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• # 101421
• Wed 10 Sep 2014 02:56 PM

Hello there

 I'm self-studying for the payroll exam and have, what may be, a daft question.  Anyway...

When performing payroll for a client is there a facility to actually process the payments on their behalf (ie, from client's bank) or is the normal practice to just send the details through to the client and they do the actual paying?

Any advice and guidance greatfully received!

Many thanks

Debbie

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• # 101424
• Wed 10 Sep 2014 05:42 PM

Hi Debbie

It depends on the clients requirements.   I don't know about the other bookkeepers but in my experience  the payroll is run and the client sorts out paying the employees using the information provided by the payroll bureau. 

However some payroll packages do allow for the submission of payments.  I know Sage 50 Payroll has an e-banking button which once RTI has been done produces a txt or csv file which can be uploaded to some if not all banks to do an automatic payroll payment.  

In most cases though if you are only doing payroll for a client they are unlikely to give you access to their company bank account.

Hope this answers your question.

Regards

Liz

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• # 101432
• Thu 11 Sep 2014 10:04 AM

Hi Liz

Thank you for your reply, that helps...  And what you say makes sense.

I was a bit thrown because in the software I'm using (Moneysoft) I saw that, like Sage, there is a facility for sending instructions to the client's bank to process payments.  Presumably in this case the client informs their bank that the payroll bureau has authority to do this.

I'd be interested to hear from any other members what their normal payroll procedure is as regards this.

Kind regards

Debbie

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• # 101474
• Fri 12 Sep 2014 04:26 PM

Thank you Sharon

Debbie

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