Question about paying employees in ITFlow

litechforce

Hello,

I was wondering what is the best way (for finance tracking) to pay employees? Add them as a vendor?

Maybe add a finance category for employees?

johnny

Hey @litechforce We don't currently have a payroll system integrated into ITFlow just yet, but you would be correct to add your employees as vendors and create a Payroll category to add them to. Then if their pay will be the same month and after month you could just create a recurring expense. Same with Contractors add them as a vendor and then maybe put them under a category like 1099 Contractors or just Contractors.

litechforce

Thanks @johnny - is a payroll system somewhere on the roadmap for ITFlow?

Alan

Chipping in my 2c worth, I really would advise against trying to go into Payroll. One of the biggest things I say to clients is, you don't mess with Payroll. We're very cautious when running updates, backing up at every step etc, getting them to test afterwards.

Even the big providers get the calculations wrong. Leave balances, earning time off, crediting time worked on holidays, adjusting leave to salaries and how it affects balances, every country has different regulations etc etc… All that ties into the company balances (leave is a liability etc)

ontariokicker44

A time card function could be helpful and avoid the perils of payroll.

wrongecho

Aspects of this have been discussed before:

I'm not really sure we need a specific payroll function. I agree with Alan that we don't want to go anywhere near the pay calculation side of things, which just leaves us with tracking pay expenses - something that expenses already let's you do currently.

Specific HRIS functionality would be great but ITFlow is already trying to do documentation, quoting/invoicing, asset management, ticketing and password management at the moment. Having a defined scope is really important, otherwise we just become this horridly slow and bulky app that can do almost anything but everyone hates to use because it's just had so much crap bolted onto it over the years (ServiceNow, Workday, etc).

johnny

Well said @wrongecho