Release 5.8

Matt Jennings Updated by Matt Jennings

We are pleased to announce the latest release of Payroll for web version 5.8!

Release number

Release Date

Payroll web 5.8(MAIN RELEASE)

14/11/2024

These release notes will guide you through what's new in Payroll and provide links to the feature articles.

As this is a web only release, there is no corresponding release for on-premise customers.
Hosted customers will have their system upgraded at a time as notified by OneAdvanced.
Payroll Enhancements

This release comprises of a host of minor enhancements and bug fixes aimed at improving the user experience in the system. These are as follows

  1. Email copy payslips

Following on from the addition of emailing payslips from within the payroll in the last release, we have added functionality to allow you to email copies of employees payslips from their employee record.

From within the view payslips section there is a new Email button in the top right, which will allow you to either Email all or Create selection whereby you can select which payslips you want to send, much in the same way the download selection option works.

A prerequisite for using the email functionality is that the employee has an email address and password set.

  1. Payment/Deductions Improvement

From within an open payroll cycle we have made some improvements to the way payments and deductions are displayed and added. Firstly we have added the field number to the description so that it is easier to identify pay elements with similar names.

Secondly, we have made the dropdown a type ahead search making it easier to find pay elements that may be in a long list.

  1. Cost breakdown improvement

If you utilise the cost breakdown module, we have made an improvement whereby when a new line is added, the employee's defaults are populated as it would be in the desktop application

  1. Pension assessment report

We have listened to feedback, and swapped the options from within the pension assessment report card

  1. Improved navigation from within an open payroll cycle

We have improved navigation from within an open payroll cycle to enable you to go to the manage employees section and back into the payroll on the same employee at the click of a button.

When in an open payroll cycle, there is a new button in the top right- Employee Record. Clicking this will take you to that employees record.

Once on the employees record you can make any required changes to any employee on the payroll. To navigate back to the open payroll cycle, click the Back to Payroll cycle button in the top right. This button is only available if you have navigated here from the open payroll cycle and will not be visible if you navigate to manage emloyees using the left hand menu

  1. Quick Paygroup filter added on employee search

From within the employee search we have now added an extra filter so that you can quickly filter by paygroup

  1. Various bug fixes

What have we done?

As part of this release we have fixed a number of items as detailed below:

  • With the improvements to the payroll navigation we are now clearing the employee selection that is applied on a payroll when you navigate to manage employees using the left hand menu
  • Added extra system checks to prevent users from being unable to add a tax code to an employee who was missing P45/P46 data and NI letter
  • Fixed issue whereby navigating to a different employee using the arrow icons and changing a data item before all data items had loaded sometimes incorrectly updated the previous employees record
  • Fixed issue where navigating to a different employee from the view payslips screen didn’t update the onscreen data with the new employee info
  • Fixed issue where view payslips within a payroll was loading no data
  • Confirmation popup now appears confirming changes have been saved when editing anything on an employee record
  • Various security updates

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