Hi there,

This is my first post on here for help, so here it goes...

We have a company that has a large number of unionized craft workers that we utilize Simply Accounting Pro 2008 to handle everything, including payroll.  We also use it for our staff. Unfortunately since the staff has access to Simply, they are able to figure out what their peers earn, and this could create a problem down the road!  We are considering creating another company in Simply to handle just the staff payroll that would only be accessible by someone with the 'right' permissions.

Has anyone ever done anything similar to this?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Have you tried going to Setup > Set Up Users & Roles and disallowing certain users access to payroll?

You can certainly set up a 2nd database to perform payroll in. Just make certain that you set up some checks and balances so that the 'payroll database' agrees with the bank reconciliation each month.  This will ensure that a paycheque does not posted twice (or not get posted) as you would need the T4s to be accurate at year-end.

Wow, that was a quick reply!  That is a very good point.  We'll have to make sure we really think this through.