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A NEW APPROACH: MODULAR, OPEN, EXPANDABLE
Fast-changing tax laws and widely varying
company needs make payroll one of the most difficult business applications.
Unlike spreadsheets, word processors, and other "generic" business software,
a traditionally-designed payroll program can be made obsolete overnight by
the stroke of a legislator's pen, by new union contracts, or by changing
pay or benefit plans.
DATASMITH Payroll is not a "traditional" system. It's a forward-looking design,
which anticipates accommodates, and embraces change as a natural part of
the payroll process. It is the result of a complete rethink of the payroll
problem...designed using Computer Aided Software Engineering techniques "from
the ground up" with today's personal computing environment in mind...by people
who actually use it.
DESIGNED FOR YOUR PAYROLL PROBLEMS TODAY
Complex pay and taxation is the normal case in the 90's. Even very small
firms have tax deferred compensation, imputed pay, and fringe benefit reporting
concerns. DATASMITH Payroll allows you to deal with these problems once...during
the setup process...and keep your recurring period-to-period operations
simple...without compromising accuracy or creating more work at year end.
Features like "Preview", "Overlapped end-of-year processing", "User-defined
Pay Categories", easy correction and the flexibility to make partial/additional
runs take the urgency and aggravation out of most payroll problems.
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ADAPTS QUICKLY TO
TOMORROW'S NEEDS All tax tables are compact, sensible, and easily user-maintained: no waiting on an outside organization to incorporate the latest tax tables. "Local" and "Other" taxes are supported by operator-titled region-specific generic routines, so that you're instantly ready for most new taxes. Complex new pay categories and deductions can be defined by the operator and used together with other standard items to quickly and correctly adapt to a new situation. No annoying limitations on Pension Plans, Cafeteria Plans, etc: we provide the tool...you define how it is used. |
OPEN FOR
EXPANSION/REMODELING As your needs change, your DATASMITH Payroll can keep up with you. Add more deductions, more pay categories, more departments, Direct Deposit, DATACHECK Laser-Created checks, Benefit Accrual, additional Deduction Limits, Deduction Limit/Switch at any time. Suddenly faced with reporting an employee's taxes in more than one state or locality?...choose from options which allow you to handle four tax homes per year... or even four tax homes per pay period for each employee. Hundreds of specialized add-on features are available. |
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OPEN FOR DATA
INTERCHANGE DATASMITH Payroll accepts hours data prepared with your database, spreadsheet, or word processor...in addition to its built-in hours entry screen. You can even use the built-in hours entry to edit your imported data, or to automatically pay salaries during data import. Reports can be written as text files on disk for use by your word processor. Documentation describing file formats is included with every system. A powerful Import/Export option which allows two-way communication between payroll and other systems is also available. |
TAKES ADVANTAGE OF
NEW HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE When you buy a faster computer, add a coprocessor, change to a faster disk drive, change to a faster display, buy a faster printer or change to a better operating system, payroll adapts and performance improves. DATASMITH Payroll supports up to four local or network printers per user, including the new network printers using PJL! Payroll will use the resources you provide. It adapts itself and installs easily into DOS, WINDOWS 3.1, WINDOWS 95/98/NT/XP, OS/2, and Networks: no hassle in "mixed shops". |
DESIGNED FOR EFFECTIVE
CONTINUING SUPPORT
We believe that effective support is a design issue. That's why every standard
and optional part of the system produces elaborate error messages which trace
the condition through all affected modules. Each module's function is also
a user function, so that the explanation of a problem is often its own solution!
Built-in procedural backup, a built-in error recovery system, and a plan
which provides more than one way to accomplish most functions provides on-site
work-arounds for unforseen or unusual contingencies, ...including many hardware
problems! The strategy is to blunt the impact of the unforseen. Does it work?
You bet it does!!! ...and we've got 25+ years of field experience to prove
it!
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