Payroll Management Overview and Features

Comprehensive payroll services form the foundation of the EPS business solution. These services include the processing and distribution of employee pay, business reports, and payroll tax returns for federal, state, and local taxing jurisdictions.

In today's world of fast-paced economic change and even faster-paced technology changes, companies demand products and services that are stable yet flexible, innovative but easy to use, and which produce results with keen accuracy.


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Overview - The Internet payroll solution provides employers the ability to access data and information relative to all aspects of their payroll and human resource activities, including current and historical wage information. All payroll tax, employee deduction, employee benefit, as well as employee paid time-off accrual information is available with the click of a mouse. Employers can logon and see any payroll and benefit report from any pay period or time period which EPS has processed their activities.

Internet Features - EPS Payroll is a true Internet payroll solution. There is no special software to install or upgrades to maintain. You have complete access to your payroll and HR data 24 hours per day - 7 days per week. Simply launch your Internet browser and log on our state-of-the-art payroll application. As an Internet application EPS Payroll offers unparalleled capabilities.

- Enter pay data online from anywhere at anytime
- Review reports online immediately after processing
- Receive immediate e-mail notification upon completion of payrun
- Online integration with overnight carriers to provide you with delivery status and tracking information

Internet Security - We offer multiple levels of security including User name, password, as well as IP address restrictions. All data security is provided through secure firewall and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technologies.

Time Entry - epsTimeEntry is where the payroll process begins. Our time-entry system provides optimal productivity levels for entering payroll data, un-matched functionality and most of all, ease-of-use. epsTimeEntry provides a "heads-down" approach to entering payroll data using a "one" key click to move from field to field. The user can change the format of the entire time-entry screen on-the-fly without losing data already entered. Modifications to pay-rates and salary information are also handled directly from the main time-entry screen, with all modifications logged to an audit report, subject to approval, at the Company's discretion.

Online Reports - epsReports provides over 50 main reports, along with many variations of each, directly via the Internet at any time of the day or night and from anywhere. Reports can be selected for a specific pay run or pay date or can be aggregated by monthly, quarterly or a custom date range. Examples of some of the reports are as follows:

Company Reports - Accessible by authorized company personnel

- Payroll Summary
- Check reports including Net Pay, Direct Deposits, Tax Impounds, Fee Payments, Third Party Payments and more
- Employee Check Registers
- Department Check Registers
- Location Check Registers
- Division Check Registers
- Work Project Check Registers
- Employee Wage Summary and Detail
- Employee Tax Summary and Detail
- Employee Deduction Summary and Detail
- Employer Tax Summary and Detail
- Employee Wage Summary and Detail
- GL Register Detail
- GL Department Register Summary
- GL Location Register Summary
- GL Division Register Summary
- GL Department w/i Location Register Summary
- GL Department w/i Division Register Summary
- GL Location w/i Division Register Summary
- GL Division w/i Location Register Summary
- Benefit Census Reports - 401k, healthinsurance, etc.
- And many more ...

Employee Reports - Accessible by employees

- Employee Paystubs
- Wage and Earnings History
- And many more ...

Employee Self-service - epsEmployee is an employee self-service center that allows employees to review all aspects of their payroll and human resource data including wages, taxes, deductions, benefits, and any paid-time-off accruals such as vacation records. Employees can logon and view pay-stubs as well as any of their payroll and benefits reports from any time period which EPS has processed their payroll information.

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Features of EPS Payroll

EPS Payroll includes some impressive capabilities typically not found in other Internet-based solutions or traditional payroll applications. Major EPS Payroll features include:

- On-line Reports
- Extensive list of standard reports
- Custom report generation capabilities
- Virtually unlimited Pay Types, Taxes, Employer Liabilities, Deductions, Benefits, Time-off Accrual Types, and more
- Industry specific features such as tip reporting and allocation for restaurants
- Job-costing reporting
- The ability to export data to popular spreadsheets such as Excel
- New Hire Reporting
- Extensive Federal, State and Local Tax Capabilities - handling Federal, all 50 states and local taxing jurisdictions
- Workers' Compensation accrual and reporting
- Calculation and reporting for benefit plans, such as Section 125 Cafeteria Plans and 401k Plans including the ability to automatically create payments (via check or ACH transaction) to pay accumulated amounts to benefit administrators.
- A fully integrated human resources database including pay rate history, employment dates, PTO accruals, dependent information, employment verification, EEO status, and more
- An unlimited number of direct deposit accounts per employee
- General ledger and expense distribution
- Customizable Charts of Account
- The ability to assign GL expense accounts by department and location
- Labor and Expense Distribution reports
- Processing and Management of 3rd Party payment obligations

Company Reporting Levels - Reporting requirements for businesses today have become extremely onerous. As a result we have developed a multi-tiered company reporting feature that provides reporting levels starting at your company's FEIN and continue down through Division, Location, and Department. Further, employees may be assigned and have their labor cost allocated to multiple departments.

Payment Methods

Helping both employers and employees we provide four alternative methods of paying employees.

Standard Paycheck - We calculate the employees net pay and print their paycheck "drawn" on the employer's bank account.

All-in-OneTM Paycheck - We calculate the employees net pay and print their paycheck "drawn" on our (service bureau) bank account.

Direct Deposit - Employees can select an unlimited number of bank accounts to have their net pay deposited to.

epsPaycardTM - Funds are deposited to this paycheck card in the same manner as with direct deposit. This card allows the owner to make purchases any place where VISA is accepted.

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