New User Training Program

We've created a new and improved new user training program! The new user course can be taken in 5 - 3 hour sessions. Go to the Jumpstart Registration Page to register. Or click here to view a printable pdf containing information on this course.

SESSION 01 ( 3 HRS)

GENERAL FEATURES REVIEW

• How to contact us
• TSC Website: Introduce client’s user name & password, Website Tour, Submit online service request
• Identify Terminal Emulator. Log In/Out
• General Features of the terminal emulator: FIND, SELECT, PF1-4, PF6, Screen-scroller, LOOK, Print Screen Banner, MAIN, QUIT.
• Interactive time.

PAYROLL MENUS

• Overview of the four main menus: Employee Maintenance, Generate Payroll, Payroll Maintenance, System Maintenance.
• Emulator shortcuts: MAIN, QUIT
• Review: Logging In/Out, general navigation and use of shortcuts, practice finding things on the Web
• Interactive time.

TSC PAYROLL: GETTING FROM A TO Z

• The Payroll Database: The Brain of TSC Payroll
• Employee Maintenance: Add, Deletes, Modifies what the brain is setup to control
• Generate Payroll: The arms and feet

SESSION 02 ( 3 HRS)

EMPLOYEE MAINTENANCE

• Identify selections within the Employee Maintenance menu
• Employee File Maintenance Menu
  • Detailed Analysis of Employee Record Additions, #1
  • Brief overview selections #2 - #20
  • Cautions (Employee Delete, Employee Purge)
  • FIND, PF1+A
  • Discuss the payroll system’s order of precedence (Database, Employee deduction screen, timesheet entry)
  • Interactive time. Make any necessary employee changes
• Employee Reporting menu
  • Send client print shots of each report as a reference tool. Provide brief overview of reports.
  • Identify all reports that can be exported into excel
  • Demonstrate export/import

SESSION 03 (3 HRS)

GENERATE PAYROLL MENU: DATA ENTRY

• Timesheet Entry Process: Setting up a Batch and executing timesheet entries
• Variable Deduction Entry
• Multiple Variable Deduction Entry
• Timesheet/Variable Import Process
• Practice Data entry
• Brief overview of entire Data Entry menu

PAY ESTIMATE INQUIRY

• Detailed overview & analysis
• Process Scenarios with various data-entry types
• Demo Projections
• Interactive time where client can test multiple scenarios

SESSION 04 ( 3 HRS)

PAYROLL CALENDAR

• Detailed overview & analysis
• Relation of the Payroll Calendar to the Employee
• How to check for jobs for completion/status
• Checking successfully completed jobs in payroll archiving and unsuccessful jobs using LOOK
• Data entry cont. if necessary
  PAYROLL STREAM
• Verify all data has been entered and finalize applicable batches.
• Brief overview of the payroll stream
• Identify what the payroll system is doing during each stage of the process and how to check for successful completion. Identify what to do if a process is unsuccessful.
• Review payroll reports for accuracy. Great place to verify all payroll data has been entered
• Balancing, EFT to the Bank
• Print Earnings Statements
• Importance of not processing the payroll update until a backup has occurred.

SESSION 05 (3 HRS)

PAYROLL UPDATE & REPORTS

• How to Verify nightly backup
• Detailed overview and analysis of the payroll update process and flow into Finance. Importance of determining which GL interface format should be used.\
• Balancing
• Archvied Reports
• Employee Reports
• Organize Payroll Year/Scheduling
• Procedure Documentation

DATABASE & PROFILES

• General Overview
• Link the Database to the Employee Maintenance & Payroll (process flow). Fill in the blanks
• Overview of Profiles: identify mandatory deductions & storage banks