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MDA March 2022 Release

Place to see all of our new updates in this latest release

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Written by Paul Foster
Updated over 3 years ago

Here's the overview! Click on any link below to go straight to that section or read on to see all the latest updates.

If you're looking for the My Digital Timesheets release notes you can find them here!


Multi Factor Authentication

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has now been added to My Digital and is a simple best practice that adds an extra layer of protection 🔐 on top of your username and password. When enabled, logging into MDA will require your username and password as well as an authentication code from your authenticator app.

Please note only your Accounting Firm Admin can enable this, please click the button below see our article with further details:


Statement of Earnings – Bulk

Previously, only P45/P60’s could be sent in bulk and SOE’s (Statement of Earnings) had to be sent individually. In the newest release, it is now possible to send SOEs in bulk of up to 500 at once, for both active workers and leavers.

Just go into Bulk Transaction>Payroll>Bulk P60/P45/SOE, select the worker(s) you wish to send for and click Mail SOE.

To do this through a company, go into Payroll>Reports>P45/P60/SOE Reports and again, select the worker(s) you wish to send for and Mail SOE.

Please Note - As this is a brand new outbound email you may wish to password protect SOE. To do this an AFA needs to go to the top right settings cog -> Security Settings and ensure SOE is ticked.


Statement of Earnings – Single

Previously, you could only download the SOE and you would have to then send this onto the worker outside of MDA. Now you have the ability to quickly send it direct from the system😎 You go to People Hub -> Workers Record -> Payroll Tab

You will then see the new SOE menu.

This does mean the previous SOE button on the personal tab has been removed and as this is a new screen you will need to request your Accounting Firm Admin (AFA) to grant you access. If they are unsure of this process then they can get in touch using the live chat📥

Please Note - As this is a brand new outbound email you may wish to password protect SOE. To do this an AFA needs to go to the top right settings cog -> Security Settings and ensure SOE is ticked.


Payslip Message and Footer – MDA Level

From 2022 tax year, a payslip message has been added in footer to display the advisory message that HMRC has requested to be on all payslips. The message will read: “1.25% uplift in NICs funds NHS, health and social care”

This message will only apply in the 2022 tax year, as in 2023-24 tax year the NICs will reduce back to the original rate and the Social Care funds will be its own line item.


NI “V” Category

A new NI category – “V” – has been introduced for veterans of UK armed forces in their first year of civilian employment. It is effectively the same as existing categories “M” and “H”.

This will be available for 2022 tax year, so to edit this for an existing worker, go to People Hub and then to the worker’s record. From there, you would edit the worker’s employment and would then need to select “NI Override” and choose “V” from the drop down menu.


Aged Debtors Improvement

We have made improvements to the Aged Debtors screen so balances can be reported at a Customer level. Head over to the Aged Debtors screen and check out the new layout using a neat product tour😏


Open Banking is back!

We hope you're as excited as we are! 😁

you can now access your banking data via our Open Banking feature again. If you need a quick refresher on how to set this up, please see the below guide:

Please Note - Only customers on our Quantum package or higher will have access to this feature. If you want to have a look at upgrading your package then why not check out our platform plans on our website. 👇


Payments on Account update

To improve performance, filters have now been enable on this screen so the default view will no longer show all invoices that are due and you can just select the invoices you want to match.


Sales Invoices - Performance improvement

To improve performance in the Sales Invoices screen, there is now a default date that appears and will only retrieve invoices for the past 30 days. This date can be changed however will only show the last 30 days as default to avoid retrieving all invoices each time this screen is opened.


Sales invoice due date

Previously you would simply have an invoice date and payment terms, now you can enter the date the invoice is actual due and the payment terms will automatically adjust.

The same can be said if you adjust the payment terms, the due date will adjust automatically.


Bug fixes 🔧

Please see below any bugs that have been fixed in this release:

  • Report issues - we have fixed the issue where customers with custom URL's who couldn't export certain reports

  • We have fixed a unique scenario which prevented self employed workers being made leavers

  • We have the issue where custom date fields could not be removed


Speed Improvements ⚡

  • We have improved the speed when entering a description in a Page

  • We have improved the speed performance of the Sales Invoices page, please see further details further up this page

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