InPay 8.4 Release Notes
- Kelly Collins
We are pleased to confirm the upcoming release of InPay V8.4. This will be available to you on Monday 21st November 2022.
Listening to our users is important to us, and therefore we hope that you find these changes useful, and they help in streamlining your business processes.
We always value feedback, so please contact our Account Management Team if you wish to discuss anything further.
All previous release notes can be found here: InPay Release Notes.
Key highlights
Bespoke payslips - We've developed additional options for specific information to be shown within your customised payslips, giving your employees a greater insight into their pay history and year to date figures.
Importing functionality - We have developed the ability to import your deductions. Taken away the requirement to manually enter these into InPay.
New features:
Further information for bespoke payslips
Import functionality development
Export functionality development
Actual pay date for pay periods
People Pension API development
New report added - Employee Rates Held
Improvements:
Regulatory limit on tax to exclude year to date benefit in kind payments
New features:
Further information for bespoke payslips
Within InPay you have the ability to design and bespoke your payslips. The following changes have been added to an employee's customised payslip view.
Special characters can be used within pay elements names, and these will now show on payslips. Characters such as (, ), %, &, etc can be used.
We have also added the pensionable pay information within This Employment Y.T.D section. Both of these will automatically be shown if you are using the bespoke payslip option.
You can now also select 2 further options within the payslip designer function.
If you are running salary sacrifice pension schemes, you can tick Show True ER Pension Contribution and this will show the full pension contribution that the employer makes, i.e., the employer's and employee's contribution.
You can also provide a split of previous employment year to date figures, from this employment by ticking Split Pay From Current and Previous Employment.
Import functionality development
There are 5 development pieces for importing data into InPay in our 8.4 release, providing further enhancements with our standard import functionality, as well as your own custom imports.
Importing employee deductions
We have developed our custom Employee Pay Import to now allow deduction pay elements to be successfully imported. These will appear within the Pay - Deductions screen of an employee.
Go to Import/Export and select Custom Import.
Within the Import Format field select Employee Pay Import, you can download a template with your headers prepopulated if you wish.
Within the Import Messages you will now see the Table column has been changed to Employee Pay/Ded.
For more information go to custom imports, to see how they can help streamline your business.
Imports to auto populate Hours Worked field
The Import Data screen provides you with a standard importer called Employee Job, within this importer there is a column called Contracted Hours. If populated within the import, the Hours Worked field on the Employee - General Details will be auto populated. This change is applicable only when the Hours Worked field has been unselected for that employee's record.
This will also work within our custom importers if you select the Contracted Hours field to be imported.
Importing characters within a Nominal Masks Import
We have developed our Nominal Masks importer allowing you to use the following characters: &, :, /, ( and ). You already have the ability to create nominal masks manually with these characters, but our importer now matches this functionality.
Custom Importer - find and replace upon import
You now have an option to use our find and replace function against employee details within a custom import.
Starter declaration and P45 details now available within custom importer
You will now see the Employee Starter Checklist and Employee P45 has been added to custom importer tables within the Import/Export- Custom Import screen.
Export functionality development
We have developed our exporting functionality in 2 areas, allowing additional information to be extracted, as well as further enhancing our external exporting pay information.
Additional column option when exporting data
We have developed an additional field in our export data function. When selecting, 1 Employee within the Table field, you will now see within the Column field a dropdown option of LastPaidDate.
External Export Download
You can now select Download Locally Instead within our Processing - External Export screen giving you the ability to download a zip file for selected export types to a local machine. Within this you can download P45s, P60s and Payslips. For further information and how to set up your external export go to our external export page.
Actual pay date for pay periods
We have provided the additional field of Actual Payment Date within Payroll - Pay Periods. If this field is populated, your generated BACS file will use this date rather than the Payment Date field that is generated at the start of a tax year within your pay periods. This option editable on a per period basis allowing you greater flexibility on payment dates each pay period.
People Pension API development
If you have multiple People Pension schemes you will now be able to use the API option to upload these to People Pensions. Our API development will collect all reports across schemes, and groups of workers collating this into one file for People Pensions. Our Support Team can help if you wish to activate the API connection for Peoples Pension.
New report added - Employee Rates Held
This report can be found within the Standard Report screen within the Employee category. This can be run against any payroll and reports all pay elements, and rates held against each element at employee level. This includes flat, daily and hourly details.
Improvements
Regulatory limit on tax to exclude year to date benefit in kind payments
InPay will now exclude benefit in kind payments from the calculation of the 50% Rebate limit. Please ensure your benefit in kind elements are correctly set through the Company - Pay Elements screen.