Hello is it possible to add Employee in the Payee field?
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I don’t believe it’s possible; however, that should be okay, as ‘Payee’ has no accounting effect, it’s effectively just meta data for the transaction, so I would select ‘Other’ and enter the employee’s name as entered in the ‘Employees’ tab, after the first time Manager.IO should guess it as a saved name. The account you select further down, will determine the payment being posted to the employee’s account.
I agree that adding Employee to the Payee field would make the program more consistent. Essentially Employee Clearing Account is an accounts payable control account similar to the Suppliers control account and should should operate in a similar manner.
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you can’t select employees name on other as it has not Dropdown link to Employees. This is also important cos we have Employee Clearing account so its easy to track down who’s employee paid out.
Thank you.. 
I see what you’re getting at, and I agree it would be better if employee were a payee option (for that matter, it would be convenient if Capital Accounts, and Expense Claim payers were an option too).
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For a work around right now, what I would do, is select ‘Other’ on payee, go to the employee’s profile, and literally copy the name, and paste it into the ‘Payee’ box.
Then next time you start to enter a payment to that employee, and you start to type in the employee’s name, the software will pop-up with a guess for the name, based on past ‘Payment’ entries, and if you select the guess from your original entry ever time, then the name will always be exactly the same.
Then when you want to report payments by employee, you can go to the ‘Receipts’ tab, and create an ‘Advanced Query’ by that employee’s name; the only risk with that, is if the employee’s name has been typed in differently, different times, then it could be inaccurate, but it you always select the software’s guess from your first entry when you enter the payments, that should not be an issue.
Hope that helps