The Expense Categories page in the Business Payroll Settings section is used to define the various employee expense categories used by your business.
On the payroll dashboard, select the Expense Categories option on the Pay Run Settings tab:
In order to add an expense category,
- Click on the green "Add" button to the top right hand side
- Enter the name of the expense category
- Enter an External Id for the expense category, if required
- Enter the General Ledger Mapping code, if required (If you are a QuickBooks user, you can map your expenses via the Payroll Settings -> Chart of Accounts page)
- Enter the Tax Code - to cater for sales taxes that may be applied to expense claims. If your using a cloud accounting system such as QuickBooks, Xero or Saasu, you’ll be able to select the tax code from your accounting system to be pre-populated when your employees submit an expense claim.
This tax code (and the associated tax rate) will then be populated on the expense claim and submitted with your journal to your accounting system.
If you’re using a file based export for your journal, you’ll be able to manually type in the account code and tax rate to be included with your journal export.
- Enter the Tax Rate
- When you're happy with the details, click on the "Save" button
To edit an expense category, click on the name of the category you want to edit. This will expand the details of that category for editing. Make the necessary changes and click Save when you're done.
You are also able to delete expense categories from this screen by hovering your mouse over the category that you want to delete and clicking on the red circled cross that appears. Note that you cannot delete expense categories that are in use.
Please note that expenses are not included in end of year payment summaries.
If you have any questions or feedback please let us know via support@yourpayroll.com