Release Summary
The weather may be getting warmer, but Buddy has only gotten cooler! In today's update, we release a new feature: Address Lookup! Say goodbye to FS3s with incorrect street names. Users can insert post-code or address details to search the database and select the address, as shown in the GIF below:
This update includes further changes, including further preparations for our mobile app, several fixes and updates to our UK product (which will not be listed here). For non-UK specific changes, we urge you to read the changes below.
Release Notes
The Address Lookup Feature
As highlighted in the summary, users can now look up addresses using postcode and other address details!
- New: Users can now insert the post-code to look for the address to input this. For Maltese addresses, you can also search by other address details, such as street names.
This feature is included in all pages that allow address input, including the employee's Personal Details, Company's details and Advisor Details
People Page
- Update: The toggle for Pay by Bank Transfer has now been changed to a text dropdown to improve the clarity of the option and its audit logs.
- Update: A minor update on how social security data is saved is included in this release. This should make no difference for our users, but in the long-run it will make Buddy operate more efficiently
- Update: Small UI changes to the Previous Earnings were made
- Fix: Released a fix to prevent ID, Social Security or Tax Numbers from being removed if the user double-clicked on the Save button
- Fix: Our team also reverted the ID, Social Security and Tax Numbers for any employees whose numbers were removed by double-saving.
Payroll
- Fix: Released updates related to BambooHR Integration to ensure that the Tax Status is read consistently and tax is calculated for BambooHR integrated employees
- Fix: Release an update to resolve an issue where a few employees' calculations did not include the Social Security Contributions
- Fix: When having Mixed Salary payslips, we have issued an update to resolve a printing issue with the base hours.
Note: we are aware that this update still makes some things unclear in the Run Payroll interface, particularly regarding allowances. We plan to improve this in future updates; for now, we suggest you check and confirm the Preview Payslip in such instances. - Update: Updated our SEPA File to support more IBANs and BICs in uncommon regions, such as the Isle of Man
- Fix: Updated the tax calculation for non-residents to ensure the taxable amount is included when it falls within the 0% tax threshold. If you have employees on the non-resident tax rate that you suspect might have been impacted between January - May 2023, please contact support@buddy.hr, and this will be investigated.
- Hotfix: We updated the Process Timesheet functionality that was failing to process particular employees with salary allowances with fixed rates.
Tax Reports
- Fix: Fixed an issue where the SSC Category in the FS3s was listed as undefined
- Fix: Released a fix for the F3 lodgement file to download for employees that had no Tax Number (but still have an ID number)
- Fix: Removed the limit of Overtime
Other
- Update: We released an update to allow for custom leave not to lose any entitlement when employees are on unpaid leave. The support team will enable this for select clients for the time being. Our teams will continue to work relentlessly on future updates (such as allowing end-users to customise leave types), making Buddy so cool that you would think red pandas are native to the Artics!
- Hotfix: Updated the leave situation report to reflect the above change
- Hotfix: Another update for the employee portal was issued to remedy any experiences of employees having to refresh after submitting leave