Hash Totaling

Industrial Strength Payroll incorporates a sophisticated optional hashing scheme to help you avoid skipping employees, paying the wrong employees or paying the incorrect amounts during payroll input.

Hashing is a method of developing a control value using some component of the input other than the actual number of items. Three different totals can be created in Industrial Strength Payroll, one based on the Pay ID, and another based on the last 4 digits of the employee's Social Security Number. The last can either be based on the number of Regular hours for Live Payroll, or on the Gross Pay. Using any one of these methods gives you good protection against transposition errors and skipping employees. Using 2 or more methods provides even greater security.

Industrial Strength Payroll monitors the values and will automatically end input when a hash total is reached.

If you end input and the computed hash values do not agree with those you keyed at the beginning of the job, the program halts and displays a message.

The choice to use hashing is set in the Calculation Properties for a client.

To use hashing, you first develop a total of the desired field, either the Pay ID, the last 4 digits of the Social Security Number, the Regular Hours or the Gross Pay IN PENNIES.

Next, enter the value(s) into the appropriate Set Hash Totals box.     

Press the OK button to proceed, or the Cancel button to cancel.