Software: Payroll & HR

• PAYE Recognition: Opera 3 Payroll has HMRC PAYE Recognition
  
• RTI and auto enrolment are fully catered for
  
• Email payslips and P60s
  
• Export reports to Excel
  
• Multi-Company processing: Create one to unlimited companies
  
• Multi-Group processing: Create up to 36 Payroll Groups per company. Access to Groups may be controlled by password and can have different payment frequencies and unlimited employee records
  
• Number of employees: Create one to unlimited employee records
  
• Employee profiles: Streamlines the creation of employee records as it applies employee characteristics that can be assigned to a group of employees or to an individual employee
  
• Payments & Deductions: Create up to 999 payments and deductions
  
• NI Adjustments: Perform retrospective NI adjustments
  
• Director’s NI: Calculation based on date of appointment
  
• Pay methods: Includes a wide range of payment methods including BACS, cheque and cash
  
• Advanced pension management: Create multiple Pension Schemes, including stakeholder, personal, group personal and AVC, with full reporting capabilities
  
• Statutory payments: ShPP and fully automated processing and reporting of SSP, SMP, SPP (Birth), SPP (Adopt) and SAP
  
• P45 (leaver processing)
  
• P11 reporting: Automated and designed to replicate the Deductions Working Sheet. Includes detailed and summary option with period range and tax year selection
  
• P32 processing: Automated and designed to replicate the Employer’s Payment Record. Includes monthly or quarterly payment recording, funding, total value drilldown and multiple company consolidation, employer allowance and Apprenticeship Levy
  
• Student loans: Automated, with deductions calculated in accordance with the current legislative threshold and percentage amounts
  
• Payrolling of benefits
  
• Salary sacrifice
  
• Pension provider integration: Opera 3 Payroll and Opera II Payroll offer integration with
  
• NOW: Pensions and NEST.
  
• Attachments: Attach multiple files (eg spreadsheet, Word document) to an employee record
  
• Holiday pay: Process Holiday Pay based on average earnings or an accrued amount
  
• Attachment Orders: Automated, with deductions calculated in accordance with current legislation
  
• Payroll history: Transaction history and payslip images retained for up to 999 pay periods
  
• Transfer: Transfer an employee from one payroll group to another or change the employee reference
  
• Override Tax/NI: Override an Employee’s Tax/NI system calculation when circumstances dictate
  
• Global Holiday: Provides the facility to place a Group of employees on holiday
  
• Employee photo: Assign a photograph to an employee record
  
• Payroll analysis: Analyse payroll values by payroll group, employee, payroll department, Nominal Cost Centre, Department and Project
  
• Integration: Integrates with the Nominal Ledger, Cashbook and Costing with real-time or batch update and transfer
  
• User-definable Views: Define Payroll Views with up to six levels of analysis, apply criteria filtering and graphical representation. Report across pay periods with full transactional drilldown and easy export facilities to Microsoft Excel
  
• Historical employees: Allows access to historical employee information, including payslip images and the ability to easily re-instate an employee record if required
  
• Global updates: Perform updates of rates and values across the Payroll, with the option to print pay rise slips and a full audit trail
  
• Audit log: The audit log records all key field changes made throughout the tax year
  
• Comprehensive reporting: An extensive range of reports are provided as standard
  
• Customisable: Opera 3 Payroll can be customised to suit the specific requirements of your business
  
• Context-sensitive Help: Comprehensive and easy to use Help facilities
  

• Employee Diary: Records sickness, holiday, maternity, compassionate leave, absence and training, in days, hours and minutes, for each employee
  
• Working Patterns: Define variable Working Patterns for a group of employees or an individual employee, with the option to ignore Bank Holidays. Working patterns are reflected in the employee diary
  
• Pro-rata holidays: Pro-rata holiday entitlement can be calculated and displayed within the employee’s diary, with a holiday carry-over facility
  
• History: Retain personnel records and transactions, including job and salary changes, for up to 99 years
  
• Attachments: Attach multiple files (eg spreadsheet, Word document) to an employee record
  
• Audit Log: The audit log records all key field changes made throughout the tax year
  
• Global salary changes: Process updates for salaried or hourly paid employees, with immediate payroll adjustment
  
• Comprehensive reporting: An extensive range of reports are provided as standard
  
• Customisable: Personnel can be customised to suit the specific requirements of your business
  
• Context-sensitive Help: Comprehensive and easy to use Help facilities
  

• HMRC Quality Standard: The Online Filing Manager is recognised by HMRC. Quality Standard validation is performed on Real Time Information generated by Opera 3 before submission via the Government Gateway
  
• VAT 100 Return: Submit online via the Government Gateway
  
• Submission Status: Connect to the Government Gateway after a submission has been made to check the status of the return
  
• Context Sensitive Help: Comprehensive and easy to use Help facilities
  

• Benefit Sections & Sub-Types: The P11D Organiser includes statutory benefit types and descriptions. The descriptions can be amended, dispensation and default values applied and additional descriptions created
  
• Benefit allocation: Benefits can be attached to an individual employee, all employees or a group of employees
  
• Integration: Seamless integration with Opera 3 Payroll ensures that the P11D Organiser is kept up to-date with new companies or employees, revised employee details or leaver information
  
• HMRC guidelines: The P11D Organiser contains current HMRC information to assist with any legislative queries
  
• File online: Submit benefit and expenses data to the HMRC via the Government Gateway, including P11D, P9D, P11D (b) and P46 (car) in-year forms
  
• Comprehensive reporting: Employer, employee, benefits & expenses, fleet and periodic reports are all included, with email, PDF and print facilities
  
• Excel Integration: Predefined wizards allow users to import information directly into the P11D from Microsoft Excel, eg mileage and car information
  
• Additional tools: Intuitive data merge; benefit alignment and data archive routines are included. Data from previous years may be retained as required and reported on
  

Opera 3 Payroll & HR is an award-winning payroll solution trusted by thousands of UK companies. It has HMRC Recognition and includes features such as email payslips & P60s, salary sacrifice and integration with selected pension providers to actively help you in your day-to-day tasks.