Here's the overview! Click on any link below to go straight to that section, or read on to see what’s been updated!
Statutory Sick Pay
You will now have the ability to create the SSP for the employee, system also does the SSP calculation for you😊To know more details about this, please read the article below:
Employee Screen Improvements
You can now remove the bank details completely for an employee after it's added if you entered it wrongly (or) don't want to add it at that point. Inside the employee record > payment details, if you choose "None" and click "Save", it will be removed.
Employee number will now be displayed next to the name if you go into particular employee record.
If the employee is under 25 and you choose them as an apprentice under "Employment Details", the "Apprenticeship End Date" field will be displayed. If you enter the date and save the details, the NI category will update to "H" for that employee and payroll calculations will be done based on NI category H.
In the payroll flow, we will show the warning if the employee's apprentice date is before the start date of current period to let you know if you want to extend the apprenticeship end date (or) disable the apprentice toggle if the employee is no longer an apprentice.
Payroll Screen Improvements
You can now see the list of leavers in the payroll screen after payroll is approved. If you click "Leavers", you can see the leavers in the current period. Then you can choose the workers you want to send P45 and send it😊 If you want to send to all leavers, you can use "Send P45s and click "Email P45s" as you do previously.
We've added the Qualified earnings column in Pension report if the pension scheme has "Qualified earnings" selected in company settings.
We will now show the warning in payroll screen if the Re-Enrolment Date of the Pension Scheme(s) for Employees in the payroll is on/before the Pay Date😊 This is to let you know that employees are getting re-assessed in the current period as part of re-enrolment.
When you download the bank file, the pop up usually closes if you download Error/success file, now it will stay as "open" until you close the pop up, so that if you want to download the error file and then success file, you don't need to click the bank file download icon again and again to download the file.
Reports Improvements
We've added the new report for Court orders - Court order summary report. This report will have the summary of all court order deductions per employee per court order for the mentioned date range rather than having deductions per period. The current detailed report will show you the deductions per pay period. But this new report will give you total deductions per employee per court order. If the employee has multiple court orders for the mentioned period, then it will show the employee multiple times😊
You can now download the court order bank file from the system if you mention the pay start date and end date under Reports section > Court Orders.
Workflow Improvements
We have added Pension letters in the workflow settings. Pension Letters works in a similar way to existing workflow settings, such as sending payslips and P45s. You can decide when you want to send pension letters and set it.
We have also given the option to auto enable portal access for new employees. If you enable that settings, whenever the new employee added in the system with the valid email and assigned for the particular pay cycle, portal access will get auto enabled for that employee and an account activation email will be automatically sent to their mailbox.
General Improvements
Added "Monzo" bank file. So if you're using Monzo Bank, you can set this up in your company details -> Bank, and then you can download this bank file once you complete the payroll.
You can now archive old HMRC notices, so that backdated notices will not get displayed for you under HMRC updates screen. In Company Settings > PAYE, you can now enable "Archive historical notices", select the date (Effective before) and save it. The notices retrieved before the date you have selected will be archived and you won't be able to see it in the screen.
Pay Items - You can now enter the "Units" and "Rate" up to 4 decimals. But the total amount will get calculated and rounded only to 2 decimals as usual.
You can now update Analysis code and expense code for pay items anytime even after it's used😊
You can now upload the "pay data" file imported by company users directly into pay item import without downloading and uploading it manually. When the company users upload pay data file from the portal, it will get displayed under Portal uploads. You will have the option now under "Actions" to push it directly to pay item import😊
Added apprentice and irregular employment indicator columns to new starter import so that these details can also be added in bulk when importing new starters.
We have merged the organisation structure (Departments & Cost centres) widget inside Journals widget in Company Settings.
Security Update
We have blocked concurrent logins in the system (you will not be able to use same credentials in different system/browser (or) new window in the same browser at the same time). We have done this for security purposes. You can still use "Duplicate" tab in the browser😊










