Payback Release Notes

Payback Cloud Release Notes

Version 2025.01, Release Date: 28 Mar 2025

Statutory Changes

Rates and thresholds can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-thresholds-for-employers-2025-to-2026
RTI Changes
FPS and EPS submissions have been updated for 2025/26
SNCP - Statutory Neonatal Care Pay
SNCP has been added

GP Payroll Changes

Northern Ireland from 1 Apr 2025
Tier	Pensionable Pay	Employee Rate
1	£13259.99 and below	5.20%
2	£13260 to £27288.99	6.70%
3	£27289 to £33247.99	8.50%
4	£33248 to £49913.99	10.00%
5	£49914 to £63994.99	10.90%
6	£63995 and above	12.70%

Employer Rate: 23.2%

England and Wales from 1 Apr 2025
Tier	Pensionable Pay	Employee Rate
1	£13259.99 and below	5.20%
2	£13260 to £27288.99	6.50%
3	£27289 to £33247.99	8.30%
4	£33248 to £49913.99	9.80%
5	£49914 to £63994.99	10.70%
6	£63995 and above	12.50%

Employer Rate: 14.38%

Scotland from 1 Apr 2025
Tier	Pensionable Pay	Employee Rate
1	£13330 and below	5.70%
2	£13331 to £26762.99	6.40%
3	£26763 to £31669.99	7.00%
4	£31670 to £39734.99	8.70%
5	£39735 to £41669.99	9.80%
6	£41670 to £50650.99	10.50%
7	£50651 to £54811.99	11.20%
8	£54812 to £76652.99	11.60%
9	£76653 and above	12.70%

Employer Rate: 22.5%

Payback GP Cloud Release Notes

Release Date: 18 Jun 2023

New Features

RTI Pay Date
The RTI Pay date can now be changed in the HMRC FPS Submission screen. This can prevent warnings for late submissions.
FPS Submissions
All FPS submissions and responses are now saved to enhance auditing and error tracing.

Changes

Employee screen NHS tab
The NHS tab in the Employee screen has been redesigned for the new system of calculating contrubitions where the current earnings amount is used and not previous year salary.
Company screen NHS tab
The employer rate has been removed from this screen. This was display only.

Bug Fixes

Reports
Gross to Net header and footer margins reduced to increase data per page.

GP Control Summary header and footer margins reduced to increase data per page.

Gross to Net report, Deductions column rounding fixed

GP Control Summary report, Employer Pension column rounding fixed

Control Summary, now ordered by staff number

Gross to Net, now ordered by staff number

Payslips, now ordered by staff number

P11, now ordered by staff number

LP11, now ordered by staff number

GP Control Summary, now ordered by staff number

Payback GP Cloud Release Notes

Release Date: 18 Jun 2023

New Features

RTI Pay Date
The RTI Pay date can now be changed in the HMRC FPS Submission screen. This can prevent warnings for late submissions.
FPS Submissions
All FPS submissions and responses are now saved to enhance auditing and error tracing.

Changes

Employee screen NHS tab
The NHS tab in the Employee screen has been redesigned for the new system of calculating contrubitions where the current earnings amount is used and not previous year salary.
Company screen NHS tab
The employer rate has been removed from this screen. This was display only.

Bug Fixes

Reports
Gross to Net header and footer margins reduced to increase data per page.

GP Control Summary header and footer margins reduced to increase data per page.

Gross to Net report, Deductions column rounding fixed

GP Control Summary report, Employer Pension column rounding fixed

Control Summary, now ordered by staff number

Gross to Net, now ordered by staff number

Payslips, now ordered by staff number

P11, now ordered by staff number

LP11, now ordered by staff number

GP Control Summary, now ordered by staff number

Payback Cloud Release Notes

Release Date: 18 Jun 2023

New Features

RTI Pay Date
The RTI Pay date can now be changed in the HMRC FPS Submission screen. This can prevent warnings for late submissions.
FPS Submissions
All FPS submissions and responses are now saved to enhance auditing and error tracing.

Bug Fixes

Reports
Gross to Net header and footer margins reduced to increase data per page.

Gross to Net report, Deductions column rounding fixed

Control Summary, now ordered by staff number

Gross to Net, now ordered by staff number

Payslips, now ordered by staff number

× Important: Desktop version of GP Payroll

As of 6 April 2023, the desktop version of Payback GP Payroll has been discontinued. The final desktop release allows P60s for 2022/23 to be produced. Any users still using the Desktop version can avail of a free upgrade to the Cloud version.

Payback Desktop GP Payroll 2018/19

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.

Payback GP Payroll 2017/18

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

Payback GP Payroll 2016/17

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

Prior Versions (2012/13 to 2015/16)

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