Release Summary
In every other update, Buddy focuses on improving the experience based on customer feedback and reports.
During this release, our team focused on resolving difficulties that some users experienced. In addition, our team has been gearing up to polish the end-of-year experience ahead of the new year.
As a refresher, we recommend that you check out the following article: Budget 2025: Upcoming Payroll Changes and Important Notes.
Below is a complete list of changes in this release.
People Changes
- New: Introduced a Tax Forms page to view FS3s from the employee's profile
- Fix: Resolved an issue where the Department was automatically updating when the role was changing
- Fix: Resolved an issue where an empty Department printed an additional page in the All Payslips download.
- Fix: Resolved an issue which did not automatically update pay items when applying a Grade
Leave Management
- Fix: Resolved an issue which prevented admins from adding leave applications from 2024
- Update: Leave balances for 2025 have now been pre-created for the admin portal
Tax Forms
- Update: The Tax Form pages now include a search feature and are paginated to improve efficiency
- Fix: Resolved an issue where the 'Portal Access' toggle overlapped the download button
Workforce Integration
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Update: Leave is now imported with calculation value from Workforce.
When using Workforce as a Costing Method, this will now:- Include overtime calculated on leave applications
- Include leave hours into the base hours for variable-hour employees
Advisors
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Fix: Resolved an issue where clients were not shown in the FSSXpress™ list for all advisor members.
We have also improved the way our admins can view the same screen and improve assistance for FSSXpress™ related queries.