Forms: Pay slip - Change order of categories

Design and Layout

One thing that I have found severely limiting in the customization aspect of the Payroll slips is the complete lack of control over the information.

Sure I can put in a table with all the information that gets reported to the payslip.

But I have no control over which elements are reported first or have greater priority over another.

I would like to have this ability...

For example; The table contents is listed alphabetically... Which makes reading a payslip difficult if you have customized the names of the salaries/wages.

Then on top of that, I would prefer to have certain entitlements to be displayed before another, and obviously at the moment, the only way to do that is to name it alphabetically before the others.

What I would prefer and I am sure others would as well... Is be given a complete toolset to add what ever information MYOB uses, allowable to be displayed. Currently the 'Fields' that can be used, is only 1/2 of what someone may want to display on a Payslip.

For example, Leave Accrual to be listed separately on the Payslip under a different layout and format.

When editing the Payroll Layout, you do have the options for adding certain elements to be displayed.

One element which should be a prominent item; "Address", cannot be added this way, but through a copy and paste from a separate Invoice layout.

Additionally, the layout mechanism is bulky and quite unresponsive.

Is there a reason for the grid when you have no ability to "snap" elements to grid points, or any manual control over element sizes outside of the 'drag & resize' points?
I am aware the main element when being moved does snap, but not the resizing.

And by manual control, I'd like some kind of properties box that I can edit that will state the element is 50px W x 10px H et c

Some of the controls need to be added to the RMC interface instead of just via main UI toolbar only.

For example; Element control for setting it's "height" position over another object (Send to Back, Bring to Front) et c

The only other thing I would like to see added is some greater control over the font display.

For example; Compared to MS Word's 'All Caps' et c

.: ETA :.

Oh forgot a pretty big one... Why allow PNG's when your application can't render them properly?

Definitely need to keep the Transparency support, but needs to be fixed.

Payroll Functionality

One thing I would have like to add to my payroll was a custom calculation based on some custom fields added to Employee Cards.

For example, in my company, I will be rewarded employees that stay with the company longer and those with greater experience.

So I would make two custom fields in the Employee Card... One for 'Time with Company', the other 'Years Experience'.

From these two fields, I would like to give them a % bonus per payslip based on their base salary/wage.

So for Entitlements, I would like to have some kind of ability where we can enter our own math equations based on Employee stats that have been recorded or set.