Sage 300 People
Sage 300 People is a comprehensive human resources and payroll management solution designed for seamless personnel administration. Offering limitless customization, it accommodates various company structures, pay configurations, and compliance requirements. The system facilitates precise payroll calculations, detailed historical tracking, and consolidated reporting. With robust security measures, including field-level controls and integration with Microsoft Active Directory, Sage 300 People ensures data integrity and user authentication. Its features span leave management, pay slip generation, and efficient employee record-keeping. Additionally, the system supports budgeting, employment equity management, and diverse HR functions, making it a versatile and integrated solution for businesses of all sizes.
Key Features and Benefits
Sage 300 People’s HR modules streamline processes with a systematic approach. The electronic employee file allows easy document attachments, providing real-time information access from multiple locations. The system’s robust reporting interface enables efficient HR tasks, including performance reviews, accessible to managers.
Sage 300 People enables flexible personnel administration with unlimited customization, compliance assurance via statutory updates, and extensive definitions for earnings and deductions. Users benefit from net-up calculations, detailed period histories, and consolidated reports. The system emphasizes security with field-level measures, MS Active Directory support, and comprehensive audit reports.
The system streamlines pay slip management by allowing multiple pay slips per pay period, consolidate into a single printable document. It automates pro-rata calculations for earnings and deductions based on engagement or termination dates. The system includes a minimum net pay feature to ensure a specified salary threshold is met, preventing net pay from dropping below that value. Additionally, pay slip lines can be flagged to indicate their impact on OID and/or BCEA.
It simplifies employee management by enabling the creation of multiple records for a single person. The system includes built-in checklists for seamless onboarding and termination processes. Users can effortlessly transfer employees between companies, company rules, or policies using the employee transfer wizard, among other convenient features.
The system provides flexible leave management customization to align with company policies. The system automates monitoring of the 8-week sick leave rule and tracks specific patterns, such as consistent absence on Mondays or Fridays. Additionally, it grants line managers access to leave management reports through Self Service for efficient oversight.
The system also offers robust content management, allowing the attachment of various documents (e.g., Word, Excel, scanned files) to any system record. This ensures easy access to comprehensive electronic records for each employee. All uploaded documents are securely stored within the database, providing a secure and backed-up repository alongside other company and employee information.
It simplifies company management by enabling the creation of unlimited companies per database. Users can define multiple payment cycles, including daily, weekly, and monthly, and employ any combination of these cycles within a single company. The system also allows the viewing of pay periods up to two years in advance, providing a comprehensive overview of financial planning.
Sage 300 People also facilitates precise calculations by offering the Expression Builder to define formulas, allowing for multiple calculations per pay slip line. The system also enables the definition of sliding scales for various earning structures, such as commission, providing flexibility and accuracy in payroll computations.
It enhances efficiency through its Batch wizard, enabling the seamless import and export of large data sets directly to and from MS Excel. The system allows for the swift creation of forms for routine tasks, such as overtime hours or bonus values, streamlining data management processes.
Sage 300 People simplifies management reporting by offering customizable options to style, print, and export reports for distribution. Users can group information, reorder columns, and create limitless table and chart layouts through drag-and-drop functionality. The system allows for easy modification, simplification, or adjustment of existing reports. Reports can be exported to Microsoft Excel or attached to emails, providing flexibility in sharing and utilizing the generated insights.
The system maintains a robust auditing system, recording all saved changes for comprehensive reporting. The system captures details such as the changed field, the user responsible, the old and new values, and the date of the modification. This thorough auditing functionality ensures a detailed and transparent overview of all system alterations for accountability and analysis purposes.
Content Management Lets you attach employee and company documents (such as Microsoft Word documents, scanned files, Microsoft Excel files) to any record in the system. This ensures that you have easy access to complete electronic records for each employee. All uploaded documents are stored within the database, so they’re secured and backed up with all other company and employee information.
Sage 300 People ensures maximum security through role-based configurations, controlling user access and actions. Security covers navigation, zones, and company rules with password policies and Active Directory integration. The system maintains a detailed login history and comprehensive audit trail for accountability.
This module provides real-time information, essential for HR and Payroll offices. It enhances accuracy and minimizes errors by offering a unified solution for budget alignment. The module enables a comprehensive view of the budgeting progress and facilitates planning for future vacancies.
The Job Management module offers comprehensive control and visibility over job/position specifications and requirements within the organization. The position profile feature captures details such as the position’s location in the company hierarchy, competency requirements, key performance areas (KPAs), and indicators (KPIs).
Self-Service (SS) empowers employees to apply for leave, manage claims, update personal details, and access pay slips and tax certificates. They can also initiate performance reviews and free-text workflows. Managers can approve transactions, handle performance reviews and surveys, monitor team leave on the calendar, and generate reports for better workforce management
The performance management feature offers flexibility in defining performance agreements and competencies per position, including specific objectives for individual employees. The transaction history encompasses performance, competency, and free-format reviews, along with value assessments for 360° reviews. The system also tracks performance goals and development plans for each employee. Steer your business successfully through growth phases with an HR and payroll system that grows with you, giving you the agility combined with the stability and security you need to manage resources and costs efficiently and meet all compliance requirements.
The Sage 300 People’s Budgeting Module is essential for forward-thinking HR and Payroll offices, providing real-time information for accurate budget alignment. This single solution enhances precision and minimizes costly errors, offering a comprehensive view of budgeting progress and future vacancy planning
Sage 300 People’s Employment Equity Management allows for efficient handling of equity goals and targets across HR processes. It involves defining equity positions, monitoring progress against staff movements, utilizing management reports to manage targets, and generating Statutory Equity Reports (EEA2 and EEA4) as required by the Department of Labor. This module streamlines the management of employment equity initiatives.
Sage 300 People empowers businesses to manage employees comprehensively by maintaining detailed records of employee transactions. This includes documentation attachments, such as disciplinary actions, discussions, gained experience, issued items, obtained qualifications, planned and attended training, and medical history. The system ensures a thorough and organized overview of each employee’s professional journey.