Louisiana state withholding taxes changed effective January 1, 2003. Instead of a standard deduction amount and Exemption Total, there is now a calculated Tax Credit Amount. You will have to calculate the new Tax Credit amount for each Louisiana employee set up in CheckMark Payroll and manually enter the amount on the Employee Setup window. […]

If you’re getting this error message when trying to open MultiLedger or Payroll files on Mac OS X, it means either the folder the datafiles are in, the application, or the datafiles themselves have lost their access privileges and need to be set to read and write. To do this: Highlight the folder, application, or […]

Using Windows Explorer, look at the size of your payroll data files. Follow the path indicated in the lower left corner of the Payroll Command Center to locate the payroll data set. If any of the .PR files is extremely large, i.e. 300+MB, do the following: Try to copy the folder to another part of […]

There are three possible explanations for this error message. 1 You have imported the payroll checks already. You should verify in MultiLedger that the checks you are trying to post have not already been posted. To do this: Click Transaction Journals in MultiLedger’s Command Center, then select the month from the month list. Select the […]

There could be two reasons for this: 1 You entered the limit amount as the total amount of the deduction to be taken for the year, but you selected “Annual Wages” for the limit type. If you have “Annual Wages” selected, it is going to stop taking the deduction as soon as the employee’s gross […]

A shortcut is a file that points to another item (such as a program, document, folder, or disk). When you open the shortcut, the original item that the shortcut points to opens. You can make a shortcut of the application, and if you have “Open Last Company on Launch” selected in your program, it will […]

An alias is a file that points to another item (such as a program, document, folder, or disk). When you open the alias, the original item that the alias points to opens. You can make an alias of the application, and if you have “Open Last Company on Launch” selected in your program, it will […]

If you are on OS9 or earlier and process a large number of paychecks or transactions, or have an unusually large number of employees, customers, vendors, or items, you may need to increase the Memory Requirements for Payroll or MultiLedger. You may also need to increase the Memory Requirements if you are doing a process […]

Before you process payroll in a new calendar year, you must first close the previous year using the Close Year command. When the year is closed, all employees’ earnings are “zeroed” out and inactive employees are deleted. These instructions are for Payroll versions 7.7.4a and lower and all versions of Canadian Payroll. Note: Usually you […]

There are two ways you can pay an advance to an employee. You can either write the initial advance check out of your accounting program or out of CheckMark Payroll. Either way, you still need to deal with the taxes in CheckMark Payroll. If you write the check out of your accounting program, skip to […]