Cost Centers Overview

Cost Centers Overview

Purpose

This document gives an overview of Default Cost Centers within the Green Leaf Elevated System.

Please be aware that this guide is not all encompassing and that Default Cost Centers are customized per client. If you have any questions regarding a specific Default Cost Center within your system or its purpose, please reach out to your Payroll Specialist or the payroll@greenleafbizsolutions.com email for more information.


Cost Centers Overview

Cost Centers are the flexible hierarchical representation of your organization. These typically include but are not limited to departments and locations. Cost Centers provide the framework needed to schedule, track, manage, and report on time worked. 

Once your cost center structure is built out in implementation, you can then assign these cost centers to your employees for reporting purposes. If you need updates made to your cost center set up, please reach out to your designated specialist for assistance.


Green Leaf Default Cost Center Best Practices

Green Leaf typically utilizes three different cost centers for all of our clients.
  1. Cost Center - Department (Default Cost Center 1): This is the cost center that will house your company's department structure. 
  2. Worksite/Tax Location (Default Cost Center 2): This is the cost center that will house all of your company's locations as well as a remote location that you can assign to your remote employees (if applicable). The system will use the address associated with these locations to calculate state and local taxes for your employees. If your employees are using the mobile app to clock in and out, geo-fencing restrictions can be set up on each of these locations to ensure employees are within a certain range of these locations before they are allowed to clock in and out. 
  3. Delivery Location (Default Cost Center 3): This is the cost center that will house all of your company's delivery locations. The delivery location that is assigned to an employee is where their paper check will be sent if the employee is not receiving a direct deposit.


How To View Your Company's Default Cost Center Set Up

  1. Log into your Elevated account and navigate to the Menu > Settings > Global Setup > Cost Centers
  2. Select the Pencil Icon next to the cost center that you are wanting to view
  3. A list of everything configured in the cost center will appear. You may click on any of the cost center names to see more details set up in the background (Such as: GL Codes, Default Profile Assignments, and Addresses)


Notes
Please Note: If you are needing updates made to your cost center structure, please reach out to your designated specialist for assistance.


How To Assign A Default Cost Center To An Employee

  1. Log into your Elevated account and navigate to the employee's profile
  2. Select the Profiles & Manager Assignment tab
  3. Locate the Cost Centers section and navigate to the Default Cost Center assignments
  1. Find the Default Cost Center that you are wanting to update and select the drop-down list underneath it
  2. Select Browse... to see a full list of all of your configured cost centers
  3. Select the new cost center assignment
  4. Select to Save in the top right corner of the screen

You have now successfully assigned a new cost center to the employee!

Warning
Please Note: If you see a Default Cost Center called Default Meal Penalty, please DO NOT assign anything directly to the employee's profile. This is used in the background for timekeeping purposes. Your implementation specialist will explain how to utilize this cost center during implementation.

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