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EMPulseTM Payroll Preparation

EMPulse Payroll Preparation is a sophisticated process automation tool that saves you time and money by streamlining labour-intensive tasks related to the preparation of the gross pay such as importing attendance data, entering and approving time and expenses, managing benefits and converting worked hours to earnings. Our innovative payroll preparation solution also allows you to seamlessly transmit pay items to a service bureau, to your existing payroll system, or to the EMPulse Payroll Processing module[1] to complete payment of wages, bonuses, and other forms of compensation – it’s your choice.

With EMPulse Payroll Preparation, all your workforce pay preparation activities are managed and controlled by one application, which saves time, eliminates data discrepancies and duplication, reduces errors and improves productivity. Moreover, our software application allows you to dispense with manual notes, spreadsheets and calculators for managing group plans, union requirements, costing reports, general ledger distribution and vacation or time banks.

With EMPulse Payroll Preparation you can:

  • Reduce costs by streamlining labour-intensive processes and by eliminating costly errors, redundant data entry and rework
  • Save time by quickly entering employee timesheets or by automatically importing labour data from external sources such as spreadsheets, text files or other software applications
  • Provide employees and managers with self-service access to timesheet and expenses data to streamline the entry and approval process and to improve employee satisfaction
  • Ensure the accurate and consistent application of your complex pay rules
  • Set up reminders to make sure that you never miss a deadline for a report, an employee review or meeting
  • Keep transaction history for as long as you want for analysis and comparison
  • Generate and analyze costs for any job, project, operation, employee group or individual
  • Perform “what-if” scenarios to estimate the cost of a salary or benefit increase for a group of employees
  • Generate time billing requests and initiate the reimbursement of expenses through payroll or accounting

Key features include:

  • Robust payroll calculation engine featuring user configurable calculation rules, minimums, maximums, ceilings, arrears management and more
  • Unlimited configurable pay items including earnings, accruals, benefits, time banks, expenses, reimbursements and deductions with flexible rate and eligibility control
  • Advanced rate resolution featuring user configurable rate tables and support for multi-level pay grades to account for parameters such as seniority, position, unions and more
  • Benefits administration, including benefits plans and packages, program eligibility, automatic calculation of rates and amounts, and more
  • Multiple pay and holiday calendars with user configurable eligibility rules
  • Employee communication tools including reminders, messages and password-protected delivery of time cards by e-mail to employees or supervisors
  • Interface with general ledger accounting systems and job costing applications
  • Employee expense management
  • Tight integration with EMPulse Payroll Processing, HR, and Advanced Project Tracking and Costing
  • History of employment status and pay rates
  • Wizards for termination, hiring, vacation release, retroactive pays and rate changes
  • Wide range of reports that can be viewed, printed, exported or securely emailed
  • Audit trail and configurable user security
  • Bilingual (English and French) menus, reports and user documentation

Learn more about EMPulse Payroll Preparation.