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  • There is so much news and information floating around the web – it’s difficult (at best) to keep up! I’ve added a WordPress plug-in that grabs information from my Twitter stream to help me (and hopefully you as well) keep up with everything. Look for the Weekly Wrap-Up: News You Can Use every Friday. See what caught my attention this week in these topics: Accounting & Taxes, eBooks/Webinars/Videos, Payroll/Certified Payroll/Prevailing Wage, QuickBooks, Small Business/Organization/Productivity, Construction, and Social Media/Marketing/Website Design.

  • Entering payroll for normal employee work hours and drive time and passing only the work hours through to client invoices is not only important but confusing. The following question was submitted by a reader who pays from the start of the first job till the end of the last job of the day (not including lunch break). I have my employees fill out a time tracker sheet each day that shows the time started at the first job till the end, drive time in between jobs, so on and so forth. I enter this into QuickBooks but I can't figure out where to enter in drive time to pay the girls their hourly wage on payroll but to not invoice anyone for drive time.

  • Can you deduct the cost of lost equipment from your employee’s pay? As a business owner I'm betting that on more than one occasion you have had an employee who has lost his company provided cell phone more than once and you've have to replace it. Perhaps you want to recover the cost of the phone via a payroll deduction - before you do, read the rest of this article, because the answer depends first on state and federal restrictions and second on how much you want to deduct.

  • There is so much news and information floating around the web – it’s difficult (at best) to keep up! I’ve added a WordPress plug-in that grabs information from my Twitter stream to help me (and hopefully you as well) keep up with everything. Look for the Weekly Wrap-Up: News You Can Use every Friday. See what's in store this week!

  • An important QuickBooks Payroll System Maintenance Announcement - a system-wide upgrade will start at 6 p.m. on Thursday 5/24/2012 and continue through 5 a.m. on Tuesday 5/29/2012 - Direct Deposit will also be effected and don't forget that this is also the Memorial Day holiday weekend! QuickBooks Payroll will not process direct deposit checks dated for Monday, May 28, 2012 due to the Memorial Day holiday. In order for your employees to receive their paychecks before Monday, May 28, you should change your paycheck date to Friday, May 25 and send your payroll by 5pm PT on Wednesday, May 23.

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We've launched a new website specifically for QuickBooks Support & Training.  Visit Learn to Use QuickBooks in your construction business.

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QuickBooks Certified Payroll Support Center

quickbooks certified payroll supportWelcome to the Certified Payroll Solution Support, Training & Resource Center

We have dedicated this section to be the gateway to the following FREE QuickBooks Certified Payroll training, technical support, and resource items.

  • Access to numerous FREE QuickBooks Certified Payroll Solution training items; including Audio/Video training (in Windows Media Player & Flash) and written documentation.
  • Access to FREE Advanced Technical Training documentation; including handling employee pay scale changes, handling wage restitution when you've underpaid employees, creating electronic certified payroll reports, etc.
  • Access to FREE Technical Support Error Messages and their resolutions.  These are the most common and up-to-date problems that users encounter with step-by-step resolutions - we document these errors as they occur.
  • Additional technical and educational articles; including whitepapers, product brochures and comparison charts.

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Certified Payroll Solution  Audio/Video Training

Certified Payroll Solution Audio/Video Training ( 12 Files )

This section contains FREE self-paced Certified Payroll Solution Audio/Video training options. All items are designed to provide a thorough overview to setting up and using Certified Payroll Solution.

If you do not have sound or Flash installed on your computer, check out our .pdf self-paced State specific demo's section.

We have found that customers who take advantage of these FREE Training mechanisms are much happier with their software, as they actually get to "see the program in action" while the setup procedures are explained and demonstrated.

These training modules can also be found on our Web Service Center (where you download your software) and are included with CD purchases of the software.

Important Note: Screenshots shown in video may differ slightly from the actual screenshots you see in the program, however, setup instruction remain the same. Please realize that we spend approximately 300 hours of our time creating these videos that are available here, therefore, it is not an easy task to keep them updated.

Flashed based Audio/Video Demonstrations contain a "Table of Contents" to help you easily go back and replay a portion of the video if you need to. These are in addition to our standard Windows Media Player versions.  


Certified Payroll Solution How-To  Support Videos

Certified Payroll Solution How-To Support Videos ( 8 Files )

This section contains several short videos which cover our most frequent Support Calls.  All of the information in these videos also have written instruction in our printed and .pdf manuals as well as in the In-Program Help file (accessed from the big ? mark in the lower right corner of each window).

Topics covered include:  How to backup your data, How to restore your data, how to find your "lost" data, and more.

These videos have been created in an mp4 file format - which means they should run using whatever video software you have installed on your computer; heck they even work with the HP MediaSmart Video player on my laptop!


Certified Payroll Solution Technical & Training Documentation

Certified Payroll Solution Technical & Training Documentation ( 15 Files )

The Certified Payroll Solution for QuickBooks Technical & Training section included FREE Advanced Training and Support items such as: program enhancement releases, obtaining and installing program updates, handling employee pay scale changes, creating electronic certified payroll reports, network installation, troubleshooting blank spots on your reports, printing or reprinting old reports, etc.


Certified Payroll Solution Error Messages

Certified Payroll Solution Error Messages ( 16 Files )

Error messages can be very frustrating; but error messages should NOT stop you from using your program - nor should they be ignored! Error messages are indications that "something" is not accurate and needs to be corrected in order for your final reports to be accurate.

The Certified Payroll Solution Error Messages section deals strictly with errors that you might encounter when installing CPS, setting up your certified payroll reporting preferences, running CPS, QuickBooks connection errors, work classification errors, and errors when printing reports.

Error messages are shown in the order that they would normally occur during installation, setup, and actually running Certified Payroll Solution.

How to use this on-line listing of error messages:

  • Determine what step and when you are receiving the error message.
  • Select the appropriate link within this section - the section title will describe the step in which you could be receiving the error.
  • Use the Search function and type in a search string (works just like a Google search).
  • Read all possible error messages and solutions contained within that section.


The error resolutions found in this section are the same problem solving steps that our support staff will have you perform should you contact us by phone.


Certified Payroll Solution Program Updates

Certified Payroll Solution Program Updates ( 15 Files )

This section is used to provide information about general and state specific program updates, how to obtain the update and implement any necessary changes.

 

 


Certified Payroll Solution Case Studies, Comparison Charts & Integration Articles

Certified Payroll Solution Case Studies, Comparison Charts & Integration Articles ( 15 Files )

This section contains additional educational articles such as:

  • User Case Studies
  • Integrating Certified Payroll Solution with QuickBooks.
  • Certified Payroll Solution Design & Utilization of the Intuit QuickBooks SDK (Software Development Kit).
  • Certified Payroll Solution Whitepaper.
  • Certified Payroll Solution Product Brochure
  • Comparision Chart.

 


Additional Prevailing Wage Compliance Documents

Additional Prevailing Wage Compliance Documents ( 1 Files )

This section contains additional Prevailing Wage Compliance documents that simply cannot be completed in Certified Payroll Solution, due to the fact that either we cannot access the data or the data required simply is not available - BUT - can be used with the QuickBooks "Letters" function.


Self-Paced State Specifc Demo's

Self-Paced State Specifc Demo's ( 8 Files )

For those of you who do not have sound or flash installed on your computer, we are providing downloadable .pdf demo's which will walk you through the setup & use of Certified Payroll Solution.  Please note, that the .pdf demo's only contain the basics and should not replace the information contained in the program Help file or the manual which comes with your software.

This section is currently under construction.  When complete it will contain 29 different pdf demo's - each one taking approximately 8 hours to complete.


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