From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: Payroll App for Temporary Employment Agency
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:16:42 GMT

frost@netcom.com (John Frost) writes:


>I am trying to get the company I work for to convert to an All-Mac
network
>The primary stumbling block to this conversion is finding a Mac-based
payroll
>program.  Hopefully this payroll appl. will either be compatible with
an 
>accounting program of include one.  

>FYI, a  temporary Employment agency's payroll procedures are as
follows, and  
>whatever program we find needs to work with this  scenario.

>The players:
> 1) Employees: they get sent on assignments (with different skill
levels)
>2) Clients: They request employees  and we bill them (our accounts
receivable)
>3)  Admin: we run the whole shebang

>The scenario:
>  A client calls the admin and asks to have a position filled.  We
>determine which employee fits the bill and fill out a job order (step
one  
>in accounts receivable).  The employee goes to the job.  Tracks their
work
>hours on a Timesheet and sends the Timesheet back to  the admin.  The
>admin works off the Job order and the timesheet to produce paychecks
for
>the employees and bills for the client.   

>That is it  basically.  If you've heard of such a program or are using
>one now... please post here or email me.  

>Much Thanks.

>--
>If I told you this was from Gibson's next novel would you believe me?
> "Aaron Pursley was already Learing it back to Cincinatti in a plane
>that had no metal in it whatsoever, Karen had locked the goggles across
her
>eyes and was talking non-stop to at least six people at once, and
Rydell was
>sitting on the edge of her big white bed, starting to get the idea that

>something had changed."
>frost@netcom.com        <A hand me those goggles kind of guy>

> 



Hi. I ran a construction company for over two years off Bloch's
Accountant, Inc, Pro. 
I higly recomend it, I used it to track employees of different labor
skills and grades, (that's two different variables) on multiple job
sites under multiple contracts, and it kept up just fine.
In addition, when coupled with Claris Resolve, and Claris MacProject, I
used it to track individual projects on a daily basis, the Accounting
package, which I initially purchased "just to do payroll" ended up
compileing a database (weighted, of course,) that gave me up to the
minute average prices, based on my actual (as opposed to projected or
planned) purchase orders for
ALL THE MATERIAL I WOULD NEED FOR A GIVEN JOB!
This information was absoloutly pricless when I was bidding.
Accountant Inc. also, when plugged in to Resolve and Macproject, gave me
average times for individual tasks, as well as average man hours per
task, again, pricless information when bidding!

The other things that Accountant Inc does, the mundane, like letter
perfect billing, invoices, the pletoria a reports available, were just
iceing on an already excellent cake.

The fact that I KNEW where my money was, and what it was doing,
literally hour by hour, was a dream come true after 2 months of $1200
and up in accounting bills!

To top it off, due to Bloch's excellent tech support, *I* ended up
keeping the books! I'm a carpenter, not a CPA, but *I* was able to do
taxes, payroll, end of year closing, etc.! 

I bought my computer, and Accountant Inc. "just to do payroll".
My first bill from my accountant, after one month of operation, was 
$1253.50.

My last bill was $80. (he came over to my office, looked over my books
for an hour, shrugged, and said "it's fine! no problem. See you next
month.")

I figure Accountant, Inc. paid for my computer several times over, just 
in savings on accounting.

And finally, there is a gentleman named Milo in customer support at 
Bloch. Milo deserves special mention, as an example of what customer 
support SHOULD be industry wide. Milo got my payroll, and my taxes out
on time, and untied the various messes I made over the phone.

Buy Accountant Inc. Then buy the year's customer support from Bloch.

Then, when you've made your million, I expect a postcard.
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