Bookkeeping Service Houston Payday set up beside the close

Setup is not the payday

The provider runs the payday because that is what it is built to do. The journal from that run is posted into the same month the wages were earned, including the withheld amounts and the employer's share. The run itself stays on that provider, and we read the journal after.

A journal that arrives after the tenth can still be matched, and we will say that the close is waiting on it. We would rather move the tenth than publish a statement that is missing a payday.

If you do not have a provider yet, the first conversation names one and the steps to turn it on. Turning it on is the setup. Running it each period stays with you.

What the journal has to show

We want the pay date, the period the hours belong to, and the taxes that were withheld. A total with no period is a number we cannot place. The month of the work and the month of the payment are not always the same, and the journal is how we tell them apart.

Contractors paid without a payroll run are a different list. We still want them in the month the work was done. Mixing them into wages makes the statements harder to read and makes the return harder to prepare.

A Texas note

The Nickel is the old nickname for the Fifth Ward, and it has outlasted a lot of shop signs. Every Texan who follows the wards still uses it. The journal still lands in the month the hours were worked, and a nickname does not pick that month. We post that journal after you approve the hours.

Send the journal

Name the provider if you have one, and say when the last payday was run.