Bug Fix

For monthly paid, it is possible for the pay day to be set to 31. Any dates after 28 is now set to 'Last day of month'

Bug Fix

Sick pay calculator sometimes crashes for 2018/19 pay dates.

Settings update

Updated for the 0.08% Employer administration levy.

Bug Fix

P45 report is reinstated

New Feature

Tax Code Uplift for 2018/19 added.

• Add 35 to codes ending in L
• Add 39 to codes ending in M
• Add 31 to codes ending in N
• Change all to Cumulative

Statutory Changes

The emergency tax code is now 1185L
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683089/P9X_2018_.pdf
Rates and thresholds can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-thresholds-for-employers-2018-to-2019
Student Loan Plan Type is now returned in the FPS

New Feature

RTI Screen has now been moved from Reports and has its own icon in the main menu.

Bug Fix

RTI Delete request generates error: cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'integer'.

Change

New HMRC Transaction engine.

Live Endpoint have been changed to: https://transaction-engine.tax.service.gov.uk/submission

Bug Fix

EYU generates error: Invalid content found at element 'PTtoUAP'.

New Feature

Dedicated Mail Server

The mailserver we were using had a shared IP address which gmail blacklisted. We are now using a dedicated IP address. This has the following features to ensure emails are successfully delivered:

• SPF and DKIM Signing (Our domain, payback.ie has been verified)
• Fully control email sending reputation.
• Use a known, unchanging IP addresses for whitelisting or security purposes.

You will not be able to specify a sender address for the payslip emails. This is because the emails have to be verified as coming from our domain - payback.ie. If you attempt to send an email with a different sender address, then the recipent email servers will reject the message as it will be deemed to have been spoofed (a common spammer trick) All payslip emails now have the sender address of 'no-reply@payback.ie' You can specify a BCC address so you know your emails have been sent and you have a copy of them.

Bug Fix

EYU: Sumissions for 2016/17 enabled.

New Feature

FPS: Timestamp for test FPS submissions

New Feature

P60 for 2016/17

Statutory Changes

Tax Code Uplift

• The uplift for L tax codes is 50 (for example, 1100L becomes 1150L)
• The uplift for M tax codes is 55
• The uplift for N tax codes is 45
• Changing any week one to cumulative

Rates and thresholds can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-thresholds-for-employers-2017-to-2018

New Features

• Apprenticeship Levy
• Benefits submitted via Payroll

Bug Fix

Ordering of Weeks fixed for Statutory Contractual

New Feature

Added the option to use a different mailserver for emailing Payslips and Auto Enrolment letters

New Features

• Holiday planner rewritten
• New Statutory settings screen
• Fill and clear range for holidays
• Fill and clear range for sick
• SSP statutory contractual
• NHS Pensionable hours calculated for payment frequencies other than monthly

Bug Fixes

• SMP set up for new, unpaid employee causes crash
• Work pattern for more than one week not overlaying properly
• Holidays and Sick pay interaction fixed
• 'Random' holiday dates not saving (caused by yellow totals column)
• 'Random' Sick dates not saving (caused by yellow totals column)
• AE Emails not working for Outlook
• Danske bank import not quite there. There is a set of " not quite in the right place
• ER/EE percent checkboxes not loading property in deductions grid if one is percent and the other is not
• Salary percent defaults to zero (used to be 100) to stop overpayment if no statutory contractual is saved, but user selects it to be used.
• Gross adjustments reduce the pensionable pay

New Features

• Facility to email employees a standard letter, who are eligible for Pension Auto-Enrolment
• New BACS export for Danske Bank Users. Select 'Danske Bank' as the file format in the BACS screen
• No need to change Windows 10 Regional date settings from minus signs to dashes (eg dd-MMM-yyyy to dd/MMM/YYY)
• Maximum Tax code length increased from 6 to 10, to allow for new SRIT S codes.
• P6 Import no longer updates the Year to Date 'Old System' effective date. (Still updates P6 effective date)

Bug Fix

• Under certain circumstances a condition could occur where an orphan element was saved in the Employee screen, causing Payback to Crash

New Feature

There is now an option to re-submit FPS for employees that have left and not paid for the period.

Bug Fixes

• Earlier Years Update (EYU) SVR error fixed
• Salary not matching gross pay on payslips that have been grossed up
• P60 Change. P6 figures added after year has been processed now correctly added to taxable pay for this employment.

Bug Fixes

• SSP (sick pay) calendar causes crash on exit if an employee was paid sick in a previous year
• Employees (Directors) sometimes not displaying on P60 report
• Employee Address is now on P60
• EPS from 2012/13 causing IR mark error

Bug Fixes

• P60 report picking up the incorrect previous employment figures.
• Following FPS messages incorrectly appearing if NI class is blank: For female employees: 7908: [ECON] is mandatory if any [NILETTER] is one of 'D', 'E', 'L', 'N', 'O'. or for male employees: 7849: If [GENDER] is male, NI Letter cannot contain B, E, O or T

New Feature

The RTI Uploading to test environment is more obvious with a very visible warning.

Bug Fixes

• EPS Runtime error (reported 30 March)
• FPS SVR error (reported 1 April)
• FPS NI error
• Not Being able to open: no email address (reported 29 March)

Please note that this version is only for people who have no choice but to run their payroll early. This is not the full release for 2016/17 and there may be one or two issues with it. This release does not include all the features of the 2016/17 version. We advise that you check to make sure you are happy that everything is correct.

Important Notes:

• The prerelease version will allow 2015/16 P60s to be produced.
• The Tax and NI calculations have not yet been tested against HMRC test data. We have checked them against the NI and Tax specification documents but this is far from comprehensive. As soon as HMRC releases the test data We will be able to test the calculations.
• The NHS Pension rates for both Employer and Employee are the same as 2015/16. The is for Northern Ireland, Scotland and England.
• New Tax uplift facility in the Company screen is now available
• Starter checklist in the employee screen
• Employee screen buttons re-organise themselves into two rows if the screen is resized to small to accommodate all the buttons across the top.
• SSP screen has totals columns

Shared Parental Pay, new DEA: DWP Direct Earnings Attachment and improved Statutory Payment Wizard

New RTI Fields. RTI Reciepts and NIC Allowance also added

Payback is now RTI Ready and recognised by HMRC

Now includes child care voucher processing and revamped elements and deductions grids