You can already do this by setting the contractor up as a supplier. Simply enter purchase invoices instead of payslips. Establish suitable accounts for posting the various tax deductions, etc. Likewise, there is really no reason you could not use the payroll functions. Create separate payslip items to cover contractors instead of employees. As I see it, the reason to do one versus the other depends on how your tax authority views the dividing line between employees and subcontractors. If they try to force you to treat people as employees, you probably want to emphasize their status as outside contractors in your accounting methods.
I do not have staff purchasing things from my business which they pay for with wage deductions, nor to I employ contractors who work in an equivalent role as employees for which these requirements would be valuable. As such I personally would not benefit if Manager added the functionality. My interest is only in encouraging general solutions so changes do not need to be repeatedly implemented.
No you can not as the functionality I was referring to was generating the required reports not entered data in Manager.
Yes
That is not a meaningful option. Taxation legislation is written to ensure taxes are paid when and how the the Government wants them paid, enforced with penalties and audits.
For example in Australia contractors who supply labor similar to an employee have PAYG voluntary agreements resulting in tax with held and reported by their customer using identical reports to that used by employers for employees; which in Managers is done by the PAYG payment summary — individual non-business and Single Touch Payroll Worksheet. Both reports are only available when using payslip items.
Where the contractor’s work arrangement further parallels that of employee, they are then further constrained by Personal services income legislation.
In summary Managers payroll functionally could be enhanced in a way which would help a variety of users if done in a general manner. The use case described here is straying off topic but was mentioned as a generalization of the solution the OP was looking for.
Payslips are not restricted documents, that is, their content is not limited to just earnings related items. Therefore, you simply create a separate Payslip Item for each detail which you want to appear on the payslip. They could even be created for messages.
First you create a Chart of Account which will be associated with each Payslip Item. Using your examples, these are Employee Advances and Employee Credit Sales. Even though these are Asset accounts they are initially created as Liability accounts.
Then you create the Payslip Deduction Items using the related Chart of Accounts:
Now go back to the Chart of Accounts and edit those accounts from being Liabilities to Assets:
Wallah, you have just outsmarted that artificial Manager limitation.
Now create your payslip. I used advance of 500, credit sale of 250 and other nominal amounts:
This now reconciles with the employees bank receipt with one document.
Now, depending on your volume of these types of transactions you could amalgamate accounts.
@Abanye, based on your earlier comments, I respect that you have the skills to do any tidy up between accounts as required.
Yes. Thanks for your support.