HMRC Fully-Accredited Payroll Software - Pegasus Opera 3

 5-Star Customer Review

Opera gives us all the functionality we need, such as electronic submission of End-of-Year Returns and BACS functionality; plus we know that if in the future we need to expand our system, it can be integrated with the Opera accounting suite, and we can increase the number of users on our licence at any time.
Doreen Gibson, Castle Howard

A Higly-Sophisticated, Fully Integrated Payroll System

Award-winning Opera Payroll & HR is designed to ensure that complicated Payroll procedures are simplified and performed automatically. Payroll is available as a standalone module or combines with the other modules available for Opera; linking seamlessly to Personnel and P11D Organiser.

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The Pegasus Web Xchange is a secure and easy way to access your Opera 3 data on the go - anytime, anywhere and on a number of mobile devices. It will change the way you work and run your business.
For payroll, it allows employees to view their payslips securely online, saving you the cost of stationery and postage. Employees may also update their details and once the changes are authorised, the alterations are reflected in Payroll and Personnel - saving you valuable time.

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Opera has been checked by, and meets the requirements of, the HM Revenue & Customs Payroll and Quality Standard. It also incorporates online filing via the Government Gateway, by Internet or EDI.

Opera has been awarded the HM Revenue & Customs Pensioner Payroll Standard Accreditation.
  • Multi-user, with Company and Group password control and menu level access restriction
  • Full integration with Opera Document Management
  • Email Payslips and P60s
  • Links to the Nominal Ledger, Cashbook and Costing Financial modules of Opera II
  • 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
  • Fully automated Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) and fully up to date with legislatative changes
  • Automated Attachment Orders processing and reporting
  • Retrospective NI code changes with automatic adjustment value calculation and processing
  • Caters for Holiday pay across year-end
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mixed Pension schemes per company
  • Stakeholder Pensions
  • Auto-Enrolment
  • Fixed amount
  • Percentage of definable figure
  • Group Personal Pension
  • COMP
  • COSR
  • Freestanding AVC
  • Up to three different LEL/UEL criteria
  • Employee diary showing
    • sickness
    • holidays
    • maternity
    • compassionate leave
    • 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
  • Comprehensive, context-sensitive help
  • Free Access to HR Helpline as part of your contract
  • 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

More Information

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