Getting Started with Comprehensive Payroll Plus

To begin using Comprehensive Payroll Plus you first have to download and install a trial version of the software and perform some initial setup steps.

1. Upon first Login, enter the administrator's default password to gain access to the Dashboard's first tab that allows you to perform some mandatory setup steps
2. Change the administrator's default password to prevent unauthorized user login as anyone acquainted with Comprehensive Payroll plus knows the default password.
3. Setup users and authorized access. There are two levels of users, Administrators who have access to all areas of the application and Operators who have access to a subset of the application's functions. It is important to assign each user their personal credentials. The system has an audit log where entry into the application and data changes are linked to the logged on user. This step is imperative for the audit log to provide meaningful data.
4. Edit the default entity data to display that of the organization for whom the Payroll application is being used, including the Entity's Name, Owner, Social Security Registration Number, Address, Phone Number and email address.
5. Once those initial housekeeping exercises have been taken care of, then you may proceed with the actual payroll data setup necessary to processing