System Requirements for Sage Pastel Payroll

Number of companies:

Unlimited

Number of employees per company:

As per licence

Database:

Pervasive

Setup Assistant

x

Zoom windows

x

Print landscape (sideways) or portrait (normal)

x

Define size and type of font for reports

x

Scroll reports on screen (up, down, left and right)

x

Import / Export masterfile data

x

Import / Export transactions

x

On-screen drag-and-drop forms designer

x

Cost codes

x

Customisable data input screens

x

Define date entry format

x

Option to automatically open the last company worked in

x

Tip of the day

x

Context and touch sensitive help

x

Internet link to Sage Pastel home page

x

E-mail reports and documents

x

- Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP

x

 - Printer

x

 - Screen

x

 - HTML

x

 - Comma delimited file

x

 - Tab delimited file

x

 - Email

x

 - Number of notes per masterfile record

Unlimited

- Link notes to external documents

x

- View / print to do lists based on note action date

x

- Access linked documents from within Pastel

x

Zip backup

x

Number of Assistants / Wizards

10

Credit transfers to all major banks

x

System status bar

x

Interface with time and attendance registers

x

Full transaction roll-back and recovery in the event of a power failure

x

Process Weekly Wages

x

Process Fortnightly Wages

x

Process Monthly Salaries / Wages

x

Fifth week / third fortnight payroll processing

x

Process Special Payroll Runs

x

 - Periodic

x

 - Average (Annualised)

x

 - Directive Percentage

x

 - Directive Amount

x

 - Part-Time (25%)

x

 - Exempt

x

 - Director

x

Allocate employees and transactions to specific cost centres or job codes

x

Perform '"what if" payslip calculations on screen

x

Process by exception - only enter pay information if there are changes

x

Process payslips in batches or for selected employees

x

Affect global changes for employees linked to specific employee profiles

x

Control staff loans with automatic deductions and outstanding balance reports

x

Record and accumulate shifts worked

x

Reporting

Print detailed reports per cost centre, job code or pay point

x

Print audit trails of any changes to employee masterfile and system parameters information

x

Print transaction history reports for any period in the current tax year

x

Print coinage analysis for customised currency denominations

x

Print payslips and statutory certificates on plain or pre-printed stationery

x

Print rate tables for reference

x

Employment Equity Reporting

x

Leave processing

Automatic accrual of annual leave days due

x

Detailed leave records for annual, sick and other leave types

x

Calculate number of leave days taken by automatically excluding non-working days in leave period

x

Automatic leave payouts on termination of employees

x

Leave:

- Annual Leave

x

- Sick Leave

x

- Other leave (user defined)

x

General Ledger Integration

General ledger code setup assistant

x

Generate payroll and cashbook journals for seamless integration

x

Integrate by expense and / or cost centre

x

Integrates to all Pastel accounting packages, as well as most other accounting packages

x

Formulae can be based on conditional criteria

x

Link multiple transactions to a formula

x

Perform a test-run on screen to evaluate results

x

Automatically calculate or capitalise interest on staff loans

x

Create an unlimited amount of Lookup tables used for: commission, medical aid, unions etc.

x

Changes to lookup tables automatically updated to employee payslips

x

- Employee masterfile information

x

- Transaction values

x

- Rate tables

x

- Lookup tables

x

Botswana

x

Cyprus

x

Ghana

x

Kenya

x

Lesotho

x

Malawi

x

Mauritius

x

Mocambique

x

Namibia

x

Nigeria

x

South Africa

x

Swaziland

x

UAE

x

Uganda

x

Zambia

x

Zimbabwe

x