PcMars 2.2 CHANGES INCLUDED IN THIS PATCH
The patches are cumulative,  so the most recent patch includes ALL  previous patches.

1. The 2 percent reduction of the employee share of social security taxes is extended until February 29, 2012.
2. For non-simplified payroll method, the employer share of social and Medicare is not added to the paycheck if the the user blanks out the employee share of social security and Medicare.
3. Fixed a problem in FINPACK export (Minnesota users only), where milk units were not being exported correctly.

1. Fixed a problem with network sharing (Paradox user error), caused by enhanced open/view.

2. Changed the calculating of State Tax Withholding with a fixed amount only being entered. (Advanced Payroll only).

3. PcMars will not allow reusing of paychecks from a previous year; and, recurring paychecks are not carried over from a previous year. This is because of different withholding percentages used in past years.

4. Allow ZIP backup and restore of PLUS set of books in Pc Mars.

5. Added an option for enterprise budgeting – Small business and Church Set of Books only.

6. Added an option for enterprise “Fund” balance reporting – Small business and Church Set of Books only.

7. Changed multiple selections in the Check Register Report to “period” vs. “month” when direct control of the period is enabled.

8. Added a warning when a “$0 amount” paycheck is entered and changed the calculation to show withholding in the appropriate Labor Reports.

9. Program change – Now only withholding will be included on paycheck stubs, even if a same name is used in the Vendor List as well as the Employee List.

10. A date range was added to the W2 Summary Report.

11. Added an option to the Expanded Labor Report for advanced users to screen out labor deposits occurring in a month or date range.  Also, this deposit criteria is listed on the top of the deposit portion of the report.

12. Option to specify quarterly FUTA rates for 2011(only), on the FUTA Report screen.  For fiscal Set of Books, different FUTA rates and limits can be entered for the two spanned calendar years (under Payroll General Information)

13. Fixed an issue in the Labor Withholding and Deposit Report where the printing of deposits was overrunning past the end of the page.

14. Added a check in Advanced Payroll (only), where labor deposit descriptions cannot be the same as any of the withholding descriptions. Also in Advanced Payroll, a check was added so that pension employer share description cannot be the same as pension withholding description.

15. Additional PLUS Feature – Fixed combine issue, when a user received a “EmpTable1: Field: Other 4 percent’ not found.”

Click here for  a more detailed explanation of the FUTA tax Percentage change

Version 2.2.5

1. Several users received a reconcile error after installing version 2.2.4.  This was due to characteristics of different operating systems.  This patch will correct this issue for all operating systems.
2. Non-simplified payroll users who made manual entries without matching descriptions for Social Security and Medicare withholdings noticed changes to the labor deposit reports.  This patch restores previous method for employer share matching calculations for paychecks entered prior to 1-1-11. 
3. Updated new IFBA address for advanced payroll ordering

 Click Here For a more detailed Technical Explanation of the 2.2.4  & 2.2.5  Patch

Also to help answer any additional question about the 4.2% social security withholding change;  we have posted up the  IRS notice "IR-2010-124". This notice  addresses "when" these changes  must be implemented (see below):

                        IR-2010-124 (web link)             IR-2010-124 (pdf format)

Version 2.2.4

1. This update accommodates the federal 2010 year end tax legislation dealing with social security paycheck deductions.  The new law requires the employee share of social security tax for 2011 be decreased to 4.2% (instead of the previous 6.2%).  The employer's share, or match amount, will remain unchanged at 6.2%.  If any paychecks were entered incorrectly at the 6.2% rate, this update will also handle any offsetting adjustments made prior to March 31, 2011.
   
   

Version 2.2.3

1. Removed period column from reports where not pertinent; (when direct control of the period is NOT selected). The period is always displayed on these reports: check register and bank transfer report.
2. The deposit number now prints on the Nelco deposit tickets
3. Nelco check & deposit forms listed in selection box and Nelco order screens are added with hyperlinks to their website.
4. Tack notes are now "word wrapped" for entry and viewing ease.
5. Loan interest rate is printed on loan reports
6. Added an option to print all tack notes on the Year End Detail Report (Cash Version) or Full Year General Ledger (Accrual Version).
7. Added the ability to change a non-multiple loan vendor expense to a multiple loan vendor expense and vice-versa.
8. Enhanced Open/View now will now read books that have been “renamed” to a longer books names than the Pc Mars 8-characters default.
9. Amount column is moved before description column on the credit transaction screen to match the check and deposit entry screens.
10. Fixed an issue with deposit slip printing with blank vendors or descriptions
11. Date format (mm/dd/yy) cannot be overridden by a computer’s operating configuration.
12. On the Restore screen, the "Restore from zip file" check box was moved to the top of the screen.
13. Fixed an issue with the Tack Notes’ “Go To” button when there was no notes ever created.
14. If Account Receivable Program, A/R (interfaced mode) is running with an open set of books, Pc Mars cannot open that set of books at the same time and vice versa.
15. Enhanced open/view screen; in Pc Mars only selects Pc Mars books to backup when “select all” is chosen. Note: PLUS will select both Pc Mars and PLUS sets of books.
16. Added a feature under Utility to reset the printer settings. This will reset both the report and check printer option to the Windows default printer. This feature was added because wireless printers were being “lost” when signal dropped out.
17. Updated Advanced Payroll order form
18. Renamed patch installation exe file for improved patch installation
19. Changed 2.2.3 installation so that any “read only” program files that need updated have their attributes automatically changed.

Version 2.2.2
1.) New "Live" net worth is now available with small business, generic, and church sets of books
2.) Enhanced Open/View is now available in advanced file maintenance mode
3.) Fixed a problem with loan balances not being carried over correctly with accrual sets of book
     (Accrual installations only)
4.)  Fixed a problem in Alternate FICA report with advanced payroll when using "other" pay types
      (Advanced Payroll only).
5.) Added a "quit asking" option to net worth calculation screen that appear before opening inventories.
      (Accrual installations only)
6.) Removed shading in the Net Worth Statement that was causing a problem with some printers.
7.)  Added back in Fica detail to labor reports that was in previous versions of Pc Mars.
8.) Updated  Fica/Fed remaining calculations in detail labor reports.

Version 2.2.1
1.) Modified program for regular payroll so that state tax tables can be used for state tax withholding after December 2009.  Note that these tables may be out of date, so state withholding calculations may not be correct after December 2009.
2.) Fixed problem with employee list (regular and advanced payroll) where certain edit items were not being updated when using the scroll bar to browse employees.
3.) Fixed a "looping" error condition in advanced payroll when changing pension type.
4.) Fixed a problem converting regular payroll to advanced payroll, when "YES" is entered instead of "CONVERT".

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