Time Keeping with The Service Program
- How to use Time Keeping with The Service Program:
In order to use The Service Program timekeeping you must first setup timekeeping in QuickBooks. Whether you use QuickBooks Payroll services or not all you need to do is setup one employee for each of the people you wish to track time for in The Service Program.
Please Note - The directions for setting up QuickBooks Time Keeping is only a basic draft and there may be steps missing (depending on your version of QBs). We highly recommend researching your version of QuickBooks and following Intuits suggested steps!
How to setup Quickbooks for Time Keeping.
1. Sign in as the Admin and be sure to be in Single-user Mode.
2. Open the Time and Expenses preferences:
A. Go to the Edit menu and click Preferences.
B. In the Preferences window, click Time & Expenses in the list on the left.
C. Click the Company Preferences tab.
3. For the Do You Track Time? option, click Yes.
4. In the First Day of Work Week drop-down list, choose the day on which you start tracking time each week. Note: The day you choose affects all weekly timesheets. For example, if you choose Sunday, your timesheets begin with Sunday.
5. Click OK.
How To Set up employees for time tracking.
1. Go to the Employee Center, then double-click the employee's name.
2. Click Change tabs and select Payroll and Compensation Info.
A. QuickBooks 2013: click Payroll Info tab.
3. Select Use Time Data when Creating Paychecks, then click OK.
OPTIONAL: To change the day of the week when the timesheet starts:
1. From the top menu bar, choose Edit and select Preferences.
2. From the choices on the left menu, select Time Tracking or Time & Expenses.
3. Select the Company Preferences tab.
4. Next to First Day of Work Week, click on the drop-down menu, and choose the day your work week begins, and click OK.
OPTIONAL: To set up the time format:
1. Go to Edit > Preferences.
2. Select General from the icons on the left of the screen.
3. Select Company Preferences.
4. Select Decimal or Minutes, and then click OK.
5. If you want to enter minutes, use a colon between hours and minutes on the "Enter Payroll Information screen". The system then uses exactly what is entered for calculations. For example, you would enter 30 hours and 27 minutes as 30:27. Important! You must use a colon and NOT a period between numbers. If you use a period in this example, QuickBooks will convert it to read 30:16 and give the wrong calculations.
Setting up The Service Program and Timekeeping
Once employees are setup in QuickBooks go to the QuickBooks Maintenance menu in The Service Program
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1. Click the Update QuickBooks icon on the toolbar
2. Click the dropdown list at the bottom and select Time Keeping
3. Click reload
Next step is to associate an employee to a Service Program username.
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1. Click on Misc Info, System, User Maintenance
2. Select an employee from the dropdown menu to associate it with a username.
A. NOTE you can also set a default class as well as a default service item to this user.
B. To select a default service item you must double click on the username then select a Service item. This item will default on adding an item that is billable when posting to quickbooks.
3. Now you are ready to enter time.
How to use Time Keeping
There are 2 ways to enter time.
A. Enter time on a task.
B. Enter time directly under the time tracking screen.
Open as task and click the Time Tracking Tab.
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From here you can add/select an employee, date time was done, whether or not the time is billable in QuickBooks or not, customer and labor/service item.
Don’t forget to enter a duration (duration must be entered in minutes).
PLEASE NOTE:
1. You can enter unlimited entries on a task.
2. You can also enter a note on each line detailing what was done.
3. One employee can have multiple time entries for the same day or a different day.
How to Post Time Keeping into QuickBooks.
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1. Click on task info.
2. Click employee time tracking.
3. Click post to quickbooks.
When you press post to quickbooks you can post any transactions that are pending:
1. By date range
2. And by 1 employee of you want
3. The information will post into quickbooks then be viewable on all timekeeping reports in quickbooks.