Issue/Symptom/Question

Received a report notification that a net negative check had been identified.

Applies To

Payroll Gross to Net process

Resolution/Fix/Answer

• Create a new timecard for the employee mentioned in the Warning message.
• The time card should contain an amount of "Other Pay" sufficient to make that employee's net pay  positive for the period which gross to net is being run.

• Distribute the timecard.
• Either pick up the uncompleted Gross to Net process, or Run Gross to Net for the employee (if the Gross to Net process for the rest of the Pay Group's employees was completed).
  Note: to do this simply enter the Gross to Net Processing screen and run gross to net for the relevant Pay Group/Period End date.
• Finish the Payroll Run as usual.

OR

• If this negative check was because of Voluntary Deduction to a Bank Account either lower the amount of the deduction or change the expiration date on the deduction for the deduction to not be taken.
• Run the Gross to Net process and you should not get an error about a negative check.
• Finish the Payroll Run as usual.

Cause 

Several things can cause a negative check the most common are: A deduction taken in excess of wages, or withholding triggered by PENTA's auto correction functionality (I.e. a manual check adjustment has been made to taxable wages but not withholding, in this case PENTA attempts to catch up on the withholding in the 1st check subsequent to the adjustment).