Certified Payroll

Certified Payroll Reports and the Statement of Compliance are weekly labor reports used for federal and state projects where the contractor must state that the employees that have worked on the project have been paid the proper wage rates as dictated by the prevailing wage determination for the project.  The certified payroll reports are an optional feature in the AccuBuild program so be sure to contact the AccuBuild Sales Department if you need this option.

The information for the report is pulled from each employee's check that has worked on the specified project.  During time card entry, hours are allocated to the job and the number of hours worked each day are entered at the bottom of the time card screen.  Once the checks have been posted through the system, certified reports may be printed for any period.

By default, all new jobs are set up to allow certification of hours.  If the Certified Payroll Reports Required? setting on the Job Cost > Update Jobs > Payroll Tab has been disabled, then the hours cannot be allocated and a certified payroll report cannot be generated.  Although the job setting can be changed at a later date to enable the certified payroll reporting, transactions that have already been posted to the job cannot be modified, therefore, a certified payroll report cannot be printed for that period.  Therefore, if certified payroll reports are required on one or two jobs, it is recommended that ALL jobs should be set up with the reporting requirement so that no transactions are accidentally skipped when entering the time cards.

If you work in California and need to report certified payroll information to the California Department of Industrial Relations, then you will need to upload the information via an XML file to their website.  Complete instructions for job set up and XML file creation is contained in the Payroll > FAQs section of this manual.  Please use the link below to jump to the FAQs page.