I applied for the PPP loan today with @PNCBank

Here’s how it went. Will continue updating.

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Background:

Colorado
Dentist
Owned practice since July 2019
LLC
About the loan:

You’re given 2.5x your normal monthly payroll on all employee salaries (excluding amounts above $100k for employees that make $100k)

Over the next 8 weeks, whatever you spend on payroll/rent/utilities will be forgiven
So for the actual application:

Much easier than expected. A few questions and uploading some documents.
Documents:

Evidence of payroll
940, 941, 944 plans
Drivers license
Proof of health insurance and retirement plans
Here’s the weird part:

My business was formed in July 2019

My understanding was that as a *new* business, my 2.5x multiplier would be an avg of Jan 2020 and Feb 2020

PNCs app didn’t adjust for this, still asked for 1 yr of payroll (April-June 2019 was $0)
Even though I had 3 months of $0 payroll (because my business didn’t exist), PNC app seemed to just ignore these months when calculating my avg

ie: it didn’t calculate in and average $0, it acted like it those months didn’t exist
So at the end the app generated a PDF application & I had to download, sign, and re-upload back to the website

It had at the top my avg monthly payroll, the 2.5x multiplier; and then a loan amount

I assume PNC will double check all the docs I uploaded for accuracy
I also gave my bank info right in the app so they have what they need to deploy the $ ASAP

Once the app was done, I got emailed a copy with an app # but no definitive timeline on what’s next or how long
One weird thing is that I don’t “pay myself” through my payroll software like I do my employees

I just literally write a check to myself once a month and sometimes will write an extra just for investing

So I added all of that in as payroll, too, since I’m the only owner
One thing I’ve heard is that your 8 weeks of forgiveness starts when you get accepted or when you take the $

Which means you’d theoretically want to delay it as long as you can so you can get back to actually paying a full payroll to get max forgiveness
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