Ugh, if only you would have posted this two hours ago........... I actually opened up the period (4/2020), ran the check, then reclosed. Everything worked but.....
PTO benefits were wiped clean. Deduction remaining balances were reset, YTD DD bank amount was wiped out. Haven't noticed anything else yet.
Will be working on a root cause analysis to prevent this from happening in the future. Crystal report to to determine missing active employees in employee data entry, a PR hour VI using the time clock system export, etc.
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Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-12-2021 11:47
From: Jim Petrie
Subject: PR v2.21 Closed for the year - Company overlooked processing employee's check in 2020
As long as they haven't processed any year-end filings they can simply create & post the 2020 check, payroll will warn (but allow) this to post. No need to "re-open" anything with payroll, you would just need the applicable GL period to be open in order for it to post back to 2020. Payroll will "bucket" all of the totals based on the check date.
Where you might run into issues is if they are printing benefit accrual amounts on the check, those would be wrong if they are accrued (and reset) in Sage payroll during year-end, if that's the case you might need to fix those numbers manually (shift them to the correct "as of" total for 2020 before printing the 2020 check, then shift them back to the correct 2021 total after updating the check).
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Jim Petrie
Consultant
DSD Business Systems
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