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I ran into a interesting problem the other day and need some help. I am trying to use the "skill level" portion on ADP in the effort to set a fixed figure to pay the techs as opposed to paying them by their flat rate time ie: a brake job will pay $35.00 regardless of the techs pay rate. When I talked to the office people I found out that they are doing my techs payroll by hand! Actually multipling out each time ticket by their rate and adding them all up! I asked why we do it that way and was told "that's how we always do it". I can not believe that this is the easiest way. I have a few hourly apprentices and the rest are flat rate but we should still be "automated" when doing the pay right?

[This message has been edited by Art_Mopar (edited 03-18-2004).]

[This message has been edited by Art_Mopar (edited 03-18-2004).]

Art,

Seem to be posing 2 issues here.

Paying techs a flat cost could be done in the cost field of the op-code using function UOC (update op-code)
There doesn't seem to be a reason to use the skill coding at this point.

Skill level coding is used if you wish to code a group of jobs at a lower or higher rate. For example, a tech may be paid at 15.00 an hour for maintenance jobs, 20.00 for repair jobs and 25.00 for specialized repairs.
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Your other issue seems to be automating the flag sheets for payroll.
This can be done by turning on the option to run UTP with RAC using function UOP.
(run Update-tech-payroll with Report-Accounting-Summary with function Update-options)
From here you can run UPP (update pay-period) so the system knows your payroll cycles)
Now you can run RTH (Report tech hours) to get a report of each techs flag sheet.