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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?
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