The software does not feature payroll functionality but can integrate with several other vendors products, inclduing WinPay, WageZWindows, Attaché Payroll, Arrow, Arrow SQL, and MYOB.
Depending on the payroll vendor, there may be pre-requisites that you must satisfy to ensure smooth integration. As an example, to integrate with MYOB you need the MYOB ODBC driver version 3.00.1800 or higher installed on the system.
The interface features large buttons and very large and colourful navigation icons in the toolbar. We found the interface one of the easiest to navigate with its very simple and logical structure.
The amount of information that can be fed into the system is quite extensive. Take Staff-Biographical, for example, which includes photos of the staff member, their complete contact details, and a great number of fields that because of their sensitive or personal nature are probably going to be redundant in most organisations. Examples are full visa and passport details-which or course are useful for staff who are required to travel overseas. A more pointed example, it has fields for tracking whether they are a smoker or not, how long they have been smoking, and how many per day.
Full details of their next of kin and personal doctor are useful to have on record, but other contentious fields that will probably remain blank are inoculation details-although again useful for those travelling-and ailments. The latter can arguably be useful for instance if the employee is a diabetic, should emergency treatment be required. But just how far do you go with this? And how far do the privacy laws allow you to go, keeping in mind you can only collect data if you have a reasonable need to keep it?
Staff training and performance is well catered for and skill levels can be tracked to provide supervisors with feedback on skill level requirements for a position, the current skill levels of the people in that position, and any gap between the two.
The software tracks performance reviews, but doesn't provide a lot of space for details. However, you have the option of attaching a copy of the review as a Word document. While we're on the topic of attachments, pretty much anywhere you would logically want to attach documents, you can.
Equipment issued to staff, including PC and protective clothing, can be tracked and even without an integrated payroll the system can manual track historic remuneration details for each employee.
OH&S functionality is great, with very detailed tracking of hazards, incidents, equipment, and committees. It's quite a simple matter to look up an incident and find who was involved, who witnessed the event, compensation, were any injuries sustained, and how the issue was resolved.
The way the software records your organisational structure can be configured to match your company requirements, not the other way around.
The toolbar includes a number of useful buttons with a surprisingly powerful contacts database and as an adjunct to that, a companies database that lists important contacts in each company. There is also a basic calculator and calendar.
Favour has a very strong set of security options; user access to the package can be localised right down to specific screens, reports, and processes if desired. This makes it possible to set up a range of employee self-serve options, and managers are only able to view and work with records of those employees that report to them.
There are quite a lot of preset reports, both textual and graphical, but if you need a report that the package doesn't have, a custom report can be created relatively simply from any of the package's fields.
Graphical reports are generally of limited use, but the example shown in the screen shot of the staff training costs per day is actually quite useful. The graphs can be tweaked to a surprising amount with varying degrees of 3D effects applied and then rotated. You can delve even deeper and alter the titles, legends, or graph type.
| Product | Favour WinOHS V3.4.5.0 |
| Price | Varies depending on number of employees; for 200 staff, WinHR is AU$5000 and WinOHS is AU$7200 |
| Vendor | Favour |
| Phone | 03 9421 3625 |
| Web | www.favour.com.au |
| Interoperability |
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| Integrates with a good range of payroll software and exports to a variety of different formats. | |
| Futureproofing |  |
| The vendor claims the product is scaleable to 2000+ employees, however testing has not confirmed this claim. | |
| ROI |  |
| Impressive range of features at a reasonable cost. | |
| Service |  ½ |
| License and management agreement an additional cost per year, but includes support and all upgrades. | |
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