Add, edit, or inactivate employees

A best practice is to create a record for each of your employees so that you can complete the following:

  • Reporting data

  • Processing payroll and benefits

Depending on your company subscription and your permissions, you might find the Employees feature on the following menus:

  • Company

  • Expenses

  • Projects

  • Reports

Add a basic employee

The most basic employee record needs an ID and contact name. An employee might also need to be connected to a location, depending on the configuration of your company. All other fields are optional but can be used for other functions in Intacct. Learn more about adding a detailed employee.

  1. Go to Expenses > All > and select Add (circle) next to Employees.

  2. Enter an Employee ID.

  3. Select a Primary contact.

  4. Choose a Location.

  5. Optionally, complete the fields on each tab.

  6. Select Save.

Add a detailed employee

Create a more detailed employee record to store employment details, track cost rates, and set up reimbursement information for an employee.

Enter employment details

  1. Go to Expenses > All > and select Add (circle) next to Employees.

  2. Enter an Employee ID.

  3. Select a Primary contact.

  4. Choose a Location.

  5. Optionally, complete the fields.

    For a project-based or service-based organization, also associate an employee with an Earning type to calculate the actual cost of this employee's labor. Then, post it to the General Ledger account or accounts you specified when you first set up the Projects application. Learn more about setting up labor cost posting.
  6. Select the Contacts tab.

  7. Enter a Category.

  8. Choose a Contact.

Track cost rates

  1. Select the Cost rates tab.

  2. Enter an Hourly rate or Annual rate.

  3. Select or enter a Start date.

  4. Select Add.

Set up reimbursement information

Specify and set up the employee's preferred payment method for reimbursements on the Reimbursement Information tab. You can also set up automatic payment notifications for the employee.

ACH or bank file reimbursements

If reimbursing employees through ACH or bank files, set up the needed information to deposit payments into this employee's bank account from the Reimbursement information tab.

  1. Select the Reimbursement information tab.

  2. For the Preferred payment method, select ACH or bank file.

  3. Choose Select an option to enable service.

  4. Enter information about the employee's bank account. Contact your email for this information.

  5. Select Save.

Set up automatic payment notifications

Intacct lets you automatically notify employees when they've been reimbursed for expenses. As part of the setup process for automatic payment notifications, you must:

  • select which employees to notify of expense reimbursements.
  • verify that each employee has an email address in their contact information.
  1. On the Reimbursement information tab, select Send automatic payment notification.

  2. Select the Contacts tab.

  3. Select the Contacts dropdown and choose View.

  4. Verify the employee's name and email address.

    The payment notification email will automatically use the name and email address on the employee's Primary Contact record.
  5. Select Save.

Edit an employee

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee record that you want to edit.

  3. Select More actionsEdit at the end of the row.

  4. Make your changes.

  5. Select Save.

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee and select Edit.

  3. Make your changes.

  4. Select Save.

Updating employee contact information only affects future transactions. If you need to update employee contact information on an existing transaction, see Edit contact information used in a transaction.

View an employee

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee record that you want to view.

  3. Select More actionsView at the end of the row.

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee and select View.

Inactivate or delete an employee

To reduce clutter in lists, inactivate employees you no longer use. You can also delete employees from the Employees list. After you delete an employee record, it can’t be restored. If you're unsure if you want to delete a record, set its status to inactive.

Employee records related with a transaction or record can’t be deleted. In these cases, go to the transaction or record where the employee is mentioned, and delete the employee record there instead.

Inactivate an employee

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee record that you want to edit.

  3. Select More actionsEdit at the end of the row.

  4. For Status, select Inactive.

  5. Select Save.

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee and select Edit.

  3. For Status, select Inactive.

  4. Select Save.

Delete an employee

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee record that you want to delete.

  3. Select More actions > Delete at the end of the row.

  4. Select Delete to confirm.

  1. Go to Expenses > All > Employees.

  2. Find the employee and select its checkbox.

  3. Select Delete.