August 2024

What's new

Find out about the changes we've made.

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

What's new: 30th August

What's new

• We have added {Nominal.Name} and {Nominal.Code} to the system tokens.

• We have added value tokens.

Fixes

• Salary sacrifice Employee gets Tax & NI relief Employer gets Ers NI relief The deduction is made before tax and NI. There are a number of special rules with this type of deduction. or net pay arrangement Employees only get Tax Relief. The deduction is made after the NI is caculated but before tax is caculated. pension schemes now report correctly on the pay analysis report.

What's new: 23rd August

What's new

• We have added two new types to the pro rata rule for absence for SSP Statutory sick pay refers to the pay an employer must give you if you’re too ill to work. It’s paid to you by your employer for up to 28 weeks, based on certain eligibility criteria - the cost of SSP is no longer able to be recovered - SSP is no longer reported to HMRC on your EPS submissions, SMP Statutory Maternity Pay is the pay an employer must give to female employees on maternity leave, for up to 39 weeks. and Holiday.

  • 260 Rule - Deduct for days not worked.

  • 365 Rule - Deduct for days not worked.

• You can now re-send single payslips to employees.

• We have added a control nominal code for notional paycodes.

• We now give a payrun warning if bank details stored are invalid.

• We now give a warning on the required payments report, if the bank details stored that are invalid.

• We now default to calendar days in period if running an occupational maternity scheme.

Fixes

• BACS Stands for Bankers' Automated Clearing Services. It's an electronic system for transferring money directly between bank accounts in the UK, often used for payroll. files now respect bank holidays. If a bank holiday is present for the payment date, the pay date is now pushed back to previous working day.

What's new: 16th August

What's new

• You can now import:

  • Working patterns and effective dates stored against an employee so that you can bulk change working patterns.

  • On hold - 'True' Or 'False'.

  • Paid Pension - 'True' Or 'False'.

  • Annual Pension Amount - '0.00' - Only to populate if Paid Pension is set to 'True'.

  • Paid due to bereavement - 'True' Or 'False' - Only to populate if Paid Pension is set to 'True'.

  • Apprentice A person who is employed to learn a skilled trade, and who will typically work alongside experienced professionals in their chosen field. - 'True' Or 'False'.

  • 'Foreign Tax Credits UK residents are usually able to claim a credit for foreign taxes suffered on overseas income or gains that are taxable in the United Kingdom.' - 'True' or 'False'.

  • 'Withhold Tax Refund' - 'True or False'.

  • Seconded from an over seas employer -'True or False'.

  • EEA - 'True or False' - Only to populate if Seconded from an over seas employer is 'True'.

  • EPM6 - True or False - Only to populate if Seconded from an overseas employer is 'True'.

  • Employers NI not payable (Secondary class 1 Employees under State Pension age earning more than the threshold a week from one job - they’re automatically deducted by the employer. NICS not payable) - 'True' Or 'False'.

  • 'Continuous service date' - Date format DD/MM/YYYY.

  • P45 A P45 is a document issued by an employer to an employee when they leave a job. It shows details about the's employment, including their start and end dates, how much they were paid, and how much tax they paid during their employment. The is made up of four parts: Part 1 is sent to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Part 1A is kept by the employer, and Parts 2 and 3 are to the employee as a record of their earnings and tax paid. The P45 is an important document that employees need to give to their new employer when they start a new job as it provides information about their tax code and previous earnings, which helps the employer calculate their tax and National Insurance contributions. Marked as sent - 'True' or 'False' - only to be shown if Leaver = true.

  • Pension Start Date - dd/mm/yyyy format - Only visible if pension paid is true.

  • Seconded Status - 3 Options - 'Intends to live in UK for 183 days or more' & 'Intends to live in UK for less than 183 days' & 'Will be working both in and out of the UK but living aboard' - Only visible if 'Employee is seconded from an overseas employer' is true.

• We will now use a fall back rate if the scheme has Use Hourly Rate (where average rate is lower than normal hourly rate) enabled and the average holiday pay If an Employee's work has no fixed or regular hours, their holiday pay will be based on the average pay they received over the previous 52 weeks (or a average based on the available number of weeks if less than the full 52. rate is less than the employees pay rate.

• You can now use a journal token. This allows you to pull data from the payroll quickly, the token is replaced by the data stored in your payroll when you create the journal. The tokens are used when setting the nominals.

• You can now map the journal output file to create a bespoke format.

• You can now produce a pay element report.

• You can now flag that you want to be kept up-to-date with any API changes.

• You can now download a contribution file for True Potential.

• You can now create an enrolment file for new pension members to True Potential.

• The bureau notification emails to the payroll client and Bureau users now include the pay schedule name.

• You can now export payroll warnings to a PDF or CSV file.

• Customers with bureau features enabled, can now able to view the variance report when the payroll is in 'Approval' state.

• When adding entering any leave that reduces an employee's pay, you can now define the pro-rata rule that should apply to the leave, so I can override the rule from the working pattern.

Fixes

• We have fixed the fixed year sickness calculation.

What's new: 5th August

What's new

• If you have Paginate Payruns active, we will now split warnings over a number of pages if there is a large number.

• You can now automate sending pension letters, payslips & P45's when finalising the payroll using connected services.

• You can now set up and use notional payments.

• We now show, the automation tasks due when you finalise the payroll.

• You can now copy company settings from any employer the user has access to. You no longer need to be an owner of the company.

• You can now copy company payees when creating a new employer.

• You can now copy company report packs when creating a new employer.

• You can now select additional options when using the iConnect pension file:

  • Payroll code & role reference.

  • Employer code.

  • Pension member no or role reference.

  • Pension member no or payroll code & role reference.

  • Pension member no or pension UUID.

  • Custom text.

• We now automatically make changes to the iConnect report based on reporting requirements of different funds: 

  • Report Casual staff with "C" or "Y"

  • Report 0.01 or 1.00 for Casual Staff Hours.

  • Report Annual Pensionable Salary and Effective date, Pay on Joining and Effective Date or leave blank.

  • Option to not report Hours details.

  • Report all text as UPPER Case if required/

• You can select from additional options when using the Civica UPM pension file:

  • Remove the header.

  • Role reference.

  • Payroll number & role reference.

  • UUID.

  • Pension membership number or role reference.

  • Pension membership number or payroll mumber & role reference.

  • Pension membership number or pension UUID.

What's new: 1st August

What's new

• You can now pay occupational sick and occupational maternity.

• You can now generate a Loan Balance report.

• The employee export now includes working patterns and effective dates stored against an employee. This can also be imported to an employee in bulk.

• You can now send pension letters in bulk to an employee portal or mark all letters as sent in bulk.