Enter the year for your payroll year-end date. The date defaults to December 31 for the current year of your fiscal calendar. The year must be within the fiscal calendar. If you enter a year outside the fiscal calendar, it will change to your current year. When you reset year-to-date totals, this date automatically changes to the next year in your fiscal calendar.

Select your default check format from the drop-down. You can change this format when you print payroll checks.

Enter the check number, up to twenty characters, that precedes the number you want to assign to the first check. For example, if you want to start with check number 1500, enter 1499 in this field. Each time you process payroll, this field will update to show the number of the last check printed. If you leave this field bank, your first check number will be 0000000001.

Enter the direct deposit number, up to twenty characters, that precedes the number you want to assign to the direct deposit stub. For example, if you want to start with number DD-1500, enter DD-1499 in this field. Each time you process payroll, this field will update to show the number of the last direct deposit printed. If you leave this field bank, your first check number will be 0000000000.

Enter the default maximum percentage that an employee’s pay can be garnished for each pay period. The default is 60%. You can override this percentage for individual employees on the Garnishments tab of the Benefits/Deductions tab of the PR Employee Management window. You can enter a maximum percentage in this field up to 5 digits in the format xxx.xx.

This field is informational and displays the end date of the last timesheet you imported. The Import Daily units window will have a default start date of the day after the date displayed here.

Select this check box if you want to integrate QuickBooks Time time and attendance tracking software with Denali. This allows you to import employee information, including units and leave, from QuickBooks Time.

If you’re logged into QuickBooks Time when you save employee pay rate, leave, and general information in the Employee Management window, your records in QuickBooks Time will automatically update. Also, if you delete an employee record in Denali, the record will be archived in QuickBooks Time.

Select this check box if you want to default to the Notes tab in the PR Employee Management window when you open the window.

Select this check box if you want to show bank information on your Direct Deposit report. If you leave this unchecked, the fields on the report will be blank.

Select this option if you want to use multiple batches to process payroll.

Select this check box if you want to encrypt your employees’ Social Security numbers on payroll checks and reports. This does not encrypt the number on tax reports or the Employee List Report, however the List Report gives you the option to not print them. Leave this box unchecked if you want the entire Social Security number to appear on checks and reports. Regardless of your selection, the entire number is encrypted in the database for security.

This field is only available if you selected the Encrypt Social Security number on checks and reports check box. Select how you want the Social Security numbers to display on checks and reports.

Select this check box if you want the system to create and post due to/due from entries to the account you enter in the Fund number field. If you leave this check box unchecked, transaction amounts will post to the fund attached to the expense account on the transaction, but separate due to/due from entries will not be created.

This field only appears if you select the Auto due to / from check box. Enter the fund number you want to post to when you generate due to/due from entries.

Select this check box if you want to be able to edit the Regular, Other Time 1 Units, and Other Time 2 Units pay rate fields in the Enter Units window in Prepare Payroll. If this check box is not checked the fields will not be editable.

From the drop-down, select the maximum number of benefits and deductions you want to print on each pay stub. You can select All to include all benefits and deductions. If an employee has more than the maximum amount set to print, the system omits the additional benefits or deductions based on the latest ones added to the Benefits / Deductions tab in the PR Employee Management window.

From the drop-down, select the maximum number of pay rates you want to print on each pay stub. You can select All to include all pay rates. If an employee has more than the maximum amount set to print, the system omits the additional pay rates based on the latest rates added to the Pay Rates/Taxes tab in the PR Employee Management window.

Select the check boxes for the items you want to print on your employees’ checks.

Select this check box if you import daily units and you want to summarize the pay rate lines on the stub rather than have a line for each day.

Select this check box if you want your organization’s name and address to print on check stubs.

Select this check box if you want your organization’s name and address to print on direct deposit stubs

This field is informational only and shows the last posting reference number. This number automatically increments after each posting.

This field is only visible if you’re using multi-batch mode and is informational only. It shows the last batch created.

If you import daily units and you want to set a default Overtime Code for all your employees, enter it here. This Code will be overwritten by the Overtime Code if you set one on the employee record. If you don’t set an Overtime Code in either location, overtime will not be calculated.