MISC
Payroll
Earning and Deductions
Common Terms
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What is a Quick Calc?

A manual check recorded in Toast Payroll that is tied to a specific payroll calendar, used to record an amount paid to an employee outside of Toast Payroll.

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Can a customer edit payroll after they have calculated it?

Yes, they can click 'Previous' to go back to the Payroll Spreadsheet.

Once the payroll is posted, you can NOT edit it.

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What is a Non-Cash Earning?

The funds paid under a non-cash earning do not increase the net pay on the employee’s paycheck.

Non cash earnings are used to record a payment was already distributed to an employee and to calculate the amount of tax owed on the payment for taxable earnings.

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WTL

Work Tax Location

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What is the navigation path to begin/open a payroll?

Dashboard > View Payroll > Run Payroll

OR

Company > Payroll > Pay Cycle Dashboard > Run Payroll

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What is a Payroll To-Do?

An automated action for one-off earnings and/or deductions that need to be added to a specific payroll

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What is a Check Frequency?

How often an employee receives a paycheck (Weekly, Biweekly, etc.)

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What does Deferred Compensation Eligible mean?

The funds paid under the earning are included in the calculation of retirement plan withholding on the same paycheck

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HR +

A static security role that gives the user access to all employees and modules in their database.

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What is the navigation path to view a customer's SUTA rates?

Company >Setup > Payroll > EIN > SUTA Rate

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What is a Secondary Position and when should it be used?

A second position assigned to an employee on their Position page, used so the employee can be paid out of multiple pay groups at once

Remember: 2 Positions - 2 Pay Groups

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When is the deadline for customer's to post payroll?

1 business day before by 3:30pm CST

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What is a Pre-Tax Deduction?

Deductions that are withheld from the employee before taxes are calculated and withheld

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Levels

An organization-specific set of values assigned to an employee. All Toast Payroll customers use Company, Location, and Job

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What is the Navigation Path to delete a Quick Calc before opening payroll?

Company > Payroll > Quick Calcs

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What reason code should I use if I need to change the FEIN an employee works under?

Inter-Company Transfer

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What is Blended Overtime?

Blended Overtime (OT) calculates an effective rate of pay based on Hours worked and all OT Eligible Compensation

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What are Deduction Codes tied to?

Check Frequencies

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Specialties

A second Job and rate assigned to an employee on their Specialties page, used to pay the employee at a different rate of pay for hours worked under the Job. Also called Jobs or Specialties

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What is the navigation path to add a payroll to-do for an employee for an upcoming payroll?

Dashboard > + > Add Payroll To Do

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What two position attributes need to be updated in order to change an employee from Hourly to Salary?

Salary Type and Default Earning Type

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What is Tip Makeup?

Tip Makeup refers to the amount of earnings that need to be added in order to "make up to minimum wage".

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What are arrears?

Tax or deductions that are owed and should have been paid on an earlier payroll. This occurs when the employee does not have enough cash earnings on their paycheck to pay these

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State Nexus

A business having a tax presence in a particular state.

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What is the navigation path to import new employee's into a customer's database?

Management > New Hire > Import