Sage Abra
Sage Abra
Sage Abra HRMS is a market leader in HR, payroll, benefits, and compliance solutions for small and midsized companies. Sage Abra provides a comprehensive and robust set of tools to streamline HR and payroll processes. Its payroll, recruiting, training, benefits administration, attendance, compliance, and employee self-service solutions provide multiple database technology options and powerful reporting tools to help businesses increase productivity and tackle challenging HR issues. The flexibility and modularity of Sage Abra allows you to easily deploy a solution that meets your business and budget requirements today and can expand in the future.
Click on the modules below for more information:
- Abra HR
- Abra Payroll
- Abra Attendance
- Abra Train
- Abra Benefits Enrollment
- Abra OrgPlus
- Abra Benefits Messenger
- Abra Alerts
- Abra Employee Self Service
Abra HR
Abra HR provides many benefits, but the most impressive feature is providing a means to quickly access key data with minimal effort. HR personnel are just keystrokes away from viewing data like emergency information or performance reviews due for any employee.
Key Functionality:
- Easily set up employee information on your new system, whether you’re a new Sage MAS 90 or 200 customer, or adding Abra HR to an existing system
- Automatically calculate precise employee, dependent, and employer premium and benefits costs
- Provide an unlimited number of benefits plans for employees and dependents
- Quickly drill down to specific information with analysis tools that reveal criteria in the form of summary information to specific details for fast evaluation of human resources data
- Integration with Microsoft Office provides immediate transfer of information into Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, graphs, and tables, making it easy for you to view and analyze data for strategic, on-the-spot decision making
For more information, please download the Abra HR PDF
Abra Payroll
With Sage Abra Payroll, flexible, cost-effective in-house payroll management has never been easier. This comprehensive, easy-to-use solution includes all the payroll functionality needed by midsized organizations to process payroll accurately and quickly, every time. The robust functionality of Sage Abra Payroll makes it easy to produce paychecks on demand, run trial payrolls, and make last minute changes with no hassle. It’s easy to meet the needs of your unique organization with flexible features, including unlimited earnings, taxes, deduction types, multiple user-defined pay groups, and customizable actions.
Key Functionality:
- Easily and instantly void and re-issue single off-cycle checks and update the appropriate accounts, including employee earnings, deductions, tax withholdings, and employer tax liability
- Enter time for multiple companies, pay groups, and employees during the same session to accommodate work situations not based on a standard weekly or biweekly pay period
- Automatically calculate gross pay by entering a base net pay during the time entry process
- Change an employee’s calculated voluntary deductions or tax withholding prior to check processing, saving you time and money
- Reconcile payrolls and quarter-ends with up-to-the-minute facts and instant analysis that include a gross-to-net, 941 audit, and an employer tax liability
For more information, please download the Abra Payroll PDF
Abra Attendance
Expand your attendance tracking capabilities with Sage Abra Attendance. Sage Abra Attendance allows for easy setup of virtually unlimited variations of employee attendance and time-off plans. With flexible attendance tracking features including vacation, personal, illness, jury duty, and bereavement time-off management, Sage Abra Attendance gives you tremendous flexibility. Plus, you can customize the system to meet your company’s individual attendance tracking needs.
Key Functionality:
- You can record incident-based time off, such as jury duty, bereavement, medical leave, and other leaves of absence
- Manage regular time off (vacations, personal days and illness) and track an unlimited number of plans per employee, using different seniority, accrual, and carry-over rules
- Track time off allowed versus actual days taken
- Abra Attendance lets you give employees an instant, year-to-date snapshot of their attendance status or give management a quick analysis of absences
For more information, please download the Abra Attendance PDF
Abra Train
Ensure your employees receive the training they need on time, every time with Abra Train. It includes the features that you need to effectively establish and administer internal training programs and keep track of employee certifications. Abra Train includes full management of important training logistics, such as maintenance of class rosters and training locations, as well as the setup and administration of entire training programs that employees are required to complete. It will help you keep on top of employee certifications and continuing education credits by tracking receipt and renewal dates, as well as managing all necessary requirements and prerequisites.
Key Functionality:
- Automatically assign employees to job-based training requirements, set up training classes, schedule attendance, and manage class rosters for students and instructors
- Define curriculum or specific sets of courses that employees must complete in order to achieve desired levels of competency
- Keep detailed records on employees’ professional certifications and continuing education credits (CEU)
- Easily manage program costs and allocations with built-in analysis tools that compute costs by employee, course, job, or department
- Identify training locations and contact people for each location, as well as location capacity, associated rental costs, and disability access
For more information, please download the Abra Train PDF
Abra Benefits Enrollment
Save countless hours and piles of paperwork by moving benefits open enrollment online. Sage Abra Benefits Enrollment takes the powerful benefits management solution of Abra HR to the next level by empowering employees to make their own benefits elections through the Internet or intranet. Easy, step-by-step wizards guide administrators through the benefit plan set-up process, and walk employees through open enrollment. Abra Benefits Enrollment even includes year-round life events management that allows employees to update information such as marital status and dependents.
Key Functionality:
- 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 these criteria
- Employees can update marital status, dependents, dependent status, and more throughout the year as the result of events that impact their benefits
- Easily monitor the progress of employees in the open enrollment process, and send customizable reminder e-mails to employees
- Include URL links to benefit provider Web sites, and post company-specific plan documents for employees to review online
For more information, please download the Abra Benefits Enrollment PDF
Abra OrgPlus
Easily assess your current organizational structure and respond to your company’s changing needs with the industry-standard organizational charting software for companywide communication and planning. Sage Abra OrgPlus Professional helps you and your employees better understand your company’s strategy and structure, as well as everyone’s role in achieving organizational objectives. Abra OrgPlus Professional facilitates these objectives by including a variety of features, such as data management, organizational planning, and intuitive chart creation and formatting. Publish your charts directly to a Web site or your intranet, and refresh the data on a predefined schedule of your choosing with advanced publishing capabilities. With Abra OrgPlus Professional, employees and managers have easy access to up-to-date organizational charts that give them the information they need to understand your business and plan for the future. Managers can strategize for different business scenarios and measure their impact using built-in formulas to measure headcount, salaries, or other important planning information. Additionally, you can easily communicate your organizational structure to employees and centralize employee contact information.
Key Functionality:
- Automatically and quickly create organizational charts by linking to your Abra database
- 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
- Refresh, distribute and publish your chart data on a predefined schedule of your choosing to ensure that your employees always have the most up-to-date information
- Create “what-if” business scenarios and measure their impact
- Customize charts with one of 36 pre-defined templates, import pictures, and include fill effects such as gradients and textures
For more information, please download the Abra OrgPlus PDF
Abra Benefits Messenger
Cut the costs and complexity of benefits administration by securely automating the communication of employee benefits enrollment data to insurance carriers and other benefit providers with Sage Abra Benefits Messenger. This powerful solution will eliminate the need to submit paper enrollment forms or create and maintain customized electronic file formats. Abra Benefits Messenger also eliminates the costly errors associated with duplicate data entry and ‘missed enrollments’ both during annual open enrollment periods and for employee changes throughout the year.
Key Functionality:
- Automatically reformats the employee enrollment data in your Abra HR system and sends it to benefits carriers on your behalf
- Eliminates the chance of errors by electronically extracting employee enrollment data from your system
- Supports all types of benefit carriers, including health, dental, vision, life, 401(k), and disability
- Automatically transmits the data to your carriers on the schedule determined by each carrier
- Provides automatic transmission confirmations and e-mail status messages so that you can be assured that your benefits data has been received and set up
For more information, please download the Abra Benefits Messenger PDF
Abra Alerts
Automate your company’s employee communications, monitor critical HR functions, and streamline your HR and Payroll processes with Sage Abra Alerts. Abra Alerts helps you get the right information to the right people for quick and timely action and without user intervention. Through an integrated system that automatically monitors the Sage Abra HRMS database, Abra Alerts increases productivity by proactively and automatically sending e-mails and reports to management, HR and payroll administrators, employees, and applicants.
Key Functionality:
- Automatically send standard e-mails such as new hire welcome messages and personalized e-mails with attachments
- Merge employee information from the Sage Abra database to generate personalized messages using your company’s existing e-mail system
- Automate a variety of information tasks immediately with pre-formatted, customizable alerts
- Automatically inform managers of upcoming review deadlines, time-off balances, and other important information
- Stay on top of overtime costs by sending proactive notification to controllers including spreadsheets of overtime information for your employees
For more information, please download the Abra Alerts PDF
Abra Employee Self Service
Automate your company’s business processes and give employees ownership of their personal information with Sage Abra ESS. With superior workflow capabilities and highly customizable features, Abra ESS provides a central location for employees, managers, and administrators to view and manage important personal data and company information. Instead of calling the HR department with routine inquiries, employees and managers can access information ranging from time off and current benefits to open job requisitions and training history—anytime, anyplace via the Internet or company intranet.
Key Functionality:
- Employees can access an extensive selection of personal HR information, including skills, job history, and performance reviews
- In addition to HR data, employees can view a variety of payroll information, including pay stubs, W-2s, and tax withholdings (W-4)
- Managers have instant access to comprehensive employee data for both direct and indirect reports
- Employees can easily access attendance balances and request time off
- Easily customize pages with logos and color schemes, post important documents, messages, and third party links for easy employee and manager access
For more information, please download the Abra Employee Self Service PDF
