Pastel Partner Payroll
In-house Payroll in South Africa having become a very integral function of the
Daily, weekly, fortnightly and monthly working core of Companies in South Africa
with the majority of businesses falling into the Small to Medium enterprise sectors.
Especially in the current financial climate where efficiency and complex, consistent
reporting and administration of your Payroll is a must have. Not only for costing
and management purposes but equally for statutory and legislative compliance which
is becoming more of a straining head-ache for companies still running “Manual
Payrolls”. Eg. SARS E@syfile Tax Year End EMP501 and IRP5 submissions, Skills
& Equity Reporting, UIF Electronic Submissions and Industrial Council Remittances
thus striving toward complete automation.
Being Proudly South African has evolved into being compliant, Legal, efficient
and “On Time”!
We here at End 2 End Business Solutions see the Solution as being:
Pastel Partner Payroll
Softline Pastel Payroll provides you with access to an easy to use, accurate and
secure payroll solution with all the features you require. It integrates seamlessly
with the Pastel Accounting software suite and most other accounting software packages
available on the market.
This payroll product is available as a stand-alone, single-user version for
the smaller company or is scalable up to 10-users for a larger company and can
accommodate an unlimited number of employees in varying employee brackets and
can grow with your company. It caters for the full spectrum of requirements,
from pre-defined, standard sets of transactions for less complicated payrolls,
to more powerful and customizable features and functions for payrolls with more
sophisticated requirements.
Up to date compliance with Statutory and Legislative changes.
Also additional modules can be added to the Standard Software to further enhance
efficiency and Time saving on previous Tedious additional processing and Reporting
requirements giving you more time to focus on other aspects of your Business.
Modules Include:
Employee Self Service Module – Pastel Partner Payroll
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Softline Pastel Payroll’s Employee Self Service (ESS), is a web-based
self service tool enabling employees to manage and maintain their own information
online. ESS provides employees with a user-friendly means of streamlining payroll
and HR administration online, while at the same time improving communications
with department heads, administrators and management.
ESS enables employees to make on-line applications for leave, loans, bursaries
and more. Employees can now submit their travel claims online, view their payslips,
update personal information, download HR related documentation on a real-time
basis.
• Secure Login
• Update Personal Details
• View Documents Online
• Online Application Forms
• Online Travel Claims and Logbooks
• Workflow Capabilties
Industrial Council Compliance Module – Pastel Partner Payroll
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Pastel Payroll caters for the following Industrial Councils: MIBFA, MIBCO /
MICFA, the Electrical Industry and the Road Freight Industry as well as the
Private Security Industry. This module will even provide you with the ability
to generate the applicable Industrial Council’s electronic submission
files.
Now you no longer have to manually complete the Industrial Council reports.
Simply generate the submission file and e-mail it to the applicable Industrial
Council at the click of a button.
This way you are ensured that all your calculations are correct the first time
around, eliminating the chance of data-capture errors!
Multiple Transactions Manager Module – Pastel Partner Payroll
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The Multiple Transaction Manager Module allows you to give the entire company
a salary increase based on either a set value or a specific percentage and process
a production bonus or commission by only using one screen. Over shutdown periods,
putting your entire workforce on leave has never been this quick and easy. This
feature allows you to make global updates to any transaction within the payroll
system to all, or a selection of employees. These transactions can include leave,
bonuses, travel allowances, commission, to name a few.
BI Payroll: Excel Reporting Module – Pastel Partner Payroll
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What do you get when you combine South Africa’s leading Payroll software
with Microsoft® Excel? A reporting tool that allows you to manipulate reports
in order to make improved decisions through business intelligence (BI).
If you entrust Microsoft® Excel to share, present and analyse information,
then this module is for you. BI Payroll: Excel Reporting is a module that dynamically
links to your payroll data, taking your business way beyond traditional reporting
functionality, using the power of Microsoft® Excel.
Our standard, ‘pre-set’ reports save you time.
This module ships with more than 20 standard report formats such as a job costing
report, year-on-year leave comparison report, leave taken listing, rate report,
years of service listing, to name a few. The module retains amended spreadsheet
layouts and makes them available for future use. These reports can be ‘sliced
and diced’ according to your own unique requirements, with comprehensive
graphical illustrations for easy analysis and reporting purposes.
End-user Empowerment.
If you retain and save the design of your spreadsheets, you will avoid having
to re-format them every time you generate the Excel report.
Customised Reports.
You can customise the standard set of reports and templates, and even create
new ones.
Your FREE 60-day* trial period allows you unlimited access to the full functionality
of this module.
* Effective from date of registration.
Third Party Payments Module – Pastel Partner Payroll
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With our Third Party Payments Module, any company deduction or contribution
can now automatically be paid over to the relevant company with the click of
a button.
No more manual capturing required with a once-off beneficiary (third party)
setup. You can eliminate human error and save valuable processing time as well
as obtain a detailed transaction listing report per employee and party. Third
Parties can include Provident Funds, Medical Aids, Garnishee Orders, Industrial
Councils, OID, EMP201 SARS payments, to name a few.
Salary Structuring Module – Pastel Partner Payroll
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Pastel Partner Payroll’s Salary Structuring Module offers you amazing
functionality to calculate individual employees’ remuneration packages.
It is like having a Salary Structuring Assistant! This module simplifies the
complicated task of structuring a Total Cost To Company remuneration package,
according to the employee’s letter of appointment. By simply entering
the total package value and various package components, Pastel Payroll will
calculate the value of the remaining Cash Component and update the employee’s
payslip with the structure you define. Alternatively, make use of the Nett to
Gross Package calculation to accurately determine the Gross Basic Salary required
to ensure the employee receives an agreed Nett Pay amount in each pay packet.
The Salary Structuring Module offers 8 calculators to assist you with the quick
calculations of various allowance and fringe benefit values. Based on information
provided by your employees, you can now calculate an accurate value for Travel
Allowances or the taxable benefit value of a Company Vehicle without having
to understand or refer back to any of the complicated rules and regulations
required by legislation.
Our Salary Structuring Module can be used to structure an employee’s pay
package using one of two methods namely Total Cost To Company or Nett to Gross
Salary. In addition, there are 8 calculators built into the Salary Structuring
Module to assist you to calculate the fringe benefit of the Use of Company Vehicle,
Private use of Assets, Free and Cheap Accommodation and many more.
The standard functionality of the Salary Structuring Module has been enhanced
with an Assistant Wizard which is available to set up new employee salary information.