Important: These instructions are intended for practitioners who do not have access to the Manager role. If you have manager user rights, we recommend that you perform this task from the Manager role.

If your company has enabled the Supplemental Earnings feature, you can create new supplemental earnings records to award supplemental earnings to employees who belong to security groups to which you have access.

Note: Most forms of supplemental earnings (such as mileage or tips) are entered into the Time & Attendance module by employees and are then approved by managers or practitioners. Some supplemental earnings, such as bonuses, can only be entered by managers or practitioners.

To award supplemental earnings, such as a bonus, to an employee:

  1. From the Time & Attendance menu, select Timecards. Either the Single Employee Timecard Manager or the Multiple Employee Timecard Manager will open, depending upon your Timecard Manager Preferences.

    Note: If the Timecards option is not visible, make sure that you have selected Practitioner in the Role Selector.

  2. If the Multiple Employee Timecard Manager opens, click the Single Employee View link near the upper right corner of the page to view the Timecard Manager for one employee. If the single employee Timecard Manager opens, skip this step.

  3. In the top right corner of the Timecard Manager, click the Supplemental Earnings link to open the Supplemental Earnings page.

    Tip: If the Supplemental Earnings link is not visible, your company does not support supplemental earnings in the Time & Attendance module. Contact an ADP Time & Attendance Representative if you want to enable the Supplemental Earnings feature.

  4. Use the employee filter (Employee Filter), navigation (Previous and Next), and/or lookup (Lookup) buttons to select the employee to whom you want to award supplemental earnings.

  5. Use the Pay Date Range tools to select a range that includes the date for which you need to award supplemental earnings. For instance, if you are entering supplemental earnings for today, click the Down Arrow and select Today. Any supplemental earnings that have already been reported for the employee for today will be displayed. If no supplemental earnings have been reported for today, a blank row with today's date will be displayed.

    Note: Although this step is not required, adjusting the supplemental earnings view to reflect an appropriate date range can simplify the process of entering a new supplemental earnings record. You can enter supplemental earnings for any date in the current or next pay period, even if you are viewing a different date range. If you do this, the transaction will be recorded when you click Submit, but it will disappear from the Supplemental Earnings page you are viewing because the new record falls outside the date range being viewed. To view the new supplemental earnings record, you will have to adjust the date range of the Supplemental Earnings page.

  6. If necessary, click the Add Button to add a new supplemental earnings row to the current display.

    Tip: You can also use the Insert button to add new rows.

  7. If necessary, edit or enter the date for your new supplemental earnings record, or use the Calendar Lookup button to select the appropriate date.

  8. In the Earnings Code column, click the Lookup Button to open the Supplemental Earnings Code Lookup window.

  9. Select the appropriate code for the type of supplemental earnings you are recording.

    Note: The available supplemental earnings codes vary by company.

  10. In the Entered Amount column, enter an appropriate value, such as the dollar amount of a bonus.

  11. If the supplemental earnings should be charged to specific labor categories, use the Lookup buttons in the labor category columns (such as Department and Job) to specify the correct categories.

    Note: If the employee's earnings are generally assigned to one or more default labor categories, the codes for these default categories may already appear in these columns. You can delete or change these codes as appropriate.

  12. If you want to include any additional information about the supplemental earnings award, click the Notes button on the right side of the page, enter your comments in the pop-up window, and click the Done button.

    Notes:
    When you click the Notes button, the Notes window opens above the row and the row is highlighted so that you can see which row you are adding, viewing, or editing notes for. Depending on whether a note has already been added and submitted for a row, the following buttons are displayed:

    Blank Note - A note does not exist for a row. This is also the default note icon which is displayed before any notes have been added to a row.

    Deleted Note but not Submitted - All text has been deleted from a note window, but the page has not been submitted since the text was deleted.

    Written and Submitted Note - A note exists for a row and the page has been submitted since the note was added or edited.

    Written Note but not Submitted - A note exists for a row, but the page has not yet been submitted since the note was added or edited.

  13. Click Submit to save the new supplemental earnings record.

    If the record is complete and meets your company's requirements, the Supplemental Earnings page will refresh and display an "Operation Successful" message. If an "Operation Unsuccessful" message appears, click the Error icon for the failed record to view a pop-up window containing troubleshooting information.

  14. Notes:
    Any supplemental earnings transaction you create will be recorded in the edit audit trail with your user ID and default edit reason code. If you have not specified a default reason code in your user options, your company's default edit reason code will automatically be used in the edit audit trail. The reason code allows a person viewing the edit audit trail to know why an edit was made. If you do not want to use your company's default edit reason code, you can select a different edit reason code.

    You can view the edit audit trail for any supplemental earnings entry by clicking the Edit Audit button on the appropriate row of the Supplemental Earnings page

    After you submit a supplemental earnings record, the Time & Attendance module performs any calculations required to figure the total amount for the record and displays the result in the Final Amount column. For example, if you enter 100 miles and your company policy provides compensation of $.37 per mile, the Final Amount column will display $37.00 after you click Submit.

    After you have successfully submitted a supplemental earnings transaction, the transaction may still require manager approval if required. To approve the transaction, click the Supervisor Approval check box and click the Submit button.