Saral PayPack - Version 2.48 Release Notes

Version 2.48 of Saral PayPack software has been released on 02^nd July 2007. The release notes are provided here for the reference.

1. Menu changes
2. Salary Export moved from Import/Export to Reports
3. Salary Extrapolation, Cost to Company and Whole Year Summary grouped under new Menu item MIS Data, available under Tools.
4. Advanced Employee Delete grouped under new Menu Bulk Delete, available under Tools.
5. Create Previous Month and Pre-date the Salary Heads assigned to Salary Structure features grouped under Salary Process – Pre-date, available under Tools.
6. Commonly used tools moved higher in the menu for easy access.
7. Menus of File Security features grouped under new Menu item File Security, available under Utility.
8. Menus of Backup and Restore features grouped under new Menu item Backup / Restore, available under Utility.
9. Advanced management of Advance / Loan provided.  This feature involves having predefined settings for Advance and Loans.
10. Define Salary Heads; changing print names for BASIC, OT1 and OT2 provided.
11. Employee Master; warning given if same bank account number and same bank is found for a different employee.  User can continue with saving data if required.
12. Assign Heads to Salary Structure,
13. PF, ESI and PT settings can be made applicable for Open Components.
14. PF Voluntary setting for each salary component provided.  Older files will be updated to the setting as set in PF.
15. Attendance Detail - Daily/Hourly and Attendance - Monthly,
16. Controls are grouped into one box.
17. Quick Search By now incorporated into "GO" button logic, i.e., if any characters are entered in quick search, these characters will also be considered when querying data for listing employees.  The search is done on employee name, id and reference number.
18. Added option for "Order By", either by Emp ID / Ref. No. and by employee name.
19. Handling of Component based PF and ESI in Periodic Incentive.
20. If "Component based PF and ESI" is set, then on selection of PF or ESI in periodic incentive user has to specify the percentage applicable.
21. If it is not set, then on selection of PF or ESI, 100% is considered by default.
22. The same has been handled in Multi allotment also.
23. PT Supplementary feature enhanced
24. For a selected salary month, employee and Bonus/Ex-Gratia/Arrears given if PT is calculated, on these payments, the revised PT will be reflected.
25. Option provided to change individual employee PT contribution if required
26. Option provided to save Revised PT details for all employees for any selected month.
27. This data can be saved, and the resulting Balance PT whether positive or negative is summarized and reflected in Other Ded. field in Salary Editor.
28. New report provided in PT Reports for generating the Revised balances.
29. E-Mail Payslip; option provided to set password for the payslip attached.  The password can be set for Acrobat files i.e., PDF files.
30. Bank Statement Reports.
31. In Bank Statement (Regular Payment), for employees having Zero or Negative Amount, a text file is generated for reference.
32. New report provided for displaying employees paid via DD (Demand Draft).
33. Quick Report formats converted to RPX file concept.
34. Salary Sheet and Editable Columnar PaySlip, display of “Mode of Payment” changed in case of “Cheque” payment.  It will not be displayed as “Bank Advice”
35. Caption changes as done for Additional Payments and Deductions for each month will now be reflected in Salary Sheet, Pay Slip and Salary Abstract Reports.
36. Bank Format; Another HDFC bank format included based on customer input.
37. Salary Editor; option provided to export grid details to Excel.  Right Click on the grid to access the option provided.
38. Salary recalculation done before opening Salary Extrapolation, CTC or Whole Year Summary features.
39. Form R1, In Entry and RFL Code screen, Search was giving error.  Taken care.
40. In Attendance - Monthly, if OT units was entered as zero, after making a wrong entry, the same is not getting updated.  Taken care.
41. Employee -> Salary and Monthly Salary Rate – details not getting saved if change done on first of the month.  Only in case of Mid of Month Salary processing case.  Taken care.
42. Attendance setting, loose integration option disabling (not getting enabled at all).  Taken care.