Sage Software MAS 500 Version 7.2

SAGE MAS 500 VERSION 7.2 PRE-RELEASE GUIDE

Now with Abra eRecruiter, when an existing employee accepts a transfer offer or is promoted, the

Abra HR system will recognize that an existing employee is either being transferred or promoted.

That employee data will be made available in Sage Abra HR for a transfer or a promotion.

Abra Benefits Enrollment

Abra Benefits Enrollment provides online benefit administration, open enrollment, and life events

management for Abra HR users. Empower employees with detailed 24/7 benefit administration

access to benefit plans over the Internet or an intranet. Step-by-step wizards guide administrators

through the benefit plan set-up process, and walk employees through open enrollment. Year-round

life events management allows employees to update information such as marital status and

dependents.

Export in .csv Format

Administrators can now export Open Enrollment data from AWC-BE in .csv format for easy

conversion to Excel format.

Abra HR- EEO-1 Reporting Changes

Abra HR has been updated to collect and report on job categories and employee ethnicity as

needed to support the 2007 EEOC category changes. Abra HR provides the code table and report

changes necessary to support the new EEO-1 categories on which employers must report effective

September 30, 2007. Category changes include the following:

• Addition of a new category titled “Two or more races, not Hispanic or Latino”.

• Separate categories for “Asians, not Hispanic or Latino” and “Native Hawaiian or Other

Pacific Islander, Not Hispanic or Latino”.

• Rename the category “Black” as “Black or African American”.

• Rename the category “Hispanic” as “Hispanic or Latino”.

• Divide the job category of “Officials and Managers” into two subcategories of

“Executive/Senior Level officials and Managers” and “First/Mid-Level Officials and

Managers”.

Abra Payroll Updates

In compliance with California Labor code 226, Abra Payroll now has the ability to display the pay

rate on paychecks or advices with the rate of pay times the pay factor e.g. 1.5, 2, etc.

Now you can manage gross wages, by state, for multiple states. Calculate gross earnings by state

for instances in which employees work in multiple states in a given year.

Additionally, Abra Payroll now supports the ability to void a check on a user-defined date during an

open quarter.

Abra Attendance - Track FMLA Absences on 12-month Rolling Basis

Abra Attendance now has the ability to track FMLA absences on a 12-month rolling basis. Abra

Attendance supports the ability to track the number of workweeks of unpaid leave under the FMLA

during any 12-month period of time. Abra Attendance calculates FMLA leave using a 12-month