• Cougar Mountain supports all standard deductions as well as user-defined deductions, including pension plans, deferred compensation plans, medical savings accounts and dependent care benefits.

• Confidential payroll information with user-specific and function-specific security. Cougar Mountain’s security features restrict access of your payroll records to authorized personnel only.

• See detailed employee information on one screen.

• Track any specialized information with the twelve user-definable fields such as affirmative action status, human resource statistics, evaluation dates or educational credits.

• Set up projects and then track payroll expenses on the various projects. Set up projects within departments or span several different departments.

• Use any payment method: hourly, salary, per-diem, contract or piece work.

• Daily, weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, or yearly pay periods or any combination.

• Cougar Mountain fully supports employees working in multiple states, so tracking state taxes will be as easy as an employee working in one state. It automatically prints out separate W-2s and reports for each state.

• Print checks with a detailed check stub.

• Track miscellaneous information about each employee with the notes tab.

• Calculate benefits and deductions using fixed amounts (health insurance), unit amounts (vacation and sick leave accrual), percentage of gross (retirement), or variable amounts.

• Automatically print your W-2s or generate electronic W-2 file and required federal quarterly 941 reports.

• Handles post facto payroll for accountants running after-the-fact payroll.

• Integrate to Cougar Mountain Accounts Payable for automatic posting of payroll taxes and other employee withholding to vendor records.

• Automatically distribute payroll expenses to multiple departments, including payroll for employees working in several different departments at different pay rates.

• Shelter all or partial earnings, benefits, and deductions from taxes for items such as 401(k), cafeteria plans, or sheltered medical accounts.

• Update federal, state and local tax tables yourself with tax updates available free for all software assurance customers.

• Print virtually any state or federal payroll tax form with Aatrix Software, provided free to all software assurance customers.

• Sort employees by employee number or department for quick and easy payroll processing.

• Pay employees electronically with Direct Deposit.

• Payroll maintains history for five quarters so you can process the current year’s payroll before finishing W-2s for the prior year.

• Maintain up to 99 pay rates per employee, and include multiple user-defined
benefits and deductions per employee.

• Payroll supports overtime, holiday pay, advances, draws, base pay and
miscellaneous charges.

• When fully integrated with Cougar Mountain’s General Ledger, payroll expenses are automatically posted to your General Ledger. Separate wage expenses, benefit expenses, etc., when posting.

• Direct tax expenses for Medicare, Social Security and unemployment to separate General Ledger accounts by program or department.

• Sort Payroll checks alphabetically by department or by location.

• Add or change employee records on-the-fly during payroll processing.

• With the renumbering feature you can renumber employees while maintaining all detailed history from the previous employee number.

• Cougar Mountain automatically calculates the Advanced Earned Income Credit and allows for updating a user-defined EIC table.

• Payroll transactions are generated automatically, yet can still be edited before posting for any changes you might have each pay period.

Annual Technical Support Contract
The annual technical support plan provides 2, 4, 8 or 20 hours of toll-free technical support by phone. Dedicated technical experts at our Boise, Idaho, headquarters answer your questions. Renew your technical support contract before the 30-day warranty on your Cougar Mountain product expires, or before your existing technical support contract expires, to qualify for reduced renewal rates and ensure uninterrupted service.

Training
Cougar Mountain Software offers a variety of training options to fit your needs. These include classroom training at our headquarters, on-site training at your place of business, online training by telephone, and online e-learning. Classes are offered on a regular basis in Boise, Idaho. These classes provide instruction, training and tips to get the most from your software. Online telephone training allows hands-on participation and instruction via an Internet connection. Flexible hours and customized training are an advantage to this training method.

Software Assurance from Cougar Mountain
Cougar Mountain’s Software Assurance provides a range of services to ensure you always have the latest version of our software products. Not only will you be eligible to receive our regular Service Packs, you will also receive any new versions of Cougar Mountain software that are released during the term of your agreement. Take advantage of new functionality as it becomes available.

Cougar Mountain’s Customer Service Center
At Cougar Mountain we are committed to your success, and not only with our software. Your purchase of our products and of Software Assurance gives you complete access to our online Customer Service Center. There you’ll find FAQs about our products, e-learning about common accounting tasks as well as extensive premium content on running your Cougar Mountain installation. In addition, we will provide you articles and links to other websites that will be useful in managing your organization.