Hi Princess,
These are the issues I have with the Payroll 'workability' - this is not an upgrade when there are so many issues that people are asking MYOB about.
1 - You have to go in and manually load new staff into IRD, previously this was done with the IR Filing.
2 - You can't split pays.
3 - No 1 page summary printout (showing previous week / current pay and wage total) so you now can't double check the wage payment amount when filing with the bank without printing 4+ pages of employee earnings (not needed or required by IRD as all that information goes with the IR filing.
4 - No payslip preview screen - a handy double check to see that you have entered the correct hours for staff - especially over public holidays with staff working different days.
5 - The data entry screen that you have to drill into for each staff member - it's awful, hard to read and enter the pay hours / information.
6 - Have to select via drop down boxes the holidays staff have off - this doesn't work when they have split days off, this is a waste of time and not needed.
7 - Have to select via drop down boxes the public holiday worked - again just another unnecessary step taking up time.
8 - Cannot select more than 1 public holiday, what happens at Christmas / New Years - do I have to go in twice?
9 - Automatically defaults to a day in lieu owing for a public holiday worked (this isn't always correct), yet you have to 'check' the time and a half box so that staff are paid time and a half - this is law for working a public holiday so shouldn't even need to be a box I have to remember to 'check'.
10 - Payment date continally defaults to the day after the working week which then makes it hard to find the payees and also then creates an error message saying the bank may reject the file due to an incorrect date....
11 - I DO NOT want to muck around with (or have the time for) clearing accounts, changing dates, making file names and then making sure I select the staff to be paid and then making sure that matches the wage amount (but there's no paperwork I can double check against as that function / report is now gone) - I just want the 'download bank file' button back.
People are frustrated by this update because previously it was a simple program that was easy to use and gave us all the functions and reports we require, please listen to the people - again I am yet to see any positive comments about the update, I am only seeing and hearing issues!
