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Payroll & Tax Filing

Recruiting

Proactive Communication

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Abra Suite's Features and Benefits

 

Some of Abra Suite’s features and benefits include:

  • Hassle-free benefits administration allows you to track, maintain and report on an unlimited number of benefits plans.

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  • Built-in standard reports and forms help you ensure government compliance.

  • Enhanced custom reporting capabilities help you meet management needs.

  • Single point of data entry provides greater accuracy and streamlines workflow.

  • All information managed in one comprehensive database so key HR and payroll data are seamlessly integrated.

 

  

The Abra Suite HRIS solution can help you:

  • Cut your cost per hire by helping you maintain an organized, accessible database of qualified candidates.

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  • Ensure government and payroll tax compliance with comprehensive electronic reporting.

  • Manage employee benefits costs with built-in reports and links to payroll earnings and deductions.

  • Gain greater control of payroll processing at a fraction of the cost of outsourcing.

  • Track training requirements easily and accurately.

 

ABRA HR:

    Track and Report Critical Employee Information:

Forms.gif (19640 bytes) The detailed administration and record-keeping required to effectively manage employee information can overwhelm a business of any size. Between life event changes, benefits enrollment, performance reviews and government compliance requirements, HR professionals could spend all their time digging out of the mounds of paperwork.

These tasks effectively outgrow spreadsheets, paper files and homegrown solutions. That’s why Abra HR stores all the critical employee information you need to respond immediately to requests from government, management and employees. With information at your fingertips, you’ll have time to focus on the more strategic HR issues that affect your company.

With Abra HR, you obtain the power to quickly and easily gain control of employee information and programs and arrive at better, more informed decisions about the critical trends in your workforce.

 

Complete Control of Employee-Related Information

  • Easily determine benefits enrollment eligibility, current status and history and monitor costs with robust, comprehensive benefits administration tools.
  • Automatically track and prepare reports to ensure government compliance, including OSHA, ADA, EEO, FMLA and state new hire.
  • Quickly create custom reports with the built-in Report Writer to present information needs unique to your organization.
  • Electronically store forms and certificates such as W-4, driver’s license and performance reviews on each employee profile

 

 

 

Abra Employee Self-ServiceTM:

    share information with self-service functionality:

Imagine reducing the administrative burden on your HR and Payroll departments while simultaneously increasing the satisfaction of your employees—without compromising security.

Abra Employee Self-Service gives your employees and managers the ability to view their information such as current benefit elections, available time off balances, and paycheck history. Additionally,

employees and managers can be given access to not just view, but also update their address, phone number or emergency contact information.

 

  

Give your HR department complete control

  • Decrease repetitive tasks, such as questions about benefits selections, by giving each employee convenient access to view their records.
  • Increase time for HR strategic activities by reducing HR’s administrative workload.
  • Empower managers with instant access to information about their direct reports, such as emergency contacts and employee review dates.
  • Easy and quick setup and maintenance so you don’t have to rely on technical assistance.
  • Ensure confidential information is kept confidential with easy to manage security features.

 

 

Abra Payroll® and

     Best Tax Filing ServiceSM:

  Payroll processing and tax filing made simple
 

The Time Entry Employee Selection offers the flexibility to enter time for multiple companies, pay groups and employees during the same session.

 Payroll processing requires flexibility, responsiveness and Control. And that’s exactly what Abra Payroll provides. You get more than any outside payroll service can offer, at a fraction of the cost, and greater reporting power than other in-house systems.

 

 
Abra Payroll enables you to produce paychecks on demand and void and reissue single checks in a matter of minutes. Run special payrolls and make last-minute changes according to your schedule. Whatever your need, you can do it without the extra charges of a service bureau.

In addition to a comprehensive, highly-flexible list of features, Abra Payroll provides tools for strategic planning and handling of critical tasks. 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. And, with quarterly and year-end federal, state and local payroll tax updates, you’re automatically kept apprised of tax law changes and all upcoming tax deadlines and payment schedules.
 

Complete control of your payroll processing

  • Easily create special payroll runs and enter last-minute changes according to your schedule.
  • Accurately evaluate data and reconcile pay-rolls and quarter-ends with on-line analyses such as gross-to-net current period, employer tax liability and 941 audit.
  • Easily generate cost accounting and labor distribution reports, determine payroll allocations and satisfy government filing requirements with built-in standard reports and forms.
  • Quickly perform critical payroll functions with convenience features like one-step single check calculation, gross-up calculation, guided set-up interviews and customized checks
  • Effectively secure sensitive payroll information by assigning precise access rights
  • Confidently prepare payroll taxes with up-to-date tax information from quarterly federal, state and local tax updates

With the gross-up feature, you can automatically  calculate an employee’s gross pay, eliminating the  need for manual calculation.
 

 

 

  
 Payroll Tax Filling Services

Best Tax Filing Service Powered by FLS® reduces the stress of filing payroll taxes. Abra tax filing experts will manage the entire process for you, ensuring all forms are completed and your payroll taxes are paid accurately and on time. Best Tax Filing Service handles all of the details, keeping you informed about all your payroll tax activities each step of the way with timely reports. As an added convenience, the Year-End Printing Service will print and distribute your W-2 forms for you

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Abra Recruiting SolutionTM:

    Streamline your recruiting practices

Job vacancies cost companies millions in lost revenues and missed opportunities. A complete solution, Abra Recruiting Solution helps you cut your cost per hire by maintaining an organized database of qualified applicants, tracking expenses and streamlining hiring procedures.

With Abra Recruiting Solution’s web-enabled functionality, you can processes resumés from the Internet, email, faxes, paper, text and Microsoft Word documents and convert them to electronic candidate files. Stored in one comprehensive database, you’ll be able to search for and extract key data from candidate files, such as skills and prior job history. Once this information is extracted, you can continuously match and rank applicants to open requisitions quickly and accurately.

Abra Recruiting Solution also enables you to track hiring expenses from advertising to travel to relocation and other expenses. And you’ll be able to uncover costly recruitment delays with the ability to analyze the entire hiring process from start to finish.

 

Complete Control of Your Recruiting Practices

  • Recruit with enhanced, powerful, web-enabled functionality to streamline hiring and shorten searches.
  • Easily and accurately scan resumes and transform them into electronic candidate files.
  • Define key skills, education and work experience to search for and identify applicants with appropriate requisition skill sets.
  • Streamline hiring procedures by maintaining candidate interview status, review dates, and interviewers’ comments.
  • Accurately document compliance for required hiring guidelines including EEO and ADA.
  • Automatically generate acknowledgment, offer and rejection letters for applicants

 

 

Abra Train®:

    Ensure training requirements are met on time

Employee training programs are critical to developing your organizational skill set. But between scheduling classes, overseeing content and tracking staff participation, they’re also incredibly time-consuming.

Abra Train is a skills-based training management system that helps you take complete control of employee training from defining specific training needs, to preparing compliance reports, to ensuring training requirements and certifications are met on-time. And, because Abra Train is fully integrated with Abra Suite, records and training profiles for new employees located in Abra HR are automatically defined and kept up-to-date in Abra Train.

 

Complete Control of Your Training Needs

  • Track new and recurring training requirements by job code.
  • Automatically register employees for required courses and update skill profiles once a course is successfully completed.
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  • Accurately monitor recurring certifications and provide documentation for ISO 9000 and more.
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  • Comprehensively evaluate course effectiveness based on cost, class ratings and other criteria

 

 

Abra AlertsTM:

    proactive communication made simple

Having trouble keeping your employees up-to-date? Information changes? Anniversary dates? Open enrollment deadlines? It can all be overwhelming, but there is an easier way to keep on top of it all.

Abra Alerts helps you increase productivity and save time with a system that automatically monitors your Abra Suite database and proactively distributes information to HR/Payroll Personnel, Managers, and Employees using your existing email system.
 

Complete Control over Changing Information

  • Remind personnel automatically of important dates, events, and changes.
  • Eliminate time-consuming administrative tasks associated with paper flow.
  • Send immediate notifications of events, such as changes in applicant and requisition status.
  • Standardize emails and notices for reoccurring, noteworthy events, such as promotions or new hire welcome messages.
  • Simple set up with 20 pre-formatted alerts gets you started immediately.

Abra Attendance®

With Abra Attendance, you can create and track an unlimited number of plans per employee using different seniority, accrual and carry-over rules.

Complete control over your employee attendance plans

  • Effectively manage any type of attendance plan.
  • Quickly detect attendance problems with detailed reports on-demand.
  • Easily generate leave status reports for employees.

 

 

Abra OrgChartTM

Abra OrgChart helps you keep on top of your company’s continually changing organizational structure. You’ll create organizational charts with ease from existing data in your Abra Suite database and charts can be automatically updated with the latest new hire and new job title information.

Complete control of your continually changing corporate structure

  • Easily create organization charts from existing data in your Abra Suite database, including function and location.
  • Automatically update organization charts with the latest new hire or workforce reduction information.
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  • Customize the look and feel of your charts by changing entire chart layouts, shapes, sizes, color-coding, and more.
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  • Strategically review what-if scenarios for planning.
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