Setting up Farmer payroll

The following is a simple guide to setting up Paymate Acclaim to work with a Farming Payroll and all of the exceptions that come with this.

1. Go to Setup > Payroll Categories.
2. Click the "+" button and add an earning category called "Days Worked".
3. Go to Setup > Company.
4. Click on edit and add the following:
   - Apply agricultural calculation method - Select this option if you are in Agriculture business and your company employs farm workers who are non residents for example from Jamaica or South America.
   - Payroll Category Code - Assign earning category, which you use to track days worked by non-resident farm workers. You have to create an earning category, which is based on Piecework with unit description of ‘days’.
5. Set up a Cost Center specific to crops or work method for example Picking Corn, Harvest etc. 
6. We need to setup the Employee Wage Rate. Go to Setup Employee and select an employee.
7. Click on Edit. Type in the hourly rate based on the particular Cost center and save. When you process the payroll, these rates will be used to calculate pay of individual employee.
8. When Apply agricultural calculation method is selected under Company Edit, Employee will not be withheld any CPP or EI unless they have worked for 25 days.
9. Go to Setup > Employee > Edit > Tax.
10. f you want to deduct CPP and EI on particular employees, select Deduct CPP and EI from first Payroll under Agricultural Payroll.