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- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 01
-
- In this section of the documentation we discuss how to use PAYROLL USA with
- multiple employee files. You may need this feature if you are an Accountant
- processing client payroll, or if you have branch operations in more than one
- State so you have two or more sets of State Taxes to configure. In either case
- each group of employees is totally isolated from each other as different data
- directories are used for each. Seperate reports are produced for each. If you
- need to combine them, for example your home office is in Detroit, Michigan, but
- you have a branch office 50 miles to the South in Toledo, Ohio, and you want to
- account for your overall payroll at both locations, then do it in your General
- Ledger Accounting System by using the same series of GL Account numbers for all
- but State Taxes, or by consolidating them at some later point in your
- accounting.
-
- Everybody starts with one set of employee files, the first one input. At this
- point you have only one configuration file PAYUSA.CNF and as long as the only
- *.CNF file you have is called PAYUSA.CNF you will never be asked about multiple
- files. To trip the logic which handles multiple files you must have a
- configuration file that is not called PAYUSA.CNF . So, to initiate this we
- REName PAYUSA.CNF SMITH.CNF . We called it SMITH you can call it whatever is
- meaningful in 8 characters or less, JONES.CNF, 12345678.CNF, etc. The rename
- is done from the DOS prompt for the directory containing the payroll programs
- and it is done before starting PAYUSA. This directory will be called \PAYPGMS
- but it can be on any hard disk drive, example C:\PAYPGMS D:\PAYPGMS E:\PAYPGMS
- etc. depending where you installed the programs. If they were installed on
- drive C: then you can ensure you are in the right place by entering
- instructions
-
- C:
- CD \PAYPGMS
-
- before the rename.
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 02
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- The next time you start PAYUSA the above screen will be automatically
- presented. Assuming at this point we wish to create a new set of files for a
- different client, JONES BURGER STORES INC., then enter a 0 to indicate a new
- file and when asked for the name enter JONES (maximum 8 characters). If there
- is anything in SMITH's configuration you wish to copy to JONES (example they
- might both be in the same State so you wish to save yourself the bother of re-
- entering the State Tax tables) then reply Y to the last question.
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 03
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- If you are copying data from another configuration supply the ID number, in
- this example enter 1
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 04
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- You will be presented with the screens for Company name and address. If you
- copied a previous configuration that previous name and address will be on this
- screen. Change it to the correct information.
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 05
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- You will also be presented with the series of screens for G.L. Account number
- set up. If you copied a previous configuration those previous G.L. Account
- numbers will be on those screens. Change them, if necessary, to the correct
- information.
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 06
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- You will then be at the configuration main menu. You should change anything
- you need to change else everything will either be set to our defaults (not
- copying a previous configuration) or to a previous configuration (if a copy was
- specified). The only exception is the data directories which will have been
- automatically set up for you, and "Your Company Information" which was forced
- on you in the earlier screens.
-
- We will select "F3 Colors, Disk, Printer, Prompts" so you can see how the data
- directories were set up. You do not need to do this unless you are curious or
- need to change colors or prompts.
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 07
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- We reach the above sub menu and select "F3 Set Up Disk / Printer"
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- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 08
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- And on this screen we can see that the name you selected for the configuration
- has been automatically incorporated into the directory path names. You do not
- need to create these directories from DOS, the program will create them for
- you. The drive letter will have either been copied from a previous
- configuration or will be defaulted to the drive the programs are located on.
- You can change the drive letter if it is not suitable, but we suggest you leave
- the directory names alone.
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 09
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- Now we have escaped from the configuration program and are back at the PAYUSA
- main menu. You can start adding Jones' employees at this point with choice F1
- if you wish.
-
- Screenfile MANYCNF.SCN Screen# 10
-
- Here we have finished the previous session and re-started PAYUSA. Now there are
- two configuration files both of them are listed. Enter the ID number of the
- one you want, in this case we are going to do Smith's payroll. We will then
- see only Smith's employees until we exit back to DOS to restart PAYUSA and make
- some other configuration choice.
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