Release Summary
After our exhibition in Accountex in Manchester, our team will start publishing release notes publicly to all interested parties. You can expect us to write these updates every two weeks.
The Buddy Team at the Buddy Stand at Manchester North Accountex
Although we officially launch for Tax Year 2024-2025, our demo is already available. The following notes are related to updates done after our demo release.
Release Notes
Payroll
Changes to payroll primarily aimed at reducing a few frustrating instances, while making necessary changes to improve the scalability and performance of Buddy.
- Update: After editing payslips that have been already sent to the employee, they will automatically be re-accessible to the employee after concluding the payroll
- Update: When payslips fail to save (e.g. net is less than £0), leave will not be automatically unlinked and editable
- Fix: The loading of the payslips page in payroll history has an additional loader. This will ensure that for companies with a large volume of payslips, this page will always load all details.
Employees
The updates to employee pages include a necessary update for employee portal invitations, while also improving the user experience for a particular scenario.
- Fix: Newly invited employees will immediately have access to their associated details in their profile. Do note that if you recently invited employees in the last couple of weeks and cannot access their payslips or leave data, they will need a re-invitation.
- Fix: When importing employees in bulk, the Weekly Salary will be saved as expected, rather than defaulted to 0. This only impacts the data visible from the Employee Data Report.
- Fix: Terminations added on the same day of employment date can now be undone.
User Experience Improvements
User experience matters! Our team has made minor changes to improve the experience of our users on company creation and billing.
- Update: After creating a new company, the user interface within the confirmation screen includes a Switch Company button.
- New: Billing emails are now being stored on our database and are accessible from the User Interface on Buddy.
- Update: All letters in the billing payment reference codes have been updated to uppercase to improve their readability and reduce mistakes when doing bank transfers.
Timesheets & Leave
We finish today's release notes with a minor fix for timesheet editing and an improvement to the importation of previous leave applications.
- Fix: When editing timesheets, the Work Location will load the existing saved location, rather than occasionally loading the location of the previous timesheet.
- Update: The Import Leave Applications error messages have been updated to show further details for some errors.