PERKS - Why PERKS?



PERKS - Why PERKS?

	Introduction: Payroll is a critical component of your business mission. PERKS - the No-Compromise Payroll Solution has every ingredient to cater to the most complex of your payroll requirements. Designed to cater to organisations of all sizes, PERKS is a robust and easy-to-use Payroll Manager, and is perhaps the only Asian software Package to be certified by Microsoft with the Designed for Windows 95 logo. Currently in the process of being imparted a Windows XP look-and-feel, PERKS is always versatile to meet your complex needs irrespective of whether your employees are paid at different times and intervals, or have different working days or varying hours for various departments. PERKS supports the commonly used Windows Operating Systems of both the Windows 9x and Windows NT/2000 lines, starting from Windows 95 to Windows XP. Besides, you can, also, use PERKS, installed on a Novell NetWare Server, and accessed across connected Network Nodes.
PERKS can easily handle a wide repertoire of areas as tricky as the following: Multiple attendance Import of Time Attendance System (TAS) data for further processing Suspension, Resumption, and Rehires of employees Piece rate payments Budget allocation Audit Trails Complete Visa, Labour Card and Visa Management Auto-computation of Employee Superannuation Benefits Employee loans In addition, Reporting is perhaps one facility in PERKS, which you will simply like to use. You may design your Payslips, Salary Statements, Leave Statements, and any other report that you may need - exactly in the style you desire. Further, PERKS provides you with pre-designed Statutory report formats, as identified by the local Government authority. You may, even, place Calculated fields on your report at run-time, and group the information in your reports. Flexibility is the key in PERKS. Therefore, the software can be suited to all enterprises - small, medium, large, and beyond. If you want to organise your payroll the way you want it to be... quickly and easily, do it the PERKS' way!
Features - Payroll Accounting Made Easy: PERKS comes with a wide variety of features to make your payroll accounting easier than ever before. Some of the features - which provide PERKS the cutting edge - are provided underneath.

Global Payroll Solution PERKS can work in any company and in any country, regardless of the company's payroll structure, of the industry's unique payroll requirements or the countries tax requirements.

Easy to setup with user-friendly Installation CD-ROM Browser The Installation routine has been rendered a thoroughly professional flavour, with the inclusion of a user-friendly Installation CD-ROM Browser, which provides a graphical interface to start the PERKS setup, visit the Documentation Centre, and launch additional services. The whole setup can be regarded as a systematised Roadmap Wizard, which is perfectly suited to the needs of our valued users.

Smart and Intuitive interface In order to provide our users with an extremely pleasing interface, which matches the look-and-feel of the contemporary generation of Windows Operating System, PERKS is, now, available in Windows XP clothing. Tri-dimensional buttons with differentiated background glow on movement of mouse cursor and a sleek environment (no wonder, which you would hate to quit from!) are the prime areas on which we have concentrated our focus. In due course of time, XP-effect will be imparted across all the modules in PERKS.

No Customisation required PERKS works across all companies and industries. It can handle the most complex payroll requirements without being customised. PERKS can handle hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay structures, a combination of fixed and variable pay, salary based on formulas, periodic payments, automatic calculation of arrears, rollback after payroll generation, payment to all or selective employees and lot more - according as you wish.

Minimum User-Entry PERKS ensures that, the user has to enter minimum data for payroll generation and leave calculation. For instance, commissions do not have to be calculated prior to entry in PERKS. You just need to define the formula for commission calculation, and store it. Every month, all you have to enter is the sales figures for each salesman; the commission amount is calculated, automatically. The CPF payable on the commission is, also, automatically, calculated.

Multiple Currency Payroll PERKS handles payroll in Multi Currency, seamlessly. You may pay the salary in Base Currency (say, Singapore dollars) and other allowances in some other currency; say US Dollars, or still even overseas allowance in Japanese Yen. Calculations of all these allowances are done by the system without manual computation.

Complete Leave Applications and Calculations PERKS handles all aspects of leave, totally automatically. At the month end, all you have to do is to enter the dates on which an employee was absent under the respective category of leave; PERKS, automatically, generates the payroll from there, carrying forward the balance leave. You may create any number of leave categories (Annual, Medical, Privilege, Causal, etc), and define, whether or not, these Leaves lapse after a certain period, or are encashable. You may, also track Leave Applications, including granted/rejected.

Human Resource Management PERKS allows you to keep all your HR-related data within different Cabinets and Folders. You can create unlimited number of Cabinets and Folders, and keep the information's like training, confirmation appraisals and so on. User defined fields from employee master can also be inserted into these cabinets & folders and different reports can be generated to get these information's.

Integration with FACT You do not need to re-enter the payroll entries into your accounts package any more, if you use FACT, our Complete Real-time Accounting Software. PERKS seamlessly integrates with FACT Pro / FACT, and posts all the payroll entries, including Deductions, CPF payable, Division Code, Department Code, etc., automatically. No additional entries are to be made at all. You can relate each individual Payment Heads with a General Ledger Code in FACT Pro / FACT. If you roll back the Payroll generation, the posting from FACT Pro / FACT is, also, automatically, rolled back.

Complete Employee Records PERKS is more than just a payroll package. It stores complete employee records, including a scanned photograph for each of your employees. Each employee can be tracked from the date of joining till the last day at work, online. You may, even, generate the Appointment Letter, Appraisal Letters, Termination Letters, etc., from within PERKS. Do away with all your worries on Complete Visa, Labour Card, and Passport Management. Further, you may add fields to the Employee Master for any special requirements of your Company, which can be used to generate custom reports.

Import and Export of Employee Master and Leave Data PERKS makes it easy for you to upgrade from your existing outdated payroll package. You may import all the relevant Employee Master data directly into PERKS, thereby saving yourself hours of tedious labour. The Employee Master data may, also, be exported from PERKS for use with other systems. You may, also, import and export all leave data.

User Defined Fields in Employee Master To exploit the power of reports related to employee data, you may add fields in the Employee Master. These fields could be used for storing special data that your company may want for special reporting requirements. With the aid of the built-in Report Writer, you may generate all the required reports for each employee without having to quit from PERKS.

Integrated Backup and Restoration of Data PERKS comes with an integrated system of Data Backup and Restore. When data is maintained in your Hard Disk, it is imperative to have a backup for the same. The data backup may be restored back on to the Hard Disk, again, without any fuss. The latest version of PERKS provides you with the much-awaited Compressed Data Backup facility. A Compressed Backup is much like a Compressed Archive (for instance, a conventional zip file), and occupies lesser disk space in comparison to a uncompressed data backup. The new feature, therefore, is expected to come in good use, especially during backups of huge volume of data.

Built-in Formula Builder: Calculation of Salary based on formula To whatever extent it may be possible to carry out your Payroll Generation activities without the slightest human intervention, PERKS takes care that, the process progresses smoothly and without any fuss. As part of fulfilment of this objective, the Application provides you with a powerfully built Formula Builder for Numeric Variables. Using the huge variety of functions available, you can define any kind of formula, depending upon your requirements. Apply the correct formula, and generate your Salary in no time!

Automatic computation of Gratuity and Superannuation benefits With the huge gamut of mathematical functions available in the Formula Builder, the computation of Gratuity and other Superannuation benefits are absolutely simple. The most complex calculations, which you may have been doing manually till date, will become a matter of the past!

Statutory Board Requirements – CPF and IRAS Compliance PERKS is registered with the CPF Board (Singapore). The computation of CPF contributions for various age groups and categories are done automatically in PERKS according to CPF Board rules. Likewise, PERKS meets IRAS requirements and all other statutory board requirements like CDAC, MBMF, SINDA, ECF, FWL and SDL.

Most Flexible Report Writer To add punch to your reports, use the built-in flexible Report Writer. Besides the statutory reports, viz. CPF Returns, IR8A and Monthly Payslips, Payroll Sheets and other Standard Management Reports, you may design your very own reports. You may use any of the fields, including the user-defined fields in the Employee Master within your reports.

Multiple Company Payroll You may create as many companies as you wish in PERKS without any constraints. You may, even, get the backup from your subsidiaries (naturally, they would, also, be using PERKS), and restore them on your PC, to give you the transaction-level details. You need not bother to get printouts from them any more.

Reports in a Data File Output of all the reports can be directed to a data file. This may be used to update your Head Office Account / Payroll System for consolidation or analysis. You may, also, use this data file to merge with any other files and generate other MIS reports.

Flexible Search and Browse facilities Powerful search facilities are provided across PERKS. You can browse the Master data on screen. You may, also, set up the Filters, and view data, selectively.

Strictest Security PERKS allows unlimited number of users and unlimited levels of security to be defined. A menu option / module can be made use of according to the rights assigned to each user. Hence, you may divulge as little, or as much, of your sensitive and confidential payroll figures as you please.

Import of Time Attendance data for processing towards payroll generation PERKS processes all the Attendance-related data, entirely, taking care of the Shift, Roster, and Over Time settings. Irrespective of, whether or not, you record the attendance of your employees in a Time-Card machine, or process the data available therefrom by another system (software), the data can be seamlessly imported in PERKS for further processing towards payroll generation.

Flexibility to start Payroll Accounting at Any Time of The Year We understand that, the moment you realise the increase in productivity that PERKS can usher in to your company, you will want it to be implemented, immediately. The design of PERKS makes this very easy for you. From entering the Opening Balances of Leaves, Arrears in Pay to import of Employee Masters - you can start everything with PERKS at any time of the year.

Exhaustive Documentation Centre The current release of PERKS comes with a comprehensive Documentation Centre, which is expected to help our valued users in their hour of need. The Documentation Centre contains a repository of technical information, implementation concepts and scenarios, through Setup Guides, QuickStart Guide, Online Help, Technical Articles Centre, and Supplementary Guide. In addition, we, also, offer you with a comprehensive Knowledge Base with our Web site to keep you posted with the latest updates on PERKS.

More Information: If you are staggered with the list of features mentioned in the Features – Payroll Accounting Made Easy section, above, let us be allowed to humbly state that, the list presents only a bird's-eye-view of the whole gamut benefits that you may reap from using PERKS. Order your copy of PERKS at your nearest PERKS Technical Support Centre, today, and be amazed with the whole sphere of Payroll Accounting facilities offered in it! For any queries and/or clarifications please contact your nearest office. Click here.