Heavy Highway Contractor

Hi everyone. I'm hoping you can help me improve our Viewpoint payroll process flow. We currently use Viewpoint to process our payroll and once payroll is calculated the data gets dumped to excel which is sent to our office manager. The office manager converts the data into a NACH acceptable format for our bank then sends it to our finance manager. The finance manager then uploads that file to our bank's portal that sits on his desktop to transmit it to the bank. 

This is my first in-house payroll and am more accustomed to our payroll company handling all these tasks once we say the payroll has been approved. 

Question: is there a more direct process with Viewpoint to create a NACHA file and to transmit it to the bank directly instead of the way we do it?

Any suggestions would be very helpful. 

Thanks is advance. George Kapitzky

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George Kapitzky
Chief Financial Officer
Plote Construction Inc.
Hoffman Estates IL
(847) 899-9561
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George,

If you are using Viewpoint Vista, it can directly create the NACHA file using the PR EFT Payments form, which is then uploaded to the bank. Unfortunately, the process of uploading the NACHA file to the bank is manual. We often see payroll have limited permissions on the bank website to upload the file only, which is then reviewed and approved by someone with approval permissions. I'd be happy to jump on a call to discuss the typical process.

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Kevin Halme CCIFP, MBA
Constructive Tech + Finance Solutions
www.consttech.solutions
Delano, MN
(320) 626-6200
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George,

We use Viewpoint Spectrum for accounting and payroll and we are able to create the NACHA file in Spectrum and then upload directly to the bank website. Trimble support may be able to walk you through the set up process. If they are not, we have a spectrum implementation team we use that i would be happy to connect you with.

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Josh McKay
Controller
Burns Dirt Construction
Columbus MS
(662) 549-8390
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George I am not sure you would want your Spectrum environment interacting with your bank in a more seamless manner than what you have detailed. It's good (and normal) to have a couple of manual steps in that relationship for security purposes. 

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Chris Graham CCIFP
Operations
Cone & Graham, Inc.
Tampa FL
(813) 623-2856
cgraham@conegraham.com
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