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» Human Resources
» Payroll Management
» System Features

Human Resources

Organisation and Position Control
Maintain complete control over your organisation’s structure using chris²¹ (and other third-party software) to create an accurate, up-to-the-minute view of the organisation.

Flexible remuneration / salary sacrifice
Forecast, plan and administer remuneration in line with local market conditions across the organisation, or by selected employee groups.

Biographical Data
chris²¹ allows your organisation to capture, maintain and retain unlimited data history. Additional staff biographic data can be added at any time. This powerful feature is unsurpassed as it enables the user to ‘customise’ their system without the need for programming.

Holiday and Sickness
User-defined tables hold rules relating to absences (e.g. payment, entitlement and statutory conditions) that can be amended and viewed as required.

Triggers / Alerts
chris²¹ provides automatic email alerts. User defined alerts can also be created saving additional time and money.

Email and Microsoft Office^TM Integration
Gain efficiency within your HR department by utilizing the automatic Word Merge function found within chris²¹. Data can also be exported directly into Microsoft Excel^TM or imported directly into the chris²¹ database (with validation) saving considerable time and effort. Emails can be generated automatically using  Microsoft Outlook^TM.

Talent Management
Organisations that engage in talent management are strategically adept and deliberate in how they source, attract, select, train, develop, retain, promote and move employees through an organisation. chris²¹ is the ideal tool to help achieve these goals along with functions from the following modules: Recruitment Management, Learning & Development, Performance Management and Succession Planning.

Payroll Management

Frontier Software’s Payroll Management module features comprehensive payroll rules to meet statutory compliance, stringent payroll requirements and comprehensive auditing and security facilities. All backed up by regular software upgrades, full documentation and dedicated support.

All payroll parameters can be user-defined according to business and statutory requirements. The payroll management module calculates retrospective changes to salaries / wages / allowances automatically, while maintaining the original cost-coding and full adjustment history.

Compliance with statutory requirements for post-termination payments is guaranteed. chris²¹   historical data is always available even when an employee leaves the organisation. Payment can be made up to the leaving date, or post-termination if overtime / commission / backpay is due.

Timesheets
Timesheets may be entered manually or imported using the Import Manager module. Alternatively chris²¹ will automatically generate hours by logic based on hours worked and award interpretation within our TA²¹ Time and Attendance module.

Deductions / Allowances / Earnings / Benefits
An unlimited number of deductions, pension / superannuation schemes, allowances and benefits can be maintained. chris²¹  keeps a full online history of changes for each employee and when additional earnings / deductions are required, they are simple to add.

On Demand Pay Re-calculation
chris²¹  allows the re-calculation of an individual’s pay and then continue with processing payroll reports, making it ideal for online checking.

Supplementary Pay
There are choices when making payments to employees outside a scheduled pay run:

• Process the employee in a separate pay run
• Make the payment off-line and record the payment details in chris²¹  

Either way, chris²¹ updates year-to-date totals, creates accounting entries and provides reconciliation reports.

Disbursement
Net pay can be disbursed via EFT (electronic funds transfer), cheque or cash.

Financial Management Interfaces
More than 100 financial management system interfaces already exist in chris²¹.  A standard interface is also available, alternatively Frontier Software can create a general ledger interface for you.

Pay Adjustments
A simple method for making one-off payments or deductions is provided – in addition to base pay, overtime and allowances. Adjustments are automatically created when retrospective changes to salary or allowance are entered, while one-off or bulk adjustments can be made as required. You can even import spreadsheet data into chris²¹ without re-keying data by using the Smart Import / Export Manager module.

Pay Rates / Pay Scales
Pay rates are user-defined and any number can be accommodated, with a complete history maintained.

Back Pay
With chris²¹ this is not an issue - simply enter the date and amount.

Reporting
Reports may be produced in printed, or electronic format.  A wide variety of standard payroll reports are available to satisfy the diverse needs of business managers – including payroll, financial management, statutory, auditors and external agencies

Taxation and Social Security
Taxation logic is held with chris²¹ to ensure that statutory requirements are always met. These are updated automatically under the annual maintenance agreement.

A ‘press button’ Pay Run
This feature saves time and effort of entering timecards for ordinary hours if employees are ‘auto-paid’ ie. receive the same salary each pay period.

Net to Gross
chris²¹ applies statutory taxation rules in order to gross up the value of a net payment if required.

Termination Calculation*
A comprehensive termination facility means that once the rules are defined for calculating termination payments, all is needed is a termination date.
*Module available in selected countries.

Advance Payment
Standard taxation logic is used to calculate and deduct tax automatically for the advance pay period and can be calculated pro-rata or made in full.

Pension / Superannuation
Define and process any number of pension / superannuation schemes:

• Calculation of employee and employer contributions
• Year-to-date and fund-to-date totals
• Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) (UK)
• Offsets and ceilings
• Contracted out money purchase scheme
• Specific amounts and / or percentage values
• Electronic interfaces to scheme providers
• Meets statutory scheme requirements
• Super choice (Australia only)

Pay History and Year-to-date
Immediate access to historical data via chris²¹ will save time and money.

System Features

Complete History
Frontier Software has designed all of its products around the concept of unlimited history. Data is never lost, even when employees leave the organisation data is retained. Access to historical data is available at anytime.

Smart Import / Export Manager Module
Frontier Software has created this smart module that is more than just importing data. Designed using Microsoft Excel^TM, formatting templates for importing and exporting data are available using the report designer. Security and validation is crucial in creating a superior product and the business rules contained within our products are used to undertake data validation and security.

Customisation Tools
Frontier Software has achieved full functionality that allows a user to add new screens (forms), amend the data dictionary, create user help and remove data items that are not required.

Security / Auditing
Audit controls are essential for system management and any database change is recorded and reported. The comprehensive security function underpins all data access and reporting, allowing the security user to state who has access to what data components. Business logic determines the data to be deleted, added, changed or just viewed according to organisation structure.

Organisation Charting
chris²¹ holds a staff members reporting relationship and this is necessary when extracting data for a chosen Organisation Charting product. Frontier Software provides interfaces to the popular charting products e.g. Org Plus and Org Publisher. Within our Employee and Manager Self Service product HR²¹, an employee can drill down to his / her reporting chart to display a mini chart.

Attachments
chris²¹ can now become your filing cabinet with an unlimited number of attachments. Any document e.g. photograph, driving license, certificate of education / qualification or birth certificate can be attached to an employee’s record.

LDAP Authentication
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol relates to authenticating users with Enterprise Directories when they are logging into the system. Instead of each application maintaining its own database of user security information, a Directory Service holds the security information for all users in the enterprise. Each application authenticates users against this central Directory Service using a standard called LDAP. Having the login id and password in one location and using LDAP enabled applications this provides the benefit of Same Sign On.

Help / User Notes
Just point to the field or form (screen) or menu item and automatically help will be found. An on-line tutorial help with index capability is available. This feature provides instant knowledge to a user and is updated when new software versions are created.

Additional Features:

• Opening multiple windows at the same time

• Provision of a quick filter / query function

• Email Merge function

• XML output

• Report Scheduling

Report Designer
Advanced management reporting facilities are vital business tools delivered by the chris²¹ Report Designer. This easy-to-use, intuitive function of chris²¹ allows any number of reports to be created and amended by the user at any time. Simple specification and selection of data ensures that management reports can be delivered easily and quickly, while with just one click, data can be merged into Microsoft Word^TM and / or Excel^TM. Comprehensive security facilities control exactly who can access information within the chris²¹ database, as well as the output created via this effective reporting tool.

Unlimited extraction, analysis and reporting on your HR data means that reports can be generated in the format you require. Simply drag-and-drop data fields into the report layout and link ad-hoc reports to chris²¹ menus to make reporting by managers even easier.

All chris²¹ standard reports present important management information. Many of the reports have XML capability with templates supplied by Frontier Software.

Produce output in XML and PDF format for integration with third-party tools such as Altova’s XMLSPYTM and Adobe PDFTM. Users can also export data into Microsoft Word^TM and Excel^TM using XML output and you can create a comprehensive, professionally presented report every time.

Scheduling
Any reports produced within chris²¹ can be scheduled for processing at a specific time and day of the week. Users can ensure report outputs are ready for review by management the moment they arrive on-site, while the appropriate output can be emailed to a number of recipients.

Business Intelligence Reporting
Obtain full graphical analysis of your data via simple point and click processes by interfacing with third-party business intelligence products. Examples include: WebFocus^TM, Crystal^TM, Impromptu^TM or Business Objects^TM.

Dashboard
A dashboard is an Executive Information System user interface that is designed to be easy to read. Graphs are displayed with a presentation of different chart types and you can drill down into a low level of data. A wide variety of metrics have been designed for the HR dashboard and Frontier Software have different dashboards for the diverse functions of HR. This graphical user interface will display summary graphs (e.g. bar charts, pie charts, bullet graphs etc.) and gauges with colours similar to traffic lights will be available.