Saral PayPack - Version 2.00 Release Notes

Version 2.00 of Saral PayPack software has been released on 26^th September 2006. The release notes are provided here for the reference.

1. Default PT Slab Rates for Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.  Fill Default option to fill the default rates. For each location defined a State has to be selected.
2. PT editable option.  Enabled by selecting EDITABLE option in State list.  In Salary Calculation, Editable PT will be shown in Entry tab.
3. Integration with Saral TDS Institutional.
   • TDS Porting screen change made.  Grid display removed and replaced with Text boxes.
   • Amount Paid Date changed to Salary Paid Date.
   • Options given for setting Default dates for Deducted Date and Salary Paid Date.
   • When porting, Income Tax and Education Cess values are applied to Income Tax and Cess parameters in deduction.  Earlier, the Cess value was included in Income Tax.
   • Rent Paid entry option given.  User can enter the Rent Paid on Monthly / Yearly basis.  The same will be ported to Institutional file for HRA Exemption.
4. One more type of attendance entry option given.  Attendance - Monthly.
   • Included an option Attendance - Monthly in Attendance Settings screen.
   • For this option, user can enter the attendance detail on month wise basis. The screen will display NOD, NDP, OT (if defined), Leave Type and Non Leave Types. User has to enter the monthly figures.  The resulting NOD and NDP will be displayed automatically.
   • Integration for Leave Eligibility and Leave Encashment for this option also done.
   • If this type of attendance setting is chosen.  The Leave Eligibility should be defined in terms of months, i.e., the period should be 01/Jan/2006 to 31/Jan/2006 OR 01/Jan/2006 to 31/Mar/2006.
5. Gratuity detail entry upgraded.
   • Included a configuration option (will not be stored) to calculate the gratuity on   Gross Earnings or Selected Earning Heads.
   • Grid display of Gratuity details entered.
   • User will be prompted if the employee has not worked from 5 years.  Can continue even if employee has worked for less than 5 years.
6. Arrears with more options.
   • Three types of Arrears can be defined, namely, Manual - Manual Entry (Each Salary Head wise Arrears), Automated - Program will calculate the Arrears to be given and Lump sum - A fixed value not related to any salary head.
   • Three types of Salary considerations can be set, namely, Merge with Salary - Default (Works similar to earlier design), As Salary Component - Arrears will be shown as a part of salary in a separate column and Independent of Salary - Not linked to Salary.
   • PF and ESI applicability for arrears.
   • a. For Lump sum, Percentage based or Amount based applicability can be set.  The PF and ESI earnings calculated will be available in Supplementary Salary.
   • b. For Manual and Automated, Month consideration and Previous Year consideration can be set.
   • In Month consideration, Respective Month and Current Month options are given
   • a. When Respective Month is set, the arrears amount will be applied to the month for which arrears is being paid and the PF/ESI earnings is derived.
   • b. When Current Month is selected, the Arrear amount is applied to the month in which arrears are being paid, and the PF/ESI earnings is derived.
   • User can set whether the previous year (w.r.t. PF/ESI financial year) is to be considered or not.  If previous year is not considered, then PF/ESI will not be    calculated for months falling in the previous year.
7.  Supplementary Salary
   • Changes done to capture details as and when required.
   • If earlier entered data is present, the same can be ported using "Old Data".
   • The Arrears related PF/ESI earnings will be shown here.
8. Employee Details
   • Allowing changing (predating/postdating) 'Salary calculation from' date even after salary calculation is done.
   • In such case related Salary, Salary Rate, Attendance etc details are deleted except for Employee Details and classification.  After changing user has to enter all those details to carry on with salary processing.
9. Full and Final Settlement
10. Custom Report Generation Utility
11. Reports
    • PT Report for Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra
    • Leave Encashment
    • Bonus 'C' Form
    • Salary Sheet and Pay Slip report modification related to Arrears
    • Full and Final Settlement
    • Theoretical Pay Slip (T Pay Slip)
12. Bug Fixes.