Report: Payroll activity - list alphabetically by last name
Who was the genius that decided that a payroll report should list employees alphabetically baed on their first name instead of their surname? MYOB have never done this before (for good reason). No other accounting report or ATO report or any report lists employees alphabetically based on their first name. If there is a good reason for it, I certainly cannot see it. Please either change the alphabetical listing in the reports to be based on surnames, or give the user the ability to edit the way that the reports are listed like Xero does? "Payroll activity report listed alphabetically using surname (NOT first name)"1.7KViews44likes5CommentsEmployees: Notes - increase character limit
Hi we have just had the 1st of 4 files migrated to the new version of Essentials. We have been eagerly awaiting all the new featuresthat would make life easier but we are disappointed to see some of the good points about the old version have gone. The notes section of the employee file has a reduced character limit so much so that the notes on one employee file that were imported from the old version have had to be cut & pasted to a word document as they were too large for the field & tech support are unable to tell me how charaters can go in the field The payslip (& whole payroll process) was much simpler in the old version. We would like to be able to edit the payslip template or if you could just make it look like the old version including logo that would be fantastic We would like to be able to add our logo to the remittance advice as well If we can edit the invoice template why cant we edit the payslip & remittance templates? It is great that we can now have TOIL & LSL accruals & recurring journals but I wish you could have kept the good features from the old version that have been removed. We would love the simplicity of the old version with the added features of the new "Payroll & templates in New Essentials"3.9KViews27likes6Comments
Report: Pay item transactions - Include hours worked
I used to be able to get hours worked on the Pay Items transaction report. The new version only has dollars. I contacted online support and received the following response: I have looked at report and have found Unfortunately, Due to update, this feature has ben removed, there is no way to include it in that report. It is very disappointing when an "upgrade" takes away a useful feature that is used. Please return this functionality. "Pay items report should still include hours worked"3.7KViews25likes7Comments
Payslips: Email to another source as well as employee
We as MYOB partners process payroll for our clients, and some of our clients are used to getting payslip copies for each employee for every payrun. This option was available in the old essentials version, but after the new essentials version came out, the multiple emailing of payslips option has been removed. Currently only employees are getting the payslips. Please could this option be reinstated, as this helps clients in perusing the payslips without having to log into the MYOB dashboard. Further when the payslips are in their inbox, they can refer to all payslips for a particular employee if they need to consider it. Thanks Fred "Emailing payslip copies to client as well as to the employees"2.8KViews24likes4Comments
Payroll: Bulk print employee pay slips
Hi , is there a reason you can tick all employees to email payslips in batch but you cannot tick all to print in a batch . You have to open each employees payslip PDF then print. I print a payslip for each employee for my client and opening 10 PDFs each payrun is a pain . "Printing bulk payslips new essentials"3.2KViews24likes2Comments
Invoices: Invoice Number inclusion of letters
The old system allowed us to place letters and characters in the invoice numbers, such as INV21-2233 or INV21/2233. And now it doesnt. Migrating to the old system to the new system has now caused an issue with it 'NOT ALLOWED". As a matter of urgency, please make the new system act and work like the old system. "Letters In Invoice Numbers"1.6KViews9likes2Comments
Contacts: Increase the Name field character limit
In the new Essentials the number of characters for customer names (company and individual) appears to limited (this was never an issues in the old Essentials). We have a client that sells assets that require financing and the financers oftern request the full name to be inlcuded in the tax invoice. We have reverted to using Excel to prepare tax invoices. MYOB please fix this as a matter of urgency! "Contacts"2.1KViews7likes9Comments
Pay superannuation: Ability to download a contributions file
I request that the facility to download super payments to file be reintroduced so that users who wish to use third party clearing houses can operate as before by uploading the super file generated from MYOB. This functionality was removed in essentials in favour of the new built in clearing facility without consultation. Alternatively, introduce functionality to allow payment through third party payment gateway, e.g. Rewardpay. "Super file download"1.2KViews6likes1Comment
Reconcile accounts: Only bank or credit cards in Account selection
Is it possible that when you are reconciling bank accounts and credit cards the accounts listed in the dropdown only include accounts that have the Account type 'Bank' or 'Credit card'? Very frustrating trying to find all the different bank accounts and credit card accounts when you have to scroll through the whole chart of accounts to find them. "Reconciling Bank Accounts - Account list should only show Account types 'Bank' and 'Credit card'"1.3KViews5likes0Comments
