About Powerpay Plus

With an upgrade to Powerpay Plus, additional functionality is available.

Mass Edit Tools

Use the Mass Compensation Update feature to update compensation information for multiple employees at one time with the same default update method (rate modifier, percentage modifier, new rate or manual update). At the end of this process, you can review the proposed changes, such as the effective date and new compensation amount, modify individual records and exclude individual records from being updated. You can also save update details in a reusable template.

For more information, click here.

Use the mass deduction and contribution update feature to update deductions and contributions for multiple employees at one time using the same update method (value modifier, percentage modifier, new value or manual update). At the end of this process, you can review the proposed changes, modify individual records, and exclude individual records from being updated. You can also save update details in a reusable template.

For more information, click here.

Use this page to update employee IDs or positions for multiple employees at one time with the same update method (new value or manual update). At the end of this process, you can review the proposed changes, modify individual records and exclude individual records from being updated. You can also save update details in a reusable template.

For more information, click here.

Use this page to update employee status information and produce ROE forms (if necessary) for multiple employees. At the end of this process, you can review the proposed changes, modify individual employees and exclude individual employees from being updated. You can also save update details in a reusable template.

For more information, click here.

Use this page to pay out vacation and/or additional accumulator amounts for multiple employees, or to remove mass accumulator payouts for multiple employees, eliminating the need to do them individually. Accumulator payouts can be made on either Regular or Second Payments.

For more information, click here.

Security Roles

Security Roles allows you to restrict access for some contacts. For example, you can restrict access to employee pay rates.

Powerpay Admin users can create security based user roles which allows multiple users to work in Powerpay while only accessing the information available to their assigned role.

Powerpay Admin users are the only users who can:

  • Create, modify and delete user roles
  • Define a default role for new users
  • Define page and pop-up access for each role

All other users have view and modify access to the pages defined by the role.  There is no view only option.

For more information, see Security Roles.

Additional Verification Totals

Users can view additional totals on the Data Verification page.Closed From the Process menu, select Data Verification. for values entered in the current pay period for :

  • Permanent earnings, deductions and contribution changes
  • Permanent salary or pay rate changes
  • Permanent regular hour changes
  • Year-to-date adjustments

When this feature is enabled, the following columns display in the Regular Payment Totals section:

  • This Pay Only
  • Current Permanent Changes

Multi-Report Download

Use the Multi-Report Download feature to consolidate reports (payroll reports and year-end reports) based on a specified date range and download all of the reports as one zip file. Contact your Customer Support Team to enable this feature.

For more information, click here.

Advanced Reporting

Advanced Reporting provides users access to run (and/or create) reports using near real-time data from the Powerpay Database and the data from the payroll engine after a payroll is processed.

  • Users log into IAM (Identity and Access Management) to access both Powerpay and Advanced Reporting. (Single sign on)

  • When a user’s IAM credentials are entered and saved, they will have the flexibility to launch either Advanced Reporting or Powerpay without the need to enter their credentials a second time.

  • This removes the requirement for users to maintain separate login credentials for each product.

A separate email will be sent with login information and user guides.

HR Data

Powerpay allows you to capture detailed personnel information with the HR Data pages. All information that is entered is displayed on the page and can be edited, deleted and reported on as required.

For more information, click here.

Optional Features

Sick pay accumulator

A Sick Pay Accumulator option is available for accumulating hours per pay.

Using this option:

  • The sick pay accumulator is updated with an ‘Hours per Pay’ value on all regular runs for active employees, even if the employee is not receiving a payment. If the hours should not apply to an employee, an adjustment must be manually entered.
  • The accumulator allotment for Hours per pay is not added to the employee’s accumulator on extra runs or with manual, reversal or 2nd payments for any employees assigned this option.

For accumulator functionality linked to time off requests, contact your Customer Support Team to learn more. Service fees apply.

For more information, click here.

Custom Import

Custom import functionality provides an efficient method of populating employee profile, timesheet, direct deposit and deductions & contribution data into Powerpay, without the need to manually enter the information.

Advanced Job Costing

Dept X, Y and Z IDs are available for use for G/L distribution when Advanced Costing functionality is turned on and the Distribution Layout is set up for the payroll.

If Advanced Costing is NOT turned on, or there is no Distribution Layout set up, only the ID Dept will display.

The Distribution drop-down boxes display all distributions set up for the payroll on the Departments and IDs page in the same order as the Distribution Layout.

If you are interested in Job Costing, contact your Customer Support Team.

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