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Creating employees using the import file is a a two step process, first the employee will have to be created and then the user information.

Creating an Employee File

The Employee import file contains the following fields

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EmployeeID: This is a unique id for the employee.employee Must be Integer only (no alpha or special characters, up to 10 digits)

Name: Enter the employee name, It is advisable to make sure that this is a unique name .(Allow up to 50 characters, do not use special characters)

MerchantID: Enter the Merchant ID here

Status: There are two acceptable values for this field, either "Active" or "Resigned". Enter the appropriate value without the quotation marks

Employment Type: There are two acceptable values here "Permanent" or "Temporary". Enter the appropriate value with out the quotation marks.

Non-Mandatory Fields

BirthDate: Birth date of the employee will be entered(Format :YYYY-MM-/DD/YYYY)

JoiningDate: Joining Date of the employee will be entered(Format :YYYY-MM-/DD/YYYY)

LeavingDate: If the employee is terminated the leaving date will be entered

Address1: Address of the employee will be entered

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Email*:* Email address of the employee will be entered

Once this file is created, save it as a CSV format file. and begin creating the Employee User file

Creating an Employee User File

The Employee User import file contains the following fields: all fields are mandatory.

UserID: This is a unique ID, usually you would use the same as EmployeeID. Must be Integer only (no alpha or special characters, up to 10 digits)

UserName: Unique username will be given to the employee (up to 20 characters, no spaces or special characters allowed)

Password: 7 digit password with alpha and numeric characters will be given to the employee. This password will be prompted to change it at first use of the user.

RoleID: The role ID of the employee will be given to assign a role to him. This role comes with some rights and limitations

EmployeeID: Employee ID will be assigned to the user that uniqueas created in the Employee Import File 

MerchantID: Merchant ID will be given.Enter your merchantID