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CACharter Next generation payroll leads the way Timing is everything, and your next generation payroll system needs to have a lot of smarts to be connected to today’s world and offer a path to the future, whilst still delivering core functionality on current processes. “For us, Wage Easy Payroll is the top operator. We reached a plateau a couple of years ago when we just couldn’t take on any more accounts. But Wage Easy Payroll’s electronic transfer facility is so well integrated that it really streamlined our processes, and it’s fast and easy to navigate,” says Alex Saundry, Managing Director of I R Squared, a Northern Territory based payroll bureau. “We needed to improve efficiencies and become more competitive. Time is money for us, and in order to function effectively as a bureau, we needed some very smart processes in place. The suite made us more time-efficient, and we became more competitive. As a result, we passed on the more competitive price structure to our clients.” Lorraine Fischer, from Michael O’Brien Catering, a company that services major sporting venues across Australia, says Wage Easy Payroll has made an invaluable impact on the business in effecting the time-efficient payroll processing of employees linked to a multitude of awards and agreements. “We can process up to 1400 staff in all types of awards and agreements and we can do this in a day. “It’s quite amazing when you think about it, because in our environment, we currently use handwritten timesheets,” she says. Lorraine says she is extremely satisfied with Wage Easy Payroll and the support from the Flagship team: “The whole implementation and training process was completed in three days and I’ve never looked back!” Given that the full program is “in the package”, she needs no extras. Next generation technology is usually restricted to larger companies that can afford it, but because Wage Easy Payroll can be offered as an all-encompassing “shrink wrapped” solution, that makes it very cost-effective even for SMEs. At the heart of innovation is its internet awareness, not only can Wage Easy operate in a multi-user and multi-company environment, but inward and outward communication can flow to employees and other parties. This allows automatic transmission of banking and superannuation contribution data for example, and the automatic updating of award and tax files through the eWage system. With its fast implementation process, quick access to information in the design and attention to detail in client support, all reinforced by the Wage Easy Payroll development company’s prestigious ISO 9000:2000 quality accreditation. A decade on, Australian Flagship is the only all-Australian software development company to be awarded multiple grants for R&D and e-commerce in the payroll/HR field. That’s a high achievement in innovation. The design has resulted in a very flexible payroll and HR management product that is easy to integrate with other business processes, be they manual or fully networked information systems. Payroll input and processing can be fully automated, and the HR management facilitated through intranet access. Payroll costs can be allocated to a single or multi level cost structure, with reporting available on a day–by-day or hour-by-hour basis if required. What’s more, the detailed information is made available in a very practical way with the drill-down feature allowing you to click down from any report to an employee pay slip or timesheet that forms part of the report. An inbuilt custom report writer caters for the rare occasion that you may need a special analysis that is not already covered by the extensive range of standard reports or those downloadable from the Australian Flagship web site. Wage Easy fits well with businesses of all types and sizes, which have seen it, gain significant market share over the last few years. Web Site: www.flagship.com.au
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CRN Farm software reseller sails Australian Flagship by: Fleur Doidge Perth-based agricultural software specialist Agrimaster has signed a contract to distribute Australian Flagship’s integrated payroll and accounting package directly to Australian farms. David Egerton-Warburton, MD at Agrimaster, said the distributor had been seeking to add a payroll product to its books but few provided the integrated functionality of Wage Easy Payroll HR, a software system developed and sold by Melbourne ISV Australian Flagship. ‘We researched the other products around Australia -- there’s just thousands of payroll packages -- and the reason we picked Flagship was it was the most innovative and also had things like the award interpreter and was easy to set up and use,’ he said. Egerton-Warburton said Wage Easy Payroll HR integrated with a system called eWage that enabled users to access details about specific employee awards, tax issues and staff entitlements for factoring into payroll calculations. That functionality meant pay clerks could cut two or three steps from the pay preparation process, saving time and money. ‘At the end of the day, what we’ve found is that could fill a real gap in the market. There are different types of wages programs but they’re often a computerised version of the blue book you buy from newsagents. They often don’t offer much more than a large calculator,’ he said. Egerton-Warburton said the product could make it easier for farmers and other rural businesspeople to sort through the morass of employee regulations and award allowances. ‘It’s a leverage tool as opposed to just a calculator,’ he said. Agrimaster had found another product that offered similar functionality to Wage Easy Payroll HR, but in-house managers had reported that the rival software was a ‘nightmare’ to deploy, he said. The Australian Flagship software took half a day to get going, he said. The deal was a new relationship for both companies. ‘They’re a great company to work with,’ Egerton-Warburton said. ‘Our developers have been working together. Our products are delivered into the back end, tied together -- that was also a big plus.’ Agrimaster does not use a network of resellers, preferring instead to offer products direct to its specialised agricultural sector clients via its own consultants. ‘We would be delivering this for the top 20 percent of our client base ... but what we have found is that smaller companies than you expect are taking the product up,’ he said. ‘It works just as well if you have one employee or 100 employees. If you’re a big company, you buy more licences.’ Egerton-Warburton said he had ‘no idea’ how much revenue the new software could earn Agrimaster in the first year. Yet although financial problems in the bush have been a recurring theme for years, Egerton-Warburton said demand for specialised agricultural sector software -- that included functionality for such things as stock unit calculations and integrated tools to help the many farmers that ran more than one business -- was booming. ‘We find the farming market is very computer-oriented. [IT] is essential and what we’ve developed is agriculture-specific software,’ Egerton-Warburton said. Grant Dunoon, MD at Australian Flagship, said Wage Easy Payroll HR was a generic package that the two companies had adapted specifically for the agricultural sector. The software was attracting interest for its ability to integrate with other systems, including standard office applications such as Excel, he said. ‘We got an R&D grant a couple of years ago to produce a system called eWage, which allows the distribution of award data and updates it automatically. But what Agrimaster is doing is reselling and distributing it and also creating the pastoral awards for it, so farms and pastoral businesses can keep up to date,’ he said. Industrial awards were usually ‘horrendously complex’, he said, and could lead to costly litigation and wastage of resources if companies failed to dish out staff allowances and penalties correctly the first time. ‘There’s a lot of different [issues] in the community as to how they should be repaying different penalties and so on. So eWage helps them sort that out,’ Dunoon said. He said the Australian Flagship software had proven popular in the hospitality industry. The company had done a pilot program with clubs in NSW and Victoria and had found some that had overpaid 50 staff for overtime worked. ‘That worked out to about $90,000 a year,’ he said. Most popular accounting systems, such as MYOB, did record-keeping and accounting-type operations but failed to include ‘interpretive’ functions that examined regulatory requirements and other HR considerations. Businesses everywhere sought to consolidate their IT packages and communications across their entire networks, Dunoon said, but many packages targeted businesses with thousands of staff and were priced accordingly. ‘We’re seeing people like SAP and PeopleSoft bring out $25,000 small business packages,’ he said. ‘Wage Easy fits in all the details, and goes through the industrial awards and calculates out all the overtime, penalty rates, holiday pays and so on -- the whole lot,’ he said. Australian Flagship also distributes Wage Easy via Business Management Software in Melbourne, but sought other resellers for the product on a case by case basis, Dunoon said.
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Human Resources Australia's Leading HR Newsmagazine A concise and integrated solution, Wage Easy HR is a dynamic
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- Business Software Guide The latest release of Wage Easy Payroll HR from Australian Flagship, with its swag of innovative features and super quick implementation process and payroll production times, has seen Wage Easy gain significant market share, redefining business expectations. What is truly amazing is that the system comes out of the package complete with award and tax files required for a myriad of employment conditions found in Australia. This means that the implementation time for businesses such as hospitality, manufacturing, mining, health care, clubs or construction industries (just to name a few) is significantly reduced. Even in the more unusual cases with complex needs or EBAs, Wage Easy allows you to change all the payroll calculation factors, doing away with expensive implementation teams. The design has resulted in a very flexible payroll and HR management product that is easy to integrate with other business processes, be they manual procedures in a small business or fully networked information systems in a large corporation. Payroll input and processing can be fully automated and HR management facilitated through intranet access. Along with an extensive range of general reporting export formats, general ledger data can be processed down to activity and employee level where required. Payroll processing time is also a key winner for Wage Easy given that a business with several hundred employees, using manual data entry, will process the whole payroll in just under a few hours (including banking and reporting) delivering a significant time advantage. Even more amazing is that when linked to an electronic time collection system, this whole process is reduced to just minutes. In addition to the exciting features already mentioned, Australian Flagship has also overcome many of the traditional problems associated with other payroll processes, having the capacity to handle multiple pay cycles simultaneously for work situations ranging from a high level of casual shift workers paid by the week, to salary packaged executives working on a monthly cycle. Payroll costs can be allocated to a single or multi level cost structure, with reporting available on a day–by-day or hour-by-hour basis if required. What’s more, the detailed information is made available in a very practical way with the drill-down feature allowing you to click down from any report to an employee pay slip or timesheet that forms part of the report. An inbuilt custom report writer caters for the rare occasion that you may need a special analysis that is not already covered by the extensive range of standard reports or those downloadable from the Australian Flagship web site. Another area where Wage Easy is streets ahead of the competition is in its internet awareness. Not only can Wage Easy operate in a multi-user and multi-company environment, but inward and outward communication can flow to employees and other parties. This allows automatic transmission of banking and superannuation contribution data for example, and the automatic updating of award and tax files through the eWage system. Gone are the worries of struggling through written industrial awards and maintaining changes. Wage Easy clearly reflects an amalgamation of real world business operations and creative process that is a crowning credit to the team at Australian Flagship, a leading Australian software development company that has specialised in payroll and HR for over ten years. It is the only Australian payroll software company to gain federal government recognition for innovation through an R&D grant, as well as state government support for its work in developing e-commerce solutions. When you examine this payroll and human resource management system you will not fail to be impressed that this ISO 9000 quality accredited company has got a world beating product in Wage Easy Payroll HR. Visit www.flagship.com.au for more information but be prepared to spend considerable time investigating this feature packed product..
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Perfection in Payroll No matter where you are in Australia, you are likely to find someone who delights in Wage Easy's payroll reporting. From Sydney's beautiful harbour to Darwin's dusty outback, there are payroll experts who can answer any request for payroll information due to the comprehensive suite of reports and the drill down feature found in Wage Easy Payroll. As a market leader in payroll software, Wage Easy Payroll (Windows) is fast becoming the preferred choice for cost effective in house payroll solutions. For over a decade, Wage Easy has brought cost savings to businesses through its focus on quick and easy to use software. Most businesses cut their payroll processing time by up to 80 per cent when they change over to Wage Easy because of its unique Award Interpreter. Wage Easy is a computerised system where the entire process of payroll calculation is done by computer, from simple entry of start and finish times. The interpreter is the engine room of the program and once you have entered the various awards, pay rates and other details behind your payroll you can put away your calculator, pens and Award manuals forever. George Barsoum, office administrator at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron at Kirribilli uses Wage Easy and is able to provide club managers with reports that were not available in his old payroll system. He can now give his managers whatever information they require and can export the reports into a spreadsheet or another program if he needs to use the data or do some other work with it. The reporting is one of the major benefits of Wage Easy and according to George:
Simultaneously, the program is flexible enough to accept changes to
the Award. If you employ staff on Workplace or Enterprise Bargaining Agreements, you can
include the conditions of their employment as unique modules in the interpreter.
The reports can be emailed which means that costs can also be
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The Accountants Guide to Payroll Services Developed in Australia, Wage Easy Payroll is a full award interpreter for weekly payroll. From entering the actual start and finish times of the timesheet into the computer, the pays are automatically calculated, eliminating the need for the operator to know the award(s). Wage Easy will also run across a network. Full, pull-down menus direct you around the program, avoiding the need for complicated keystrokes. Actual timesheet keying can be sped up by hot keys, which copy either the line above or return the last saved timesheet. A dedicated payroll and HR system, Wage Easy Payroll has found its place across a wide variety of businesses from hotels, motels, restaurants, clubs, solicitors, printers, supermarkets, garages, retail outlets, and a variety of manufacturing sites. It is simple, easy and quick yet flexible for anyone who wages war over weekly wages, including those with complicated penalties, meal loading, RDOs and multiple overtime rates, etc. in their awards. All the conditions of an award are set-up once, and the program then compares the timesheets(s) against these conditions, calculates the pay, tax, super, etc. and then produces a payslip which complies with government regulations. Each timesheet can be allocated to a department, with multiple timesheets and different pay-rates being possible, ensuring departmental costs are correctly recorded. Entering the timesheet directly onto the screen provides not only additional power in management's reports but avoids the necessity and cost of rounding your timesheet to the nearest quarter hour. With 10 employees each rounding their timesheets up by 5 minutes each day, this can cost over $2000 annually in overpayments. Wage Easy avoids fiddly calculations allowing payments to the minute. The user has the flexibility to define or change tax scales, pay rates, overtime payments, superannuation, sick and annual leave or any other aspect in the award, avoiding the necessity of being locked into expensive maintenance agreements for updates. The user can define on what aspects they wish to pay (for example, superannuation) and they can nominate if they will pay superannuation on annual or sick leave, penalties, loadings, overtime, etc. or based on normal hours only. Reports Wage Easy goes well beyond producing the mandatory monthly reports of tax, superannuation, and end-of-year ATO certificates. Since it uses the actual start and finish times each day, costings can be obtained for an employee or department by each day of the week: corn-parc daily staffing costs to the daily takings. These reports can also be dissected further to pull out the penalty payments, sick leave, overtime, and loadings, etc. either by hours worked or daily costs. Weekly reports grouping the daily figures can also be run. Sick, annual and long service leave records are updated automatically with each timesheet entry. Leave taken can be displayed graphically in calendar form. Leave entitlement hours and payout value for sick, annual and long service leave can also be reported. At your fingertips, additional reports of union fees, workcover, additions/deductions, bonuses, commission paid, staff/employee listing, and the mandatory reports of superannuation, tax and group certificates can all be printed out. When it comes to banking, Wage Easy allows the operator to process the pays by EFT, cash dissections, cheque or a bank payment summary. It also offers the flexibility to move the pay-week-ending date forward or backward in time to view specific reports or payslips. Wage Easy also offers a security system, keeping prying eyes out. It keeps an inbuilt record of usage so activity can be tracked. Back-up onto floppy using inbuilt data compression can be accessed immediately on exiting the program.
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Easier than tying shoelaces Wage Easy Payroll is now the choice by Motel Operators (being the industry leader )with a line share of the market. No matter if you are a small or larger operation, payday is a critical time for any business. That time to pay that large expense and why your staff generally turn up to work. Getting your payroll correct can be critical to your business yet with the hospitality awards penalty rates, shift loadings, overtime, Superannuation etc, fluctuations of casual staff plus a diverse requirement for management reporting, makes this job often lengthy and time consuming. Those that have made the change to computerised systems using award interpretators such as Wage Easy Payroll Software have found this payroll system to be an incredible time saver. The distinct advantage of such a system has meant that the payroll person needs only to complete the timesheet screen (as your employee's timesheet) with your payslips instantly produced to the exacting requirements of your award. The timesheet screen being quick to complete and reduces the errors in calculations or need for the processor to have exacting knowledge of your awards or agreements. I have found the power, detailed award understanding and dedicated back up support service to be a total package unmatched by any other software. Their Internet site boasts an extensive list of user comments such as Stephen Mullins (Pavillion Motor Inn / Tamworth Towers) explains "It's easier than tying your shoelaces" We live in uncertain times with industrial relations awards and agreements constantly changing. Today's system need the flexibility and this product really delivers what other can only promise. Managing your labour costs has never been easier with Wage Easy. Imagine knowing instantly your labour costs for each day of the week with just a quick keystroke and what you should expect from today's systems. With intelligent software now available, choose a system that works for you, not you for it such as Wage Easy which caters for the Hospitality exacting needs. |
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Wage Easy Payroll - The Smart Software Australian Flagship's, Wage Easy Payroll Software has built a strong following in the accommodation industry, being used by over 1000's businesses. The "set and forget" aspect of Wage Easy's award interpretation effortlessly converts an employee's timesheet to pay slip in seconds. Clients speak highly of Australian Flagships customer service team, as they are able to relate to the complexity of the awards in simple terms providing a warm friendly personalised back up service. Having at their fingertips, the ability to report daily labour costs empowered one Wage Easy user to reduce their total labour costs for room cleaning by $14,000 pa by simply comparing their labour cost Vs room occupancy rates. Call today for a must see free demonstration disk to discover how Wage Easy will revoloutionise your payroll. Telephone: 03-9853-9124 |
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Wages made easy from Flagship AUSTRALIAN Flagship has been producing Wage Easy Payroll Software for nearly a decade and has gained ISO 9002 accreditation. This quality recognition is reflected in the fact that Wage Easy has become the most popular hospitality payroll system in Australia. Wage Easy Payroll's ability to handle Australia's complex awards and still flexible enough to cope with the proposed AWA's has made this product stand out from competitors. Australian Flagship offers dedicated back up support for those who have only limited computer knowledge, or for those who just need help completing an unusual payroll function. A support team that is friendly, professional but more importantly has a full understanding of hospitality industry requirements is always on hand Wage Easy is an ideal system for those with a large workforce of casuals and part time staff. From $495 these products offered by Australian Flagship are a different solution in payroll management, matching your needs beyond 2000. |
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Behind the cover WAGE Easy Payroll Software has won the acclaim of industry leaders as being the most comprehensive payroll system for Australian Industry. Designed for the varying needs of the Australian awards and AWA's, Wage Easy is in use with small to large hotels, motels, clubs, restaurants/cafes across Australia. Users praise its power, ease of use and dedicated support. Through timesheet interprestation, Wage Easy ensures you fully comply with your awards without effort. For more information contact Australian Flagship on (03) 9853 9124
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Simplify payrolls Wage Easy payroll is high technology running on an Windows which makes everything easy for you. It was designed to save time but keep things accurate, invisibly incorporating the hundreds of variables which apply to hospitality administration.Awards, enterprise bargains, overtime, superannuation, taxation rates and entitlements are all dealt with over the complications ofloadings, spread of hours, meal breaks and penalties. The program is used by restaurants, hotels, motels, service stations, retail outlets, and even a firm of solicitors. This fact alone vouches for its flexibility and simplicity. All the variables are there so, if an employee slips into a highertax bracket or a different award level, things are simply adjusted without outside help from programmers. Payslips are automatically produced, so are group certificates,and it even reports on individual departments.There's no need to be an experienced computer operator or anaccountant. Most users found they saved the price (tax deductablel) in a very short time. |
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Software to ease the pay pain! A revolutionary, easy to use and affordable software package specifically designed for small to medium-size businesses has been developed by a business in Kew. The package, Wage Easy Payroll, was inspired by the experiences of the company's managing director Grant Dunoon of Australian Flagship; explains: "Doing payrolls, with their million- and-one award conditions and enterprise bargaining, pay rates, tax, Super, holiday pay and WorkCover details was always a huge headache . With 10 years computer programming behind him Grant decided to head the development software program which would eliminate the pain of payroll administration for business operators. Wage Easy Payroll is the result and it is being hailed as 'very user friendly, fast and simple to use. The strengths of the program lie in three areas.
Once entered all details interact invisibly in the background, generating accuratepaperwork, and maintaining full employee, departmental and business records. In addition, management reporting and analysis functions have been built in to make the program a useful and powerful management Grant Dunoon and his team began the development of Wage Easy Payroll in 1989 and, since its release, users have expressed their delight with the product for its simplicity of use and time-and-money saving benefits. The most popular feature of the program is that it is simple to use, eliminating 'double-handling' whilst being fast and accurate. Users estimate they are taking half the time - or less - to complete payroll details. Human errors are easy to fix, and Wage Easy Payroll's reporting features and detail enhancements (such as personalised messages on payslips for birthdays, anniversaries and so on, are highly regarded. Wage Easy Payroll has been accepted into many small businesses including restaurants, hotels, motels, bowling alleys, clothing stores, garages and even solicitors firms. According to Grant Dunoon it is suitable for any business which pays weekly wages. Grant's team has also built in some powerful graphics and reporting functions, which give the manager extremely useful tools such as reports on sick leave, which are instantly available. Display can be either in chart form, or high-impact graphs. Likewise, patterns in overtime can be called up instantly and departmental staff costs can The program comes with a high quality, easy- to-follow manual and Dunoon offers an Australian-wide troubleshooting and customer service facility. For further information contact Australian Flagship on 03 98539124. |
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Fully automated payroll software - so simple you won't believe it Key Benefits
PAYROLL software that's flexible, simple and fully automated? A powerful management tool as well? Wage Easy Payroll is an incredibly easy payroll system for weekly wages developed by Victorian company Australian Flagship. Wage Easy's principal strengths are:
Once entered, all details interact invisibly in the back-ground, generating accurate information, and maintaining full records. Management reporting and analysis are built in, making the program a useful and powerful management tool. Best of all, it's completely automatic. Enter employee start and finish times for the week onto a timesheet on your screen and Wage Easy does the rest - in 45 seconds or less. Designed for Australian working conditions, written with our tax and award systems in mind - it's the big pay easy. Wage Easy Payroll from only $495 - and fully tax deductible! |
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A Payroll Speciality for the Smaller Sites - Wage Easy Solo Australian Flagship introduces a new product, Wage Easy Solo No longer will your payroll program become outdated with tax, Super or pay rate increases. With Wage Easy the user can change the information as required. All Wage Easy Payroll products are designed in Australia and will meet our awards with a product that will now suit any business. With sites all over Australia, Wage Easy has proven that it is flexible enough to suit any business needs. Wage Easy Products- They're not just like all the rest! The principle is still the same as it's "bigger brother" Wage Easy Mainsteam. From entering the actual start and finish times of the timesheet into the computer, Wage Easy will interpret fully the times, with the pays being automatically calculated, eliminating the need for the operator to know the awards. As the pays are completed, leave accruals, superannuation, tax, group certificates files, etc are updated and can be printed out quickly as required. Wage Easy will speed up your overall payroll processing time to only a few minutes each pay. Wage Easy Solo will take the hassle out of keeping track of your mandatory monthly dues such as tax, super, etc. Just print out the report and send it off with the cheque, it's that simple! Wage Easy Solo is simple, yet flexible, allowing the user to alter pay rates, tax scales, super, annual or sick leave or any other part of the award as required ensuring their future needs are meet. For a free Wage Easy Solo demonstration disk or information on your nearest dealer, contact Delma McSwan or Grant Dunoon on (03) 9853 9124. |