This update prioritises quality data when concluding payroll and sending payslips. The most significant improvement will be noticed in the Payroll Summary, which now highlights items like the larger variance from the previous run.
- A brand new Payroll Summary experience
- The payslip email content has been revamped for better clarity, including .pdf encryption
- New function to send individual payslips
- Improvements and fixes to live integrations
- Other Quality of Life improvements
You can read the complete set of release notes below.
Note that a few of these changes have been released prior to the official release date.
Release Notes
Payroll
The most challenging task in payroll is flagging anomalies when reviewing and reconciling reports. The new payroll summary provides all payroll officers with a variance report of employees and pay items to assist in flagging abnormalities.
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New: A brand new payroll summary showcasing essential variances from the previous payrun
- Deductions and Liabilities Summary
- Summary of New Starters and Leavers
- Top and Bottom earners
- Biggest payroll-to-payroll movers
- Exceptions (e.g. terminations, missing pay items, etc.)
- Department Summary
- Pay Item Comparison
- Fix: Resolved an issue where timesheets could no longer be processed after being unprocessed.
- Update: Updated the logic of the default basic hours for variable hours to utilise the selected bands (see People section).
- Fix: Bank holidays added as public holidays will now show as a separate item in the payslip
Payslip Email
Payslip emails were sweet and short, but for new employees or customers, this sometimes raised a question. This has been rewritten to give better context and information of what one should expect from their payslip.
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New: Payslips can now be sent individually from the Payslips screen
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New: Added new payslip encryption settings for those sending .pdfs
- Refer to Sending Payslips to Employees
- Update: Updated the download link to take employees to the employee portal directly
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Update: The payslip email has been updated to include more dynamic details and create clearer expectations, especially for new employees and clients unfamiliar with Buddy.
Integrations
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Workforce
- Fix: Resolved an issue that incomplete (blank) leave data was preventing leave from being imported
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Employee Workforce Link
- Fix: Resolved an issue that prevented users from saving the employee link
- Fix: Resolved an issue where updating Team Filters was unsaving the initial link
- Fix: Team Filters can now be fully removed
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Fyorin
- Fix: Resolved an issue relating to deactivated accounts, which was preventing payments from being sent to Fyorin.
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Nest
- Update: Our team has made several updates, such as cleaning of NI numbers and improving how the data is sent between the two systems.
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Xero
- Fix: Resolved an issue where Xero journals could not be sent due to anomaly rounding
- Fix: Resolved an issue where certain items were showing up as undefined on Xero
Settings
- Update: The Client Permissions for advisors have been updated to remove actions like Send Payslip or Send to Integration when given access to Payroll Data.
Reports
- Update: The bak report has been updated to strictly utilise Account Holder Name and support multiple bank accounts per employee.
Other
- Update: BoV SEPA files can now be selected in Legacy and New Standard versions, for testing and use after October 2025.