QuickBooks Integration

PaySpace provides built-in, seamless integration with QuickBooks Online so that customers can post their payroll results to their Journals. Customers are able to map the respective payroll components to QuickBooks account numbers and various other dimensions. 

 

PaySpace General Ledger Parameters 

​

Users must navigate to the General Ledger Parameters screen (Config > Payroll > Payroll Config > General Ledger Parameters) in order to create a GL mapping/s. For each payroll component that appears on an employee’s payslip, the user must enter a related GL “string” so that PaySpace can post to the QuickBooks Journal accordingly. PaySpace caters for the 4 dimensions within QuickBooks and the following is the required syntax (in red below) that needs to be adhered to in order to post successfully. 

 

Account|Name|Location|Class 

 

Notice that each QuickBooks dimension is separated by a pipe “|” character. The pipe character is required regardless of whether the customer has the dimension configured in QuickBooks. 

      

For example, if a customer uses only the Account and Name dimension, they will enter the GL string as follows - notice how a sub-account needs to be entered with a colon. 

Job Expenses:Cost of Labor|A100|| 

Note that only the value captured in the “Name” textbox below must be used, do not append the code if it is being used. 

      

Below is how the GL strings need to be captured on PaySpace for each payroll component. Note that the “GL Account” and “GL Contra Account” columns refer to the account number which is a debit or credit account number. The “GL Account” column is the debit account number and the “GL Contra Account” is the credit account number for all sections i.e. Allowances, Company Contributions etc, with the exception of the Deductions section where these are swapped around. The “GL Account” column is the credit account number and the “GL Contra Account” is the debit account number for all Deductions.

      

The syntax for including an employee number in a dimension is as follows: [EMPNO]

For example, if you would like the employee number to appear in the Name dimension, enter the GL string as follows:

 Job Expenses:Cost of Labor|[EMPNO]||

PaySpace will do a validation before posting to ensure that each payroll component, that appears on the employees payslip’s, has a GL string captured. If one does not exist, an error messge will be displayed to the user. PaySpace will require at least a debit account number for the allowance components and a credit account number for the deduction components. If a payroll component does not need to be posted, but the components exist on the employees' payslip’s, then the user can exclude this component by capturing the following against the relevant components: [Exclude]

      

Once the setup has been completed on PaySpace, the user can proceed to post the journals. The user must navigate to the Reports > General Ledger screen and select the QuickBooks option in the Format drop-down list. A “Connect to QuickBooks” button will appear below the drop-down list. Once clicked, the user will be re-directed to QuickBooks to authenticate (if they have not done so already in the current browser session) and prompted to select a company in QuickBooks. The user will then be re-directed back to PaySpace, where they will see a message informing them that they have successfully connected to QuickBooks.

Once the user has selected the remaining parameters, they can click on the Submit button and PaySpace will perform validations to ensure that the GL strings have been captured and that the values of each dimension exist within QuickBooks and proceed to post the journal batch for the selected period. This process executes in the background and will let the user know when it’s completed.

Depending on the level of detail that needs to appear in the journals, the user can select the relevant option in the Grouping drop-down list.

Totals grouped by GL Number: will post a journal entry line that sums all values for the combination of the 4 dimensions (Description column is blank)

      

Totals grouped by GL Number and payroll component description: will post a journal entry that sums all values for the combination of the 4 dimensions and the payroll component appears in the Description column.

      

• Related Articles

• Acumatica Integration

  PaySpace has created an integration within PaySpace itself and it functions in the same fashion as our integration with Xero and Quickbooks, whereby we now seamlessly "push" the GL transactions into Acumatica. Customers will be able to map payroll ...

• General Ledger | Exporting a General Ledger

  Overview The General Ledger Report provides a general ledger listing of the financial entries for a chosen run or period. You have the option to select a file format to export the report from the payroll. The file can then be imported to the ...

• General Ledger | Maintaining a General Ledger Entry

  Overview Once the General Ledger Entry has been created, you can return to the General Ledger Parameters Screen to make changes. Edition This feature is available on all PaySpace editions. Navigation Navigate > Config > Payroll > Payroll Config > ...

• General Ledger | Adding a General Ledger Entry

  Overview Multiple general ledger entries where account numbers are specified per component can be created within the same frequency. This enables you to define different account numbers for the same component. Edition This feature is available on all ...

• General Ledger | General Ledger Account Numbers

  Overview Once the General Ledger Entry has been created, you can proceed to define account and contra account numbers. Edition This feature is available on all PaySpace editions. Details Select the category heading to expand and collapse each Payroll ...