Change Payroll Year

Use the Change Payroll Year function to change the current payroll year for a single workstation or for the entire payroll system. Use the TRAVERSE Server Manager to add a payroll year.

Traverse allows you to have multiple years active for Payroll. You would use multiple years of Payroll data to print the W-2 forms for prior years. When you are ready to prepare and print the W-2 reports for employees for the prior tax year, you will need to change payroll years to the prior year to read the data for that year’s data to put on the W-2 forms. When finished preparing and printing the W-2 forms, you will need to change payroll years back to your current payroll year to continue processing Payroll.

The current payroll year is displayed at the bottom of the Traverse screen in the footer area. You can access the Change Payroll Year function by double-clicking on the payroll year in the footer area.

1. Select a year to use as the current payroll year from the Change Year field.
2. Select the This work station only check box to only change the payroll year on the selected workstation; this is a temporary change for the current session only. Leaving the check box blank changes the payroll year on all users' workstations; this is a permanent change until changed again, and affects other users.
3. Click a command button to  

Click	To
OK	Begin processing.
Activity	View the Activity Log for periodic processing.
Reset	Set all fields to their default values.