What are the features of Ascent payroll?

• Backdated Liability Report – Shows PF/ESIC contributions due for each employee from the approved coverage start date, split by months.
• Amnesty Impact Report – Separates waived penalties/damages from actual contributions so finance can forecast net liability.
• Accrual vs. Payable Report – Compares already-booked payroll contributions vs. additional amounts created by backdated approval.
• Cash-flow Projection Report – Summarizes total PF/ESIC payable by month to plan upcoming challan payments."

Create a structured training program with fundamental knowledge, practical experience, and an extensive knowledge base centered on expected post-ESIC difficulties like integration mistakes or data quality issues in order to train support teams for priority tickets when ESIC is enabled. Create clear escalation channels, employ data to refine training, and use automation to handle repetitive chores and swiftly identify urgent issues.

Potential change-freeze windows

• Thursday, October 2nd: Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and coincides with Dussehra.
• Saturday, October 11th - Sunday, October 12th: October 11th is a regional holiday in many states, Saturday and October 12th is a Bank Holiday across all of India for Dussehra.
• Monday, October 20th: Diwali/Deepavali

A multi-layered approach utilizing feature flags and policy controls is required to limit an application's functionalities, such as the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) interface, to a pilot group. The ESIC portal's features cannot be toggled like those of a typical software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering because it is a centralized, government-run system. With feature flags serving as configuration switches for authorized administrators, this approach instead concentrates on limiting user access to already-existing features through policy enforcement.