Attendance master in tally.erp 9

Few days, back I write about employee master creation in tally.erp 9 for payrollprocessing. However we have yet to go a long way and today,I will explain you how to create attendance  master in tally.erp 9.

Creating Attendance master is very important without which you will not be able to keep track of days attended by an employee or man power absent data, leave data.So, using this facility will serve a complete payroll processing in tally.

Before you go ahead, you should have a look to how to use payroll in tally

Go to main menu of tally i.e. payment gateway and then select payroll info

you will see below screen. now select Attendance /production types

Now click to create (means create a new attendance type)

Enter the name of attendance you want to create for e.g. days attended, absent, sick leave, paid/privileges leave,casual leave ,leave without pay, weekly off , public holidaysetc.

Here I will create an attendance master namely Days that is the days attended by anemployee for which he /she is eligible to get salary/wages

Select primary as under

now you will see below screen and will be asked to choose appropriate option from the pop up .

Select Attendance /leave with pay

Attendance /Leave with pay : Select this option for all type of attendance for which you want to pay to salary to employees

let’s say an employee is eligible to get salary for days attended by him/her.

it is eligible for leave duly sanctioned by the management.

it is eligible for weekly off and all the national and notified public holidays

leave without pay  : Select this option for absent days, leave without authorization etc .Simply the attendance for which you don’t want to pay, you can select this option.

you may change this option at any time

Production and user defined calendar type , I will explain you some other time. mainly it is used if you want to pay overtime or a criteria based on production achieved by the staff.

The first two methods are widely used by units so at the moment it is enough to understand these two basic method

now accept the screen and its all done!

If you feels that article useful and you want to use tally’s payroll feature, then you should also read how to do payroll entry in tally

Don’t forget to come back for further reading.