Committing Payroll Reversals

Important:

Payroll reversals cannot retrieve funds from employee accounts. You must collect any overpaid amount from an employee.

After you create payroll reversals, you must commit them before you run your next payroll.

Uncommitted reversals do not reduce your liability and may result in overpaying a tax agency. In addition, uncommitted reversals do not show on the Pay Payroll Liabilities page or on liability reports. If you commit a payroll reversal after tax liabilities are paid, unapplied payments may display on the Pay Payroll Liabilities page. Unapplied payments are liability payments not associated with checks.

Note:

Only those user roles that include Process Payroll with the Full option can commit a payroll. These user roles include Full Access: Full, Payroll Manager: Full, and Payroll Setup: Full. For more information, see NetSuite Roles Overview, Showing Role Permission Differences, and Standard Roles Permissions Table.

The following steps help you commit a payroll reversal that was not previously committed.

To commit a payroll reversal:

1. Go to Transactions > Employees > Create Payroll > List.

2. On the Payroll Batches page, you can add a filter to display payroll batches with a specific status. Those statuses are Ready to Commit, Funding Calculated, and Edited. To filter the Payroll Batches list by status:

   1. Click Edit View.

   2. In the Results subtab, add Status to the list.

   3. In the Available Filters subtab, add Status to the list. Ensure Show in Filter Region and Show as Multi-Select are enabled.

   4. Click Save.

   5. Click Filters to open the Status filter list.

   6. Select Ready to Commit, Funding Calculated, or Edited.

3. Click Edit next to an uncommitted payroll reversal.

   To quickly locate your reversals, click the Type column header to sort the list by type and locate Reverse payroll.

4. On the Payroll Batch page, click Commit.

5. Repeat these steps until all reversals have been committed.

After all of your reversals are committed, go to Transactions > Employees > Create Payroll to create your next payroll.

Related Topics

Creating a Payroll Reversal

Creating Payroll Adjustments

Payroll Reversals and Adjustments

General Notices