Opera 3 Payroll simplifies your key tasks and has PAYE Recognition so you will always have peace of mind.
Opera 3 Payroll is available as a stand alone application or integrates with the other applications available for Opera 3; linking seamlessly to Personnel and P11D Organiser.
Payroll & HR
In Summary
- Multi-user, with Company and Group password control and menu level access restriction
- Full integration with Opera 3 Document Management
- Links to the Nominal Ledger, Cashbook and Costing Financial modules of Opera 3
- Definable cheque and payslip designs to suit Company stationery requirements
- Create unlimited Companies with unlimited employees per Company
- Weekly, fortnightly, four weekly and monthly paid employees can be maintained all in one company
- Employee profiles for efficient employee record creation
- Employee payment details and payslip images can be retained for up to 999 pay periods
- Payslips from past periods can be reprinted at any time
- Employees can be paid via BACS, reducing the time and costs required to process payments
- Submit Year-End Returns via the Government Gateway using the Pegasus Online Filing Manager
- In-Year P45(1), P45(3) and P46 file generation for online submission using the Online Filing Manager
- Filtered Historical employee record processing to current legislative bandwidths
- Automated Director's National Insurance calculations
- Multiple Pension Scheme management
- Track report on key field changes for the Payroll year using the Audit Log
- Backup and Restore facility
- Fully automated SSP, SMP and SPP (Birth) processing and reporting, with complex legislation built in
- Automated Attachment Orders processing and reporting
- Retrospective NI code changes with automatic adjustment value calculation and processing
- Caters for Holiday pay across year-end

Employee Records
- Address, bank details and holidays
- Tax and National Insurance To-Date details
- Payments and deductions - permanent and temporary values, retained units and rates, zero this period facility
- Quick calculation - showing net pay, total deductions and NI'able earnings
- Retained History with payslip image drill down
- Employee photograph attachment
- Ability to embed documents, spreadsheets etc, via OLE technology
Reports
- Departmental reporting
- Payslip, cheque and BACS list generation
- P35, P14 and P60 End-of-Year reports
- P45(1), P45(3) and P46 In-Year reports
- P11 Deductions Working Sheet
- P32 employer's Payment Record, with payment and funding recording and multi-company consolidation
- This Period and To Date summaries
- Comprehensive statutory payments, Attachment Orders and pension contribution reports
- Additional Reporter module available, for the creation of your own reports
Pensions
- Mixed Pension schemes per company
- Stakeholder Pensions
- Fixed amount
- Percentage of definable figure
- Group Personal Pension
- COMP
- COSR
- Freestanding AVC
- Up to three different LEL/UEL criteria
Personnel Records
- Employee diary showing sickness, holidays, maternity and compassionate leave, and training
- Variable employee working patterns reflected within the diary
- Accurate days, hours and minutes event recording and analysis
- Keep records for up to 99 years, including job changes and salary updates
- Pro-rata holiday entitlement and holiday carry-over
Help
- Comprehensive, context senstive help
Extended Information Sources
- Export information to Microsoft products such as Word and Excel
- Send reports via e-mail
- Payroll administrator and management reports delivered via e-mail
- Regularly notify staff of remaining holiday entitlement automatically by e-mail
- Automatically notify managers of Payroll requirement by e-mail
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Auto Enrolment
Changes to the pensions law (the Workplace Pensions Reform) mean that employers must enrol their employees into a pension scheme and pay into it. Opera 3 payroll will handle your auto enrolment requirements, from categorising your workers and auto enrolling them to managing employer and employee contributions and handling opt-ins and opt-outs.
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NEST Pensions
NEST Pensions (National Employment Savings Trust) is a cost effective pension scheme that is available for any employer to meet their new duties. Opera 3 and Opera II Payroll & HR has NEST Integration, allowing you to manage your auto enrolment duties electronically. It's available for only £350 RSP.
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Real Time Information
Under RTI, employers and pension providers need to tell HMRC about PAYE payments at the time they are made. Opera 3 payroll caters fully for the submission of Real Time Information, including the Full Payment Submission (FPS) required for each pay period.
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