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      Labor Overview

      Pay employees and manage taxes.

      Also known as: Payroll or Time and Attendance

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      Getting Started | Video Walkthrough | Features | Enhancements | Sample Reports | Related Content

      Getting Started

      The Labor module of EBMS is very flexible and contains many powerful tools including time and attendance tools, 3rd party payroll utilities, and complete payroll processing tools. The system works well for a small company with a few employees or a larger company with a variety of requirements such as complex deductions or pay types. The timecard system can handle hourly pay, salary, piecework, tips, commissions, and many other types of pay. Benefit pay such as vacation or holiday pay can be easily managed using the tools within the system.  The powerful labor management features of this module can be used to collect, record, and process labor details without processing payroll within EBMS.

      The labor model can also be used to manage some subcontract workers.  Review Subcontractor Overview for options to use the labor module to handle subcontact labor.  

      Many companies prefer to outsource payroll to 3rd party processors to manage the legal requirements of payroll. The labor module is an excellent tool to collect labor details and communicate them to a 3rd party payroll company. Review the 3rd Party Payroll section for more details.

      The EBMS labor module contains labor and time and attendance tools such as a complete work order system (tasks), job costing, and electronic time clocks. EBMS allows payroll to be based on a weekly or biweekly basis. How often employees are paid is decided by the pay periods and pay dates used. Checks can be printed as often as needed. Review Getting Started > Pay Types for a list of available pay types.

      The Labor module of EBMS is fully integrated with the Financials module, making it very easy to have payroll information posted to the G/L as often as necessary. When Time Cards are entered and payments are made to employees, the transactions are posted to the G/L as increases in wages, payroll taxes, taxes payable, and as decreases in cash accounts. When the payment of the payroll taxes is posted as expense invoices or payroll journal entries taxes payable accounts are increased and cash is decreased.

      EBMS can handle many types of payroll deductions, both tax and other. The basic tax deductions that are standard will come already set up and will just need to be assigned to employees. Review the Taxes and Deductions section for more details on taxes and other deductions.

      Taxes can be calculated based on a job location review the Taxes and Deductions > Taxes for Multiple Locations section for more details.

      Work codes are an important tool used to manage labor. Review the Work Codes section.

      Review Processing Timecards without Processing Payroll for instructions to configure the labor module to record time but not process any payroll.

      Common Use Cases

      Advanced timecard options: The timecard system can handle hourly pay, salary, piecework, tips, commissions, and many other types of user-defined pay types and rate structures. Benefit pay such as vacation or holiday pay is easily managed using the tools within the system. Payroll can be process by generating printed checks or by depositing directly into an employee's bank account.

      Payroll deductions: EBMS handles complex deductions and taxes. The basic tax deductions that are standard will come already set up and will just need to be assigned to employees. Easily print W-2, W-3, 941 and other common payroll reports.

      Integrated labor management: The Labor module of EBMS is fully integrated with the Financials module, making it very easy to have payroll information posted to the G/L as often as necessary. The EBMS payroll module is integrated with a variety of option modules such as the work order system (tasks), job costing, My Time app, and electronic time clocks.

      Video Walkthrough

      Features Included

      • Record complete history for each employee
      •  Handle complex deductions and taxes
      • User-defined pay types and rates structures
      •  Record workman's compensation grouping as well as other convenient employee groups
      • Multiple open payroll periods
      •  Process reimbursements, tips, and gross-ups
      • Convenient archiving of Inactive employees
      •  Include work codes that maintain history and allows specific accounts within General Ledger
      •  Process accrued daily payroll
      • Multiple rates within the same timecard
      • Automatically deposit your employees' net payroll amounts into the employees' bank account using Direct Deposit
      •  Record and print employee's daily hours
      •  Paychecks can be voided and pay periods can be reopened to correct errors
      •  Process and maintain history for a variety of benefit pay
      •  Pay can be expensed before the entire timecard is entered or paid
      •  Process and print W-2, W-3, 941 and other common payroll reports

      Enhancements & Customizations Available

      Sample Reports

      Related Videos and Content

      Videos

      Payroll Webinar - Nov 10, 2021
      Payroll Webinar - August 27, 2020

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