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If you've added your employees into MYOB Essentials (where you set up the basic details of your employees, including pay rate), you're almost ready to do your first pay run, you need to choose which . But first, complete your payroll settings. This includes choosing the bank account you’ll be using to pay your employees from the Banking tab in your Payroll settings. Using this account when you pay employee wages will allow the payments to be automatically matched with the MYOB Essentials payroll transactions. You can also choose options for emailing payslips to your employees, what information to display on payslips and indicating if your business falls under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986. All of this is done from the Payroll settings page, found paying wages from, choosing if you'll be paying employees electronically, and some payslip display settings. Learn about payday filing and how to set it up. Open the Payroll settings page by clicking your business name. Image RemovedImage Added The Payroll settings page has different tabs to record your payroll info. Image Added Let's take you through each of the settings on these tabs. UI Expand |
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| BankingImage Added Set up the following on the Banking tab: Setting | Details |
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Bank account for paying wages | Choose the MYOB Essentials bank account you’ll be paying employee wages from. Payroll transactions (like employee wage payments) will be automatically matched to transactions on this account. If you need to, you can create a new bank account | . See Accounts List.PayAgent (New Zealand only)If your business is in New Zealand, PayAgent can help take the hassle out of compliance by taking care of paying employee wages, PAYE deductions and IRD reporting. This means less paperwork and time spent on compliance, and more time put back into your business. And best of all - it's free! Simply click Register for PayAgent to get started. For more information, see How does PayAgent work? for this purpose. | Pay employees using bank files | If you |
're in Australia, or if in New Zealand, you can download a bank file that you can use to pay your employees electronically. Choose the , ANZ, BNZ, Westpac or Kiwibank, select the option Pay employees using bank files |
option, . You can then enter your bank details and any information you want to appear on bank statements. |
Before can include an employees pay in the bank file, you'll need to enter some banking details. See Paying employees electronically.Once you've done this, each time you pay employees whose bank details you've entered, you'll be able to download the bank file for that pay run. Pay superannuation settingsChoose the bank account you'll be paying super from. You'll use this bank account to pay super through MYOB's super portal. Save your account settings by clicking Save settings when you're finished.ll be paying all your employees cash or cheque, leave the Pay employees using bank files option deselected. |
When you're finished entering details on this tab, click Save settings, or continue your payroll setup by clicking the Payslips tab. See below for details. |
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| PayslipsThe Payslips page is accessed from Payroll settings. Here you can choose your payslip display settings and set up your payslip email options, such as the payslip email body text and who else should get a copy of the payslip. Image RemovedImage Added Payslips are emailed to your employees at the end of each pay run, or at any time afterwards. You'll need to have entered an employee's email address on the Employee details tab of their employee record to be able to email their payslip. On the Payslips tab: Choose payslip display optionsSelect the Show personal leave entitlement on payslip option if you want to include the accrued personal leave (Australiasick) or sick leave (New Zealand) entitlement on employee payslips. If this option is not selected, only the annual leave and alternative holiday (New Zealand only) balances will appear show on the payslippayslips. Set up payslip email optionsWhen you email payslips to your employees, the payslip is sent as a PDF document attached to an email message. You can change the text in the email message, and choose to send the payslip payslips to an additional email address. You can delete the variables [Employee name], [From date] and [To date], but you can't change them. If you want to send a copy of the email to your email address, select the Bcc option for either your email address or an email address different to the one you used to register with MYOB Essentials.Note that your employee won’t addresses. Your employees won't be able to see that you have emailed their payslip to these other addresses, so please keep their privacy in mind. | expandPAYG payment summaries: Reportable fringe benefitsBusinesses described under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 are required to report exempted fringe benefits on their employees’ payment summaries. Affected businesses are mainly not-for-profit organisations, such as public benevolent institutions, health promotion charities, some hospitals and public ambulance services. If section 57A applies, you need to check the box saying your business is eligible for exemption. Image Removed You’ll now have the option to enter both non-exempt and exempt fringe benefits when completing your employees’ payment summaries. Image Removed | title | PAYG payment summaries: Reportable fringe benefits (Australia only) |
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| | When you do a pay run, click in the Email Image Added column to select which employees you want to email payslips to. Image Added |
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