Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 11, 2006 09:37 AM
Hmmm.... About half of my small business customers use Quickbooks, which offers a payroll solution. Interestingly, less than half of those that use Quickbooks use the payroll module. Some don't want to pay for it. Some find it doesn't match what they want to do, etc.
So payroll isn't the killer feature that a lot of customers need.
Also SQL-Ledger has been promising payroll Real Soon Now for about two years. But it never comes. Indeed, it has a half-written but dormant payroll module contained in the HR.pm. Evidently the developer coded himself into a corner and couldn't get out so he decided to abandon that feature for others.
We at LedgerSMB are actually in the process of analyzing the needs of payroll. Like sales tax, it seems simple on the surface until you realize that ever state, province, country, etc. has rules and exceptions which make it anything but simple. For example, in Washington State, agricultural workers have some state payroll taxes waived on certain types of work. If you have a paycheck that mixes types (for example, 4 bins of apples harvested and 10 hours of misc work), you have a problem that even the solutions currently on the market can't handle.
We expect payroll in LedgerSMB to take another couple months. SQL-Ledger will, however, likely never have it.
Best Wishes, Chris Travers LedgerSMB core developer Former SQL-Ledger Wiki maintainer
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Re:Payroll?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 11, 2006 09:37 AMSo payroll isn't the killer feature that a lot of customers need.
Also SQL-Ledger has been promising payroll Real Soon Now for about two years. But it never comes. Indeed, it has a half-written but dormant payroll module contained in the HR.pm. Evidently the developer coded himself into a corner and couldn't get out so he decided to abandon that feature for others.
We at LedgerSMB are actually in the process of analyzing the needs of payroll. Like sales tax, it seems simple on the surface until you realize that ever state, province, country, etc. has rules and exceptions which make it anything but simple. For example, in Washington State, agricultural workers have some state payroll taxes waived on certain types of work. If you have a paycheck that mixes types (for example, 4 bins of apples harvested and 10 hours of misc work), you have a problem that even the solutions currently on the market can't handle.
We expect payroll in LedgerSMB to take another couple months. SQL-Ledger will, however, likely never have it.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
LedgerSMB core developer
Former SQL-Ledger Wiki maintainer
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