MYOB EXO Payroll – a pain in the arse!

For  nearly ten years now we have been using the Comacc Payroll but since it was taken over by MYOB the whole thing is starting to deteriorate.

In their wisdom they have removed our ability to print to the lineflow payslips we have been using since we started and expect us now to buy their, much more expensive, A4 lineflow payslip.  This has been a complete nightmare for us, and others, and is a huge waste of paper as now we have to use an A4 page whereas before it was about half the size.

Plus, las year we inherited a number of clients from the MYOB Bureau when they decided to close shop.  A few were using the MYOB MyStaff Info (their Employee Kiosk) but this has been another nightmare for us.  For something that is meant to be fully integrated it’s a joke.  We also seem to have ongoing problems with the kiosk not writing back changes to the database.  If anyone is after such a product then we suggest TimeFiler as it works the way it should do.

And the final straw is they have increased the Annual Maintenance fees!@@!@#  For paying them a bundle of money we end up with a payroll that is deteriorating in quality………………so we are now on the hunt for a new solution to replace the MYOB one as we have had enough.

Outstanding, Accrued and Advanced leave – what is the difference?

The three headings are just how Annual Leave is categorised.  To understand them you first must remember that an employees Annual Leave year runs for a 12 month basis annually from when they started.  At the end of each year the balances are moved from one area to another as follows:

The leave that you accrue during the year (within your current holiday pay year) is called Accrued Leave and every pay this keeps increasing based either on hours worked or days paid (depending upon setup) so that at the end of your 12 months you will have accrued your total entitlement, say 20 days or 160 hours.

At the end of your holiday pay year the total Accrued Leave is transferred to Outstanding Leave and your accrual starts all over again.  So on the date of your anniversary Outstanding would show 20 days and Accrued would be zero.

If during the year you take leave (and you have no days left in Outstanding as you have taken them all) then the leave you take is called Advanced as it is effectively an advance of your current years entitlement as strictly speaking you are not entitled to your leave until you have completed each 12 month period.

The system takes leave from your Outstanding balance first and then from Accrued so you cannot have a situation where there is a figure in Outstanding and Advanced.

Does it matter that we are not based in Christchurch?

We handle payrolls for clients all over New Zealand as well as some from Australia.  With modern communication options it has no effect where you are based.

Reports are e-mailed to you and payslips can be either e-mailed (all password protected) or security payslips get couriered to you.