Release Summary
Buddy's Payroll History page is receiving a well-deserved update. Each user can select one of three preferred views, and all actions have been placed into a cohesive drop-down.
Screenshot of the new Card View
We'd like to share that our release schedule will no longer be fortnightly. Instead, we will be opting for fewer releases that will introduce larger changes and the best quality that our customers deserve.
Stay tuned as in the coming weeks, you will receive an update on new exciting features! In the meantime, below you can read the detailed list of all changes.
Release Notes
Payroll History
Starting off with the biggest change first! The Payroll History page has been revamped with three new views. Each user can select their own preferred view, without interfering the preference of their colleagues.
- New: Users will be able to select one of three preferred views.
When a user changes their view, it will not impact other users who have access to any of their shared companies.
Moreover, when changing access to a different company, the user will retain the same preferred view. Here's more information about these new views:
- Detailed View
This is the classic view that shows the currency values for Net Pay and Taxes. - Normal View
A new view that visualises the Net Pay and Taxes into a segmented battery chart. - Card View
The card view displays the payroll histories into cards, rather than a list.
- Detailed View
- New: The action buttons have been grouped into Downloads and Actions
- Downloads
All downloads of .pdfs, such as payroll reports and payslips, are now included within the Download button - Actions
Other actions such as sending payslips or refresh reports have been grouped under the Actions button.
- Downloads
- New: New icons for each payroll to identify whether the payroll is complete, in edit mode, or an old payroll that is not yet completed.
Workforce Integration
As one of our newest integrations, Buddy has continued to improve on the integration to allow for increasing capabilities between the two platforms.
New features including Workforce fields in Buddy's custom reports, added rules of timesheet rounding, team-filtering for timesheet importation, and more.
- New: Buddy can now update Workforce's timesheets with custom rounding rules. Note that this has to be set-up by Buddy's Technical Support for the time being
- New: When connecting an employee between Buddy and Workforce, you will now have an option to filter and import only timesheets/leave from a specific team. This will not import data from other Workforce teams of that employee.
- New: Buddy reports can be amended to include Custom Fields from Workforce. This will also require Buddy's Technical Support to be set up.
- New: Workforce integration now has an additional daily sync that runs every night. This will improve the accuracy and consistency of the live sync.
- New: When syncing Timesheets into Buddy, Buddy will now sync leave balances and send the data to Workforce to update the leave balances accordingly.
Leave Applications
In our latest changes to improve the leave application flow, there were a couple of instances that were not designed for, which we are making slight changes to.
- Payroll Portal
- Fix: Fixed the text input for when manually adjusting the hours requested to be over 10 hours. It will now be easier to amend the hours without having to place the cursor exactly before or after the decimal point.
UK-Specific Changes
Few minor updates related to UK-specific payroll and settings
- Fix: Pension Schemes can now be added even if company has only a single pay-period
- Fix: Overtime is now taxable, nicable and pensionable.
- Update: We've implemented introduction for Holiday Payment. We understand there will be yet again changes for the coming tax year that were recently discussed, which we'll be updating in the near future.