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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!
Hi Meena
Thank you for your listing, saved me a job, but I will add the following issues I have to the list.
i) when clicking on contiuning a pay run from the dashboard, it doesn't go in the pay run, but asks if you want to create a new one or edit the existing. I am clicking continue, so want to edit the existing. Maybe have an option to delete or edit the payroll from the dashboard.
ii) Annual Leave, I need to accrue holiday pay owing each month, would be nice to have the report back showing all employees leave balances, "Leave transaction report" doesn't do it. For November i had to go into each employee to view their balance.
Like others, I am annoyed/angry that MYOB has stated that this was an upgrade, when clearly it has been a downgrade. Maybe a bit extreme, but the commercial law side of me is now considering laying a compliant with the Commerce Commission, regarding what I feel has been misleading or deceptive conduct, for beach of Section 9 of the Fair Trading Act.
- Wendye266 months agoExperienced User
Would be interesting to see what fair go would say about it.
I see they are advertising on Facebook I have left comments on there with regard to there shambles of an upgrade but they had been removed I just put them back up and will continue to do so. Instead of putting adds on Facebook they should fixing their software that work perfectly well and didn't need fixing in the first place.
- WestHamilton4906 months agoContributing User
They have mucked up there upgrade and probabaly annoyed all the old users.
- WestHamilton4906 months agoContributing User
I would really like to hear if anyone likes the upgrade.