[GNC] Payroll - basic

[J. Richard Herbert]

Thanks for the reply William.

There are several reasons to get Payroll working in Gnucash and not use 
a free internet pay slip generator:

  * Entering payroll into Gnucash and then again in a payslip generator
    adds time onto booking. Most small business owners have liited spare
    time in which to do bookkeeping.
  * Entering payroll for a free pay slip on the internet is never free.
    What are they using the information for.
  * I try to keep as much of my data, including my bookkeeping, local
    with backups (business continuity), so that I am at less risk of
    losing my data.
  * Small business owners with 2-10 employees or sole proprietors will
    look for a one-in-all bookkeeping program for payroll (employees),
    petty cash (employee expenses), expenses (vendors), invoicing
    (customers), assets, liabilities, receivables, payables, and tax
    remittance. (I may have missed something in that list. Also, I have
    not tried inventory management in Gnucash so I do not know if that
    is an option by entering them as short term assets.)

If entering payroll as splits in a Gnu cash checking account and then, 
while select, paying that transaction by going to File -> Print Check, 
then that would have provided a pay stub. Since that did not work and I 
am now using a voucher to enter payroll and pay an employee, I have 
crossed into a pay slip.

My latest attempt this morning involved going to File -> Properties -> 
Tax and changing the tax number for payroll (to have ...RP0001) and then 
changing back for invoicing (...RT0001) or for a charitable donation 
(...RC0001). Faster then going on line to enter the payroll information 
for a separate time in an unsecure internet environment. With a little 
aranging, the example from yesterday is now at the following for a pay 
slip.... there are still issues with the TAX, TOTAL PRICE, "payment, 
Thank you!", and the AMOUNT DUE rows. But The sklip is closer



On 8/3/26 09:17, Wm Tarr wrote:
>
> Looking on-line to see if there is a prescribed format for Canadian 
> pay slips (confusingly called paystubs and nothing to do with cheque 
> stubs) I came across
>
> Free Canadian Pay Stub Generator [No Signup] - Download PDF 
> <https://smoothledger.com/payslip-generator/canada>
>
> and similar and am now left wondering why you don't just use gnucash 
> for the accounting (and possibly cheque printing if desired) and do 
> the payslip the easy way?  This seems like a problem that someone else 
> has already solved.
>
> Wm
>