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Set up employees and payroll items

Set up payroll items for employees who earn tips

Accounting CS handles the calculations needed for employees who receive tipped wages. Typically, you'll need to set up a pay item for reported tips and another for tipped wages.

Set up tipped wages

  1. Select
    Setup
     then
    Payroll Items
     for your client.
  2. Select
    Add
    .
  3. Select
    Pay
     from the
    Type
     field, then enter the
    Description
     and
    Report Description
     for your employee's wage item.
  4. Select
    Hourly rate
     under
    Calculation Type
    .
  5. Select
    Tipped wages
     under
    Special Type
    .
  6. Enter an
    Alternate minimum wage
     if you need to.
  7. Enter any additional information under the Main, Tax Exemptions, Special Timing, and Workers' Compensation tabs.
  8. Select
    Enter
    .

Set up reported tips

  1. Select
    Setup
     then
    Payroll Items
     for your client.
  2. Select
    Add
    .
  3. Enter the
    Description
     and
    Report Description
     to represent the amount of tips for your employee.
  4. Select
    Fixed Amount
     under
    Calculation Type
    .
  5. Select
    Reported Tips
     under
    Special Type
    .
    The special type
    Reported Tips
     is excluded from net pay. When a payroll item is excluded from net pay, it doesn’t post to the general ledger.
  6. (Optional) Mark
    Net Pay
     under
    Exclusions
     to exclude reported tips from net pay.
  7. Enter any additional information under the Main, Tax Exemptions, Special Timing, and Workers' Compensation tabs.
  8. Select
    Enter
    .

This article applies to:

  • Product: Accounting CS Client Access
  • Subject: Payroll checks, Setup

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