--- On Fri, 1/9/09, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> For some dose of reality, how I see it anyway, is that
> Payroll companies don't usually do much pay calculation.
> In many cases they just get the pre-calculated numbers and
> generate checks, and maybe help with some simple calculation
> of taxes and other deductions. If they do anything very
> complex it is custom code... not something OOTB in any
> system (or rather, combined with OOTB parameterized things
> that are somewhat complex, but you can only do so much when
> guessing in advance). If it's going to be custom it
> requires analysis and design just like anything else, and
> might as well be implemented in OFBiz as in a separate
> system that doesn't have access to the company's
> data that would be used in the calculations.
I have been writing and supporting payroll software for over 20 years, and I
can assure you, that is NOT how payroll processing companies work. You supply
them with employee info (marital status, withholding allowances, payrate,
benefits, etc) and they calculate what the employee should be paid, print the
check, PLUS provide all of the necessary tax forms for local, state and federal
taxes, as well as group insurance payments, etc.
The payroll service you described would not be worth the fee - it would be
cheaper to buy a printer.
-Adrian
