Great Plains Partner Newsflash: Payroll Timesheets and New Employees integration

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Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP has US and Canadianprocessing in Great Plains Dynamics GP.  GP IM
Payroll modules, and this accounting application isintegration could be easily launched by Great Plains
often used by Payroll outsourcing companies toUser or scheduled (in this case you may need GP
serve their customers as well as by largeIM automatic integration routine, available for
corporation to accrue and pay payroll checks,purchase from Microsoft Business Solution)
Social Security, Medicare, Federal and State 
Income taxes, plus W-2 printing and mailing to2.       eConnect US Payroll integration
employeesprogramming.  eConnect is C# and VB .Net
In order to save on Dynamics GP user licenses, itprogrammer friendly SDK, allowing Great Plains
is common to see simple or complex timecardDeveloper to automate US Payroll integration in
custom made application on the front, often webreal time, if desired.  If you are on Great Plains
based, where employees are logging their time onDynamics GP versions 9.0 or 10.0 — please
the daily base after each shift and then thisknow that Integration Manager can use eConnect
timesheet logging application should beconnector as the technology base for the
automatically or manually integrated with Greatintegration.  eConnect breaks through former
Plains Dynamics GP.  In this publication we willlimitations on the transaction volume, as eConnect
review various options to do the job:is based on encrypted SQL stored procedures
  
1.       Dynamics GP Integration Manager3.       Third party Payroll integration
Payroll connector.  This is sort of user friendlyproducts and add-ons.  In this small publication
tool, however we recommend IT levelthese are out of scope, here we only stress the
involvement, as it requires you to understandfact, that IM or eConnect programming are so
such features as Text file parsing, ODBC queries,simple and cheap in their installation and
and Advanced ODBC (where you can base yourimplementation, that they might be better way to
query on custom SQL View with grouping, filteringgo
and other SQL constructions).  Great Plains 
Integration Manager allows you to add or update4.       Great Plains Business Portal Employee
employee, set up employee taxes andSelf Service.  If your IT department is strong
deductions.  Regarding Payroll transactionsenough to the level of hosting your Microsoft
integration — here you can integrate HourlySharepoint and .
Pay Codes to the core US or Canadian Payroll