Using Peachtree for a contractor

[aljr1]

I do the books out of my home for a small contractor who also is still working out of his home. At first all of the work involved using employees(under 10) out of one union craft. With union labor you must set up payroll deductions for union dues the employees must pay and set up union benefits the employer is responsible for. I have these set up fine. However now this business is evolving to the point that the owner really is becoming a general contractor which means he is using several different union crafts on different jobs he has obtained. The number of employees I am doing payroll for now varies anywhere from 10 -20 each week. I really love the work but my concern is if Peachtree can handle all of the different union deductions and benefits that have to be set up in company tax tables. Also there is strong possiblity I will eventually have to get into tracking costs by jobs, etc.

I would really love some tips and/or examples of anyone that is using Peachtree successfully for a small to medium general contractor business. Bye the way, I am using Peachtree Complete Accounting, release 8.

[Diane Koers]

The number of employees is well within PT's range, and you can set up to 20 different pay levels. I have several small to mid size union contractors using PT quite successfully. If you'd like, contact me at dkoers@home.com and I'll put you in touch with some of them.

Also, since you're in Indiana, I'd be available for onsite support.

Hope that helps!

[westphal]

We are a company with a similar setup. You can set up the EE and ER deductions easily enough to generate the GL entries for the union fringe benefits, and print out a payroll report with the data needed for the union reports, but will have to manually complete the union report (I do mine in a spreadsheet program). I would somehow set up employee codes by trade so that you can easily separate them. The job cost program only lets you send raw costs to each job file, it does not allow for markups or labor burdens to be added.

[RODNEY]

Originally posted by aljr1
I do the books out of my home for a small contractor who also is still working out of his home. At first all of the work involved using employees(under 10) out of one union craft. With union labor you must set up payroll deductions for union dues the employees must pay and set up union benefits the employer is responsible for. I have these set up fine. However now this business is evolving to the point that the owner really is becoming a general contractor which means he is using several different union crafts on different jobs he has obtained. The number of employees I am doing payroll for now varies anywhere from 10 -20 each week. I really love the work but my concern is if Peachtree can handle all of the different union deductions and benefits that have to be set up in company tax tables. Also there is strong possiblity I will eventually have to get into tracking costs by jobs, etc.

I would really love some tips and/or examples of anyone that is using Peachtree successfully for a small to medium general contractor business. Bye the way, I am using Peachtree Complete Accounting, release 8.

[RODNEY]

Originally posted by RODNEY

Currently, Peachtree does not address the issue of more than one Gross Pay. Until and unless Peachtree changes their payroll system to have pay codes for more than a single Gross Pay you will have to compute separate Gross Pay and State Income Tax
withholdings for any individual who works in two different states during any pay period. It seems relatively simple to assign Gross pay codes to point to individual tax tables and thus enable you to generate one paycheck.