September 2022

What's new

Find out about the changes we've made.

You can also check our known issues, fixes and what's coming soon.

September 20

Importing

We have added functionality allowing you to import the annual salary for an employee, using the heading Annual Pay Amount.

If your import file contains both Annual Pay Amount and Pay Amount, Annual Pay Amount takes precedence.

Tax code change report

Under Reports > Pay runs, we have added a new Tax code change report. The report shows employees who have had a tax code change since finalising the last pay run.

Pay Schedule

We have added the functionality under Employer > Settings > Pay Schedule > Advanced Settings, allowing you to enter a High Gross Pay The total amount earned by employee before taxes and other deductions are taken. and a High Net Pay. These fields are used in the pay run warnings to advise if the gross or net for an employee is equal to or above the pay schedule thresholds.

Warnings

We have added the following warnings to the payroll:

  • High Gross Pay or High Net Pay - advises if an employee's gross or net is equal to or above the pay schedule thresholds

  • Employee below National Minimum Wage - a warning displays if an employee earns below the NMW based on an annual or monthly salary or hourly rate.

It remains your responsibility as an employer to ensure you pay all employees at or above the National Minimum Wage.

Reducing Balance Loans

We have introduced a reducing balance loan feature to the product, allowing you to enter an initial amount and an amount to take each pay period until the outstanding loan balance is zero.

Payslips also display the deduction for the period, along with any outstanding balance.

Apprenticeship Levy Paid YTD

Under Employer > Edit Details > More > Opening Balances, there is now an Apprenticeship Levy The Apprenticeship Levy is a UK tax on employers which is used to fund apprenticeship training. It is payable by all employers with an annual pay bill of more than £3 million, at a rate of 0.5% of their total pay bill. It is collected through PAYE alongside other employment taxes. Paid YTD The cumulative amount of an employee's earnings or deductions from the beginning of the current fiscal year up to the current pay period. field, where you can enter a value if you have moved onto the payroll software mid-year.

National Insurance letters and values

On the Employee > More menu, we have added NIC Year To Date, which gives a breakdown of the year-to-date NI letters and values.

September 9

Pay Codes

The default multiplier when adding new pay codes is now set to 1.

Validation

We have added validation to the following areas, in line with the FPS Full Payment Submission is an RTI online submission to be sent on or before each payday. This informs HMRC about the payments and deductions for each employee., when importing into the product:

This means invalid data entered into fields won't later cause the FPS to fail.