SmartPayroll

SmartPayroll wins Technology award

SmartPayroll — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:54:44 +0000

Soar to new heights

2009 Asia Pacific

Technology Fast 500

Congratulations to SmartPayroll for making the Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500!

Over the past eight years Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has watched technology companies in Asia Pacific achieve incredible growth, and tracked their opportunities, ambitions, challenges and threats. The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Ranking and CEO Survey is one of the region’s most comprehensive and respected rankings of fast-growing technology companies.

SmartPayroll is very proud to achieve a ranking in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific.

Chris Partridge and Vicky Taylor were pleased to receive the award on behalf of Smartpayroll at the awards function in Wellington.

Positive feedback from Chameleon Events

SmartPayroll — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:08:05 +0000

Chameleon Events recently organised the film premiere to Peter Jacksons new film, The Lovely Bones in Wellington. During this period we had to produce a large diverse team that were a mix of contractors and employees through the duration of the event to ensure that it was a success. Due to such a busy period Chameleon was under pressure due to the short hire of many new staff and SmartPayroll was the solution. We were very impressed, as the payroll was processed in under a one week from the completion of the event at a very low cost to us, and minimal involvement from our end was needed. We are now contracting SmartPayroll to process the pay for all of our companies, and we fully recommend other companies should do the same.
Regards,
Jamie Wilson
Event Director
Chameleon Consultants
www.chameleonevents.co.nz

Media reports on SmartPayroll function

SmartPayroll — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:26:04 +0000

SmartPayroll’s new premises were opened by Mayor David Ogden on Thursday 26th November. The local news media covered the occasion and published the article in the Hutt News.
To view the article, please click the thumbnail image below.

Mayor David Ogden receives demo of SmartPayroll, the online payroll system

SmartPayroll’s 3,500th customer

SmartPayroll — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:25:36 +0000

Ben Shaw cuts the SmartPayroll cake

SmartPayroll congratulates Ben Shaw of Allfinanz Chartered Accountants Ltd on being our 3,500th new customer to sign up to our online payroll system.
Ben was invited to cut the cake at our official opening.

Mayor cuts ribbon opening SmartPayroll’s new premises

SmartPayroll — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:16:06 +0000

It was great to see so many of our clients turn out for the official opening of our new premises.
The new premises were officially opened on Thursday 26th November. SmartPayroll hosted a champagne afternoon function which began when the Mayor of Lower Hutt, David Ogden, cut the the ribbon. The news media were there to capture the occasion.

The Mayor of Lower Hutt, David Ogden, cuts the official ribbon opening SmartPayroll's new premises

News update - Payroll giving

SmartPayroll — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:16:59 +0000

You may have heard that the new Payroll Giving legislation comes into effect on 7 January 2010 and wondered what it’s all about.

From 7 January 2010 if an employer decides to offer payroll giving (and it’s up to the employer) it gives employees the opportunity to donate to approved donee organisations directly from their pay and receive immediate tax credits that reduce their PAYE. Previously employees had to wait until the end of the year to claim those tax credits.

You may have wondered if SmartPayroll will be able to cope with the new changes. The answer is Yes!

Our team of technicians have been working hard to make sure that SmartPayroll will be able to handle payroll giving very easily when it goes live on the 7th January 2010. SmartPayroll will handle all the employers’ obligations as follows:

Deduct the requested donation amount from the individual employee’s salary or wage
Calculate the correct tax credits for payroll donations for each donation made
Record the tax credits for payroll donations for individual employees
Keep records of all tax credits for payroll donations, donation amounts, donee organisations and payment dates
Pass the donations to the chosen donee organisations within the specified timeframe of the deduction being made from the employee’s salary or wage
Advise the donee organisation the donation is a result of payroll giving.

Volunteering New Zealand

SmartPayroll — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:11:10 +0000

As part of SmartPayroll’s commitment to making payroll easier, we attended the recently concluded conference “Volunteering New Zealand” at the Wellington Town Hall. SmartPayroll provides the payroll solution to Volunteer New Zealand and is keen to assist those organisations who are doing a great job in the community. There were number of organisations that were interested in what we had to offer. Thanks to all those who came and spoke to us.

Aitutaki paradise -v- working hard at SmartPayroll

SmartPayroll — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:21:32 +0000

Nick Sanderson, our SmartPayroll Sales Representative in Tauranga, recently visited Aitutaki with some friends for a fantastic holiday diving and fishing. He shared his holiday pics with the team at Head office - here’s a selection below. Half the fun must be making people jealous when you get back home..

Nick's sailfish

A monster from the deep ... and a fish

Aitutaki sunset

A Customer’s Testimonial to SmartPayroll

SmartPayroll — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:44:42 +0000

“As a business that floats or sinks depending on how efficiently we run our back office systems, specifically our payroll, BoatBoys needed to ensure it was running the fastest and easiest payroll system in order to cope with the quantity of casual employees we have on our books.

After starting with ACE Payroll, we discovered that SmartPayroll not only did everything ACE could do in a simpler, cleaner manner online, but that all the banking to staff and our PAYE obligations of filing and payment were taken care of automatically…so we no longer need to even think about it!
Hayes Knight really deliver on their promise of ‘Accounting beyond the numbers’ by suggesting this great new technology to their clients - it was a breath of fresh air for us.”

Mike Vitali – Founder, Director
and Hayes Knight client

Latest updates to SmartPayroll system

SmartPayroll — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:53:17 +0000

Deductions

Deductions have been modified to enable bank accounts to be loaded. This means that any deduction can be paid directly into a bank account without using up a normal bank account area. Follow these instructions to set up a deduction with a bank account:

1.   Go to the Company Maintenance area
2.   Select Company Rules from the Links pane
3.   Click NEW to add a new deduction
4.   Ensure the Fixed Dollar Amount and Direct Credit checkboxes are selected.
5.   Save the details.
6.   Next, select EMP Contract Groups in the Links Pane and ensure the deduction is activated for the correct employee group.
7.   Enter relevant details here if the deduction is for all staff, or go to an employee’s own Employee Payments screen to personalise this deduction and enter the bank account the deduction amount will be sent to.
8.   Remember to save the details at the bottom of the screen.

If you have any queries about the new deduction options, please call the Helpdesk for support: 0800 10 10 38.