Sage 300 People
A powerful HR and payroll solution designed to simplify your HR processes, improve accuracy, and empower your workforce.
Sage 300 People
Your All-in-One Payroll & HR Solution
Sage 300 People is designed for you to keep up with payroll, benefits administration and employee data management – normally extremely time-consuming tasks. Sage 300 People is a powerful HR and payroll software solution designed to simplify your HR processes, improve accuracy and empower your workforce.
In a nutshell, Sage 300 People has the following capabilities:
Powerful Payroll
Handle payroll with ease, from automatic calculations to accurate tax deductions.
Security You Can Trust
Protect sensitive employee data with robust security features.
Flexibility to Your Needs
Choose from a range of add-on modules according to your needs, like Job Costing or Performance Management.
Work from Anywhere
Access the system from any device, anywhere in the world (with an internet connection).
Always Compliant
Stay on top of changing regulations – Sage 300 People receives automatic updates with the latest tax regulations and requirements.
Scalability – Grow with Your Business
Sage 300 People scales to fit your needs, no matter how your company grows.
What can Sage 300 People offer your business?
Security, Stability and Improved Processes
Sage 300 People not only gives you airtight security and rock-solid stability, it provides you with impressive improvements in processing through constant innovation. And the design complements existing Business Management Solutions applications and builds on the strength of SQL as a unified platform.
Online Real-Time Design
Online, real-time design makes your processing easy to monitor, cutting down on errors and reducing risk. And its combination with a period-driven system is unprecedented in the industry, giving you truly state-of-the-art technology.
Smart Design Means Fast, Efficient Implementation
You can use this in any design area – from calculating medical aid deductions and printing detailed reports to generating complex job-costing calculations. This functionality is just one example of Sage 300 People’s ability to give you cohesive, comprehensive and configurable solutions that break legacy configurations.
Stay in Control
Steer your business successfully through growth phases with an HR and payroll system that grows with you, giving you the agility combined with the stability and security you need to manage resources and costs efficiently and meet all compliance requirements.
Sage 300 People integrates seamlessly with:
- Sage 200 Evolution
- Sage 300 Cloud
- MCI Direct Hire
- Netcash
- Infoslips
Improve Productivity Through Integration
Prevent the waste of resources that result from disparate or poorly integrated systems; reduce costs and improve productivity through a solution that provides all the tools you need to drive HR and payroll in one integrated, state-of-the-art system.
Many HR departments spend most of their time processing employee information. This is because they have three or more HR systems in place. The answer to improving productivity in these circumstances is integration.
Sage 300 People gives you this: it is aimed at larger, mid-market and enterprise-size companies seeking a natural migration path from legacy systems or wanting a system that will co-exist with existing BMS applications or integrate tightly with other existing applications. It is also aimed at companies that want one database for both HR and payroll with a Self-Service component.
Sage 300 People helps your company to break free from legacy systems and find solutions that offer more detailed and complex functionalities than those previously available in South Africa, but that doesn’t come at the huge cost of custom-built systems.
Retain and motivate your employees by giving them the power to work to their full potential through access to the information they need to make decisions and to help you grow your business.
Key Points:
- Best-in-class organizations are 53% more likely to have unified HR and financial data.
- Organizations integrating time and attendance with payroll spend less money and use fewer resources, improving the overall business performance of the company.
- Payroll processing errors are reduced by more than 20%.
- Manual transactions decrease dramatically, from 5.9% to 0.1%.
- In organizations with unified HR and financial data, collaboration across departments and divisions is more than three times higher.
Functionality & Features of Sage 300 People
Use the Expression Builder to define formulas (including multiple calculations per payslip line) and define sliding scales for any earning structure, e.g., commission.

The Job Costing module allocates labor costs to projects and different departments across numerous industries, e.g., construction, agriculture, labor hire, nursing, and mining.

The Batch wizard lets you import and export large amounts of data directly to and from MS Excel and quickly create forms for regular use, e.g., overtime hours or bonus values.

The Budgeting Module for Sage 300 People is a necessity for any forward-thinking HR and Payroll office. With real-time information at your fingertips, aligning your budget in a single solution will improve accuracy and reduce costly mistakes. The Budgeting Module offers you a single view of the truth by tracking your budgeting progress and setting up your plans for future vacancies.

- The Job Management module gives you complete control and visibility of each job/position specification and requirements within the organization.
- The position profile allows you to capture everything from the location of a position in the company hierarchy and competency requirements to key performance areas (KPAs) and indicators (KPIs) for the position.
Lets you manage your employment equity goals and targets throughout all HR processes by defining equity positions, monitoring goals and targets against actual staff movements and appointments, using management reports to manage equity targets, and printing Statutory Equity Reports (EEA2 and EEA4) required by the Department of Labour.

- The Sage 300 People modules are process-driven and follow a systematic HR approach throughout.
- The traditional employee file can be replaced with an easy-to-use, always available electronic file to which you can attach documents.
- Your employees, managers and users have access to real-time information from multiple locations simultaneously.
- You have a strong reporting interface that can email copies directly from the application and/or export to various formats.
- Your managers can access employee records, conduct performance reviews and print HR.
- Allows the user to create budgets to forecast payroll expenses for filled and vacant positions.
- The budget can be split into multiple spreadsheets that can be sent out to managers and imported back into the consolidated budget.
- Budgeted values can be compared to actual values to track variances. Budget Analyser allows the user to view budgeted and actual values in a powerful pivot grid.
- Complies with MSCOA budgeting requirements.

- Role-based security allows you to define reusable sets of security configurations which you can assign to multiple users.
- You can define security on navigation (screens), zones and company rules up to field level and apply password policies or integrate them with Microsoft Active Directory to enable single login capabilities.
- The full history of every login attempt is recorded, showing reasons for login failures and password changes.
- The system gives you a full audit trail of all changes and activities.


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