Category: Canadian Payroll

  • CRA T619 change for 2025

    A post about the Canada Revenue Agency T619 XML schema changes, examples of the T619 XML format for 3 scenarios, and some guidance for #MSDYNGP clients using Canadian Payroll. (continue >)

  • Decimal Places for HR Benefits

    I’m calling this a #TipTuesday post but it really should be called a “Jen is writing about it so she doesn’t forget the next time she needs it” post. 😄 Fellow bloggers will be able to relate to that! By default, the Benefits and Deductions decimal places are set to 2 decimals, and it comes… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll 2023 T4s

    This post is about 2023 T4s in Dynamics GP Canadian Payroll. Watch for previously modified T4 reports which may not show the new Box 45! (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll Incomplete Paycodes message

    A client ran into this last week and I thought it would be a good topic for a #TipTuesday blog post. The scenario is specific to users with both the Canadian Payroll (CPY) module and the Human Resources (HR) module in Microsoft Dynamics GP. This only will apply if HR is installed, so for those… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll 2023 YE Hotfix

    This post is for Dynamics GP sites with Canadian Payroll about a Year-End hotfix just released to address some issues. The hotfix addresses more than just Canadian Payroll issues; these early-year hotfixes are typically when Microsoft cleans up all issues reported from the US Payroll Year End and Canadian Payroll Year End patch releases. January… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll & Employer-Offered Dental field

    This post is specific to Microsoft Dynamics GP in case someone is reading this post after searching for more general information on this topic. After the Dynamics GP Year-End 2023 update is installed, some of the tables include new columns for the Employer-offered Dental Benefit tracking now required on T4 and T4A forms. The default… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll Year-End Tax Update 2023

    Greetings everyone! Great news for those using Canadian Payroll in Dynamics GP, the tax update was released earlier than expected. Let the installs begin! There are a lot of changes this year, so please make sure to follow the Microsoft Support pages for the latest information and updates. The best page to watch for updates… (continue >)

  • Enabling the Canadian Payroll module

    In my last post, I documented where to go to get registration keys. In the last part of the post, I added a note that was specific to Canadian Payroll and today learned that it no longer applies, at least not for recent versions of Dynamics GP. I have edited that part of the post… (continue >)

  • ROE issue in Canadian Payroll

    An ROE issue where Box 15B does not generate the correct value on the printed report. (continue >)

  • Mass Update CPY Basic Personal Exemption

    Last week, I was asked if I knew of a quick way to update the Basic Personal Exemption (“BPE”) amount in Dynamics GP Canadian Payroll. It’s not the first time I’ve been asked as it’s relatively common for an “oops” on the CPY Year End Close routine to either forget to update the personal exemption… (continue >)

  • Cdn Payroll T4 XML & Multiple Employers

    Today’s #TipTuesday is too late for 2018 filings but hopefully, those this applies to will file it away for next year. The post is a result of a question from a consultant who works for one of the Dynamics GP VARs in the Toronto area, whose client asked how to get 1 XML T4 file… (continue >)

  • Updated documentation for CanPay Import/Export

    Hey, will you look at that? The community has been begging for updated documentation for Dynamics GP for a while now and who gets some love first? Canada! Woot! Woot! Ya, baby… The Good News Isaac Olson wrote on the official GP Support blog that there is updated documentation on the import and export functions… (continue >)

  • How to add the Employer Address to T4 Forms

    For some reason, out of the box, Dynamics GP Canadian Payroll T4 Forms don’t have the employer’s address. Why? I have no idea… but the information is there to be added easily, and here’s how to add it to the T4 reports for Employer and Employee versions. Make sure the Employer record is fully set up… (continue >)

  • How YTD CPP & EI factor into Tax calcs

    This post is about troubleshooting tax calculations in Dynamics GP Canadian Payroll, and how Year-to-Date CPP and EI factor into the calculations. (continue >)

  • Cdn Payroll – Things that make you go hmm

    This is a strange one, one of those things that makes me go “hmm”.  I never understand how this happens, if it’s been here for years or just never been noticed. Anyway, in Canadian Payroll in Microsoft Dynamics GP (testing GP2010 specifically, in case it’s not the same in other versions), when creating a batch… (continue >)

  • Update on Account Number error in Canadian Payroll

    A couple of years ago around this time of year, I got a call from a client of mine with a strange error in Canadian Payroll.  At the time, I ran into other significant issues in trying to help with said error, and at the time, I blogged/ranted about it here. Fast forward to last… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll & US Payroll in the same environment

    I was asked this question by someone a few days ago and I have a little bit of information about this.  At some point, I will expand on this article but for now, it’s a short one! This article is simply about using Cdn Payroll and US Payroll together, as in “Can the modules be… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll – Transmission Header Incorrect Length error

    This is a repeat of an article I wrote in November 2011 with updated information. Issue #2 in that blog was regarding permissions during the Generate Cheques routine and the message “There is an error in the Transmission Header – Incorrect Length”. At that time, the fix seemed pretty obvious and it worked during testing… (continue >)

  • Some Canadian Payroll & Project Accounting gotchas!

    Recently, a client of mine experienced a couple of weird things when we started to configure another Dynamics GP company for them with Canadian Payroll and Project Accounting in action. One of them is something to look out for if using the Canadian Payroll import processes; the second is more of a head-scratcher type of… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll issues and fixes

    Today I have 2 issues to write about relating specifically to Canadian Payroll in Dynamics GP; things that a couple of my clients have recently run into that are fairly common and easy fixes. Issue #1 is regarding stuck batches and the message “The batch is currently in use – Please wait until the other user… (continue >)

  • Canadian Payroll – some ROE fields demystified

    This post is about Canadian Payroll in the context of Dynamics GP and how the ROE fields are populated. (continue >)