Setup

You may select your company here. There may be multiple companies here to select from and they may be password protected.

The payroll groups are where you can select the group of people you have grouped together for pay runs. Typically, a payroll group organizes employees based on employee type, pay frequency, location, and so on.

Payroll Categories normally consists of five elements: earnings, benefits, deductions, accruals, taxes and employer expenses. These collectively make up a paycheck. Before you begin paying your employees, you will create payroll categories that are used by your company. These categories will then be assigned to your employees that are required. Acclaim comes preloaded with a predefined list of payroll categories. Please review these to ensure you are not creating categories already assigned or in use.

The Departments and Accounts select window allows you to manipulate departmental data. If you want departmental breakdowns on payroll categories or if you want to transfer payroll data to your accounting software and you keep separate charts of accounts for each department, you should define your departments here.

Cost Centres is where Acclaim calculates employee work details. Every entry made in Job Costing must be assigned to a Cost Centre.