HRMS Software Solutions

HRMS Software Solutions: As a leading provider of best-in-breed Sage Abra software Acente Solutions delivers optimization and automation HRMS software solutions to support a 360-degree view of our customer’s human capital - from the moment a resume enters into an organization through separation, and everything in-between.

Acente Solutions software offerings are broad-reaching yet modular, offering maximum flexibility to tailor the right software solutions to the customer’s needs.

Abra Payroll Software

Abra Payroll Software

Flexible Payroll Processing

Simplify your organization’s payroll processing with customizable screens, unlimited trial payrolls, and on-demand and retroactive check processing.

U.S. Tax Management and Compliance (Sage Abra Suite - U.S. Edition)

Meet virtually every U.S. tax management and compliance need with automatic quarterly updates of tax tables and electronic media reporting for all states.

Canadian Tax Management and Compliance (Sage Abra Suite – Canada Edition)

Meet Canadian tax management and compliance needs with automatic federal and provincial tax tables and filing requirements for the Electronic Funds Transfer Payment System using both check and direct deposit filing methods.

Comprehensive Reporting

Meet government and management reporting requirements with Crystal Reports® writer, Abra Secure Query report writer, electronic media reporting, and over 100 standard reports.

Earning and Deductions

Set up unlimited earnings and deduction codes with an easy-to-use setup wizard.

Available with:

Sage Abra Suite – U.S. Edition Sage Abra Suite – Canada Edition

Abra HR Software

Abra HR Software

Comprehensive Benefits Management

Create benefit plans, define eligibility criteria, and calculate employee, dependent, and employee premium and benefit costs.

Government Reporting Compliance

Easily manage government requirements for regulations such as EEO, I-9, Vets-100, FMLA, OSHA, and worker’s compensation.

Accessible Employee Information

Easily access employee information including benefits, dependents, current pay, job history, and performance review.

Cobra and HIPAA Compliance

Stay compliant with notification letters that describe coverage options and costs, billing statements, and eligibility reports.

Powerful Reporting Tools

Get access to critical business information regarding compliance and strategic planning with powerful reporting tools included in Abra HR.

Secure Data

Protect critical information and control which groups have access to data at any level.

Integrate With MS Outlook and Easily Import Data Jnto MS Excel and MS Word

View and analyze data for strategic, on–the-spot decision making.

Abra Train

Abra Train

Enrollment and Tracking

Automatically assign employees to job-based training requirements, set up training classes, schedule attendance, and manage class rosters for students and instructors.

Program Management

Define curriculum or specific sets of courses that employees must complete in order to achieve desired levels of competency.

Certifications

Keep detailed records on employees’ professional certifications and continuing education credits (CEU).

Program Cost Management

Easily manage program costs and allocations with built-in analysis tools that compute costs by employee, course, job, or department.

Locations and Logistics

Identify training locations and contact people for each location, as well as location capacity, associated rental costs, and disability access.

Class Correspondence

Personalize pre-formatted class correspondence, such as enrollment letters and completion letters, to meet your communication needs for individual classes.

Reporting

Quickly access data with standard reports, including certification and history reports, as well as a variety of analyses, or build your own reports with the easy-to-use Abra Secure Query report writer or Crystal Reports writer for your company’s more complex reporting needs.

Abra Attendance

Abra Attendance

Time-Off Management

Create and manage an unlimited numberof time-off plans for employees, including vacation, sick time, personal leave, bereavement, and more.

Powerful Reporting

Access important business information with standard reports, Crystal Reports®, and Abra Secure Query™ (ASQ), all included with Sage Abra. Easily provide employees with a snapshot of their attendance progress and quickly identify attendance trends with these powerful reporting options.

FMLA Tracking

Easily track leaves of absence covered by FMLA. With Abra Attendance, you can manage and report on full or partial FMLA leave, as well as all applicable certification and recertification dates.

Integration

Save time and eliminate duplicate data entry when you integrate Abra Attendance with other modules within the Abra family of products. When installed with Sage Abra Workforce Connections, you can automate time off management by allowing employees to request time off via the Internet or company intranet.

Flexibility

Create an unlimited number of attendance plans per employee using different seniority, accrual, and carryover rules. Easily designate maximum carryover amounts for individual plans, and assign user-defined reason codes to each plan.

Automatically assign employees to job-based training requirements, set up training classes, schedule attendance, and manage class rosters for students and instructors.

Abra Benefits Messenger

Abra Benefits Messenger

Simple, Flexible Communication

Automatically reformats the employee enrollment data in your Abra HR system and sends it to benefits carriers on your behalf.

Accuracy

Eliminates the chance of errors by electronically extracting employee enrollment data from your system.

Supports Most Health Carriers

Supports health benefit carriers, offering medical, dental, and vision plans.

Automatic Scheduling

Automatically transmits the data to your carriers on the schedule determined by each carrier.

Easy-to-use Technology

All you need is an Internet connection–No complex technology or IT support is required.

Email Confirmations and Status Updates

Provides automatic transmission confirmations and email status messages so you can be assured your benefits data has been received and set up.

Supports All Data Formats

Supports all data formats required by benefits carriers, including ASCII, XML, HIPAA ANSI X12 834 EDI, and human-readable formats.

Security

Your employee benefits data is secured with SFTP and SSL Internet security protocols, PGP encryption, and authentication certificates.

Available with:
Sage Abra SQL v8.2 or higher and
Sage Abra Suite – U.S. edition v7.5 or higher.

Abra Alerts

Abra Alerts

Automate Employee and Applicant Communication

Automatically send standard e-mails such as new hire welcome messages and personalized e-mails with attachments.

Increase Efficiency

Merge employee information from the Sage Abra database to generate personalized messages using your company’s existing e-mail system.

Easy Start-Up With Pre-Formatted Alerts

Automate a variety of information tasks immediately with pre-formatted, customizable alerts.

Monitor Overtime Costs

Stay on top of overtime costs by sending proactive notification to controllers including spreadsheets of overtime information for your employees.

Enhance Recruiting Efforts

Do a better job of marketing your company during the hiring process with personalized communications to applicants.

Better Enforcement of Company Policies

Automatically inform managers of upcoming review deadlines, time-off balances, and other important information.

Available with:
Sage Abra SQL HRMS v8 or higher
Sage Abra Suite – U.S. Edition
Sage Abra Suite – Canada Edition

Abra Link

Abra Link

Productivity Features

Reduce the time spent on entering data manually by sharing information from other HR, recruiting, payroll, benefits and spreadsheet systems with Sage Abra HRMS.

ASCII File Flexibility

Convert virtually any type of ASCII file created from a mainframe, payroll or service bureau for immediate use in Sage Abra HRMS.

Easy Import/Export Capabilities

Select your own import/export criteria with the ability to establish reusable templates and transfer critical HR information on a routine basis, quickly and accurately.

Direct Importing and Exporting From ADP PC/Payroll

Easily import and export data to and from the Abra HR database to ADP/Payroll for Windows Versions 2.52 and up – avoiding duplicate data entry and eliminating key stroke errors.

Powerful Security Functionality

Protect key information with sophisticated, multi-level security with complete control over who has access to data at any level.

Abra Toolkit

Abra Toolkit

Advanced Customization

Easily tailor menus, processes, actions, reports, toolbars, screens and fields within Sage Abra HRMS to match your organization’s unique business requirements.

Better Organization

You decide how information is categorized and viewed with complete control over how your organization captures information within the system.

Specify Order and Format

Specify the format and order of actions and processes, change the order of panels within menus, the order of reports, even remove individual reports from within groups, or entire report groups as a whole.

Enhanced Integration

Maximize your organization’s effectiveness with a fully integrated solution that givesyou the power to customize virtually any Sage Abra module.

Abra OrgPlus

Abra OrgPlus

Chart Creation

Automatically and quickly create organizational charts by linking to your Abra database.

Chart Publishing & Sharing

Publish your charts in a variety of formats, including Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat PDF, HTML, or post them directly to the Web or your company intranet.

Schedule Updates

Refresh, distribute, and publish your chart data on a predefined schedule of your choosing.

Business Planning Tools

Empower managers to create “what-if” business scenarios and measure their impact.

Integrated Data Management

Perform spreadsheet functions on data in chart boxes and insert links to other files that contain employee-related information.

Chart Customization

Customize charts with one of 36 pre-defined templates, import pictures, and include fill effects such as gradients and textures.

Flexible Formatting

Create multiple rows under one manager with multi-column chart styles, import and manipulate pictures to boxes and backgrounds, and group boxes within charts.

Microsoft Office Integration

Generate, view and edit organizational charts in MS Word and PowerPoint and export your charts to Excel for analysis.

Abra Recruiting Solution

Abra Recruiting Solution

Simplified Recruiting

Read resumes directly through your email system, and place them into a searchable database. Import resumes and convert paper resumes into electronic files for enhanced applicant searching.

Effective Searching

Conduct quick and accurate searches for qualified candidates in your resume database and quickly display search results.

Reduce Paper Files

Email qualified candidate resumes directly to hiring managers, eliminating excessive paper files and providing quick access to resumes for printing or emailing.

Slash Costs

Define skills, education, and work experience to search electronic files, matching applicants to open requisitions before running costly ads or paying search agency fees.

Enhanced Applicant Communication

Personalize form letters by merging database information including names, addresses, and position to send personalized mass letters to applicants efficiently.

Powerful Reporting

Track the entire hiring process using over 50 preformatted reports.

Maximum Security

Protect key information with sophisticated, multilevel security.

Abra Employee Self-Service (ESS)

Abra ESS (Employee Self-Service)

HR Information

Employees can access an extensive selection of personal HR information, including skills, job history, and performance reviews.

Payroll Information (Sage Abra Suite – U.S. Edition)

In addition to HR data, employees can view a variety of payroll information, including pay stubs, W-2s, and tax withholdings (W-4).

Manager Features

Managers have instant access to comprehensive employee data for both direct and indirect reports. They can review attendance information, employee performance, salary history, and more.

Time-Off Management

Employees gain access to attendance balances and the ability to request time off. Managers and supervisors are notified of pending requests, which they can easily review and approve.

System Workflow

Sophisticated workflow features, such as automated notifications and delegated approval rights, can significantly improve business processes.

Customization

Your company can customize pages with logos and color schemes, post important documents, messages, and third party links for easy employee and manager access

Abra Benefits Enrollment

Abra Benefits Enrollment

Flexible Benefits Eligibility Criteria

Select from an extensive list of benefit plan eligibility criteria, and allow employees to choose only from those plans that are applicable to them based on this criteria.

Life Events Management

Employees can update marital status, dependents, dependent status, and more throughout the year as the result of events that impact their benefits.

Monitor Open Enrollment Progress

Easily monitor the progress of employees in the open enrollment process, and send customizable reminder emails to employees.

Benefit Plan Integration

Include URL links to benefit provider web sites, and post company-specific plan documents for employees to review online.

Ease of Use

No employee training required–uses familiar Internet browser technology and easy-to-use wizards to guide employees through the benefits open enrollment process.

Election Comparison

During the enrollment process, employees can easily compare current benefit elections with alternative benefit plans.

Abra TaxFile

Abra TaxFile

Tax Filing Convenience

Guard your business against filing errors by letting Sage tax compliance experts manage your entire payroll tax filing process for you from beginning to end.

Complete Peace of Mind

Enjoy the security of electronic funds transfer on the tax due date to all the appropriate tax agencies in the correct tax formats.

One Convenient Source

Sage Tax Filing Services supports IRS EFTPS, state and local income tax, state unemployment insurance, state disability insurance, and related tax returns.

Eliminate Lost Interest Earnings

Payments are electronically routed directly from your bank account to the taxing authority eliminating lost interest earnings.

Comprehensive Reporting

Sage Tax Filing Services verifies your tax payments before they are made, and sends you copies of your tax returns with a full range of reports to keep you up-to-date.

W-2 Printing

Sage Tax Filing Services ensures high-quality, timely completion of tax forms using state-of-the-art laser printing technology.

Additional Printing Options

Print multiple tax forms for employees with earnings in multiple EINs and states and create a mag media for electronic filing of federal W-2 forms.