Error message when adding a foreign address to an employee in Employee Master - A State is Required

User is adding an address record to an employee who lives in Canada and is getting A State is Required error message.

• Payroll

• Employee Master

• Miscellaneous Codes

• State Codes

Munis requires a state code regardless of the country the new employee lives in and will not save the record until the state code field is defined

1. Add a new State Code (Payroll > Payroll Setup > Income Tax Setup > State Codes) that corresponds to Country Code for the employee.

   1. Example: County Code is CA for Canada, could use CA as the State Code. 

2. Go to Employee Master (Payroll > Employee Maintenance > Employee Master)

3. Click the Address tab and fill in the new state code in the state code field.

4. Hit Accept to save the record