Payroll

StarGarden Payroll is specifically designed to handle complex payrolls, payables, retro pays, year-end tax documents and records of employment.

• Concurrently run any number of payrolls (weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, quarterly). Employees can be in multiple payrolls and can even be in multiple companies in multiple countries. Year-end and tax issues will be handled automatically.
• Unlimited, user-defined earning codes, summarisation classes for earnings, benefits and deductions, payroll types.
• Unlimited user-defined summary periods (fiscal year, calendar year) and related quarters. Full summary history including life-to-date, year-to-date, quarter-to-date, month-to-date and pay period for all transactions.
• Detailed or summary time entry, distributed data entry. Default time generation (automatic pay) or generate pay from detailed employee schedules which can include overtime and premium pay.
• Maintenance of full detailed transactions for as long as required.
• Validation reporting for standard errors (missing or excess time, etc.).
• One time adjustments for earnings or deduction/benefits.
• Unlimited tracking of absences can be tracked in detail through definition of absence codes.
• On-line warning for time/dollar bank depletion.
• Cost Centre/Job/Equipment costing including the detailed allocation of some or all benefits and overheads. Full reporting of these allocations.
• Pay can be directly deposited to multiple bank accounts based on predefined rules. Pay can also be combinations of direct deposit and check. Full bank reconciliation.
• Automatically distribute detailed pay and benefit costs and automatically calculate any number of associated accruals and balances. These can be distributed across any number of positions and cost centers based on the rules you define.
• Detailed and accurate retro-pay spanning an unlimited number of organizational changes including position/job changes, pay and benefit changes.
• Employees can be in multiple positions in multiple companies and even multiple countries. Any number of payrolls can be run simultaneously.
• Easily produce special pays for bonuses, retropay, and quick pays ..even while other payrolls are running. Easily produce check replacements, reversals, etc.
• Detailed, user-managed tax tables (specialized for each country). When an employee works for multiple companies, even in multiple countries, StarGarden Payroll produces the correct year end reports.
• Flags attached to the compensation code and benefit code controls which pay/benefit transactions are processed and which transactions should be accrued for the days accrual process.
• Optional prorating of employer benefit costs to the employee cost centers worked. Prorating of employee benefit costs can be based upon either hours or dollars.
• Optional fixed percentages for prorating wage expense to multiple accounts where the percentage is associated with each job.
• Payable liability for employer benefit costs are maintained separately from the deduction liability of the employee (even though they are usually payable to the same provider).
• An unpaid days accrual process (using the Accrual Method that averages costs based upon the previous two pay periods) creates the journal entry required for end of month processing where a pay period straddles a month end.
• Reversal of the unpaid days accrual in the subsequent pay period is automatically provided for in the general ledger interface.
• Leave transactions are picked up in the general ledger interface.
• Leave balance adjustmnts are performed for leave being withdrawn at current rates (which could lead to negative dollar balances in the bank when drawn down to zero in the absence of adjustments to bring the leave liability balances up to current rates).
• Arrears processing sets up employee receivables for deductions being paid for on the employees' behalf and for the drawing down of these receivables in subsequent pay runs.
• Permanent detail, summary and accrual files.
• Detail, summary, unpaid days accrual and accrual reversal audit reports can be reproduced on demand.
• Error checking for missing accounts on tables and invalid employee-position records that include no requirement to reset the interface prior to re-running the process.
• A general ledger reset process facilitates recovery for transaction data correction.
• Automatic year end processing.