Administration

When Megabus provides you with a new Marlin HR system for your business it will be licensed with a digital certificate containing your business details, ready for you to start entering your employees and customising the setup to best suit your parti...

From time to time Megabus will release an update to the Marlin HR program. Typically, this is to: Add enhancements to the program. Fix any bugs identified in the program. Maintain compliance (e.g. with ATO requirements). It is importan...

Marlin HR allows you to create multiple usernames, each with their own password and access restrictions. For instance, the payroll officer will typically have full access but a manager may be setup with access to run reports only. How to ch...

Marlin HR v2.0.9 introduces audit logging in all of the maintenance screens (Employee Maintenance, Departments, Regions, GL Accounts, GL Branches, Suppliers, Superannuation Funds, Payroll Liability Accounts, Earnings, Allowances, Deductions, Leave T...

How to change Store Address & Payroll Contact details It is important to keep these details up to date as they will be printed on Pay Advices and Megabus may need to use the email address to contact you re important matters such as End of Tax ...

You can create multiple Departments in Marlin HR to reflect the structure of your organisation. Each employee is assigned to a default Department but payruns can split the employee's costs across as many Departments as they do work for. You may al...

##What Financial Year is my payroll in? Select Help > About Marlin HR from the Marlin HR menu. In the 'Financial Year' field you will see the year (e.g. 2017). Note Marlin GTX and Marlin HR display the Start ...

Each time you finalise a payrun of any type (i.e. Normal Pay, Adjustment Pay or Termination Pay), the system will automatically perform a backup of your Marlin HR payroll information to your hard disk (usually in the Master PC) before prompting you ...

Marlin HR version 2.0.5 implemented Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting after successfully completing the ATO's Product Validation Testing (PVT) scheme and achieving accreditation in August 2018. The development work, rigorous testing and ATO acc...

Until now, payroll data reported by STP was accessible only to the ATO. However, under Phase 2 the data will be accessed by multiple government departments to enhance their reporting and planning activities. It is critical that their systems under...

In Marlin HR version 2.0.5 we have added automatic reminders for Birthdays and Work Anniversaries to the pay run screen. These may be useful in prompting you to review or change an employee's pay rate or to send a congratulatory email or provide m...

When you sell or close down the business you are required to send an STP submission to the ATO that contains all year-to-date amounts for all employees marked as "final" so that the ATO system will change each employee's data to a status of TAX READ...