canada payroll

[Matteo Muià]

You @Mark Jenkins, you guys make a great jobs. Really such a shame that you
don't continue.
MM

2017-05-05 13:11 GMT-04:00 Mark Jenkins <mark at parit.ca>:

> We were actually doing this kind of thing at ParIT with http://bokeep.org
> .
>
> We had a Canadian payroll plugin to BoKeep and BoKeep had a backend plugin
> to GnuCash that used the python bindings. It was use cases like this and an
> end-of-day close out for a care-bookstore that motivated us to create the
> python bindings.
>
> Similar to what you said about csv, for the payroll functionality we had a
> structured python text file for entering in the employees and hours, extra
> deductions, re-imbursements, and vacation pay draws instead of a full blown
> GUI.
> Example: http://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/bokeep/file/
> d1e51d35beee/payroll_example_data_files/payday_data.py
>
> Relevant screenshot:
> http://www.nongnu.org/bokeep/screenshots/bokeep_payroll_
> transaction_in_gnucash.png
>
> We even had end of year T4 export to the government documented XML format
> and a seperate part that could take a month or quarter's worth of
> deductions and employer contributions and create a transaction against the
> chequing account for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) remit.
>
> Unfortunately we've stopped maintaining this project for several years
> now. I did actually use this to run ParIT's payroll the end of 2016 when we
> switched to having our new staff use a payroll provider. Up until then I
> was actually still using Ubuntu 12.04 and the gnucash and python-gnucash
> packages from that release because there were changes with GnuCash 2.6 or
> later 2.4 releases that were incompatible with BoKeep's GnuCash support and
> I didn't have the time to get BoKeep updated and compatible again. That's
> the biggest thing anyone wanting to revive this would need to fix. Other
> fixes needed:
>  * Support for provinces other than Manitoba, which is the only one we
> ever had working as it was the only itch we ever had to scratch, and we
> kept it up to date every year up to 2016
>  * Bringing the federal and Manitoba tax rates up to date for 2017 (easy
> task, look at how small patch sets for 2013-2016 were)
>  * Using a compatible version of ZODB is another potential challenge
>
> Eventually, moving BoKeep to GTK3 compatible python bindings (uses GTK2)
> and even python3 would be necessary to avoid having these dependencies
> become too difficult to install. (not a problem right now)
>
> Unfortunately the BoKeep project wasn't something we were able to
> sustaining resources behind, including letting people know we had put it
> out there! As the lead developer, I've moved on to other work outside of
> ParIT. Would be cool if others carried this forward. Folks could try to
> entice me into some consulting at some point...
>
>
> Code was published to a mercurial repository,  http://hg.savannah.nongnu.
> org/hgweb/bokeep/
>
> But I also put up a git mirror here:
> https://github.com/paritworkercoop/bokeep-mirror
>
>
> Mark Jenkins
>
>


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