Advanced payroll - Annual leave

Hello Csacs100, 

Welcome to the Community page, 

So you aren't using the 'take leave' option in the advanced payruns themselves, so you are likely just using the annual leave pay category. 

So if you go and run a payrun and click on an employee you will see a green action box, if you click on that then click on leave taken to be able to show the leave going down. otherwise the leave category isn't being interacted with in that way. So basically a transfer when you do it like this, where you say they take however many hours, it then transfers to annual leave. otherwise its like you are being paid for something else, it has no origin. 

So all you need to do so it shows the leave taken going down is to make sure you have it showing in the payrun my clicking on the employee in the payrun and then clicking on action>leave taken and then fill in the info needed and click save. 

Thank you Ashleigh.

That updates the leave balance but does not appear to do anything to earnings, so it would appear that I have to enter the information twice, once as Annual Leave taken for the earnings and again for Leave Taken, Annual leave to update the Leave balance.

Is that correct?

Thanks

Thanks for getting back to us here, @csacs100.

I'd like to share some information about the annual leave. Aside from using the "Take Leave" option mention by my peer above, you'll want to add it as earnings instead. This way, it'll be added to the employees' pay. Also, this process won't let you enter the info twice.

Here's how to do it:

1. Open the employee that you wish to add the earnings line to and click on their name in the list of employees in the pay run to expand their pay run details.
2. From the blue Actions button in the bottom right corner tick Add Earnings. This will add an earnings line that is pre-filled with the employee's primary pay category.
3. For this earnings line, choose the annual leave pay category.
4. Once you have entered the details for the earnings line, click Save and the earnings line will be applied to the pay run.

After that, delete the previously entered annual balance.

Want more details? Check out these links below.

• Adding earnings lines to a pay run in QuickBooks Online Advanced Payroll.

• QuickBooks Online Advanced Payroll hub.

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Thank you ShiellaGrace.

That inputs the earnings line, but does not appear to help with reducing the Leave balance. I would expect any entry into the earnings line for Annual Leave taken to flow through to the Leave balance, but it does not, as shown below for pay period 16/05/2021.

The taken units line for Leave Balances for pay period 18/04/2021 of 0.50 days shown below was done via the "Take Leave" option, but that didn't input the Annual Leave earnings, which needed to be entered separately.

Thanks for updating us, @csacs100.

Since the annual leave balance still isn't reduced, I recommend contacting our Payroll Support team. They have tools that can help resolve this issue.

Here’s how:

1. Go to the Help menu.
2. Type in/click Talk to a human.
3. Enter your brief concern in the field.
4. Select I need a human until you see a Get help from a human option.
5. Choose a way to connect with our representatives.

Here are some QuickBooks Online Payroll resources that you can read to learn more about leave accrual and its categories:

• Leave Categories & Leave Accrual in Advanced Payroll
• Enter accrued leave in QuickBooks Online Advanced
• Examples of how leave is applied based on setup scenarios in QuickBooks Online Advanced Payroll

Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have other payroll concerns or questions. We’re always here to help. Have a good one!

Further update,

You can amend the setting to the below, which will work for both Salary and Wages.

csacs100 you are an absolute **STAR**

Thank you for taking the time to post the resolution here. Many don't and this has helped me tremendously.

I've got another issue? The hours are deducted and added, but seem to cancel each other out? I've got the settings set up to allow negative leave as each employee acrues leave at the start of each pay year.

Thanks, but as per your example it removes the -8 hours then adds 8 hours so the employee doesn't actually "earn" anything for their leave.

If you look at yours it deducts -£100 and then adds £100 so your employee doesn't earn anything extra.

I've now got the leave settings as below and it calculates correctly. What we are telling QB to do is deduct the hours from the annual leave and convert them into hourly pay.

PAYSLIP 

I have sorted this but have also found what seems to be a major bug / flaw. You might want to double check how yours is set up. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-uk/employees-and-payroll/serious-bug-in-payroll-which...

Thanks for sharing your experience, @mdj101. I’m glad you got it sorted out.

You’ll want to report the flaws or bugs you’ve observed directly to our Support team. 

Here’s how:

1. Go to the Help menu, then select QuickBooks Desktop Help.
2. Select Contact Us.
3. Give a brief description of your issue, then select Let's talk, and then choose a way to connect.

Get back here at any time if you have any follow-up questions. I'll be around to guide you some more.

If you look at my example, the Normal Hours remain as 40 hours in line 1 (5 days @ our standard 8hr day). The Annual leave is 8 hours which needs to be taken off the Normal Hours (line 2) otherwise I am paying out 48 hours, which is incorrect.

The first line of my earlier reply stated quite clearly "Do not reduce Normal Hours".

I eventually turned off the Accrue leave option as it was more bother than it was worth to try and get it to work properly. A simple annual leave spreadsheet was more effective and I didn't have to deal with "insufficient leave" messages.

The post that has been selected as SOLVED doesn't actually solve the issue though.

It calculates the holiday hours incorrectly and relies on manually adjusting the holiday acrued balance as per the OP's own admissions.

The way I have it set up works it all out for you!