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Human resources (HR) represents the life and energy of any organization. Accurately administrating a company’s work force is vital to its success and growth. The Abra HR module allows companies to manage information based on their unique HR structure and needs. Data is entered just once and is shared with the entire HR system leaving time to address strategic business issues that support recruiting and maintain a competitive work force.

Abra HR provides many benefits, but the most impressive feature is providing a means to quickly access key data with minimal effort. HR personnel are just keystrokes away from viewing data like emergency information or performance reviews due for any employee. The ability to promptly analyze critical company data is also within reach, including salaries, turnover ratios, and performance issues.

Benefits administration has never been easier than with Abra HR. Evaluate multiple benefit plans for easy comparison, generate reports on employees’ prior benefits elections, track employees on COBRA coverage, roll over current benefits to the next year � all quickly and easily.

HR personnel can also track individual employee training and certification progress, health profiles, and schedule recurring drug testing and physical exams. And, of course, all of these features maintain a high level of security regarding sensitive employee data.

 • Set Up and Maintain Employee Information – You can easily set up employee information on your new system, whether you’re a new customer, or adding Abra HR to an existing system. The Abra HR to Payroll Link includes utilities for copying existing employee information from one system to the other. And once the system is in place, a new or existing employee can be changed in HR, and the changes shared with Payroll. Easily view key employee information, from emergency contacts to performance reviews. Abra HR’s integration Key Data allows quick, convenient retrieval of information.
 • Fast Access to Analysis Tool – Quickly drill down to specific information with analysis tools that reveal criteria in the form of summary information to specific details for fast evaluation of human resources data. Investigate critical areas such as salary, turnover and performance issues quickly and easily.
• Event Reminder – Stay current with date and event reminders, such as training, licenses, bonuses, benefits, enrollment eligibility, memberships, stock options, and user-defined subjects. In addition, allocate tasks to yourself or other Abra HR users with the organizer workflow tool and automatically update tasks in Microsoft Outlook. You can also quickly report on required documents that employees must turn in to maintain employment status.
• Office Integration – Integration with Microsoft Office provides immediate transfer of information into Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, graphs and tables,making it easy for you to view and analyze data for strategic, on-the-spot decision making.
• Benefits Interviews – Benefits interviews take you step-by-step through the process of creating benefit plans. The interview allows HR administrators to easily create accurate savings and insurance plans.
• COBRA Features – Quickly and easily track all dependents on COBRA coverage. Take the hassle out of COBRA and HIPAA compliance. Personalized, automated notification letters describe coverage options and costs. Abra HR provides billing statements, mailing labels, and complete eligibility reports. Prints HIPAA Certification of Coverage too.
• Benefits Options and Tracking – Automatically calculate precise employee, dependent, and employer premium and benefits costs. Provide an unlimited number of benefits plans for employees and dependents. Track plans and define your company’s own eligibility criteria. Any life event changes that create adjustments to insurance coverage and premiums are automatically reflected in employees’ contributions through Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 payroll contributions.
• Benefit Rollover – Easily change employees’ benefit plan from the current year to next year’s plan at the click of a button.
• Time-Off and Attendance – With the optional Abra Attendance module, you can create and manage an unlimited number of paid and unpaid time-off and attendance plans of virtually any type. Track and report leave taken under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Easily change employees’ benefit plans from the current year to next year’s plan at the click of a button.
• Administration and Analysis of Salary – Keep accurate compensation histories by individual employee, department or company. Assure on-time pay and performance reviews each month. Create employee notes for commendations or disciplinary actions. Provide Performance supervisors with consistent, standard review forms detailing employee job and salary histories.
• Manage Employee Training, Certification and Health History – Keep up to date with employees’ training schedules and certification status. Maintain employee health profiles, including wellness participation. Track drug test and physical exam schedules and their respective due dates.
• Maintain Maximum Security of Sensitive Data – Protect key information with sophisticated multi-level security. Create and assign an unlimited number of user IDs and passwords. Easily follow audit trails to identify who made each change by date, time, and type of change.
• Employee Attachment Panel for Simple Document Management – Organize and manage electronic documents, such as letters of commendation and W2 forms, assigned to each employee. Attach any electronic document to an employee record and save filing space by removing the need for maintaining paper files.

Increase productivity and save time with Abra Alerts. This module automatically monitors your database and proactively distributes information to your HR and payroll personnel, managers, and employees via your existing e-mail system. Because Abra Alerts is fully integrated with Abra HR Suite, the market leading human resources system, the information you enter automatically triggers messages and reports. Now you can concentrate on strategic business issues without worrying that an important date or deadline has been missed.

The Abra Alerts module gets the right information to the right person for quick and timely action, without user intervention. Specified actions and dates trigger automated messages, informing relevant parties about key activities and pending issues.

Abra Alerts monitors the date and sends notices about annual reviews or enrollment in required training courses. It sends alerts of low balances and lists of voided checks.

The Abra Alerts module tells you to verify modifications in personnel information and how to take the appropriate action, eliminating time-consuming administrative tasks associated with paper flow. You can merge employee information to create and automatically send personalized messages via e-mail. Send automatic replies via e-mail for items such as thank-you notes to applicants who send in resumes. You can also generate standard e-mail scripts to welcome new employees, while informing relevant departments of the new hire.

Abra Alerts templates help you to develop a variety of alerts to standardize or monitor anything in your company. In addition, pre-formatted alerts help you to get started quickly. These pre-formatted alerts include: new hire and termination actions, demographic changes, performance review due, deduction changes, overtime listing, voided check listing, on-demand check processed, attendance records, applicant tracking, and training management tracking.

• Proactively Communicate – Abra Alerts helps get the right information to the right person for quick and timely action, without intervention from anyone else. Specified actions and dates trigger automated messages, informing relevant parties about key activities and pending issues.
• Monitor, Notify and Verify Automatically – Free up resources by eliminating time-consuming administrative tasks associated with paper flow. You can keep track of time-sensitive events with automated reminders of annual reviews or enrollment in required training courses. Abra Alerts can also monitor exceptions and take action when necessary. The module verifies information changes through automatic notification when items such as addresses or W4 information are modified.
• Reduce Administrative Burdens – You can use Abra Alerts to merge employee information from your database to create and automatically send personalized messages via e-mail. You can automatically reply via e-mail to applicants who send in resumes, generate standard e-mail to welcome new employees while informing all relevant departments of the new hire, and create proactive notices.
• Pre-Formatted Alerts – Abra Alerts comes with pre-formatted alerts you can put to use immediately, including:

The Attendance module offers a deep feature set that fits the widely varying needs of today’s businesses. For instance, it enables automatic recording of incident-based time off (jury duty, bereavement, medical leave and other leaves of absence), as well as regular time off (vacations, personal days and illnesses).You can also create and track an unlimited number of plans per employee, using different seniority, accrual and carry-over rules. Plus, with Abra Attendance your business can maintain separate data-sensitive accounting for each attendance plan, including standard company holidays.

• Versatile Attendance Plan Management – Abra Attendance can dramatically simplify tracking and management of your attendance plan. You can record incident-based time off such as jury duty, bereavement, medical leave and other leaves of absence. Plus, you can manage regular time off (vacations, personal days and illness) and track an unlimited number of plans per employee, using different seniority, accrual and carry-over rules.
• Versatile Accrual Systems – Maintain separate date-sensitive accounting for each attendance plan, including standard and company holidays. Track time off allowed versus actual days taken. Use days or hours as time off accrual units. Choose either accrual or lump sum calculation methods to accrue time on a daily basis, or award a lump sum at the beginning of a year, month or week.
• Detailed Report Generation on Demand – Abra Attendance lets you give employees an instant, year-to-date snapshot of their attendance status or give management a quick analysis of absences. You can easily identify employees with perfect attendance records or detect attendance problems. Flag the entire document for Use Tax and specify which general ledger account to expense for freight.
• Versatile Reporting Options – View a report on screen, print it, or export it to a file to use in other software applications, such as Microsoft Excel.
• Timesaving Integration – Because Abra Attendance is fully integrated with Abra Suite, you enter data just once and instantly share it with the entire system for maximum efficiency. You can carry over employee accrual information for each attendance plan automatically, change accrual rates, increase your level of detail and accuracy and assure accurate record keeping with automatic posting of absence transactions.
• Simplify Regulatory – Use Abra Attendance to monitor FMLA leave information, as required by law to avoid confusion over when tracking leave started and ended. You can record medical certification and re-certification for medical leave to ensure that employees receive their benefits accurately.
• Maximum Security for Sensitive Data – Protect key information with the application’s sophisticated multi-level security. You can create and assign an unlimited number of user IDs and passwords. Easy-to-follow audit trails identify the person who made each change by date, time and type of change.
• Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 Payroll Integration – Capture employee absences in Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 Payroll and send them to the Attendance module for tracking and analysis. You can define numerous absence pay types in Sage MAS 90 such as vacation, sick time and holiday pay, and map them to Attendance absence reason codes.

Payroll accuracy and efficiency are critical to individual employees, company bottom lines, and government agencies.You need the control to process your payroll accurately and quickly every time. Abra Payroll is fully integrated with the Abra HR module, so you enter data just once and instantly share it with the entire system for maximum efficiency. Benefits administration and attendance plan management are automatically integrated with payroll processing.

Powerful tax compliance reporting and analysis, excellent tracking of employee hours and accrual balances, maximum security, and a variety of check disbursing options give you both control and flexibility for your company’s individual structure and needs.

In addition to a comprehensive, highly-flexible list of features, Abra Payroll provides tools for strategic planning and handling of critical tasks.You can easily generate cost accounting and labor distribution reports, determine payroll allocations and satisfy government filing requirements with built-in standard reports and forms. Abra Payroll includes convenience features such as guided setup interviews for establishing tax, earnings, and deduction parameters, one-step single check calculation and printing, gross-up calculation and customized checks � while multi-level security protects confidential payroll data from unwanted access.

• Paychecks on Demand – Easily and instantly void and re-issue single off-cycle checks and update the appropriate accounts, including employee earnings, deductions, tax withholdings, and employer tax liability.
• Built-In Direct Deposit Processing - Now you can deposit employee pay to an unlimited number of banks under NACHA standards with the click of your mouse.
• Multi-tiered Time Entry Processing - You can enter time for multiple companies, pay groups, and employees during the same session to accommodate work situations not based on a standard weekly or biweekly pay period. For added flexibility, you can view the cumulative total of hours as time is entered for each employee and track available year-to-date vacation, personal, and illness accrual balances while inputting employee time.
• Gross Up Calculation – You can automatically calculate gross pay by entering a base net pay during the time entry process.
• Real Time Changes – Abra Payroll lets you change an employee’s calculated voluntary deductions or tax withholding prior to check processing, saving you time and money.
• Immediate Access to Critical Information – Reconcile payrolls and quarter-ends with up-to-the-minute facts and instant analysis that include a gross-to-net, 941 audit, and an employer tax liability.
• More than 100 Standard Reports – Check on such information as payroll deposit requirements, workers’ compensation costs and unemployment and disability wages. You can view a report on the screen, as a printout or as a file that you can export to use in other software applications such as Microsoft Excel.
• Built-In Report Writer – Create unlimited custom reports to meet needs unique to your organization.
• ACH Credit and ACH Debit Filing Methods – Abra Payroll filing methods let you comply with IRS filing requirements for the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.
• Tax Compliance – Abra Payroll maintains and supports Federal, state and more than 4000 local taxes.
• Built-In Government Forms – Complete necessary paperwork with forms such as W-2, 1099-MISC and 1099-R,W-3, 941 and 943 preprinted forms, and unemployment tax reports.
• Multiple Check Printing Options – Customize your own payment forms for check and earnings statements and direct deposit advices by incorporating company logos, subsidiary names and other data. You can print on several types of check or direct deposit stock in a variety of check formatting options.
• Laser Check Cutting – Cut printing costs with Laser Check MICR for MICR-encoding on blank check stock. Provide automatic signature printing with convenient laser check signature.
• Multi-level Security – Protect key information with sophisticated multi-level security.You can create and assign an unlimited number of user IDs and passwords. Easy-to-follow audit trails help you to identify who made each change by date, time and type.

Integrated Tax Filing Service – Tax liability summary files are created by Abra Payroll; taxes can then be filed through Sage Tax Filing Service