Software Release Notes – 5.0.0 – New Features
A number of new features have been added in this version and are listed below. All of these are carried forward into later versions.
Release Date: May 2014
Software Release Notes – Ver 4.1.9
Release Date: September 2013
Version 4.1.9 was actually never officially released, although some of our clients were upgraded to this version. All changes below were carried forward into our version 5.x.x releases.
Faster, Easier Email – With Stats
For many years now ESP Marketing Assistant has offered salons and spas the ability to bulk email their clients. There is a feature to create an email and the ability to filter the recipients from your ESP client database.
However, when it comes to delivery of the emails it can get a little tricky because you are sending them through your normal email service provider. The upside of this is that you don’t have to pay for the emails in the same way that you would through a third party bulk email provider but the down side is that most email service providers have a limit of how many emails you can send through their servers in a given period of time and if you exceed this they may block you as a spammer.
Important Notice for ESP Wage Assistant Users
Remember to set your Wage Annualisation start date to 01/03/2014!
If you use the annualisation feature in Wage Assistant then remember to change your annualisation start date to 01/03/2014 for the new financial year. This should be done before starting the MARCH 2014 payroll run but only after completing your FEBRUARY 2014 payroll.
How to change your Annualisation Start Date:
- · In Wage Assistant select Set Up
- · Then set Annualization Start to 1/03/2014
- · Ensure that the Enable Annualization box is ticked in order to make use of this feature
What is Tax Annualisation?
Tax annualisation on staff salaries is when the tax calculated in a particular month takes the staff members salary and tax for the entire year into account in order that when the current months tax is calculated the staff members tax for the entire year (up to that date) is in line with their earnings.
This is necessary because beauty therapists and hair stylists generally earn commission and as a result their earnings differ from month to month. Therefore they often fall into different tax brackets each month, which means that by the end of the year the tax that they have paid does not tie up with the salary that they have earned for the entire year. The staff member will then either need to get a refund from SARS or pay in if they have been undertaxed.