Integration between Mamut Payroll and Mamut Business Software

Mamut Payroll is a user friendly, HMRC accredited payroll system that can be purchased as an additional product from Mamut. Click here to read more. (External link)

It is possible to integrate Mamut Payroll with Mamut Business Software and the possible integration options are described below. These include how to establish a connection with Mamut Business Software, how to establish a connection to a company in Mamut Business Software, how to set the standard GL Codes, how to export payroll period journals to Mamut Business Software and how to export monthly statutory payment journals to Mamut Business Software.

How to establish a connection with Mamut Business Software

From the main menu in Mamut Payroll select Admin - Mamut Database Setup and the following window will be displayed.
The MAMUT.INI Location field is populated with the default path for Mamut Business Software.
If you have installed Mamut Business Software in a different location then click the Browse button and navigate to the location of the MAMUT.INI file.
Click the Populate values from MAMUT.INI button.
Click the Test Connection button to check that the values entered allow connection to the Mamut Business Software system database.
Click OK when the message window displaying the success or failure of the connection test appears.

If successful the following window will appear:
Once a successful connection has been established, click Save and then Close in the Database Setup window.

You have successfully established a connection between Mamut Payroll and Mamut Business Software.

How to Establish a Connection to a Company database in Mamut Business Software

From the main menu in Mamut Payroll select Company - Company Maintenance.
Then select the GL Codes tab. From here the selected company can be connected to a Mamut Business Software company by selecting the relevant Mamut Company Database ID in the Mamut Business System.
Once you have selected thedatabase number click the Test Connection button.
A status window will appear to communicate if the connection has been successful or not, if successful click OK.
Click Save and Close the Company Maintenance window.

You have now successfully established a connection to a company database in Mamut Business Software.

How to set the standard GL Codes

From the main menu in Mamut Payroll select Company - Standard G/L Codes.
Click the Set to MBS standard codes button. This will set the standard G/L Codes for the company to the default Mamut Business Software G/L Codes.
Click the Save button to set the GL codes.
Click Close to exit the window.

The standard GL codes have now been successfully set.

How to Export Payroll Period Journals to Mamut Business Software

Once a weekly or monthly payroll run has been calculated in Mamut Payroll, you can select Reports - Pay Period - Export Journals to MBS to create journals for the payroll costs.
You will be prompted for the pay frequency of the payroll run, the payroll pay period for which to produce the totals, and the Mamut Business Software Accounting Period for which the Journals should be created.
When successfully posted the message The journal recorded has been successfully saved to the MAMUT database will be displayed.
Click OK.

You have now successfully exported the payroll period journals to Mamut Business Software.

How to Export Monthly Statutory Payment Journals to Mamut Business Software

After all payrolls for an HMRC Accounting Period have been processed the totals of statutory payments and recovery can be posted to Mamut Business Software. This can be done by selecting Reports from the main menu in Mamut Payroll and then selecting Pay Period - HMRC Remittance Advice - Export Statutory Recovery Journals to MBS.

This should not be done until after the HMRC P32 report has been run to calculate any statutory figures.