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- How to Manually Enter Payer Data
- How to Batch Import Payer Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TINs)
- How to manually enter payee/participant data
- How to batch import payee/participant data
- Edit Checking
- Form 945
- Preparing a 945 batch - ftwPro 945Wiz
- Accessing and Preparing 1099 Module Forms for Printing
- Printing Form 1096
- Printing Copies of Form 1099
- ftwilliam.com's fulfillment service
- ftwilliam.com's state fulfillment service
- 1099 State Help: SmartCharts and technical documents
- Checking on your fulfillment - Completion Dates
- Preparing a .txt file for the FIRE website
- Corrections for batch submitted forms
- Correction for Payer TIN
- Copying Data From a Prior Year
- Rolling over data from a prior year
- A list of Foreign County Codes
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- Add Forms and Schedules
- Adding Summary Annual Report or Annual Funding Notice
- Enter Information on a Form 5500 schedule
- Saving Changes
- Consulting Official DOL Instructions
- Edit Checks
- Print All FINAL Schedules (Print Options)
- Upload and Download Center
- Deleting a Form 5500 Schedule
- Deleting an Attachment
- Inviting Portal Users to the Portal to Edit, Review and/or Upload Attachments
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- Global Email Settings
- Email/Server Settings
- Portal Email Default Templates
- Portal Branding
- Portal Correspondence
- Go to 5500 Forms.
- Work with Signers/Portal Users
- 5500 > [Year] Screen
- Batch/Workflow
- Bring forward (prior year) data to (current year) for all plans
- Bring forward (prior year) signers to (current year) for all plans
- 5500 Workflow Grid; Batch Invite 5500/SF; Admin Summary Status
- Batch SAR and Batch Annual Funding Notice
- How To Complete Batch Local Sign
- Batch 5558
- Batch Lock 5500
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- Completing an 8955-SSA
- How to Create and Submit an 8955-SSA Batch
- Uploading Data to 8955-SSA - Batch (for multiple plans)
- 8955-SSA Batch Features
- How to Set Up and Allow for E-Filing of Form 8955-SSA by a Portal User
- How to Amend the Form 8955-SSA
- Printing
- Fulfillment
- Portal E-File
- Download FIRE Files
- How to Set Up the Client Letter for Form 8955-SSA
- How to Use the Most Current Form 8955-SSA for Prior Years
- How to Mask SSNs on the Form 8955-SSA and Participant Statements
- Participant Statements
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- FTW Step 2: Establish the Conversion Year & Date
- FTW Step 3: Populate Plan Specifications in the Conversion Year
- FTW Step 4: Verify the Primary Grid in the Conversion Year
- FTW Step 5: Conversion Data for the Conversion Year
- FTW Step 6: Additional Conversion Data & Compensation History
- FTW Step 7: Run Scrub for Conversion Year
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- 10.1. Use of the system for the first testing year
- 10.2. Use of ftwilliam.com Compliance system after the first year the plan is on the system
- 10.3. Eligibility History
- 10.4. Recalculate Initial Eligibility
- 10.5. Plan Aggregation
- 10.6. Aggregation of non-ftw plan with ftw plans
- 10.7. Disaggregation
- 10.8. HCE Determinations
- 10.9. Top Heavy
- 10.10. Compensation - Including Calculations for Self Employed Individuals
- 10.11. Overrides
- 10.12. Excluding a Class of Employees
- 10.13. Vesting
- 10.14. Age Weighted Allocations
- 10.15. JH Rate of Return
- 10.16. Davis Bacon
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- Setting up Global Email Settings
- Setting Up Global Email Settings for Divisions
- How to Test the Global Email Settings for 'Specify a Server'
- How to Test the Global Email Settings for 'Preparer's Email Program'
- What SMTP Server Error Messages Mean
- How to Edit or Clone Default Email Templates and Reminders
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- How to Send Documents to the Portal That Were Prepared in ftwilliam.com
- How to Publish a Document to the Portal for E-Signature That Does Not Originate in the FTW Software
- Description of the Client's E-signing Experience
- Sending and Receiving Direct Messages
- Saving Copies of Sent or Received Messages and Communications
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- How Do I Access the Portal?
- How Do I Log into the Portal?
- How Do I Reset My Password?
- How Do I Change My Password?
- How Do I Change My Challenge Questions?
- How Do I Change My Name, Email or Demographics?
- How Do I Find Help on the Portal?
- How Do I View the 5500 / SAR / AFN for My Plan?
- How Do I Sign the 5500?
- How Do I Sign the 5500 Using a Prior Year User ID and PIN?
- How Do I Check the Status of the 5500?
- How Do I Complete the 5500?
- How Do I Add Attachments to the 5500?
- How Do I View a Message I Received?
- How Do I Send a Message?
- How Do I View a Document?
- How Do I Sign a Document?
- How Do I See Who Signed a Document?
- How Do I Download the Annual Questionnaire?
- How Do I Upload the Annual Questionnaire?
- How Do I Download the Census Worksheet?
- How Do I Upload the Census Worksheet?
- How Do I Complete the Online Annual Questionnaire?
- How Do I Download the Online Annual Questionnaire?
- How Do I Mark a Task as Complete?
New Articles
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10.9. Top Heavy
The system will calculate the top heavy status of the plan for the following plan year. In order to determine top heavy status, the system needs to calculate who is a key employee and know the value of such key employees” accounts as of the applicab... -
10.8. HCE Determinations
HCE determinations are done at the time a census data scrub is run for a plan testing year. The system will not use top paid group determinations as a default. If you select top paid group determinations, you should ensure that this is selected for ... -
10.7. Disaggregation
The system has several fields that will display whether a person has met the minimum age and service requirements of Code section 410(a)(1)(A) (age 21 and 1 year of service) before the first day of the seventh month of the Plan Year. As provided in ... -
10.6. Aggregation of non-ftw plan with ftw plans
Overview Users may combine non-ftwilliam.com (non-ftw) summary testing data with plans in ftwilliam.com (FTW) by entering the applicable non-ftw data in either the Combined Test Parameters page and/or ADP/ACP Test Parameters screen, so that those e... -
10.5. Plan Aggregation
The plan aggregation option will take separate plans either within a single company or from multiple companies, combine certain data in a master plan and permit the user to run compliance tests and print reports using that combined data. The followi... -
10.4. Recalculate Initial Eligibility
In the first plan year of the system, to have the system recalculate initial eligibility on a global basis, simply reupload the census, setting "Reset Entry Dates" to yes from within the Census Upload box. Then run the data scrub. Review the "Eligib... -
10.3. Eligibility History
The system will calculate eligibility based on the plan specifications (age, service and entry dates) set in the Compliance system. For the first year on the system, you will need to enter an earliest date of hire at a minimum to account for service... -
10.2. Use of ftwilliam.com Compliance system after the first year the plan is on the system
Closing out the Previous Year Make sure the old year is clean & complete on the testing side. Whether this was the first year on the system or not, before closing out the year you should make sure that the data is correct since it will provide a b... -
10.1. Use of the system for the first testing year
Click here for more information on adding historical data This section will take you through some special steps you should complete for the first year the plan is on the ftwilliam.com Compliance system. In general, once these set up steps are com... -
9.6. History Uploads
History Uploads are located under “Tools/Settings” from within the Compliance Menu. The History Upload options give users the ability to upload service, compensation, contribution and distribution records from the inception of the plan to the cu...
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