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Posted to user@ofbiz.apache.org by Hans Bakker <ma...@antwebsystems.com> on 2009/01/10 10:06:11 UTC

Re: adding payrol moved to OFBIZ-2117

i moved the discussion to to OFBIZ issue: 
OFBIZ-2117

shall we continue there?

Regards,
Hans

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 20:31 -0800, Adrian Crum wrote:
> --- On Fri, 1/9/09, David E Jones <da...@hotwaxmedia.com> 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
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