Recording After the Fact Payroll

After the Fact payroll is payroll that has been done either by someone else, or by some other software. You use After the Fact to record payroll you prepared before you purchased our product (mid year startup). We'll refer to this method as ATF Payroll in this document.

The After the Fact option in Calculate Pay serves as a tool for entering this payroll into Industrial Strength Payroll for purposes of reporting it to the various authorities. It is not possible to print paychecks using any After the Fact method. Click here if you need to print paychecks.

The After the Fact payroll option is most often used by accountants to record information for payroll that was done by their clients.

Its other uses include recording of year to date information when first installing the program or adding a client/payroll, recording a manual check, or to record any other increase in an employee's payroll information.

After the Fact payroll also has a Gross-up option in the Real Time method.

Industrial Strength Payroll provides 2 different ways to record ATF payroll, a Batch method, and a Real-time method.

The Batch method is the preferred method to use when you want to record a detailed series of transactions for a group of employees over a period of time. Employees, checks and pay periods can be processed in any order. Productivity is increased by a special Copy Check function that duplicates an employee’s check. Editing transactions is facilitated by a Find feature that locates a transaction by check number, employee name, and transaction number. Any transaction can be edited or deleted from the batch. A special Batch Input Register groups employees by last name, producing a form of "Payroll Card". The permanent payroll files are not updated until you post the batch.

The Real-time method is the preferred method to use when you are making only a few postings for any employee, or when you want to post only the total of a group of transactions. The employee’s permanent files are updated after each record.