CPA and Bookkeeping McKinney Alternative CPA McKinney. The login stays with you

What setup includes, and what it leaves

Collin County Transit moved to curb-to-curb rides with a fare you can name. We can appreciate a ride that still lets you decide when to leave. Payday setup is the same mood. We help you choose the provider, enter the people who are paid, connect the tax accounts, and sit through the first run. Then you keep the login. You decide when the run goes.

Whether you are paid as wages has to be settled while the provider is being set up. Whatever the months already contain is what the return will repeat. Putting the decision on the calendar in October, and into the provider before December, keeps March from being the first time anyone notices.

We do not become the place employees call when a net check looks short. That call is yours. We will help the books show what the provider says happened, which is a different call.

Treat the first run as something you can stop. The amounts should match what you think people earned. When they disagree, setup is unfinished and we run it again rather than leave you afraid of the button.

After that, the runs are yours. Each month the close lays the provider report next to the bank. A missed deposit or a duplicate owner draw shows up there. That comparison lives inside the month. Nobody else is pressing the payday button.

Name the provider you already use, if there is one. A working account stays. What we check is whether the tax deposit accounts are actually connected, because a login without a deposit schedule becomes a notice.

This is not a promise to run payroll. The disclosures page says that in the same breath as the other limits. If the only thing you want is a company that runs payday as its whole product, say that on the call. We will point you there. We will not wear that costume.

Contractors who might really be employees are a classification question, not a software question. Bring it if it is on your mind. We will not hide it inside a setup checklist.

Setup is more than names and pay rates. The tax deposit accounts have to be the right ones, the filing schedule has to match how often you pay people, and a new person needs the ordinary new-hire forms before the first run. A button that works while those pieces are wrong is a button that creates a notice.

Owner pay is entered in the same provider, on purpose, with a decision you can point at. If you have been moving money from the business to yourself and calling it later, the setup call is the time to stop. The return will report the pattern you actually ran. It will not report the pattern you meant.

After the first run looks right, we still want the provider report in the monthly close. A run can be correct on Friday and misposted on Monday if the bank feed grabs the withdrawal and the software also posts the payroll entry. That double is ordinary. It is also why the login staying with you does not mean the month ignores payday.