Department Settings in Harvester Payroll

To add a department, simply go to settings and then click on Departments. Then click "add" for adding a new Department. Tip: Try keep department names short eg Gen for General. this makes things look better on reports and payslips. On the edit employee page is the option to allocate or change the department to which each employee belongs. Make sure you have first added the departments you would like (as described above). Most reports are sorted by department and then the employee name or employee number. Reports will have department totals which can be used to allocate Labour costs according to your custom departments. If no employee is left in a department then you can delete the department. Only then will the 'Delete' button become visible so that you can delete the department(Click on Settings and then Department-Settings). So a way to delete a department where you still want to keep the employees on record is to terminate the employees and then put them in a department called for example, 'Historic'(using Edit-employees). Then you can delete the Department they were from as you would have changed their Department setting to 'Historic' using Edit-employees. Note: If any employee is terminated then you will have none of them visible or active when you search etc on department or process the payroll. In order to actually remove or delete a department, you need to go back into the terminated employees and look for any within the department and move them to employed and change the department. Then when no employee is left within the department, you will be able to delete the department.