Saral PayPack - Version 2.49 Release Notes

Version 2.49 of Saral PayPack software has been released on 16^th July 2007. The release notes are provided here for the reference.

1. Increment based on Date provided.  This is restricted in case of Loose Integration attendance setting or Attendance Monthly setting.
2. In Bonus/Ex-Gratia, for Salary Independent transactions, Cash, Cheque, DD or Bank Advise information can be entered.  For Bank Advise, Bank listed in Financial Institution master will be available for selection.
3. New Medical Reimbursement and LTA features provided.  TDS Integration not provided.
4. Other Reimbursement feature provided for making entries other than Medical Reimbursement.  TDS Integration not provided.
5. Arrears Definition enhanced with Report Display Options.  This option will only be available for Arrears defined as Merge with Salary and As Salary Component.
6. For Merge with Salary, Show Together (Default) and  Show Separately options available
7. For As Salary Component, Show Lumpsum (Default) and  Show as Different component options available
8. For all Quick Reports given in the product, Export options provided.  User can export to PDF, RTF, XLS, HTML, TIFF, TXT formats.
9. Bank Statement report for Bonus/Ex-Gratia where Bank Advise details are entered.
10. Bank Statement Report for Reimbursements given through Bank Advise.
11. PF reports considering the PF applicable date option.
12. In Salary Sheet – All components in Single row, Pay Days displayed along with Present Days.
13. New Pay Slip with Arrear details based on Report Options set in Arrears Definition.
14. When first month is created as Sep/2006 or later in the data file, ESI gross will be set to Rs. 10,000 by default instead of Rs. 7,500.
15. Display of new heads relating to Medical Reimbursement, LTA and Other Reimbursement in Salary Sheet, Pay Slip and Salary Abstract.
16. Pay Slips for employees having Net amount as ZERO will be generated.
17. In Leave Summary report, negative closing balance is displayed.
18. In Editable Columnar pay slip (PDF Export), if the Password is set for any of the PDF files the print option was disabled.  Now Print option will be available.
19. In Salary Editor – Entry, in few cases, for some of the salary heads entry not above the value 30 was getting restricted.
20. In Salary Calculation, for some cases, EOF and BOF issue was getting raised after creation of new month.
21. In PT Reports, bank name column was not allowing alphabets entry.
22. “No records found” was displayed for the case when there are 2 different PT Groups and only for one of the groups PT slab is changed.
23. While Generating Payslip in MySQL backend, with 2-Copies of payslip option checked, Run Time error was encountered.
24. In Form 12A report “No of subscribers as per last month” was showing wrong
25. In PacktoPF on MySQL Backend, PF Groups were not listed.
26. In Attendance – Monthly import, validation of Pay Days and Present Days to the leaves entered was not working for all cases.
27. If the employee salary calculation date is later than the months created, import program would hang during salary rate updation.
28. In Leave Encashment, after selection of employees in the Advanced Filter, they would not get added.  This is an issue in "MS Access" database where it does not fetch results which were changed a few seconds back.