Hi, Would be great if when you logged into MYOB it would tell you if someone has had a birthday. ie a Juniors pay rate then needs to be changed. Very frustration when you find out a staff member had a birthday a month agao and you need to then to a back pay for the increased rate of pay.
"employee birthday - PAY UPDATE"
A feature that I think would be very useful to anybody who does payroll... when you go to do a pay run and put in the start and finish date of the pay run, wouldn't it be great if MYOB alerted you that one of your staff had a birthday during the pay period???I would find this particularly useful as a bookkeeper as I do the payroll for several businesses, so don't know the staff personally. Many businesses employ 'juniors' which means the pay rate needs changing if they have a birthday. A popup would be so much more useful than having all employee birthdays from several different businesses in my email calendar.
I agree, birthdays are important. Plus we look more professional as senior staff, when we get things right
It would be great if MYOB would remind the operator when an under age employee had birthday so that the wage rates could be changed.
Also whwn an apprentice reached 2nd or 3rd year anniversary.
I have been asking for years for a reminder for employee birthdays and anniversaries
The information is already in their card file and we should not have to enter it into another format
You can set MYOB to remind you for Birthdays, etc. However it wont popup a message box.
Click on the Employee - click Actions > Create new log entry. Put in your description and the next contact date as the their birthday or when they change to 2nd or 3rd yr.
Then you can go to your to do list and it will show in there.
Yes please add this function.
Alert when an employee has a birthday
Great idea
This would be really handy. We employee juniors and our award increases pay rates from under 16 up to 21years of age.
A drop down box to select the year of birth instead of clicking back through the years would save time when adding new employees. We had someone start who was born in early 60's so had to go back 50+ years. it's time consuming.
ilovephoI'm pretty sure I have always just typed the date in as I would in any other date field. I've never used the dropdown calendar. Hope that helps.
Thanks HeatherDBS I have tried multiple times. Maybe it's how I've got it setup. I'm not sure why I can't just type in the date. I could do so in the previous version. Thanks for your reply.
Can you please set up birthday reminders for employees?
Thanks
Lani
Welcome to the MYOB Community Forum, I hope you find plenty of useful information.
Alerts arevery easy to setup providing you have setup the Preferences correctly.
First check that everywhere there is a Contact log in the preferences that the preference box is ticked this turns on the Contact logs.
Then open up the employee card. Go to Payroll Details tab down the left to Personal Details and make sure you write down the birthday date.
Now go to the Contact Log tab - down the bottom new log entry.
When the new Contact log Entry box opens record the Birthday in the Notes area as "Birthday 1/1/78" whatever the birthday is.
At the bottom there is a Recontact Date enter a date as many day in advance of the birthday as you want as an example 7 days "24/12/19" and record.
You will now get a remnder in the Contact Alert area of the To Do List on the 24/12/19.
You can also use the same system to remind you of Apprentice's year changes etc.
Thanks,
I can see this would work for a year at a time, but its a bit of work for each employee and only works for one year.
It would be great to simply have a reminder through payroll, like other software does (most have the option of a happy birthday on payslips also).
Hello Kerryn KLP
MYOB can be setup to do what you want by using the Contact Log in the Cards.
firstly in Setup / Preferences / Windows select the option to Display the To Do List when opening.
Then open the employee card and open the Contact Log tab.
Now when you open MYOB or click on the TO DO LIST at the bottom of the screen you wiull be reminded of the birthday so you can change ther rate.
you could open it from here and change the recontact date to the next year.
Cheers
David
Every other database I work in professionaly that colects birthdays actually has interface that allows birthday emails to be sent out automatically let alone remind me automatically that its someones birthday. I too use this contact log but what a big hassle and such a backward way of doing things!!!!! Come on MYOB web based software is just the start of your woes - the simple features like this berthday alert being requested make you light years behind your competitors.
I too would love MYOB to do something about a birthdays alert or an alert for apprentices yearly pay increase. How hard can it be.. I have many times had to back date. :(
Hi I know this has already been up but I do feel that is importnant that we have an alert button for birthdays.
I Have a compnay that employs alot of youngsters and when there birthdays come up and we do not give them a payrise we get calls to say that they have not had an increase. I have over 50 staff in this compnay and it is very hard to keep up with everyones birthdays. I feel that this should be looked at.
Please advise if you are thinking of putting this feature on.
Regards
Vicki Sarandakis
Hello Vicki
I would be using the Contact Alert together with the To Do list to manage this.
see this MYOB Support Note
http://help.myob.com/wiki/display/supar/Using+the+To+Do+List
cheers David
