Employees: Notes - increase character limit
Hi we have just had the 1st of 4 files migrated to the new version of Essentials. We have been eagerly awaiting all the new featuresthat would make life easier but we are disappointed to see some of the good points about the old version have gone. The notes section of the employee file has a reduced character limit so much so that the notes on one employee file that were imported from the old version have had to be cut & pasted to a word document as they were too large for the field & tech support are unable to tell me how charaters can go in the field The payslip (& whole payroll process) was much simpler in the old version. We would like to be able to edit the payslip template or if you could just make it look like the old version including logo that would be fantastic We would like to be able to add our logo to the remittance advice as well If we can edit the invoice template why cant we edit the payslip & remittance templates? It is great that we can now have TOIL & LSL accruals & recurring journals but I wish you could have kept the good features from the old version that have been removed. We would love the simplicity of the old version with the added features of the new "Payroll & templates in New Essentials"
Report: Payroll verification report - Sort employees same as Create pay run window
When running a Pay Run it lists the employees alphabetically by their last name. When running the Preview Pay Details report it lists the employees alphabetically by their first name. Can we get this fixed to they list the same way? It's only happened since the Essentials Payroll upgrade. "Pay Run Reports Alphabetically"
Employees: Save changes prompt
Hi. I have found that at times I will make changes within Essentials and if I forget to go to the bottom of the page to save changes and just leave the screen to another part of MYOB the changes aren't saved, nor am I aware that I have not saved them. This happened with my changing super to 10% in July not saving only to find 3 months later that I have been paying 9.5%. Would it be possible to put up a message "Do you want to save changes?" before exiting the current page if changes have been made to information? "Save Changes"
Import and export data: Employee records
I think it would be a great time saving option to be able to import/export employee details between MYOB essential files. In the instances where additional branches are established, currently employee details need to be entered manually and this is very time consuming. "Employee details"
Payroll: Pay scale based on age
Working in the food industry we have many staff coming and going. Most are young and are paid according to the award. As their pay scale depends on their age it would be handy to have the following. Ability to manually load the pay scale for each staff member type (team member, store manager etc). This would have multiple lines for each pay rate band, i.e. under 16yrs, 16yrs, 17yrs, 18yrs, 19yrs, 20yrs, 21+yrs We already enter in each staff members date of birth so it would be great if MYOB could automatically determine how old each staff member is and select the appropriate pay band. Then during the course of the year as each staff member becomes older MYOB would automatically move each staff member to the new pay band. Of course there would also be a manual override in cases where a higher rate is paid to staff (e.g. higher skill level) "Payscale load and auto pay rate selector"
