Contents of the Electronic Funds Transfer Page of the Payroll Payments Form

Use the Electronic Funds Transfer page of the Payroll Payments form to specify the date on which payroll entries are posted to employee accounts, to review other direct deposit data, and to specify routing information.

Actions Bar

Field Description
Close Payment Run Click this button to finalize all the details and close the payment run.
Bank Settings Click this option to open the Banks form and edit bank code details. Click the NACHA File Format tab and enter direct deposit-related bank information.

Electronic Funds Transfer Grid Toolbar

Field Description
Process Transfer Click this option to open the Download Electronic Funds Transfer dialog box. If there are no direct deposit transactions in the selected run, a message displays indicating this.
Print Click this option to open the Direct Deposit report in a separate browser window, where you can review, download, print, or e-mail the report. The Direct Deposit report includes information such as the employee's Social Security number or name, and bank account information for each direct deposit transaction included in the selected payroll run.

You control whether or not Social Security numbers display on the report with the Print Social Security number on journals and direct deposit reports/files option in Settings > Payroll > General, in the desktop application.

Electronic Funds Transfer Grid

Field Description
Effective Entry Date Specify the date on which entries are to be posted to employee accounts. This field assumes no default value and must be specified prior to processing the file.
Run Type This field displays the type of payroll run: regular, adjustment, or bonus.
Sequence This field displays the posting sequence number for the payroll processing run. This number is assigned to identify the posting run. These numbers are sequential, starting with zero at the beginning of a new accounting period.
User Name This field displays the username of the user who created the posting run.
Posted This field displays the date on which the run was posted.
Payroll Date This field displays the date specified in the Payroll Date field on the Payroll Payments form when you processed the payroll run.
Payment Date This field displays the date specified in the Payment Date field on the Payroll Payments form when you processed the payroll run.
Post Comment This field displays a short comment that describes the result of the payroll run, such as "Processed 18 employees."
Status This columns displays the processing status of the payment run:
  • Processed: This setting means that the payment run's text (.txt) file has been generated for the bank.
  • Unprocessed: This setting means that the payment run's .txt file has not been generated.
Exclude runs already processed Select this option before you click the Process grid option to avoid regenerating a payment run's .txt file. Multiple files for the same payment run could result in paying employees more than once.
Exclude carriage return at end of each record Select this option to eliminate the carriage return between each record, so that the ACH output is one continuous stream of characters.
Add carriage return at end of file Select this option to add a carriage return at the end of the ACH file.