Setting up Payroll Wages Salaries for Employees

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Mar 20 20:34:48 EDT 2010


Hi,

Michael Zumpano <mike.zumpano at gmail.com> writes:

> I've just installed GnuCash v2 and I'm trying to set up employees with
> regular salaries to be paid on regularly scheduled dates.  The business tab
> allows me to set up an employee with an hourly wage but not a monthly or
> semi-monthly salary.  When I go into scheduled transactions I don't see a
> way to choose the employee's name for payment.  I would also expect a field
> to credit the employees account, but I just see the general payroll expense
> account not correlated to any particular employee.  Do I have to use the
> scheduling tool to set up payroll?  If so, how should I name the scheduled
> payment?  Shouldn't I have a payroll form that allows me to see the salary
> owed, reimburse employee for travel, deduct taxes, payback advances, etc. in
> a single check or cash payment?

Unfortunately you cannot do that.  First, GnuCash doesn't support
payroll.  Second, GnuCash doesn't use those values for anything at this
time.

Sorry,

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-derek

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