Payback Release Notes

Payback Cloud Release Notes

Release Date: 17 Jun 2024

New Features

  • Email Payslips: Log

    Sent payslips are now logged so users can see what was sent to employees and when it was sent.

  • Email Payslips: Bulk Download

    As well as emailing payslips, they can now be downloaded as a zip (archive) file. This is useful for situations where am employee or payroll client requests a large number of payslips

  • Email Payslips: Bounces, complaints and incorrect email addreses

    Users are now warned if an email is not being delivered. To preserve our email server reputation email addresses that bounce more than 3 times or submit spam reports will be blocked.

  • Pension File: New screen for creating pension files.

    Create pension CSV files in the format: NINo,Employee Name,Pay Period start date,Pay Period end date,Gross Pay,Employer Contribution,Employee Contribution

Changes

  • Email Payslips: screen redesign

    This screen has now been redesigned so that the layout is similar to the other main screens in Cloudpay, with buttons at the very top, a calendar at the side and a tabbed section at the bottom. To save changes to either SMTP or email addresses, click the 'Update' button at the top of the screen.

  • Email Payslips: SMTP Settings

    Users who opt not to use the Cloudpay Amazon SMTP server can now change their email settings directly in the email payslips screen.

Bug Fixes

  • Email Payslips: selection mode

    Sometimes when emailing a selection of payslips, not all of them were being sent. This has now been fixed.

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.

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:

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

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

New Features

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

Bug Fixes

New Features

Bug Fix

New Feature

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

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

New Feature

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

Bug Fixes

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:

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