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EzWagez Basic is the easy and free payroll system that is designed for small businesses with simple payroll
needs. Historical payroll data is displayed in detail, per time period and per employee:
Whether you currently do your payroll manually or use a sophisticated accounting package, EzWagez will help you to calculate paycheck amounts and to keep historical payment records.
Employees:
Adding employees is easily done from the main page. Click on the New Employee Toolbar menu and enter
your employee's required information:
- Number of allowances
- Filing status (single or married)
- Pay period
- Pay rate
- Advanced Earned Income Credit (if
applicable)

Save your employee's information by pressing the toolbar's save button.
You may use the Delete button to permanently remove an employee from the database. When you delete an employee,
all their historical wage information gets permanently deleted as well, thereby
making your quarterly and yearly payroll totals inaccurate.
It is recommended instead that you deactivate an employee. Emmployees can be deactivated by modifying their employment status as seen in this figure:
Paychecks:
Historical period selection

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Employee paychecks get calculated on the Paychecks page. The EzWagez payroll engine calculates your employees paycheck amounts. Payment history and other important company totals are
available on this page. Paycheck history is displayed in detail, per time period and per employee.
- Employee list selection
- Detailed breakdown of a selected check
- Pay period and check date
- Employee payment history
- Control panel for scrolling, deleting and creating paychecks
The employee payment history panel (4) contains
several tabs with amounts that you
will find useful when completingyour
quarterly and yearly returns, like:
- Employee Totals
The sum of hours, earnings, taxes and payments
per employee for the period you have selected (year or quarter)
- Company Totals
Total hours, taxes and payments made by the company
including AEIC for the selected period
- All Employees
Payment detail for all employees grouped by employee
for the selected period
- State Unemployment Wages for the Quarter
Totals that you need
for filing your state unemployment returns
Create a paycheck:
Click on the New Paycheck toolbar icon to create a new paycheck.
For hourly employees, enter the regular hours and any overtime worked
for the period selected. Press the Calculate button to calculate the deductions
and the net pay amount. The Record (save) button will finalize and add this check to
your payroll history. For Salaried employees, there are no hours worked to enter.
The Gross amount gets calculated from the salary and pay period set up for a particular employee
(the calculated gross amount can be overridden and modified).
Once it has been recorded, a paycheck can no longer be modified. If you need to
make a correction to a paycheck, you must delete it then recreate
it. Be careful when deleting historical checks as it will impact your payroll totals
for that period.
EzWagez calculates the amounts needed for your quarterly Form 941EZ.
Select a quarterly period from the toolbar (see No. 5 in the figure above), then
press the Form 941 button to display the 941 form with all its totals. All the necessary
fields get calculated from the payroll that you recorded for that quarter. You may
modify the total adjustments (line 7 on the form) as well as line 11. Press the
Record button to keep a historical record of your quarterly filings
Print Outs and Reports:
EzWagez offers you form printouts as well as a couple of reports:
Press the Print toolbar icon to print your form exactly as it appears on your screen.
The Form Printout option is available for both the Main and the Paychecks form.
Scroll the employees or payments list to display the exact information that you
wish to print.
A printer setup dialog appears prior to printing, where you can modify and select the
proper printer settings. Form Printouts work best in the Landscape page layout.
Detailed reports are available for the employee payment History tab, the All Employees
tab as well as the State Unemployment wages tab. Information will print for the
period that you select in the Quarter and Year selection in the Paychecks form.
The Print Preview button is visible only when one of the 3 tabs mentioned
above are selected, and invisible otherwise. These reports will appear in Preview
mode before you actually send them to print.Because of column count, the History report prints only in landscape mode,
while the other 2 reports will print only in portrait mode.
Please
contact us with your suggestions, questions and feedback.
EzWagez Plus is for those businesses that have come to outgrow the free basic version. It came about as the result of many requests and feedback
received from users, both in the US and abroad. The Plus version offers several advantages:
- A better looking interface
- Custom tax calculations
- The ability to input a state income tax amount (without a state calculations subscription)
- Four custom after tax deductions
- Four custom pre tax deductions
- A fully adjustable check printing utility
- Optional employee pictures
- Employee past and future events recording
- Access to both Internal (inside EzWagez) and external documents (on your hard drive)
- Data backup and restore
Users of the free basic version get a free 1 month trial of EzWagez Plus. To claim your free
trial period, click on the 'Plus Version Not Enabled' section, located on the bottom left menu of the status bar.
Select 'Try it Now' to start your free trial.
When your Plus trial period ends and you decide not to renew, you will automatically revert back to the free version.
EzWagez Plus Employee Interface:

(The image and names of Bill Gates and John Delorean are used hereonly for demonstration purposes only. It does not imply that Microsoft or
Bill Gates are endorsing EzWagez Plus)
Custom Tax Calculations:
Press the Calculation Defaults menu to set the default tax calculations and deductions for all your employees. These are default
settings only and can be overriden for each employee in the payroll settings form.
The Federal income tax calculations can be customized as well. Deduction amounts can either be a fixed as in $100 per paycheck or percentages of the gross
income amount (you do not need to enter a % sign in the box).
Some calculated tax amounts (like state income tax) can be manually overriden in
the paycheck calculation form.
Employee Detail Page
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Individual Employee Payroll Settings:
Since not all employees will have the same deduction settings, you can use the Employee
Payroll Settings form to set individual employee payroll information.
Payroll deductions can be either fixed amounts (as in $150 deduction per paycheck)
or percentage amounts (as in deduct 2.3% from gross amount). To enter a percentage amount simply add a % sign at the end of the deduction number.
Employee Events:
Ezwagez Plus allows you to keep track of important employee events. Schedule
future events like meetings and vacations. Keep a record of past events,
like sick days.
Right click inside the events folder to add and modify events.
Employee Documents:
The EzWagez Plus document explorer lets you easily access important employee
documents like resumes, applications, photo IDs, performance reviews or any other
document necessary for your business needs.
Internal Documents are created with the EzWagez document Explorer's
own text editor. These documents are stored internally to EzWagez so you dont have
to remember where you have saved them on your hard drive.
External Documents on the other hand, are links to external documents that are stored
in directories of your choice on your hard drive, like word processing or spreadsheet documents.
You can also create links to images and videos or other miscellaneous type of document. Since external
documents are only links, you can delete them without affecting the actual physical document stored on your hard drive.
Data Backups and Restores:
You can backup your database to any safe location on your hard drive or on any external
media. Data is stored in xml format. Data backups and restores affect only employee
detail and paycheck information. Employee documents don't get backed up nor restored.
Check Printing:
EzWagez Plus provides a highly customizable check printing utility. To start the check printing
utility, click on the printer image in the middle right hand corner of the Paycheck form:
You can then click and move any field on the Print a Check form (figure below). Move fields to
the appropriate positions that align with your pre printed check form. Keep adjusting until you are
satisfied with the final printed result. Press the Preview menu to preview your
printout in your default web browser (Internet Explorer 7.0 is recommended as a minimum for its
advanced printing capability). Save your changes using the Save Settings menu to
set your check printing default.
The Font menu lets you adjust your page font selection and size. The Show/Hide menu
lets you remove any field that you do not wish to print.
Testimonials:
"I am so pleased with the ease, simplicity and cost of the program. My payroll is not
complicated and I really didn't want to pay hundreds of dollars for software and a
high monthly service fee to calculate my payroll. This fits perfectly. I would
highly recommend it. I am still extremely happy with what the program does.
It has really made my life much simpler and will continue to use it regardless."
Mary Walter
Legal Assistant
Randall A. Gill, Attorney at Law
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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