Release Summary
Every second update, our team focuses on resolving difficulties and enhancing the user experience. In this update, our team brings several QoL changes with this effect. Here are some of the highlights of this update:
- Improvements to salary updates after already drafting payrolls
- A new Pay Schedule column in the employee data report
- Updates to the Grades User Interface
- Added functionality to Workforce integration
For the full list of changes, we recommend reading below.
Release Notes
Payroll Changes
Our team has taken customer feedback to update and resolve inconveniences that arose during the payroll stage.
- Update: When updating salary mid-payroll, users will no longer need to clear payslips and re-input items like base hours or overtime hours. Upon re-saving, Buddy will now immediately recalculate the same inputs under the new salary details.
- Fix: Unpaid leave will no longer reduce the pro-rata amount of allowances if they are toggled as Fixed Allowance.
- Fix: Resolved a tax calculation issue when an employee changes both salary and tax details on the same day.
Reports
The .xlsx reports received minor changes to add more data in the exports.
- New: Employee reports have a new column, Pay Schedule. This will list under which pay schedule an employee is assigned (e.g. Monthly, Four Weekly, etc.)
- Update: The Payroll Report (.xlsx version)'s status column has been updated to include 'delivered' status. This is currently in beta with a select client before further roll-out.
- Update: The pay period filter in the Report Page is now sorted numerically for easier selection
Permissions
Account owners will now be able to revoke access to other team members without requesting support.
- Update: Users with owner permissions can now utilise the Revoke Access feature to remove access from other users.
- Fix: Resolved an issue where the SEPA File download was blocked by a lack of timesheet permissions.
Grades
Our grades module received minor user experience upgrades to facilitate viewing and adding new grades.
- Update: Updated the UI of Grades so that allowance with longer names become fully visible
- Update: Removed defaults from Grade UI that were preventing new grades from being saved
Integrations
Workforce Integration
Functionality for Workforce integration has been added, including notifications for disconnected tokens, and added flexibility for importing rounded timesheets.
- New: Added a notification for when a Workforce integration token is expired and needs reconnecting
- New: Users can now choose to enforce the rounding and break rules past 24 hours when importing timesheets. Please note that this requires more data and time, so it's suggested to only be used for shorter date periods or when filtering a single employee.
- Fix: Restored functionality to update integration settings from the User Interface.
- Fix: When connecting new employees, you can now filter team at the same step without having to first connect and then filter.
BambooHR Integration
- Fix: Resolved an issue that was preventing employees from being unlinked
Other Changes
Below are other minor changes and improvements that don't fit into larger sections.
- Update: Made minor changes to how leave balances are calculated for engaged/terminated employees, using the standard 2080 hours baseline, regardless of 2096 hours in the year. This will make it consistent with employees who are not engaged/terminated mid-year but are on a pro-rata leave basis.
- Fix: Resolved an issue where a second employee account was created if the invite was sent through payslips whilst the employee previously held an account in a previous agreement/organisation.
- Update: Bank details will automatically remove any white spaces upon input
- Update: Added some text to clarify that the Company Bank Details are used for generation of SEPA files or payment integrations.
- Fix: Resolved an issue where T&A Settings were not accessible in some plans.
- Update: For companies that don't have any custom Overtime or Special rates set up, the Add Rate button will no longer be selectable.