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Rippling Expands EOR Program 2
Rippling has expanded its Employer of Record program to eight new countries. The change is part of the latest monthly release of the office application.
With EOR, a user can establish a legal entity in a country outside the United States, giving the user the ability to hire and pay employees in other countries. The latest additions are Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Israel, New Zealand, the Philippines, Switzerland and Turkey.
In addition, Rippling is providing hourly workers with a weekly break down of pay on paystubs so they can see hours worked, including overtime, for each of the weeks included in the pay period.
Users can now down payroll comparison data as a CSV file. Rippling says it has also provided more efficient time-entry CSV imports for Time an Attendance since users can automatically reconcile timestamps based on the employee’s timezone and
filter down to a specific set of imported entries and delete only those
They can also import thousands of entries in seconds, versus 30 minutes.
View items...Intuit: Turning on Power KOed Hardware
Intuit's massive systems crash this week was complicated as efforts to solve one problem triggered more. And when the company restored power after its Internet-based services and systems went down, the restoration triggered a hardware failure. That explanation was made this week in a post by the company's chief information officer Ginny Lee.
Intuit Restores Web Operations
After an outage that left some customers with no ability to process credit cards, send invoices or make payroll deposits, Intuit said it has restored service to customer Web sites. Sites that were back up included QuickBooks Online, IntuitOnline Payroll and QuickBase. The incident started about 10pm ET Tuesday, June 15, and lasted all day Wednesday. After its end, Intuit began providing explanations and offers to help those affected.
Checkpoint Going Global
Thomson Reuters is taking its research platform international this year with the launch of Checkpoint World as the company continues the shift from heavy reliance on income from tax and accounting firms to selling to corporations, including multinationals. That information came from Roy Martin, president of the company's Tax and Accounting business, as he addressed the Nomura Media Conference yesterday.
GruntWorx Gather
- Tuesday, 06 July 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
GruntWorx Gather, a data retrieval application, provides secure electronic transfer of tax data from the client to the tax practitioner. It offers a portal-like Web interface that clients can utilize to connect with financial institutions and brokerage houses.
Intuit Suffers Major Web Outage
- Wednesday, 16 June 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit has suffered an Internet outage in which most of the company's Web sites have been down since about 10pm ET Tuesday, June 15 when an accident knocked out power to primary and secondary backup systems. It's the second company in the accounting space to have serious Internet problems since Sage had a 22-hour outage earlier this month. The Intuit problem's has surpassed the Sage outage in length of time with no end in sight as of 9pm. ET Wednesday, June 16.
Bill.com Raises $8.5 Million
- Wednesday, 16 June 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bill.com, which makes Internet-based bill-payment products, has raised $8.5 million in venture capital, bringing the total amount it has raised to more than $25 million. The company said the additional funds will be used to continue its growth in providing applications and services to CPAs and small businesses.
Glocer Notes Thomson's Global Tax Plans
- Tuesday, 15 June 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
After taking other parts of the company global, Thomson Reuters' next plans involve taking its Tax & Accounting business global, CEO Tom Glocer said during the Webcast of an investor's conference this month. While he did not announce specific plans, such as additional details on the planned launch of the Global Tax Workstation, it was one of his most direct public statements about strategy for the tax and accounting operation.
Morningstar Newsletter Builder
- Tuesday, 15 June 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Morningstar Newsletter Builder utilizes a drag-and-drop interface via which advisors can design customized newsletters for clients. Content is drawn from an online library of FINRA-reviewed Morningstar articles and charts, which are searchable by topic and keyword and which can be integrated with content from advisors.
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SpeedTax Lite
- Friday, 11 June 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sage Grapples with Computer Outages
- Wednesday, 09 June 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sage North America says it has isolated, but not solved, the problem that has caused in instability and outages to its online systems, including a 22-hour outage on June 1 and 2 in which the company's Web site, email and order entry-system and an online CRM application were out simultaneously during part of that time.
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