Welcome to PaycheckCity Payroll. We put together a guide to help you get started and ready to run payroll on day 1. When you login for the first time you will be taken through a step-by-step setup that will ask you for information about your company and employees.
Having this information close by will make the setup go quickly.
Step 1: Enter company information
Once you've logged in to PaycheckCity Payroll you will enter your company details. Make sure you have the following information handy.
Company Name
Company Address
Company Start Date
Company Tax Rates and Exemptions
For more details about adding your company, visit our "Add Company" article.
Step 2: Tell us about your employees
Now it’s time to tell us about your employees and their pay details. You will want to have the following employee information available.
Employee name, address and email (if you would like earnings records emailed to employees)
Employee W-4 elections and state tax forms
Employee salary or hourly rates and pay frequency
Employee benefits and deductions
For more details about adding your employees, visit our "Add Employees" article.
Step 3: Setup Payroll Definition
Next, you need to set up your payroll definition. A payroll definition is a set of payroll properties that are saved for each payroll run. When saving your payroll definition preferences you should name the definition, select the company, location, employees, pay frequency, and pay stub or earnings report type.
You can read more about Payroll Definitions here.
Step 4: Run your first payroll
And now you are ready to run your first payroll.
Select the Payroll Definition you would like to run payroll for
Enter hourly details is applicable
Ensure you have selected a paystub or earnings record
Run your payroll!