Ben Hendrickson

U.S. law requires companies to employ only individuals who may legally work in the United States–either U. S. citizens, or foreign citizens who have the necessary authorization. E-Verify (through the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) is an internet-based system … Read More

OpenRDA’s Query menu in Vendor Payments has been modified to include a query for the Vendor Calendar (VENYR) file.

To facilitate emailing of purchase orders (to vendors for whom an email address is in the vendor’s order address file), the menu order on the Final tab of the task bar has changed. First step would be to archive the … Read More

In OpenRDA, a user can now display his/her msmtp log from Help (menu bar). When there are emailing issues, this log can be accessed to determine if the emails were sent to the organization’s email server from the OpenRDA server. … Read More

When reconciling bank statements, a Statement Date must now be entered on the range screen. The Statement Date will then be written to the reconciled transactions. Future program releases will include modifications to various report range screens to include this … Read More

The Vendor Payer Master file (accessed via the 1099s menu) has been modified to include fields for the organization’s E-Verify Number and Date of Authorization. This was done to facilitate state reporting requirements related to public works contractors.

Preliminary verification reports have been created and added to OpenRDA’s menus in the Substitute Management module (on the task bar), the Employee Absentee Module (on the task bar), and the Leave Management module (on the Used tab of the task … Read More

The Employees without Deductions report has been modified to allow ranging on personnel class as well as vendor identification. Although this report is often used to identify current employees without tax deductions (ranging on deduction type), it can also be … Read More

The Set Beginning Balances Based on Prior Year report has been modified so that a printout is provided. Setting flags after review of the report will cause the beginning balance fields in the balance sheet account year master to update. … Read More

For OpenRDA, a report for repairing (re-establishing) the total gross in a pay master (based on the job pay rate master amounts) has been created and added to Maintenance –> Undo Payroll Process –> Repair/Change. Sometimes the total gross in … Read More

Because a direct deposit file cannot contain negatives, a report to check for negative ACH records will automatically run once EFT numbers are assigned. It will identify any EFT numbers for an ACH Active Vendor that have an overall negative … Read More

When running updates to the Personnel module, certain document type identifications will automatically create. These are as follows: HIRE EMPLOYEE (named HIRE EMPLOYEE DOCUMENTS) TERM EMPLOYEE (named TERMINATE EMPLOYEE DOCUMENTS) W2 FORM (Named W2 FORMS)