System Administration - Features

System Administration supports the overall flexibility of PowerSchool ERP through the following features:

User Security Access

Allows you to grant user access based on privilege codes, security resources, and security resource functions.
Allows you to create roles with particular security resources and associate multiple users to the roles.
Controls user access to ledger account data through user views records.
Facilitates quick security setup by copying resource and view information from one user to another.
Limits user access to printers based on work location.
Lets you base several Human Resources record access on work location or department.
Allows you to link security resources to attachment groups and grant users full control or view only for attachments based on access level.

Defines ledger control accounts, account ranges, and full account mask.
Determines reporting structure for financial and project accounting purposes.
Establishes numbering protocol for journal entries, vendors, and budget transfers.
Controls setup for payable entry, vendor check processing, and recording requisitions and purchase orders.
Allows setup of sorting parameters for reports.
Lets you create site-specific pages for entry of vendor and project records.

Contains settings for processing timecards, attendance, and payroll.
Creates numbering parameters for employee and applicant records.
Lets you set up payroll deduction, additional withholding, and direct deposit information.
Controls federal and state reporting setup, and other state-specific profile settings.
Allows setup of user-defined employee and applicant pages.
Defines sequence and entry requirements for pages in the Add Employee process.

Contains the setup for accounts used in Warehouse Inventory transactions.
Determines dollar amount and account ranges that automatically flag requisition and purchase order items as fixed assets.
Allows you to control aspects of Budget Preparation, Fixed Assets, PCard, Time Entry, and Security.

Lets you perform a backup of data for individual software packages.
Allows you to lock users out of a particular package or the entire system.
Facilitates a restore of pay run table information in the case of a failed payroll process.
Tracks system errors for easy access and review through an Event Log Viewer.
Includes the ability to maintain options available through system folders.
Enables you to generate login and broadcast messages for system users.