  I need to track the hours but the pay is 0.00. I setup an Earning Type for this and added it to my paycheck test in Paychecks and Adjustments.  I was able to add the earnings detail line with hours and set the pay rate to 0.00 however, during the Calculation process, Acumatica removed the line.  Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Good Morning, Recently when creating Employee Payroll Setting from an Employee I receive an error message whilst trying to save the new payroll settings and it clears all the work I’ve done in the payroll settings.  I will then need to go back into the employee and try to again recreate the Employee Payroll Settings.  I’m curious if others have had a similar issue or perhaps I’m doing something wrong that may cause this.  My usual steps are to create the employee settings, Then start at the furthest tab and work in because of the tax settings.  But after filling it all in I will get an initial error upon first save and the forms will clear. Thanks for any help.  🖖

For example: A pay-in-advance Medical deduction of $150 was deducted from the employee paycheck for the upcoming month of coverage. The employee quit or was terminated.  We need to refund the $150 on the next/final paycheck. What is the best approach to accomplish this refund? 

Currently PTO adjustments only update corrected hours.  Need to add hours used field to the adjustment screen so that everyone can see accrued vs used in the PTO inquriy and report, not just corrections.

Has anyone come across situations / solutions to prevent WC from calculating on specific projects? We have a client who routinely works on OCIP projects and doesn’t need WC to accrue, but I haven’t found a way to prevent it in any payroll or project settings.The client currently reverses it via journal transaction, but is hoping to avoid the extra manual step.