InPay V8.0 Release Notes

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National Insurance Mid Year Changes

NP-1674/NP-1686/NP-1687 - Threshold Changes (+Director changes) from 6 July 2022

In March, the Chancellor made his annual Spring Statement speech where he set out the Government’s tax plan to support the UK economy, businesses and families in both the short and the medium term. 

 Key measures the Chancellor announced include: 

  • An increase to the National Insurance Primary Threshold for Class 1 NICs and the Lower Profits Limit for Class 4 NICs from 6 July 2022, aligning it with the equivalent income tax personal allowance which is set at £12,570 per annum.  

  • The Employment Allowance will be increased by £1,000 from 6 April 2022 to £5,000, which will benefit around 495,000 businesses.  

Director changes following Spring Budget:

  • Annual Earnings for NIC calculation                   -                £9880 → £11,908 

  • This is made up of 13 weeks at lower level up to 5th July - £9880/52*13 

  • From 6th July 2022 – 5th April 2023 – 39 weeks -                £12,570/52*39 

Custom Import

NP – 1639 - Custom Import -> NI Table Letter Default

  1. NI Table letter is no more mandatory for updating an employee NI Details using custom import. Instead Pay manager will fetch the NI Table letter from the existing NI record of an employee which is present in Employee->NI Details Page
  2. Pay manager always stores NI Number as upper-case letters

NP – 1676 - Custom Import -> NI Start Date Default

  1. Pay Manager sets NI date of change to current pay period start date which is present in Payroll->Payroll Processing screen, if NI number is imported without start dates. And in other case, Pay Manager sets NI date of change to current pay period start date +1 which is present in Payroll->Payroll Processing screen if the previous period pay date is after the current period start date.

E.g. Pay Period for is ‘202207’ and Start Date is ‘01/10/2022’ and Pay date is within current Pay Period date

If NI detail for an employee is imported without start date, Pay manager sets NI Date of change to Current Period Start date


NP – 1658 - Custom Importer -> NI Table to be applied to Starters using Age rule

Pay Manager will set the NI Table letter based on employee age calculated as of current period pay date.

- If the employee is under 21 as of the current period pay date, the employee will be given NI table letter M

- If the employee is 21 or over as of the current period pay date, the employee will be given NI table letter A


Other Development

NP – 1642 - Welsh Council Tax Court Order Added

Added a new type of Council Tax Court Order that will calculate using the new Welsh Council Tax values (Seen here https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/107/made)
This can be selected when adding a new AEO to an employee.

NP – 1640 - Add Department to Pension Enrolment Data

Pay Manager will display department, service start date and Leaving date in case of leaver against each employee in addition to Employee Number and Name on the Payroll -> Pension Enrolment screen. The mentioned information has been included against each employee that can be either in “To Enroll” or “Enrolled this Period” section.

The three additional information gets populated from the below mentioned screen:

- Department on Employee -> Location Details screen

- Service Start Date on Employee -> General Details screen

- Leaving Date on Employee -> Leaver screen

Horizontal scrollbars have been added for the situation where the text exceeds the list box length. A tooltip has been added when hovering over an employee detail in the list box.

Department, Service Start date and Leaving date details gets displayed against an employee in ‘To Enroll’ section on Payroll->Pension Enrolment screen


NP – 1665 - Nominal Mask Dream

New report under User Reports named “Nominal Export Masks Dream” is added. The purpose of this report is to create report based on different payroll types and Nominal Mask Value assigned against each Pay Elements assigned to an employee of that company.


NP – 1672 - Show Payslips on Payslip Portal from Date

Pay Manager will display the pay slips in the payslip portal only if pay period pay date on or after the date mentioned in “Show Payslips From” field on the payroll -> Payrolls screen


NP – 1632 - Group Level Reporting        

Following three behaviours are implemented in Pay manager as part of group level reporting:

  • Pay manager allows to allocate Department, Division and Pay Location of a company to any one of the report groups. It gets automatically removed from the respective list once it is allocated to any one of the report groups
  • Pay manager generates a new report named ‘Report’ in Reporting->Report Groups page to identify which group the departments, division and pay location that have been assigned to
  • Client Portal document centre displays Payslip Summary Detailed Plain Bespoke report with report group name mentioned inside braces


NP – 1722 - Allow CSV Report Export

Report named Nominal Export Masks Dream Payroll under User Reports category can be exported in CSV format in addition to other four file formats by Pay manager users

NP – 1535 – Pay summary Detailed plain bespoke -> Add Bank Details

Report named Pay summary detailed plain bespoke under pay category can be exported with employee bank details added against each employee in all four file formats

NP – 1688 – Pay summary detailed plain with cost centre

Report named Pay summary detailed plain under pay category includes cost centre information against each employee in all four file formats

NP – 1732 – Journal Test Report – additional info 2

Report named Journal Test Report under User Reports category includes two additional fields, Additional LA and Health screen against each employee in all four file formats

NP – 1667 – DEA Court Order Amount Deduction

Deduction amount field can be found in Pay->AEOs screen for court order type ‘DEA’. Amount specified in this field by users will directly deduct amount from an employee salary rather than taking input for deduction calculation from Company->Legislative Details Page

NP – 1466 – Payslip Overview/Payslip pre/post tax reports to show rates to 4dp

Payslip Overview/Payslip pre/post tax reports will show rates values with 4dp rather than limiting it to 2dp

NP – 1663 – AE 3-month window

Pay manager users can be able to set pension postpone under Auto Enrolment section to ‘3 full months’ in Company->Details screen. Once mentioned option is selected, Auto enrolment pension postponement date gets set to sum of date of joining, 3 months and remaining days of pay periods in which three months falls into

NP-1641 - Add Occupational Absence Scheme to Starter Import
Occupational Absence scheme can now be imported for starters using Employee-->Starter Import
Added 6 new fields to Employee starter import.


  • OMPScheme
    OPPaScheme
    OPPbScheme
    OAPScheme
    AOPPaScheme
    AOPPbScheme

Bug Fixes

NP – 1677 - Employee SSP Import Conflicting Dates

  1. Pay manager will throw error message if conflicting SSP dates are imported using SSP Standard importer for an employee. For example, if an employee first SSP record starts on the day (19/04/2022) and ends on (20/04/2022), and second SSP record starts on the day (20/04/2022) and ends on (21/04/2022).
  2. Pay Manager will throw error message when more than one employee in standard importer has conflicting SSP dates

NP – 1684 - SSP Importer Overlap dates

Pay manager will show conflict error if the whole sickness period has overlapping dates between system and SSP standard importer

NP – 1689 - XML Payslip Period

Pay manager will display current tax year instead of Pay date year in the Period field gets populated in payslips and payslip portal when the pay date lies on or before 6th April current tax year. This is applicable only for XML companies

NP -1692 – Payslip emails not being sent

Pay manager will send payslip email for supplementary runs created when respective payroll is saved under Email Employees on commit section on Company->Email screen

NP – 1709 – Auto Enrolment Values not nulled on Company General save

The Auto Enrolment options selected by Pay manager user under Auto Enrolment section in Company->Details screen now sets the values to NULL on save when "AE Not Applicable" is checked.

NP – 1726 – Commit Summary Email sent on Register

Pay manager will stop sending email to company when new payslip portal employee is registered when send summary mail option is checked under email configuration section in Company->Email screen

NP – 1736 – No Clear down flag does not save correctly when a pay element is created

No Clear down flag gets set when new pay element is created with ‘No Clear down’ Option checked in Company->Pay Elements screen

NP – 1759 – Email Payslip by Date Range – Large Exports

Report named Email Payslip by Date Range under payslips category should get downloaded successfully without throwing error for an employee consist of 50 payslips

NP – 1733 – 22/23 option not available for P32 Adjustments

2022/23 option is added to tax year field under Adjustment Period section in Processing->P32 Adjustments screen

NP – 1708 – Absence Maternity -> WK39 missing

Week 39 option is added to ‘Pay to Date’ field when users apply for maternity leave in Absence->Absence Entry Screen 

NP – 1710 - Payroll ->Update Leavers showing deleted employees

Pay manager no longer lists deleted employees in Payroll->Update Leavers screen

NP – 1713 – Employee General -> Name/Surname Validation

Employee name field character length is restricted to 100 for XML companies

NP – 1734 – Payslip Portal Password Reset with Linked Employees

Linked users can be able to reset payslip portal password only with primary company employee email

NP - 1756 - EPS 2022 COTAXREF (UTR) required if CISDeductionsSuffered > 0

Company Tax Reference validation was being  erroneously skipped if CISDeductionSuffered was greater than 0, resulting in EPS submissions being rejected by HMRC

NP – 1764 – Employee Payment Import Employee Not Found 

Pay manager displays error message when user tries to import payments for an employee who doesn’t exist on company using standard importer 

NP – 1763 – Import Template Not Downloading 
Employee Payments import template under standard importer gets downloaded successfully for entry with no NI Number and NI Table letter 

NP-1758 - Pay Summary Detailed By Employee in Date Range Report - Incorrect values in "Actual Net Pay" column

The report "Pay summary Detailed by Employee in Date Range" will now show correct figures for the Actual Net Pay column.