I have another RTI question. One of my clients only has 4 employees on the payroll (including the director). Two of them are paid weekly and the other two are paid monthly. How is this going to work for RTI? Can they all be included on the first FPS that I submit or would it be better to split the payroll? (Can you even do this?) I am using Moneysoft payroll for this client.
Pauline
-- Edited by Stardoe on Saturday 2nd of March 2013 05:27:28 PM
I can't speak for Moneysoft. If you're using 12Pay it spots this situation and when you send the very first weekly payroll it also sends the monthly employees with zero payments against them.
Thanks Tom......I use 12pay for one of my other clients, but her employees are all monthly paid, so no problem there. I would assume that Moneysoft would have similar functionality, but I will check with them on Monday.
I use payroo for my payroll clients. What i understand is that, if you running weekly for employees and monthly for directors, then your FPS should be submitted weekly and EPS only at the month end.
Please find link below which explains this better.
Hi Pauline, it could be a bit more clear but in their FAQ and videos it does seem that monthly employees are included in the alignment and that the alignment and EPS are automatically detected by the program.
" The Alignment Submission is a one-off submission that will be sent as part of the first FPS........ and contains details of ALL employees that have worked for the employer at any point........... "
Their wording is also for employers who start after RTI becomes mandatory but anyway the ALL is in bold lettering.
You can see a little of how it will work if you Reinstate "Sample Payroll Data Company 2013/14" under File menu Utilities.
The Agent Batch Processor looks very promising as a means of bulk filing payrolls and may bring a reduction in the agent's time and compliance burden even compared to pre-RTI days. <wg>
The Agent Batch Processor looks very promising as a means of bulk filing payrolls and may bring a reduction in the agent's time and compliance burden even compared to pre-RTI days. <wg>
Yes, that reduction in admin would apply to agents who mostly operate tiny monthly threshold payrolls that can just be advanced automatically every month. They are the one group that may have its life made easier by RTI in combination with an automatic mass-filing process.
I'm envisioning any payroll where wages are predictable, not just those with directors under the primary threshold. Then pre-preparing several weeks in advance (more if possible) and transfering to this 'bridge' interface.
It just looks a case of tick, tick that hasn't changed, tick, tick this hasn't either and send. No need to even open each payroll file.
Of course, sometimes I will be thwarted but one knows ones clients and I won't bother to work in adance if I know there is, say, a pay dispute or lots of overtime on offer.
