Cory joined and had a number of questions on payroll. We talked and went over a few of her questions and tech support requests. An error was reported from a guy who was trying to run semi-monthly and it was missing some of the hourly calcs. It seems to be a special case where the calculate payroll page doesn't open the timecard range enough to take into account the full date range (things called memo hours or hours in other weeks that need to be calculated but not included for overtime, because they were on a different week). Randomly enough, this same user reported a similar problem almost a year ago and we couldn't find it. Anyways, almost a year later and it happened again. There must be some special case where it only happens under certain circumstances. All of his other ones have gone through just fine. We'll have to look deeper. We have some info on the corporation, the server, the users (payee id numbers), the date ranges, and other settings that we didn't have last time. That may help us find it.

Cory was also showing both John and I an issue with the auto midnight rollover for employees on graveyard shifts that start on one day, rollover the magic midnight hour, and clock out sometime the next day. We've been able to do that for years. We recently added in some new payroll timecard flags and that seems to be the place that the process is struggling with. We will have to do some testing to figure it out. Looks like a small bug or oversight. The new code is forcing the flag to needs manual attention, even if nothing is wrong. Anyways, we'll check it out and see what it is missing.

After that, Dustin and Cory were going over settings, and changes in Metrc API sockets and endpoints. Metrc is literally a moving target (Metrc is a state compliance system).

While they were talking and going over things, I was starting to look into the midnight auto rollover issue for the timeclocks. Once Cory and Dustin were finished, Cory asked if she could help. We talked about getting a dedicated developer to help with payroll, withholdings, new yearly forms, and other updates and expansions in the payroll area. John expressed some interest to be that developer, along with some of his other responsibilities. We spent some time talking with John on what would be needed, expected, and some general advice and guidelines. We are going to give it a go and I'll work with him to get him fully oriented in that area.