Vendors - Subcontractors in Beyond

What is a Vendor Record?

In Beyond, there are two types of vendors that can be set up: 

• Subcontractor Vendors - These are 3rd party staffing agencies or other providers that are sending their employees to fill some of your orders. Because these employee's do not belong to your staffing agency, the payroll for these people will be consolidated into a payment to the agency. The agency is then responsible for paying and preparing tax documents for their employees.
• Independent Contractors (1099 Employees) - These individual employees are registered as independent contracts. Your staffing company pays the employees but the employees will be responsible for their own taxes. Instead of receiving a W-2, these employees will receive a 1099 form. For Information on these, click here.

 In both cases, the client is not responsible for taking out the taxes or holding on to W-4s for the related employees.

This Article Covers:

1. Creating a Subcontractor Vendor Record
2. Adding Vendor Contacts
3. Linking Employee Records to Vendors
4. Setting up Pay Information on Orders & Assignments

Creating a Subcontractor Vendor Record

When you start a new relationship with a Subcontractor or 3rd party staffing company, you will need to add their record into the system. 

To Create a New Vendor Record:

1. In Beyond, Navigate to B Menu > Records > Vendors
2. This will open the Vendor search, allowing you to search for a specific Vendor record or create one:
   
3. Select "+ Add a New Vendor" to open the "New Vendor" window:
   
4. Enter the following information:
   • Name
     • Name: The name of the Vendor record
   • How can the vendor be contacted? 
     • Contact: Either select a Contact record from the dropdown, or select the "+" to create a new Contact record.
     • Phone Number: The phone number of the Vendor record.
     • Email Address: The email address of the Vendor record.
       
   • How should the vendor be setup?
     • Vendor Account Number: Optionally, enter an account number for your records with the Vendor. 
     • Business Code: Optionally, select the type of business - This option can be used for reporting.
     • Federal Employer ID: Enter the federal employer Id for the subcontractor.
     • Payment Terms: Optionally, select your payment terms for your record keeping purposes.
     • Pay Beginning Date: Optionally, use this date field to set a date when payments will start being made to this vendor. This is great if you have a contract with them where the first payment will not be sent until after X days or months of working together. 
     • *Pay Delay in Days: This number field determines the number of days, after the original payroll is run, to send payment to the vendor. 
       • For example, if you have a net 30 set in your contract you would set the pay delay in days to 30 meaning the system will pay out transactions 30 days to the vendor by default. 
       • If you do not have this kind of contractual agreement, you can always set this field to 0 meaning that the system will pull in all transactions when you go to pay the vendor. 
     • *Vendor Type: Select "Subcontractor". This will automatically create an employee (Pseudo AIdent) record and link it directly to this new vendor record.
       
   • Corporate/Local/Remittance Addresses:
     • *Corporate Address: Main location of Vendor 
     • *Local Address: Enter a local address for a branch you work with or copy the Corporate Address
     • *Remittance Address: Address that will appear on invoices
       
5. Enter any notes within the "Notes" field if necessary.
6. Select Submit once all of the information has been entered.

Reviewing the Details

Once you create a vendor record, there are a few details you will need to fill in and consider before you start working with them. 

1. The "Pseudo AIdent" record is automatically created with the creation of the Subcontractor vendor record. Instead of being names "Pseudo AIdent" like in Enterprise, this record is now called "Employee" within the "Setup" card of the vendor record:
   
2. Checking Government Contract Related Requirements: If you have a government contract with specific requirements, you can use the options within the "Government" card on the vendor record to determine whether the vendor you are currently viewing meets any of those related requirements:
   • In most cases, you will be able to change the Generate 1099 box to "No" unless your contract requires that you still generate 1099 files for the employees of the 3rd party staffing agency.
   • Invoice Pay Required: If updated to "Yes", the system will not be prompted to pay the vendor before the customer pays invoice in full (wouldn't use Pay Delay).
     

Adding Vendor Contacts

Just like with Customer records, you can add contacts related to the Vendor to keep track of important contact information with the Vendor. 

To Add a Vendor Contact: 

1. Navigate to the Vendor record you want to add a contact to via B Menu > Records > Vendors.
2. Once within the intended vendor record, scroll to the bottom to find the "Contacts" card. Select the "+" to add a contact to the vendor:
   
3. Within the "Add New Contact" window, enter the intended information:
   
4. Select Submit once all of the information has been entered.

Vendor Contact records will be stored under the contacts section in Beyond. You can identify a vendor contact by the "Company" field on the contact visifile page: 

Giving a Contact Access to the Vendor Web Portal:

If you are utilizing the Vendor Web Portal, you can give Vendor contacts access to their web portal in order to submit candidates and track available orders. 

1. On the contacts record, select the "Web User" charm:
   
2. Select "Invite Web User" or "Manual Creation":
   • Invite: Will send an email to the email on file for this contact allowing them to set up their own username and password for WebCenter.
     
   • Manual Creation: You will have to enter the contact's username and password.
     
     • When manually creating the Web User, we recommend de-selecting the "Automatically Link Product Instances" checkbox and selecting the instance manually. This gives you the ability to select the intended role for the contact.
     • We also recommend asking your contact to update their password once you have handed them their credentials.
3. Either option you choose will have you select a "Role" this will determine the level of access the contact has on the Vendor record. 
   • Check out WebCenter Admin - Giving Vendors Access to the Web Portal for more information. 

Linking  an Employee to a Subcontractor/Staffing Agency

Now that the vendor record exists, employee records can be linked to that vendor. Those employee records will be assigned to orders just like a W-2 employee but will have its assignments to help identify its status. Additionally, transactions for this record will experience payroll differently and will be processed through a "Subpush" Payroll run.

 Any employee coming from a Vendor will need to be linked to the vendor record in order to correctly process payroll. 

To Link an Employee to a Vendor

1. On the employee record, navigate to "Details" page.
2. Within the "Hiring" card, select the "Edit" pencil icon to open the "Employee Hiring Information" window:
   
3. Select the intended "Subcontractor" vendor record within the "Vendor" dropdown:
   
4. Select Submit once all of the intended information has been entered.

Key Identifiers for Subcontracted Employees

• The Vendor record will be listed under the employee hiring details: 
• Assignments created for this employee will have the "W-2" field of the "Financials" card listed as "No":
  

Setting Up Pay Information on Orders & Assignments

When a Subcontractor sends an employee to fulfill an order, you will need to assign the employee to the order in order to keep up your records and complete payroll. 

The typical definition of pay rates and bill rates differ for orders/assignments associated with subcontractors.

• Bill Rate: When working with subcontractors the bill rate will still be what is invoiced to the client the employee works for.
• Pay Rate: When working  with subcontractors the pay rate will now be what is paid to the subcontractor.

Next Steps

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