Great Plains Partner Newsflash: Payroll Timesheets and New Employees integration
Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP has US and Canadian Payroll modules, and this accounting application is often used by Payroll outsourcing companies to serve their customers as well as by large corporation to accrue and pay payroll checks, Social Security, Medicare, Federal and State Income taxes, plus W-2 printing and mailing to employees
In order to save on Dynamics GP user licenses, it is common
to see simple or complex timecard custom made application on the front, often
web based, where employees are logging their time on the daily base after each
shift and then this timesheet logging application should be automatically or
manually integrated with Great Plains Dynamics GP. In this publication we will review various
options to do the job:
1.
Dynamics GP Integration Manager Payroll
connector. This is sort of user friendly
tool, however we recommend IT level involvement, as it requires you to understand
such features as Text file parsing, ODBC queries, and Advanced ODBC (where you
can base your query on custom SQL View with grouping, filtering and other SQL
constructions). Great Plains Integration
Manager allows you to add or update employee, set up employee taxes and
deductions. Regarding Payroll
transactions integration ? here you can integrate Hourly Pay Codes to the core
US or Canadian Payroll module logic to make them available for batch processing
in Great Plains Dynamics GP. GP IM
integration could be easily launched by Great Plains User or scheduled (in this
case you may need GP IM automatic integration routine, available for purchase
from Microsoft Business Solution)
2.
eConnect US Payroll integration
programming. eConnect is C# and VB .Net
programmer friendly SDK, allowing Great Plains Developer to automate US Payroll
integration in real time, if desired. If
you are on Great Plains Dynamics GP versions 9.0 or 10.0 ? please know that
Integration Manager can use eConnect connector as the technology base for the
integration. eConnect breaks through
former limitations on the transaction volume, as eConnect is based on encrypted
SQL stored procedures
3.
Third party Payroll integration products and
add-ons. In this small publication these
are out of scope, here we only stress the fact, that IM or eConnect programming
are so simple and cheap in their installation and implementation, that they
might be better way to go
4.
Great Plains Business Portal Employee Self
Service. If your IT department is strong
enough to the level of hosting your Microsoft Sharepoint and .Net website,
please review Dynamics GP Business Portal HR Employee Self Service
functionality, where you can save on Payroll Check stub mailing postage (as you
are required to either mail stub or provide gateway for self service ? to read
stub out of the web) , plus BP HR has other cool features
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