InPay V10.2 Release Notes
- Hitesh Sud
We are pleased to confirm the upcoming release of InPay V10.2. This will be available to you on Monday, December 2 2024.
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 account management if you wish to discuss anything further.
All previous release notes can be found here: InPay release notes.
Key highlights
Test connection for HMRC: The new test connection button allows users to validate HMRC transmission parameters before saving, ensuring early issue detection and enhancing payroll process reliability. For more information, refer to ability to test HMRC connection.
Export Full Payment Submission (FPS) error report – You can now export FPS errors into a CSV format for better error management. For more information, refer to ability to export FPS error report.
Payroll adjustments: A new consolidate flag on the pay elements screen simplifies payroll adjustments by grouping them on payslips. For more information, refer to new consolidation option for pay elements.
New features
Ability to test HMRC connection
Ability to export FPS error report
View payroll commit/rollback history
New option to accrue holiday on no pay for holiday schemes
New consolidation option for pay elements
Custom import: Ability to select multiple field values, Copy one column to another using invisible fields
Improvements
Reports: Show employee pension details on payslip custom report, Improvements to the national minimum wage report (variable pay)
Holiday pay reporting enhancements for payslip viewer
Ability to see timesheet creation date
Improvements to standard import for basic schemes
Two new columns in pension schemes current table
View additional tax refund details on exceptions report
InPay Web Services: New APIs for payroll and pension document downloads, New tag under employee detail methods
New features details
Ability to test HMRC connection
We have added a new test connection button to the company - HMRC transmission parameters screen. You can use it to validate and test the transmission parameters before saving the details.
Ability to export FPS error report
We have added a new button, export error CSV to the FPS error page. If the FPS generation on the processes – HMRC submission page encounters errors such as <employee no> : <error message>, the export error CSV button allows you to export these errors to a CSV file. This functionality is available for both the FPS generation for all employees and the pick employees options.
View payroll commit/rollback history
You can now view the payroll commit and rollback history on the payroll > payroll processing page. The most recent records appear at the top of the list by default, and you can sort the columns by clicking on the column headers. Additionally, you can export the commit/rollback history to a CSV file. The interface displays the last 100 records.
New option to accrue holiday on no pay for holiday schemes
We have added a new option accrue when no pay to the company > holiday schemes screen. This option is available for periodic holiday schemes of types monthly, weekly, 2Weekly, and 4Weekly. It ensures that holidays are accrued even when a worker has no pay.
New consolidation option for pay elements
We have introduced a new consolidate flag on the company - pay elements screen. When this flag is enabled, all adjustments are combined and displayed on the payslip. This flag overrides the split by rate and show pay element description on payslip flag settings on the company - general scheme. When the consolidate flag is disabled, adjustments will be split by rate or description according to the settings. For pay elements of type deduction and AEO, the consolidate flag is greyed out.
Custom import
Ability to select multiple field values
You can now select multiple field values for the following fields on the import/export - custom import screen: employee pay/ded - date of change, employee pay/ded - end of payment, employee adjustment - units, and employee adjustment - rate.
This enhancement allows a format to contain one of the above fields linked to different values. For instance, consider a scenario where a single rate applies to multiple pay elements such as basic and bonus. With this enhancement, worker adjustment details featuring the same rate but differing units for several pay elements can be imported effectively.
Copy one column to another using invisible fields
We have introduced a new way to set column values in the Import/Export - Custom Import screen using invisible fields. The invisible option is used to set value for fields that are not present in the import file. During import the values are not read from the import file. The invisible value textbox is changed to a dropdown list with two options - Fixed Value and File Column No.
Fixed value: This is the existing functionality. When the file is imported, all rows are set to the fixed value specified here.
File Column No: This is a new option introduced in this release. You need to select a column number from the list. This selection maps the selected column to the one being edited. Note that the column number here refers to the column number in the imported file.
Upon file import, data from the selected column will be copied to the column being edited. For instance, all values will be transferred from Pay Element 1 to Pay Element 2.
Improvement details
Reports
Show employee pension details on payslip custom report
We have added a new flag show EE pension YTD on the designers – payslip designer screen. When this flag is selected, the employee pension year-to-date (YTD) will be included on the payslips – payslip custom report. By default, this option is not selected but can be enabled as needed.
Improvements to the national minimum wage report (variable pay)
Holiday pay upon leaving will now be reported on the national minimum wage (NMW) report for variable pay available under the standard reports → pay category. Employee records with an hourly rate below the threshold will be listed on the NMW (variable pay) report.
Holiday pay reporting enhancements for payslip viewer
We have included the current and year-to-date (YTD) holiday pay values for employees enrolled in the pay immediately holiday scheme into the payslip viewer and email payslip report. This update applies to the current pay period, the previous pay period, and any supplementary runs.
Ability to see timesheet creation date
You can now see the timesheet creation date in the new date created column on the pay > InTime timesheets screen.
Improvements to standard import for basic schemes
You can now import employee starter details, including employee and employer pension contribution values, without issue. Previously, these values were overridden because the override contributions option on the pay > pensions screen was not enabled during import.
Two new columns in pension schemes current table
We have added two new columns - salary sacrifice and qualifying earnings to the import/export - export data > employee pension schemes current table. These fields will be available across all pension schemes in the company. The qualifying earnings and salary sacrifice values are returned based on the scheme's configuration.
View additional tax refund details on exceptions report
When an employee has a tax refund appearing in the exceptions report, it will now display additional information, including the tax refund amount and the reason for the refund.
InPay web services
Please note that the below changes are only relevant for users with access to the InPay web services. If you would like to know more about InPay web services, please contact our account management team.
New APIs for payroll and pension document downloads
We have introduced new APIs to download payslips, P45s, P60s, P11Ds, and various pension letters, including enrolment, non-eligible job holder, postponement, and re-enrolment letters for individual employee records. For more details, refer to InPay web services documentation.
New field under employee detail methods
A new field for the no statement signed option in employee - starter declaration has been added to two methods: get specific employee details and add new employee details. For more details, refer to InPay web services documentation.