Payroll Jobs

Industrial Strength Payroll treats each of the recording functions as a "job". After the Fact is a job. Live payroll (whether Import, Automatic or Time Entry) is another job. Cancel Check is another job. And so on.

Industrial Strength Payroll uses a scratch file for each job. A scratch file is analogous to a worksheet. It contains all of the information pertaining to the current payroll job, including the information needed to print checks.

Whenever you tell Industrial Strength Payroll to begin a new job for the same client, it throws away the worksheet for the last job. All the data has been saved remember. Only the worksheet that isn't needed anymore is discarded.

It is important to remember this concept. Once you tell Industrial Strength Payroll to start a new job for the same client, you cannot return to the prior job. This is true even if the check date and period dates remain the same.