Understanding the Pending Payroll File

Positive payrolls and insurance list bills stay on the pending payroll file and appear on the 261 Report for any of the following reasons.

• The posting date has not been reached.
• A Payroll Posting Summary window was not created for the payroll and/or insurance list bill.
• The posting and effective dates on the payroll's Payroll Posting Summary window have not been updated since the payroll was last posted.
• The payroll amount exceeds the percentage of tolerance.
• There are multiple payrolls on file and you have requested they post in a different order than received.
• The payroll request post amount is zero.
• The percent tolerance is zero and the request post amount is different than the transmission amount.

The system has a 21-day limit for keeping payrolls on the pending file. After a payroll reaches this limit, the system deletes it and the entire payroll transmission must be resent if posting is still desired.