We have some exciting new features and screens in our latest release; keep reading to find out more!
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 Maternity Pay
You can now set up Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) for employees, and the system will also calculate Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) automatically, helping to simplify statutory pay processing. To know more details about this, please read the article below:
Xero Integration
You can now connect your MDP account to Xero and transfer payroll journals directly from MDP to Xero, making payroll accounting more efficient. For setup instructions, check the article below:
QuickBooks Integration
You can now connect your MDP account to QuickBooks and transfer payroll journals directly from MDP to QuickBooks, simplifying your payroll accounting workflow. For setup instructions, check the article below:
Automatic EPS Submission
You can now configure the system to automatically submit the Employer Payment Summary (EPS) each month for your companies. This helps reduce manual work and ensures you don't have to remember to submit the EPS every month.
To enable this feature, navigate to Company → PAYE and HMRC → Automatically Submit EPS. To know more about this, please read the article below:
Employee Screen Improvements
Bulk Download Employee Payslips: You can now download multiple payslips for an employee as a single PDF file. Learn more in Bulk Download Employee Payslips.
Employee Profile Search: You can now search for and switch between employee records directly from the employee details page, without navigating back to the employee list. Learn more in Employee Profile Search.
Pay Cycle Filter in Employee Portal: We provided an additional filter to make the employee portal screen more flexible.
Payroll Screen Improvements
Remove and Revert Pay Item Import: You can now remove the draft pay item import and also revert the processed pay item import. Learn more in Remove and Revert Pay Item Import.
You can now see “Leavers” list before locking/approving the payroll if you make someone (or) few workers as leavers in the payroll. This would be helpful for you to know the leavers list beforehand.
Send Bank Files to Portal - You can now send bank files as well to company portal like Payslips, P45s etc for the company users to access and download them from there😊 When you send bank files, company users will get notified via email to say that the bank file is available.
You can now send reports to approval via email to the users set in the workflow settings.
If you send reports for approval, email users will receive all the reports via the email, they can then review reports and proceed on to approve/reject the payroll😊
Whenever payroll failed for some employees in the payroll, system will retry the failed employees again in the background and complete the payroll😊
Reports Improvements
You can now download the PBE report for multiple pay periods across multiple pay cycles in a single report. This enhancement makes it easier to review and consolidate payroll information without downloading a separate report for each pay period. For more details, refer to the article below:
Workflow Improvements
We’ve upgraded the workflow settings with the following new options to provide greater flexibility and control over payroll processes:
Upload Bank Files to the Portal: Configure workflows to upload bank files to the portal automatically.
Custom Day Scheduling: Set custom day offsets for pay date and bank date scheduling across supported workflow actions.
Email Reports for Approval: Configure workflows to send reports by email for approval.
For more details, refer to the article below:
General Improvements
You can now set the reports that the company users can view by default when you send reports for approval in Company Portal management screen. Also, when you create company user, you can now set the reports that the particular company user can access for each pay cycle assigned for that user. For more details, view in Company Portal Management.
Company users can upload 5 files maximum now.
When you send bank files to portal, company users can now access that file in the portal.
When company users approves/reject the payroll, you will now get the notification in the notification icon (bell icon) in the top inside your login.
