| Meridian |
Payroll Manager / QuickPay / Express Pay |
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User preferences now included as options for all transactions.
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Limited to two user preference changes.
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On-screen viewing of calculations and results in real time.
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Limited. Not available for Super calculations. |
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Instant access to full transaction history of all current and past pays for viewing or reporting.
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Have to restore the database to access transaction history.
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Ability to hold a Date Worked field for employees who work individual days. This prints on pay advices.
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Not available. |
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Ability to take current Leave Transactions into account for Leave on Pay Advices and Terminations.
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Not available. |
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Additional Leave Schemes included in Employee for:
- Public Holiday accrual
- Shift Leave accrual
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Only standard leave schemes available. Module will allow additional leave to display for use. |
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Employee Records van be viewed from all transactions screens and the employee grid.
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Not available. |
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Ability to suspend Leave Entitlements at Transaction entry or on the Employee record.
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Currently a manual workaround exists. |
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Ability to make express timesheet entry faster and easier with customisation and user's own shortcut keys.
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Generic numeric shortcut keys only. |
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Termination Transaction has been redesigned, offering:
- Automated terminations including Leave updating to the last day. Worked and looking at any current leave transactions.
- Linked into termination reasons from ATO for calculation purposed.
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Need for manually update fields for terminations. |
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EFT file can be produced before pay advices. Meet payment deadlines more easily.
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EFT can only be run after Pay Advices have been printed. |
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EFT File – can be run to anywhere on the network.
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EFT File – can only be run to the root of a drive. |
- Advices for back pays are always generated.
- Advices for manual payments are always generated.
- Advices for terminations are always generated.
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Advices are only printed if Payroll Manager EFT’s the back pay, manual payment or termination. |
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Ability to adjust previous earnings including financial years.
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Only current financial year’s earnings can be adjusted. |
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Update Pay Rates. Global back pays - can be generated by Pay Class and Company. Can be selected for a range of pay classes or just by updating the pay classes ticked.
- Pay Class Pay Rates – can be increased by Pay Classes with a rate or percentage.
- Employee Rates – can increase employees' rates by selecting a range of employees, by pay frequency, by employment type, rate increase code or by cost account
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- Update Pay Rates:
Global back pays - Can only be generated by Pay Classes by selecting a range.
- Pay Class Rates can be increased manually, individually.
- Employee Rates are increased manually, individually.
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Ability to view employee records without closing transaction screen.
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If entering transactions and needing to view an employee records, user must close the transactions in order to view employee record then re-key the transaction. |