Payment Summaries
Check your PAY-PACK version is 8.0 series

It is highly desribale that your PAY-PACK version is 8.00 or later. However if necessary the 7.7 series (7.70 or later) can be used. The Payment Summaries for the next year ending 30 June 2007 will be quite different, and a new version of PAY-PACK will be released some time late in 2006. Versions 7.57 or earlier will not produce the new Payment Summaries, but will produce the superceded Group Certificates. Your PAY-PACK version number must be 7.70 or later.

ABN

Make sure you have entered your ABN (Australian Business Number). From the Main Menu choose Setting-up; System Options; Employer Code Number. Leave ABN Division as 001, unless you are a branch of a much larger organisation, and the ATO has given you a different number.

The ABN is your reference number with the ATO. We no longer have to worry about Supplier Numbers or Mnemonic Numbers. These are now relics of the past.

It is possible for an employer not to have an ABN. If so, the ATO will have given you a Withholder Payer Number. Enter this in the ABN field.

Fringe Benefits

Date of Birth

This field has been mandatory for the ETP (Eligible Termination Payment) Payment Summary for several years. It is now on the (ordinary) Payment Summary, where it is an optional field. The Date of Birth appears on the Main Employee screen in Pay-Pack.

Allowances paid Infrequently

Some employees carefully compare their Payment Summary and their pay slip, and may want an explanation of any discrepancy. The cause is likely to be allowances that are no longer active.

For the last general pay run of the financial year in June, PAY-PACK prints on the pay slip, any allowance that has non-zero YTD value, even if it is zero this pay. This makes it much easier for the employee to reconcile the Payment Summary. If you really want to, you can stop these zero-value allowances being printed. When about to print pay slips, choose Pay Slip Options, and answer N to Zero values on pay slip?

Lump Sums for Unused Leave

In most cases these amounts are included in the Gross. This has been the case since the August 1993 Budget.

No Cents on Payment Summaries

All figures on the Payment Summaries are reported in whole dollars only. When the raw figure has cents, PAY-PACK rounds to the nearest dollar.

Printing of Allowances on Payment Summary

Each allowance can either be included in the Gross, or itemised. To control this, Setting-up; Allowances; Search and answer Payment Summary Treatment.

Deductions

If you have set up a before-tax deduction for an employee, PAY-PACK will print its details. This can either be union membership, or donation to a charity.

Discrepancy of Payment Summary Totals

Is the total of payment summaries a few dollars different from the Totals of Pay report? If so, this is because cents are omitted from Payment Summaries. Print the Payment Summary report again, and this time answer N to Omit Cents.

Payment Summary Signatory

Two printing methods for Payment Summaries

PAY-PACK has two methods of print Payment Summaries, depending on your printer.

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