Release Summary
We recently released a few updates, and we're excited to announce that we've released a couple more updates yesterday and today. One of these updates includes an enhanced experience for creating pay periods for new companies, providing greater flexibility. This drastically impacts accountants and bureaus who consistently add new clients on Buddy. Additionally, we've introduced hotfixes to address client-specific issues related to custom settings.
Release Notes
Pay Period Updates
We're thrilled to introduce an improved experience for creating new companies, specifically with the ability to modify the Pay Period Start on the first payroll. Although this feature almost made it to our last release, we're confident in its successful testing and are introducing it along with this week's hotfixes.
- New: Pay Period Start can now be changed (if the company only has one pay period)
- New: When changing Pay Period Start will update the whole period details; therefore, it will delete any existing payslips
- Update: Changing the Pay Schedule Frequency will also update the whole period details and delete any payslips for that first pay run.
- Update: Once the first pay run is concluded, the Pay Schedule Frequency cannot be altered. In such cases, the company should add a separate pay schedule and move existing employees onto that one in case of a change.
- Fix: These changes by proxy solve an issue experienced by a few new clients in 2023 where the pay period end was misaligned, based on the Cycle Start Date that was inputted upon company creation.
- Beta: We introduced a new pay schedule, 4-4-5. This is particularly aimed at the UK market but is also being introduced to Malta for companies who alternate to a pattern of 4-4-5 weeks to close a quarter instead of monthly or four-weekly payrolls. In case any clients want to use this, we suggest getting in touch with our support team.
AccuPay™ Hotfixes
The following hotfixes were designed to address specific issues faced by a client with a custom AccuPay™ ruleset. Due to the urgency of payroll, we introduced these hotfixes mid-week, but they should have minimal impact on most of our existing client base.
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Beta Fix: Fixed a particular instance where the Public Holiday processed outside its timesheet cut-off was not triggering all the relevant Time & Attendance Rules.
For instance, the 31st of March is attributed to the week ending the 2nd of April, but if the timesheet cut-offs start on the 1st of April, although the Public Holiday was created, not all rules were applied as typically. - Beta Fix: In conjunction with the above, we released an additional update to allow the processing of the Public Holiday if it falls on an older salary, e.g. if the employee had a salary change on the 1st of April.
- Fix: Updated the printing of payslips and payroll reports in companies with a basic allowance for part-timers. The Basic Pay now correctly prints the basic pay amount, excluding the basic allowances printed as separate items. No changes were made to the calculation or data stored.
Leave Entitlement
- Fix: We updated the pro-rata calculation as the calculation of working days was shifted by 1 working day. This impacts companies on the pro-rata leave setting and a few employees who were engaged or terminated this year