InPay V5.7 Release Notes

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Last updated: Jun 08, 2023 by Zack CaleyVersion comment
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Peoples Pension Integration (NP-330/NP-409)

InPay now has full integration with People's Pension through the new Processing → Pension Process screen . It has been agreed with People's Pension that there will be a phased release of the functionality 

Company Nominal Masks (NP-400)

A new screen has been added to simplify the nominal set up of clients. This is recommended only for clients with the most complicated nominals that required breakdown by Department, Cost Centre and User Defined fields. The page will only show if Use Nominal Masks is selected on the Company → General screen.


 



Combine Worker's Payslips from Multiple Companies (NP-260)

A new screen has been added (Security → Link Portal Users) enabling 2 companies to be linked together affording the opportunity to link employees with the same key details. The worker will then be able to view payslips from both companies through their payslip portal account

 

Employee Reference on RTI return (NP-287)

A RTI Reference number field has been added to enable entry of a different  identifier to the Employee Number. Where suppled it will be used in preference to Employee Number on the FPS return

The field has been added to the Employee -> General and Employee → Starter screens, together with the Employee Take On file and Starter Import,

Flat Rate Pay Elements (NP-422)

A pay element can be set as fixed rate and a rate amount added (this can be done either through the Company → Pay Elements screen or the Company Pay Elements importer). The rate will then be applied where units of variable pay are added against a worker in the system (either through the Pay → Adjustments screen or the Adjustments importer)

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Group Reporting and Client Portal Changes (NP-401)

The ability to send reports from the Reporting Screen to a specific folder in the portal has been added.

A default payroll tick box has been added against the payroll, when ticked this will allow company level reports to be sent to the portal document centre.


Auto Enrolment Exclusion Flag (NP-416)

An AE Exclusion Flag has been added to the Pay → Pension page, ticking this will exclude the worker from all AE assessment reports/routines

Salary Calculation Change (NP-428)

InPay will no longer pro-rata a pay period if the worker starts on the first WORKING day of that period, This will effect the 260 and 261 working days starter calculations, 

Salary Sacrifice & Statutory Payments (NP-434)

A field has been added against Employee → General (Always Deduct Salary Sacrifice). The standard behaviour is that salary sacrifice pay elements will not be deducted if the worker has no pay or just statutory payments. This field will override that setting

Day Based Holiday Scheme (NP-400)

A simplified daily holiday scheme based on the standard hourly scheme has been added. This can only be used where the number of days worked is sent through from the InTime system.


Other Development

Importer Enhancement (NP-433) -  InPay will reject one-off payments when not in current period (and allow 0 or the field to be empty when imported). InPay will reject SSP imports when there is no end date

Holiday Carried Forward (NP-373/NP-427) - Increase field size to allow up to 999 hours including 4 decimal places

Standard Life Contributions New Change (NP-406) - Changes to report to stop requirement for manual intervention

PTX Payment Format (NP-377) - A new format has been created and can be selected in the Company → Bacs Parameters screen

NatWest Payment Format (NP-442) - A new format has been created and can be selected in the Company → Bacs Parameters screen

P32 Adjustments at Payroll Level (NP-432) - P32 adjustments now feed through to the Analysis of Payments & Analysis of Wage Costs reports where there is only one active payroll in that P32 year

Run Reports by Employee Number Issue (NP-414) - Bug fix to stop employee number being changed to a date when passed into a report

New Bank of Scotland Payment Format (NP-395) - A new format Bank of Scotland is available in the Company → Bacs Parameter screen

Holiday Carried Forward fix (NP-373) - The field size has been increased to allow a value of up to 999.9999 hours carried forward

Unable to Add Pensionable Elements to Company Pension (NP-323) - This functionality has been optimised to work with 1000 + pay elements.

Exceptions New Report Display Error (NP-385) - Under certain circumstances open pay periods were showing as closed 

Standard Life Pension Change (NP-406) - Some recommended changes have been made to the Standard Life Contributions New report

New Scottish Widow Report (NP-407) - A new report format called Pension Exports → Scottish Widows New has been added

Aegon 2 Pension Report (NP-411) - A number of recommended changes have been made to Pension Exports - Aegon 2

New AE Report for Pension Letters (NP-415) - A new report Pension Exports -> Pension Letters has been added to aid in the creation mail merge documents 

Absence - Absence Entry screen fix (NP-417) - Stop error where a carriage return character is added to the notes field.

REST Service End Date Restriction (NP-421) - Fix to stop Payment or Deduction record being edited where is has an end date and the period has been committed

Pay Difference Report (NP-435) - A new report Pay → Pay Difference 2 Periods has been added

Audit Report fix(NP-445) - Description corrected for Hours Worked

Aegon New report fixes (NP-387) - Format correction as per specification

Username Size (NP-347) - The maximum username length has been increased to 55 characters 

Minor Timesheet Designer\Download Fixes (NP-165, NP-166, NP-167)

Holiday Dates Change (NP-286) - Allow updating of historical holiday records to adjust incorrect dates

Safe Export (NP-409) - A new payroll journal format has been added

Pension Enrolment Fix (NP-439) - Fix to ensure start date is not prior to worker's date of joining

Nominal Report Fixes (NP-361) - Change to not show negative values

Email Change (NP-366) - Change to allow " in example emails.

Notify Connected Systems on Commit (NP-436) - Send commit and rollback messages to message queue

Show Negative Deductions on Exception Reports (NP-449) - Change to both Exceptions and Exceptions new reports

Allow Postgraduate Loans to be sent from InTime (NP-450)

Correctly Display Postgraduate Loan Dates in Exporter (NP-452) - Additional Postgraduate start and end date fields have been added

Add Web Service User Fix (NP-456)