PYRAMID Payroll is a powerful, yet flexible package, whose benefits are twofold. While it processes your payroll with speed and efficiency, it issues all the reports required by the Tax/NI/ETC Government Departments and your Administration and Personnel Departments. Any combination of the following 4 frequencies in one single company is supported.

- Weekly
- Fortnightly
- Monthly
- Four Weekly

PYRAMID Payroll also keeps track of leave entitlement and leave taken with full facilities of screen enquiries and reporting.

Fast Payroll Processing

PYRAMID payroll is designed with speed of payroll processing in mind. The payroll generation only takes a few seconds. The Amend Payslip Screen is laid out in such a way as to enable the use of only the numeric keypad. This allows for much faster input. Additionally, changes made to payslips are saved automatically as soon as the user proceeds to the next payslip. All these features reduce to a minimum the number of keystrokes needed with the result of faster payroll processing. An even faster and more accurate option is to have an interface to an electronic palm reader. The rest is simply the printing of payslips and/or cheques and other administration and government reports. The optional Bank Direct Credit module eliminates the need to print cheques and lets the user to effect bank transfers through a bank letter, diskette, or via modem.

Optional modules

PYRAMID payroll's flexibility allows it to be highly customizable. Payslip format can be configured on a client by client basis. A number of additional modules can be plugged in to accommodate larger companies and corporations.

- Electronic Punch Clocks / Time and Attendance Interface
- Allowances processing
- Job Costings
- Customized Cheque Formatting
- Bank Direct Credit Payments
- Unions and Social Clubs Handling
- Multi-Company Feature

Automatic Period Rolling

When generating a new payroll period, the user does not need to specify which period is next. In the Start Of Year procedure the user needs only to enter the start date of the first period and the other periods are ‘rolled on’ automatically by each ‘Generate Next Period’ function. A period roll-back feature is also available.

End of Year and Archiving

PYRAMID Payroll does not have a complicated list of things-to-do at the End-Of-Year. The bulk of the End-Of-Year procedure is actually printing all the necessary reports. These can also be printed later on after you come in from Christmas and New Year celebrations from the archive that is automatically created by the End-Of-Year procedure. Payroll data can be archived for as many number of years as the user requires. All reports and screen enquiries may have access to this archived information.

User definition & permissions

PYRAMID Payroll can work in a multi-user environment. A very important aspect here is security. The system administrator creates each user and assigns system permissions for each one. This is defined once and when the user logs in, his or her menu will differ from that of others according to his or her permissions.

Automatic logging of data processing

An important security feature, particularly useful in a multi-user environment, is the automatic logging of any changes made to the payroll database. A record of who changed what and when is kept. An extensive range of options and search facilities are available when retrieving and/or printing information from this log file.

User defined government related details

FSS Tax Bands, Government Bonuses and National Insurance rates change practically every year. PYRAMID Payroll allows you to define these rates according to the latest amendments in legislation.

Departments and Reports

Employees can be allocated to departments. The system issues a host of comprehensive reports, some of which are listed below. Most of these reports may be sub-totaled or selected by department. Reports from optional modules are denoted by an asterisk.

   Payroll Reports
   - Payslips
   - Cheques *
   - Cheque Lists *
   - Bank Letter *
   - List of net Amounts
   - List of Allowances Transactions *

   Analysis Reports
   - Payroll Summary
   - Payroll Analysis report

   Government Reports
     FSS Government Reports
     - FS3 Payee Statement of Earnings
     - FS5 Payer's Monthly Payment Advice
     - FS6 Payer's Annual DSS Statement
     - FS7 Payer's Annual Reconciliation Statement
     ETC report
     - Pre-FSS Government Reports P3 Government Report
     - P6 Government Report
     - TX34
     - ETC Report

   Personnel Reports
   - Employee Leave Statement
   - Leave Analysis Report
   - Employee Leave Entitled & Taken Summary
   - Employee Details Report
   - Payroll Log
   - New Employee Entry Form
   - Union Report

Optionally, we can provide an ODBC driver that will connect the system to report writers such as Crystal Reports. Through this, the user can easily compile his or her own special reports. Our services include installation and training of ODBC and other database drivers and Crystal Reports.