Patent ID: 8321309

Claim:
A computing system implemented process for streamlined payroll set up and compliant paycheck generation comprising: providing a computing system implemented payroll system, the computing system implemented payroll system being implemented, at least in part, by one or more processors associated with a computing system, the computing system implemented payroll system being used for creating and maintaining a payroll record for one or more employees, each employee payroll record including currently available payroll data associated with the employee, the computing system implemented payroll system being accessible by a user; obtaining data, from a third party computing system, indicating the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for an employee, wherein the third party is a government entity; storing the data indicating the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for an employee in a data storage means, the data storage means being accessible by a computing system associated with the computing system implemented process for streamlined payroll set up and compliant paycheck generation; the user attempting to use the computing system implemented payroll system to generate a given paycheck for a given employee; using at least one processor associated with a computing system to analyze the currently available payroll data associated with the given employee in the given employee's payroll record and the data indicating the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for an employee; determining, through the analysis, that the currently available payroll data associated with the given employee in the given employee's payroll record does not include all of the data representing at least the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for the given employee; requesting the user to provide the missing data representing the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for the given employee; receiving the missing data representing the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for the given employee from the user; adding the received missing data representing the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for the given employee from the user to the payroll data associated with the given employee in the given employee's payroll record; marking the given employee's payroll record as including data representing the minimum information required by the law to generate a compliant paycheck for the given employee; and generating the given paycheck for the given employee.