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'Doing payroll' isn't that big of a deal. I think a number of the
common linux accounting packages will do payroll. Payroll isn't a
whole lot different than paying a vendor for something you bought. You
enter an invoice, then pay your $100, which counts in the 'hardware'
account and then the various retail taxes get accrued into the various
tax accounts. For payroll, you pay the employee an amount, and that
amount gets split into different other accounts like income tax
collected, vacation pay, EI and so on. So I would expect most linux
packages to do payroll.<br>
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What most of them don't do is automatically calculate the deductions -
that's what people mostly mean when they say 'does it do payroll' I
think. So you pay $1000 out a as a paycheque and the software
automatically calculates the splits into the various EI/tax accounts.
But that's the step most linux programs won't do.<br>
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But that deficiency for a small biz is really no big deal. The gov't
site has an easy calculator where you enter the employees gross salary
and it calculates the appropriate deductions. Then you just take those
numbers and enter it into the proper accounts when you pay the
employee. It's an extra step, but it's only like 3 minutes every time
you do payroll. We've been doing this for years without any issues.<br>
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Eric Gerlach wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:18:00AM -0500, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone have any recommendations for medical software
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<pre wrap=""> for naturopaths,
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<pre wrap="">Do naturopaths have special requirements for their software?
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<pre wrap=""> Naturopaths don't deal with pharmaceuticals at all, they need to book
appointments, manage a database of herbal remedies, and manage client
information. Payroll is another possible need.
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As a believer in the UNIX philosophy, I'd say that you'd probably want
three pieces of software there: one to manage clients and appointments,
one to manage the DB of remedies, and one for accounting/payroll.
Having that all in one package will just mean it's mediocre at all
three.
Speaking of which, I've never seen an open-source package that does
payroll. Does such a beast exist, or does the myriad of rules it would
have to comply with prevent its existence?
Cheers,
Eric
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