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Pastel Payroll Connected Services - the best of both worlds
Softline Pastel Payroll aims to make your business life easier. Our Connected Services Division enables SME companies to extend their desktop payroll with an online solution that will ease the growing burden of HR Managers. In short, it gives SME’s extended payroll and HR functionality through online services linked to the desktop.
Where many organisations are rushing to take the desktop into the Cloud, Pastel Payroll’s approach has been more practical to build bridges between the two.
What is ‘Connected Services’?
Connected Services includes a web-based self-service tool that enables employees to manage and maintain their own information online, enabling employees to make on-line applications for leave, loans, bursaries, travel claims, view their payslips and update personal information, no matter where they are, as long as they have an internet connection. Once an employee’s online request has been approved, the payroll system is automatically updated.
Softline Pastel Payroll developed Connected Services with workflow capabilities based on the organisation chart or a specific workflow order per online form. The organisation chart indicates the hierarchy reporting structures of each department involved in the approval procedure with the administrator having sole access to create and amend the workflow structures.
This structure guarantees quick deployment at low implementation cost as no server integration processes are necessary. Once a manager approves an online leave application, the Payroll is automatically updated. HR managers are also able to create any application form they require, from a study loan application form to a cell phone claim form. Payroll administrators and HR Mangers can also received RSS feeds directly to their desktop notifying them of legislation and tax changes as well as the latest software releases.
What to expect of Pastel Payroll’s connected services in the future?
More HR functionality will be added online that will synchronise with the desktop solution to enable 360 degree performance reviews. Functionality to simplify disciplinary processes and the existence of warnings and whether they are still valid or have expired will be added. Furthermore, a recruitment facility enabling employers to post new vacancies that employees can view and apply for online will also be added.
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