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Employee email addresses & password structure

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To save time, you can set up a structure that creates employee email addresses as well as passwords for electronic documents. The structure can be applied to more than one employee at the same time. You should confirm with the relevant employees that they want to receive their P60 and payslips by email, and make a note of the confirmation date.


Setting up email address & password structures

1.   From the Employee List, select the relevant employees > Tasks > Global Changes > Electronic Documents > Set Electronic Documents Flag.

2.   Enter the date the employees agreed to receive their P60 and payslip by email > OK.

3.    Tasks > Global Changes > Electronic Documents > Set Email Address and Password.

5.   You can now:

Set the email structureOpen this section

Part 1 - The first section before the @ sign. This is often the employee's first name and surname. For example, John Smith where John = [FirstName] and Smith = [Surname]. You can enter a separator between the first name and surname, such as a dot.

Part 2 - This section goes after the @ sign. This is your email domain name. For example, sage.com or sage.co.uk

1.   To set the first part of the email address, for example [FirstName], select a description from the Available Fields list, then to add the description to the Email Address Structure box, click >.

2.   To add another description, such as [Surname], to the first part of the email address, repeat step 1. Before you add the description, make sure your cursor is positioned in the correct place in the email address structure.

3.   Manually enter the second part that goes after the @ sign.

4.   To replace an existing email address recorded in the employee's record, select the Replace existing payslip email address check box.

Set the password structureOpen this section

You can choose the description you want to use as the password. The descriptions are based on the information recorded in your software. For example, you can use the employee's NI Number or date of birth.

1.   From the Available Fields list, select a description that you want to use for the password, then click > to add the description to the Email Address Password box.

2.   To add another description, repeat step 1. Before you add the description, make sure your cursor is positioned in the correct place in the email address password.

3.   To replace an existing email payslip password recorded in the employee's record, select the Replace existing payslip email password check box.

6.   To finish and save your changes > Save.

The employee's email address and password is displayed on the Analysis tab, in their Employee Record. See Recording employee analysis details.


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