Available in Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher.

Using Time Tickets for Non-Worked Payroll Hours

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Non-worked hours can be used when employees record time off during a payroll period. Common examples of non-worked hours include vacation, illness, holidays, personal time, jury duty, maternity leave, and so on.

Sage 50 provides two methods for recording non-worked hours in payroll. One method is to set up Vacation or SickEmployee payroll fields. Payroll fields provide the flexibility of calculating amounts or setting common amounts to be recorded per pay period. The advantage to using payroll fields is that the year-to-date totals appear on paychecks and payroll reports. How do I set up these fields?

Time tickets provide an alternate method to recording non-worked wages. However, this method is limited to hourly employees who are paid based on time-ticket hours. The following describes how to record vacation time using time tickets:

  1. Set up a Vacation hourly pay level in Employee Defaults.
  2. Set up a Vacation activity item in Maintain Inventory Items.
  3. Record an employee time ticket using the Vacation activity item and link the ticket to the employee's Vacation pay level.
  4. Pay the employee (with the recorded vacation time displayed in the Vacation hourly pay level).

The non-worked hours are tracked in Time/Expense reports. This method does not affect employee payroll fields or calculations, only hourly pay-level wages. Also, year-to-date totals are not available for employee paychecks or payroll reports.

Vacation and sick time can be tracked for salary employees using time tickets. However, the time ticket durations are recorded for report purposes only and cannot be used in payroll. You can set up sick, vacation, jury duty, and maternity leave activity items in inventory. Then, customize one of the Time/Expense reports to filter out all time tickets that use the non-worked activity item to determine employee totals.

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