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Sage 300 People
Human Resources

Sage 300 People HR’s module covers every area of statutory workforce management.

Sage 300 People

Sage 300 People HR Functionality Overview

Sage 300 People goes beyond just payroll, offering a comprehensive suite of HR functionalities to manage your workforce effectively. Here’s a closer look at some key areas:

  • Employee Central

    This acts as a central hub for all employee information, including contact details, emergency contacts, employment history, skills, and qualifications. It simplifies recordkeeping and provides a single source of truth for employee data.

  • Employee Self-Service

    Empower employees with a self-service portal. They can access paystubs, update personal information, request time off, and view benefits information. This reduces administrative burdens on the HR team and improves employee satisfaction.

  • Recruitment & Onboarding

    Streamline the hiring process with applicant tracking features, resume management tools, and automated onboarding workflows. This can save time and improve the candidate experience.

  • Time & Attendance Tracking

    Monitor employee work hours with various options like clock-in/out systems, timesheet management, and leave tracking. This ensures accurate payroll calculations and helps identify trends in employee work patterns.

  • Performance Management

    Set performance goals, track progress, and conduct performance reviews electronically. Sage 300 People facilitates effective communication and feedback between managers and employees.

  • Reporting & Analytics

    Gain valuable insights into your workforce with comprehensive reports and analytics. You can track trends in areas like employee turnover, absenteeism, and performance metrics.

  • Learning & Development

    Identify training needs, manage training programs, and track employee progress. This fosters a culture of continuous learning and development within your organization.

  • Benefits Administration

    Manage employee benefits efficiently. You can configure the system for various benefit plans, track enrollment, and automate deductions.

Bonus and Increase Letters

The video demonstrates how Sage 300 People streamlines the process of generating customized communications for employees regarding bonuses and salary increases. The system allows companies to create personalized letters that include detailed financial information to ensure employees are fully informed.

Key features highlighted include:

  • Customized Content

    Letters feature a detailed description and total values of the bonus or salary increase.

  • Financial Transparency

    Increase letters can show a monthly cost breakdown to illustrate the impact on the employee's net earnings.

  • Flexible Access

    Employees can view, print, or download their letters from the company website, or receive them securely via a password-protected email.

To accept a policy, employees navigate to the claims section, select the “policy acceptance claim,” choose the relevant policy, and confirm their agreement to the terms.

By leveraging Sage 300 People's HR functionalities, you can:

  • Simplify HR processes and free up HR staff for more strategic initiatives.
  • Improve the accuracy and efficiency of HR data management.
  • Create a positive and productive work environment for your employees.
  • Make data-driven decisions to optimize your HR strategies.

Employment Equity

Providing you with all essential guidelines on all aspects of Employment Equity required by South African legislation.

The Sage 300 People Employment Equity module allows you to address the issue of denied opportunities and removes the barriers of discrimination. The module lets you manage your employment equity goals and targets by defining equity positions, monitoring goals and targets against actual staff movements and appointments; manage equity targets and print all statutory Equity reports (EEA2, EEA4 & EEA13) required by the Department of Labour.

The management of Equity on Sage 300 People occurs in 2 modules, namely Personnel Management and Equity Management. Each module plays an integral role in the management of Equity and must be used in conjunction with each other. The diagram provides a summary of the information managed in each of the modules.

Print all the statutory reports (EEA2, EEA4, and EEA13) required by the Department of Labour.

  • Define numerical goals and targets required by your equity plan.
  • Monitor and evaluate your equity plan against your defined numerical goals and targets on a dashboard view.
  • Print validation reports to ensure you have all the relevant information for accurate reporting.

This contains the comprehensive employee details essential for Equity reporting.

  • Equity fields include gender, disabled employees and the nature of the disability, citizenship, type of employment, occupational category, occupational level, and job function.
  • You can define workplaces per employee.
  • You can link payroll Masterfile information to equity fields like job grades, job titles, or on any hierarchy to avoid duplication of information.

Allows you to view current and previous months’ information for equity reporting.

  • View the Equity History screen per employee, for an unlimited number of months of equity history.
  • Equity History fields include occupational category, occupational level, job function, citizenship, type of employment, equity remuneration, and municipalities.
  • Equity remuneration updates automatically from the information on your payroll system.
  • Define disciplinary actions, equity training, and skills training in the Personnel Management and Skills Development modules to automatically update the employee equity fields required in your Equity Reports.

Create user-defined numerical goals and targets for:

  • All employees and disabled employees per occupational level.
  • Group permanent and non-permanent employees according to gender.
  • Equity groups (African, Coloured, Indian, White) and foreign nationals.
  • Conduct batch transactions entry for global update of equity fields.
  • Specific permission settings.

Learning & Skills Development

Workplace Skills Planning & Training Management Module

This module offers you all the steps in generating your Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Attended Training Register (ATR). It will offer you the ability to generate skills plans for various workplaces, individual companies, or a group of companies. Training transactions can be generated per employee or a training schedule can be set up to link multiple employees to a training course, using a wizard template to guide you through the process. All details required on training schedules can be recorded, such as the details of learnerships and recognition for prior learning, NQF levels, and unit standard information.

Benefits of Sage 300 People Learning and Skills Development module include:

  • Submit training requests
  • View training results
  • Create personal development plans
  • Employment Equity required by South African legislation
  • Track subjects completed in course
  • Training extract report to submit to relevant SETAs
  • Compile Workplace Skills Plan (WSP)
  • Compile Annual Training Plan (ATR)
  • Record employee qualifications as per SAQA’s framework
  • Audit reporting
  • View training budget
  • Track bursary information

Print reports to assist with SETA submissions, including:

  • The employment summary report provides you with employee totals according to your requirements e.g. gender, group, and department.
  • Workforce profiles that include terminations and recruitments.
  • Pivotal training reports like the Workforce Skills Plan (WSP) and Actual Training Report (ATR).
  • Generate the skills extract into MS Excel to submit relevant information to SETA.
  • Generate training transactions per employee.
  • Print training schedule.
  • Mark planned training as attended with the click of a button.
  • Monitor planned and attended training on employee and company level.
  • Link employees to skills group to allow for easy planning.
  • Generate training plans across all companies for all employees.
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