After you upgrade from IRIS 12 Pay

Company directors upgraded part way through the year: The director will receive the full allowance again unless a setting is changed in Staffology Payroll. This must be done before the first payroll. Find out more.

Employees who have opted out: Due to differences in the way the payroll holds opt out information. Employees who have opted out, ceased contributions or left the pension scheme will be re-assessed and could be re-enrolled.

My ePay Window: To avoid creating a duplicate My ePay Window account and before you publish. The support team will have to configure your account to accept a connection from Staffology Payroll. Contact the migrations team to start the process at least 7 working days before you publish using My ePay Window.

Important checks after the upgrade

We strongly recommend that you parallel run Staffology Payroll withIRIS 12 Pay for at least one payroll period after the upgrade. If this is not possible, check the first period’s figures thoroughly.

After completing the upgrade, open Staffology Payroll and make the following checks:

• Check the employees.

• Check the Pay Schedules and Next Pay Day.

• Check Opening Balances.

• Check Pay Codes have upgraded correctly, including Attachment of Earnings Orders.

• Check Pensions.

• Check miscellaneous items.

• Input Statutory Sick Pay (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) details.

• Check Statutory Payments (SMP Statutory Maternity Pay is the pay an employer must give to female employees on maternity leave, for up to 39 weeks./SPP Statutory Parental Pay refers to the pay an employer must give to an employee who takes time off to care for their child, or surrogate's child, for up to 2 weeks./ShPP ShPP or Shared Parental Pay. A person claiming SMP or SAP may end their leave early and the remainder used by another parent, this leave will be ShPP./SAP SAP or Statutory Adoption Pay. If an employee is adopting a child with a partner, one of them may be entitled to SAP and the other may be entitled to Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay (OSPP). SAP usually follows the same basis as SMP in terms of amounts of length of time./SPBP Statutory Paternity Pay is the pay an employer must give to an employee who takes time off to care for their partner, for up to2 weeks.) details.

• Input Holiday details.

• Parallel run the next payroll with IRIS 12 Pay.

We strongly recommend that you parallel run Staffology Payroll with IRIS 12 Pay for at least one payroll period after the upgrade. If this is not possible, check the first period’s figures thoroughly.