There is a new article on importing employee or client data from Excel spreadsheets. The article gives guidelines to ensure this process goes smoothly.

Importing staff data from an excel spread sheet

We have just published two new support articles, the first provides a brief overview of requirements for those investing in new hardware to run AvaPA.

• AvaPA General Installation Notes

The second article covers the recommended disk and memory requirements of AvaPA.

• AvaPA Disk and Memory requirements

There is a new article on how to set up the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system to export staff assignment information to AvaPA.

• FAQ - How to set up ESR for export of Staff data to AvaPA

Since the legal requirement that paid leave cannot be consolidated and must be taken as days off: AvaPA has supported automatic calculation and incorporation in pay output. To do this there are a number of settings which determine the actual amounts of paid leave generated.

• FAQ Article - How do I ensure accrued Holiday pay calculates correctly?

Lack of or incorrectly configured anti-virus software can significantly harm system performance. This article discusses how your system may come under attack and configuration of anti-virus software to provide the highest protection without reducing system performance.

• AvaPA, MS SQL Server (SQL for short) and Anti-Virus Software.

We have just created a new article which is a step by step guide with screen shots on how to do a network install and configuration of AvaPA.

• How to install an AvaPA client