It would be great to have long service accrual recorded similar to annual leave. This not only useful for employee but essential for employers. It is available on AccountRight why not make it available here. I feel like I'm going backwards in giving my employees information they need. Please make this a priority on Essentials. Can't be too hard. Cheers
Payroll: Long Service Leave Accrual
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We've been asking for Long Service Leave to be added for OVER 5 YEARS!
This is not a "would be nice to have" it is a necessity! When you have more than half your workforce eligible for Long Service Leave in multiple states it becomes impossible to track!!!!
Customers have been asking for Long Service Leave in Myob Essentials for more than 5 years (since 2014). You say you hope to add it in future updates... IT'S NOW 2020!!!!
woodville1962 wrote:It would be great to have long service accrual recorded similar to annual leave. This not only useful for employee but essential for employers. It is available on AccountRight why not make it available here. I feel like I'm going backwards in giving my employees information they need. Please make this a priority on Essentials. Can't be too hard. Cheers
Last Changed: August 2014Thank you for your post, comments and votes. I understand it would be great to be able to setup and accrue Long Service Leave in MYOB Essentials. We hope to introduce it in a future update of the software. In the meantime we request everyone wanting this function to please continue to vote and add comments.
- melindas76Cover User
I have been using Essentials for 5 years and commented back then that Essentials should track Long Service Leave.
I see this has been an issue since 2014 and that we should keep commenting and voting to get it introduced. Come on, that's seems to be plenty of time to make this happen. Please make this a priority. Thanks.
We agree ! surely this should be a minimum standand in Essentials considering its against the law not to pay long service leave.
- DTullTrusted Partner
Agree Henri. Few years ago I posted its a waste of time, as Myob said to me (finally), "if you need LSL, upgrade to AccountRight Live". The arrogance of never replying to the post irritated me. They should have just left Essentials without Payroll, for sole traders and mum and dad partnerships moving from "shoebox accounting" for the first time.
- HenriUser
We are wasting our time by commenting on this forum.
I lodged a written complaint directly to MYOB, and a formal complaint with the Qld Office of Fair Trading, regarding this very issue. MYOB's response was along the lines of that the product is what it is and they offer a 30 day free trial, so there. I don't believe they have any intention of making any improvements to the product.
MYOB Essentials is a sub-standard product. It has no capacity for recording LSL accruals. It doesn't even produce any meaningful reports which might help with recording it eslewhere. The payroll functions generally are inadequate, for example, it is impossible to make an adjustment, or correction, to an employees leave balances in anyway that creates a transparent audit trail.
I will be converting to Quickbooks. I've been using it recently for my husband's business and it is great. It's a far superior product and it is cheaper too.
- bcroftContributing Cover User
At the very least, all pays should be CSV downloadable so that 7 years or 10 years of pay slips don't need to be painstakenly trawled through to come up with a figure. What a terrible thought!
woodville1962 wrote:It would be great to have long service accrual recorded similar to annual leave. This not only useful for employee but essential for employers. It is available on AccountRight why not make it available here. I feel like I'm going backwards in giving my employees information they need. Please make this a priority on Essentials. Can't be too hard. Cheers
Totally agreed that MYOB Essential should have the Long Service Leave accrual record similar to Annual Leave as it is already available in AccountsRight. This would be useful information for both the employer and employees. Please make it a priortiy. Look forward to the upgrade. Cheers!
- bcroftContributing Cover User
Even if MYOB can't introduce Long Service tracking specifically, please allow us to be able to total the number of hours an employee works over any time frame.
I appreciate if you add Long Srvice accruval fuction to MYOB Essentials. It is useful for the employers as well as for the employee.
MYOB you need to add the LSL function to your payroll. This is a necessary function for employers. I have been using MYOB for 10 years now and dont want to have to change to another company but will if i cant track LSL through my currently subscription.