Available in Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher.

Payroll and Time & Billing

Related topics

Set up activity or charge items in inventory

Set up an employee to be paid based on time-ticket hours

Enter time tickets

Enter expense tickets

Create paychecks using time ticket hours

Use time tickets again in payroll

Using time tickets for non-worked payroll hours

Perform other Time & Billing tasks

Read the Time & Billing overview

Using Time Tickets in Payroll

When using Time & Billing, you can apply time-ticket durations (hours) recorded by employees to their paychecks. Using time-ticket hours on an employee's paycheck provides an additional method of tracking labor costs based on services performed. Both hourly and salary employees can record time-ticket hours. However, only employees set up to use the Hourly-Time Ticket Hours pay method can use time-ticket hours in payroll.

An employer could conceivably use time tickets to record employee administrative activities such as bookkeeping, receptionist, receiving, PBX, counting month-end inventory, and so on. Non-worked hours such as vacation or sick time can also be recorded on employee time tickets. However, only hourly employees set up to be paid using time-ticket hours can actually be paid base on these activities.

Note: Activity detail is only available in reports and does not appear on the employee's paycheck. You can record activities for salary employees and other hourly employees (not paid using time-ticket hours). Again, the activity detail will only be available in reports, but this information can act as an effective management tool.

Using Expense Tickets in Payroll

Time & Billing allows you to track employee expense tickets as reimbursable to the employee. For example, an employee may have to pay for parking fees or lunch for a client. Expense tickets marked as reimbursable to the employee are recorded on the Employee Reimbursable Expense report. Expense tickets that are reimbursable to employees are recorded for reporting purposes only and cannot be directly applied to payroll or accounts payable. You will have to include the expense in payroll as a non-taxable employee field during payroll entry or pay the employee using an accounts payable disbursement check. How do I track reimbursable expenses from employees?