Departments Setup

Overview

Set up departments to organize labor costs and generate departmental breakdown reports. This feature allows for better financial management and reporting within your organization.

Key Features

Categorize labor costs by department
Generate automatic departmental breakdown reports each pay period
Assign default Worker's Compensation codes by department
Control page breaks for departmental reports

Setting Up Departments

Purpose

Setting up departments enables you to:

Categorize labor costs by department
Generate automatic departmental breakdown reports each pay period

Adding a Department

Go to Dept/Jobs/W.C. > Dept Setup.
Enter a unique department name and number.
Save the department information.

When adding new employees, you must assign them a department number. This is the only required step to ensure proper departmental reporting.

Default Worker's Compensation Code

If you use Worker's Compensation codes:

Set up Worker's Compensation codes in the system
Assign a default W/C code to each department
New employees will automatically inherit the W/C code of their assigned department

Page Break Control

To manage page breaks in departmental reports:

Go to Dept/Jobs/W.C. > Dept Setup.
Check Page Break After this Department for the desired department.
This will create separate reports for departments following the selected one

Example

Dept 100: Servers
Dept 200: Cashiers (page break enabled)
Dept 300: Management

Result: Management will have a separate report, starting on a new page after Cashiers.

Troubleshooting

Department not showing in reports

Verify that the department is correctly set up in the system
Ensure employees are assigned to the correct department
Check if the report settings include the specific department

Incorrect Worker's Compensation code for new employees

Confirm that the default W/C code is correctly assigned to the department
Verify that the employee is assigned to the correct department
Manually update the employee's W/C code if necessary