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Payroll Setup & Maintenance: Changing the payroll year

Information on changing the year in payroll and correcting incorrect year settings.

Updated over a month ago

To change the year in Payroll:

  1. Create a new database (e.g.: TEST COMPANY).

  2. Open the new company.

  3. Go to Housekeeping, then Parameter Setup.

  4. Change This Month, This Year, and Address according to your need.

  5. Go to the C drive.

  6. Go to UBSPAY90 and find the new company folder (e.g., C:\UBSPAY90\TEST_COMPANY).

  7. Copy the paymemof.mem file from the new database folder.

  8. Go to C:\UBSPAY90 and open the current database folder that you wanted to change the year.

  9. Paste the paymemof.mem file inside the current database folder.

Note: You can retrieve the paymemof.mem file from a backup and replace it in the current database. Make sure the year and month are correct. You can edit the month, but the year cannot be changed.


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