Saral PayPack - Version 2.61 Release Notes

Version 2.61 of Saral PayPack software has been released on 08^th January 2008. The release notes are provided here for the reference.

1. In FFS
   • TDS Reference added for earnings and deduction section.
   • Incase of Company having TDS in FFS – Create -> Summary option is disabled
   • Incase of Employee applicable for TDS - TDS Deduction head is created, for which only amount can be changed.
   • For newly created FFS on inclusion of last month salary – heads related to salary are not allowed to change.
   • Negative amount entry allowed.
2. In Assign heads to salary structure
• New TDS Reference for Earnings are added.
  • Children Hostel Allowance
  • Entertainment allowances
  • Allowances for transport of employees
  • Tribal area, scheduled area/agency area allowances
  • Special compensatory hilly area allowances
  • High altitude allowances
  • Uncongenial climate allowances
  • Snow bound area or avalanche allowances
  • Difficult area or disturbed area allowances
  • Border area, remote area allowances
  • Compensatory, modified Field area allowances
  • Compensatory Field area allowances
  • Counter insurgency allow. for armed forces members
  • Underground Allowances
  • Spl. compensatory highly active field area allow.
  • High altitude allowances for armed forces
  • Island allowances
  • Allowances for rendering services outside India
  • Allowances to high court judge
  • Sumptuary allowances HC/SC judges
  • Allowances received by employee of UNO
3. In Loan
   • For Housing Loan – TDS Details two more information captured Gross Annual Value and Municipal Taxes Paid to help income tax processing.
   • New option ‘Separate principle/interest accounting’ wherein EMI amount is split into Principle and Interest amount.
4. In Bonus report TDS Amount will be added.
5. PT monthly Challan for
   • West Bengal
   • Tamil Nadu
   • Andhra Pradesh
   • Madhya Pradesh
6. Arrears
   • Quick search is provided
   • PF Voluntary option is added
   • New Arrears calculation based on theoretical salary difference –> Under ‘Salary Difference’ option ‘Pay Days’ option is provided
   • TDS option is added in case of ‘Independent of Salary’ payment – on opting the same TDS amount and TDS deducted date is captured.
7. On OT - ESI calculation (not paid in salary, but ESI has to be shown in same month for statutory reporting: ‘On OT1 calculate ESI’ Option is provided in Option Setting -> Advanced section.
• Limitation: Incase in Pay-slip ESI Employer contribution is shown then it will be sum of both Salary ESI and OT ESI employer contribution.
8. ESI Monthly report in New format will be provided as per Goa state requirement.
9. Advanced pay slip
   • Stabilizing with thorough testing and bug fixes.
   • Showing Arrears details
   • Showing Release salary details
   • Advance/Loan EMI details in Salary Section
   • Showing Monthly Captions
   • Showing Special Dates
   • Showing Remarks
   • Printing Leaves which are not applicable
   • Option for showing LOP/CO and CW
   • New screen for Print Order setting
10. In MLWF Report – new option is provided to generate MLWF report without considering classification detail.
11. In Reimbursement Master for Food Coupon – TDS Reference is disabled.
12. ‘Default Salary Head’ Caption change to ‘Default Salary Head Setting’ in which settings like
    1. Caption, Round Off option, PF/ESI/PT/TDS Settings Are made available for default salary head For all head caption is provided.
    2. For Flexi Pay, Flexi pay settlement all options are provided
    3. For Reim. Unclaimed and excess claimed – only TDS Settings is provided
13. In HR Module for Special dates master entry is provided to help advanced pay-slip to get description to print.
14. In Tools menu – Recalculate Theoretical salary option is provided.
15. Employee Extended Details related bugs are fixed.
16. The NOD and NDP are not getting recalculated in the salary editor when the employee is under LOP for a whole month. Now it has been fixed.
17. In the Attendance details, if there is any OT unit entered, the same is not getting refreshed in the salary editor – That has been fixed now.
18. In the Automated Arrears, rounding off option for component wise final total has been given.
19. The monthly PF Report is now matching with the challan amount of Account No. 21 & 22.

Features not provided according to pre-release notes

1. Arrears - EPS(8.33%) contribution calculation as per respective month.
2. Leave encashment TDS ref for the independent salary.
3. Advance pay-slip
   • Stabilizing with thorough testing and bug fixes.
   • Showing arrears details (in case of Manual – Lump-sum arrears).
   • Showing preview of default formats.
   • Showing preview of newly done settings