Wage Easy have forwarded details on enhancements that will be included in the upcomming release (scheduled for pre Christmans). The following is an extract from their partner newsletter. For more information about the release please feel free to contact us.,

Partner Newsletter Extract

Our new version 5.1 is in its final stages of testing, due for limited release before Christmas. If you feel any of the fantastic new features listed below will assist any of your clients in their payroll and processing over the next month, please let us know and we will email you a link to access it as soon as it is available. It will be sent out to all remaining support clients throughout January and February as a general release.

1. Lump Sum Payments

We now offer another alternative in taxing and paying lump sums in both New Zealand and Australian databases. This is found on the Adjustments screen at wages.

Within the Australian databases the following options appear: A description must be provided for the lump sum, and the amount must be input.

After selecting the date range, the amount will automatically calculate according to a marginal tax calculation. This is the only form of taxing available for Australian databases.

2. Parent/Child Allowance Structures

The Parent/Child allowance is setup in Setup|Allowances. Within the employee file you can now nominate (against the parent allowance, in this case Child Support) an amount specific to the employee. This means for items like child support or bonus you need only set up one main allowance and each different amount can be setup at employee level.

This also assists in reporting. Traditionally, we would have a number of child support deductions setup, each with a different amount at Setup|Allowances. Now we have one item at Setup|Allowances and individual amounts at the employee level so all items are reported.

3. Planned Leave

In readiness for the launch of the Wage Easy Employee Services Portal (ESP), we have incorporated a new planned leave grid into the HR menu. This will allow for the allocation of any planned leave items to a PPE, and gives a snap shot of planned leave within the system.

Accessed from HR|Leave Applications, all planned leave regardless of status will appear here. The intention is that when we connect to the ESP, planned leave will be imported into Wage Easy but no PPE will be assigned. It will operate in the same way that all other HR queries operate in that you can customise and sort the view.

Payroll will come into this grid and allocate either individually or on a bulk basis, planned leave entries to a particular PPE. This will also be used by Employee Connect in assigning a PPE to leave entries.

If you sort by Pay Period by dragging this item into the customise area, you can then right click on the data and access additional options. Here you will see modify status with the options to approve, deny or set as pending. This will assign the selected action to all items you have highlighted.

The selection of Modify Pay Period will launch a calendar which will allow you to group assign the leave entries to a particular pay period.

An additional option has been added to allow for pay slips to appear departmentalized with overtime broken down into factors by selecting this option: