How to create a Payroll Mate desktop shortcut in Windows 11
Payroll Mate automatically creates a shortcut on the desktop, but if you lose the shortcut for some reason, then use... Continue reading →
How to create a Payroll Mate desktop shortcut in Windows 10
Payroll Mate automatically creates a shortcut on the desktop, but if you lose the shortcut for some reason, then use... Continue reading →
How to Roll Over Vacation Hours
**When Creating the VERY FIRST check for an Employee you need to update the “Vacation hours Earned” field to include... Continue reading →
How to Set Up an Employee that is Exempt from Taxes
This tutorial shows how to set up an Employee that is Exempt from Taxes inside Payroll Mate® software. This tutorial is for... Continue reading →
How to Recalculate a check
We do not recommend re-calculating checks. We recommend you delete the checks and re-create them again in the right chronological... Continue reading →
How to Email a Paystub
Go to File→ Open Company. Choose your company. Click→ OK. Click on the Reports tabs in the bottom left corner.... Continue reading →
How to Select the Kind of Payer
Go to File→ Open Company. Choose your company. Click→ OK Click on→ Company. Select→ Federal Tax Information. Choose →... Continue reading →
How to Print a Check
This tutorial shows how to print a single check or multiple checks inside Payroll Mate® software. Summary of... Continue reading →
How to do S-Corp Insurance
Go to File→ Open Company. Choose your company. Click→ OK. Click on the Company tab in the bottom left... Continue reading →
How to Pay a Vendor (1099 employee)
This tutorial shows how to pay a Vendor inside Payroll Mate® software. Summary of Steps This is just a... Continue reading →
How to Modify Tax Calculations
This tutorial shows how to modify the payroll software tax calculations inside Payroll Mate®. This may need to be done... Continue reading →
How to Set a Password
Payroll Mate® has the ability to be password protected. This tutorial shows how to set a password in the payroll... Continue reading →
How to Print Form 940
Payroll Mate® has the ability to create and print the form 940,this is the annual Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA).... Continue reading →
How to Change the Quarter on Form 941
Payroll Mate® has the ability to change the quarter on form 941. This tutorial shows how to change the quarter... Continue reading →
How to Create a Year To Date for Hourly Paid Employees
Payroll Mate® will allow you to go back to the first of the year to recreate payroll. You can also... Continue reading →
How to check for updates
This tutorial shows how to check Payroll Mate® software for updates. Updates may include tax table changes, updated tax forms... Continue reading →
How to Create a Year To Date for Salary Paid Employees
The best way to enter YTD for salaried employees is to create a new income category and name it your... Continue reading →
How to Delete an Employee
This tutorial shows how to delete an Employee inside Payroll Mate. Note that if this employee has checks inside Payroll... Continue reading →
How to Add a New Employee
This tutorial shows how to add a new employee inside Payroll Mate software. Summary of Steps This is... Continue reading →
How to Create a New Company
This tutorial shows how to create a new company or add another company in our payroll software. You can create... Continue reading →
How to Delete a Vendor Check
The Payroll Mate Vendor Center (non-employee payroll module) offers the ability to delete a check that is no longer needed.... Continue reading →
How to Edit a Payroll Check
This tutorial shows how to edit an existing check inside Payroll Mate. Please be aware that editing a check may... Continue reading →
How to Edit a Vendor (Contractor)
This tutorial shows how to edit a Vendor (contractor) inside Payroll Mate software Summary of Steps This is... Continue reading →
How to Enter a Trade Name
This tutorial shows how to add a trade name to a company in our payroll software. Summary... Continue reading →
How to Make an Income Category Inactive
This tutorial shows how to inactivate a income category in Payroll mate. You may use this when you no longer... Continue reading →
How to Override Calculations on Form 941
Payroll Mate allows users to override calculations on form 941. This tuitoral shows how to do so. ... Continue reading →
How to Delete a Check
This tutorial shows how to delete a check you have previously created in our payroll software. Please be aware deleting... Continue reading →
How to edit a Deduction Category
This tutorial shows how to edit a deduction category in our payroll software. Summary of Steps This is... Continue reading →
How to Delete a Deduction Category
This tutorial shows how to delete a user defined deduction category. Summary of Steps This is just a summary;... Continue reading →
How to Use California State Reporting
This is a tutorial on how to use the California state reporting in Payroll Mate® software. Payroll Mate has the... Continue reading →
How to Set Up Direct Deposit for a Company
Payroll Mate has the ability to do direct deposit. This part of Payroll Mate is option 2 “Direct Deposit”. If... Continue reading →
How to Print Pay Stubs Only
This tutorial shows users how to print paystubs only for employees. Summary of Steps This is just a... Continue reading →
How to Set Up Vacation and Sick Hours
This tutorial shows how to Setup Vacation and Sick Hours in our payroll software. Summary of Steps... Continue reading →
How to Export Payroll Data to Quickbooks
Payroll Mate has the ability to export payroll data to Quickbooks. This tuitoral shows how to do so. Summary... Continue reading →
How to Print an Employee List
This tutorial shows how to print an employee list report. All reports inside Payroll Mate are generated based on the... Continue reading →
How to add optional feature codes
This tutorial shows how to enter optional feature codes. If you would like to purchase optional features for the payroll... Continue reading →
How to Restore Company Backup
This tutorial shows how to restore a company database created by Payroll Mate. All Payroll Mate back-up files can only be used... Continue reading →
How to Make an Employee Inactive
This tutorial shows how to make an employee inactive in our payroll software. Summary of Steps This is just... Continue reading →
How to Create a check
This tutorial shows how to create a new check for an employee you have previously created in our payroll software.... Continue reading →
How to Remove Vacation and Sick Hours from Pay Stubs
This tutorial shows how to remove Vacation and Sick Hours from the pay stubs in our payroll software. ... Continue reading →
How to Delete a Tax category
This tutorial shows how to delete a Tax Category in our payroll software. Summary of Steps This... Continue reading →
How to Pay a Salary Employee for a Partial Work Week
Open W2 Mate® Software. There are two different ways to pay salary employees for a partial work week. ... Continue reading →
How to Recover Payroll Mate Data
How to restore Payroll Mate data The steps in this tutorial will show you how to restore your Payroll Mate... Continue reading →
How to Edit an Employee
Payroll Mate has the ability to allow you to edit an employee This tuitoral will help you to do so.... Continue reading →
How to print form 944
This tutorial shows how to use payroll software to print Form 944. Summary of Steps This is just a... Continue reading →
How to Change an Employee’s Pay Frequency
This tutorial shows how to change an employee’s pay frequency in the payroll program. Payroll Mate allows weekly, bi-weekly, semi-... Continue reading →
How to Edit an Income Category
This tutorial shows how to edit an income category in our payroll software. Payroll Mate allows editing of user-defined incomes.... Continue reading →
How to Change Payroll Period on Check
This tutorial shows how to Change the Payroll Period on a Check in our payroll software. Summary of... Continue reading →
How to Delete a Company
This tutorial shows how to delete a Company in our payroll software. Note you can not be in the company... Continue reading →
How to print a W2 form
This tutorial shows how to use the payroll software to print W2 Forms. Payroll Mate will print W2 copies B,... Continue reading →
How to Delete a Vendor
This tutorial shows how to delete a Vendor inside Payroll Mate software Summary of Steps This is... Continue reading →
How to Print Checks in Reverse Order
This tutorial shows how to print Checks in Reverse Order in our payroll software. Summary of Steps This is... Continue reading →
How to Add Additional Federal and/ or State withholding
This tutorial shows how to configure Payroll Mate software to deduct additional federal and / or state withholding from an... Continue reading →
How to Use Illinois State Reporting
This is a tutorial on how to use the Illinois state reporting in Payroll Mate® software. Payroll Mate has the ability to create... Continue reading →
How to Pay Multiple Employees
This Payroll Mate tutorial shows how to pay multiple employees at once instead of creating one paycheck at a time.... Continue reading →
How to Apply a Deduction to a User-Defined Income
This tutorial shows how to apply a user-defined deduction to a user-defined income. Please remember that when you create a... Continue reading →
How to Import Companies From Previous Year
This tutorial shows how to import companies from the previous year in Payroll Mate *Note you must have the previous... Continue reading →
How to Add a Deduction
This tutorial shows how to create a deduction category in our payroll software. Payroll Mate allows user-defined deduction, income and... Continue reading →
How to print Form 943
This tutorial shows how to use payroll software to print Form 943. Summary of Steps This is just a summary;... Continue reading →
How to Round State Income Tax to the Nearest Dollar
Some states make it optional for employers to round withholding to the nearest dollar. This tutorial shows you how to... Continue reading →
How to Print Form W3
Payroll Mate has the ability to print a W3 form, whether it be on a Pre-printed red lazer ink form... Continue reading →
How to Back-Up the Company Database
This tutorial shows how to back-up a company in Payroll Mate. We advise you to save the backup onto USB... Continue reading →
How to Enter Rates for State Unemployment and State Disability
This tutorial shows how to enter state unemployment and state disability tax rates and wage base in our payroll software.... Continue reading →
How to Export W2 Data from Payroll Mate to W2 Mate
Payroll Mate has the ability to transfer W2 information from Payroll Mate into W2 Mate. This tuitoral shows how to... Continue reading →
How to Edit a Tax Category
This tutorial shows how to edit a tax category in our payroll software. Payroll Mate allows users to edit user-defined... Continue reading →
How to Edit MICR Information
Payroll Mate gives users the ability to edit the MICR information. This tutorial shows how to do so in our payroll... Continue reading →
How to Use MICR Ink Check Printing
Payroll Mate Option #4 (MICR Ink Check Printing) allows you to print your own checks out on blank check stock... Continue reading →
How to Edit a Vendor Check
This tutorial shows how to edit a vendor (contractor or non-employee) check inside the Payroll Mate vendor center. ... Continue reading →
How to Print Checks in the Middle
This tutorial shows how to print Checks in the Middle of the Page in our payroll software. Summary of Steps... Continue reading →
How to Run a Deposit Requirement Report
This tutorial shows how to run a Deposit Requirement Report in Payroll Mate. Summary of Steps This is just a... Continue reading →
How to Change an Employees Income from Salary to Hourly
This tutorial shows how to change an employee’s income from salary to hourly in our payroll software. Payroll Mate allows... Continue reading →
How to Add an Income Category
This tutorial shows how to create custom payroll income types (categories) inside Payroll Mate software. Summary of Steps This is... Continue reading →
How to Export Payroll Data to a General Ledger
Payroll Mate has the ability to export the payroll data to a general ledger format. This tuitoral shows the steps... Continue reading →
How to Round Federal Income Tax to the Nearest Dollar
Some employers prefer to round federal withholding to the nearest dollar. This tutorial shows you how to achieve that inside... Continue reading →
How to Create a Tax Category
Payroll Mate has the ability to create tax categories if they are not in the software already. Summary of Steps... Continue reading →