Setup Direct Deposit (EFT)
You want to set up direct deposit, or electronic funds transfer, to pay your employees instead of printing cheques.
Setting Up Employees to Receive Direct Deposit:
Steps:
- Open Acclaim.
- Navigate to Setup > Employees.
- Double-click the employee to open their profile.
- Navigate to the "Bank" tab.
- Tick the checkbox "Pay Employee by Direct Deposit".
- Enter the employee's banking information.
- Click "Save" to save your changes.
- Repeat steps 3 through 7 for all employees being paid by direct deposit.
Steps:
- Open Acclaim.
- Process your payroll as normal. You should have at least one (1) employee being paid by direct deposit in order to be able to edit your company banking information.
- Navigate to Payroll > Process Payroll.
- Navigate to Banking > Create File for Bank.
- Select your company bank from the dropdown menu.
- Click "Save" to save your changes.
- Enter all required information. Your banking institution should provide you with all the information required.
- Click "Save" to save your changes.
- Click "Create". Acclaim will create a bank file for your specified location (e.g. C:\PAYMATEW\YourCompany.CPY\2020). Your bank file name could be "bank.txt" or "<YourCompanyName>.txt".
- Transmit the file to your banking institution, by your bank's specified method.
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