SERIES 16

Series 16

V16.30 - Designed for the Financial Year Ending 30/06/2017

Released 13 June 2017

New

Schedule 5 – Tax table for back payments, commissions, bonuses and similar payments.
Working Holiday Maker (WHM) Payment Summary (Individual non-business).
Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) Rates and Threshold changes.
Copy Company is now available to Trial users.
Duplicate Company is now available to Trial users.
Superannuation has now been added to the Payroll Tax Report.
Updated to the Latest Version (V12.00) of PSAR (Payment Summary Annual Report) for EOFY Reporting.
Updated the e-PayDay SBR Client Deployment Package to check for the Taxonomies folder. If the folder exists, the client can bypass the archive extraction.
e-PayDay Trial has now been reduced to 14 days.
e-PayDay FREEPAY will automatically convert to e-PayDay Trial once your third employee is added.

Improvements

Report - Centrelink - Employee Information. Some text in Section B was being truncated.
Report - BAS Sample - Monthly has been removed.
Report - BAS Sample - Quarterly has been removed.
Removed information from the Client.INI which is no longer required.
The Accrual Calculator alert has been updated.
Updated EOFY under the File Menu to now read End of Financial Year.
Updated a number of links in the program to our new Payroll Help Centre.
The Specific period of employment and Specific Age alerts have been updated to be easier to read.

Issues Resolved

Report - Individual Non-Business Payment Summary was being truncated and the user could not sign underneath.
User Account passwords are now limited to 10 characters.
You can now view the list of employees whose data is contained in the PSAR file via the FAST-Tax™ Wizard.
Job Title is now a mandatory field in the New Employee Wizard.
An Internal Error would display if Invalid Characters were successfully entered in Pay Location/Department.
Back-Up File would halt during restoration on a PC that had previously had e-PayDay installed
Updated the Allowance YTD Summary report as it would not collate all required information.
An alert would display if any windows in e-PayDay were open when trying to finalise a pay run and would force the program to close.
Not all outstanding Super Contributions were displaying when Year To Date was selected for Superannuation Reports.
When using FAST-Pay, an error would display due to the large number of public holidays trying to be loaded into the pay run.
An error would display when restoring a backup from a UNC or Mapped Network Drive.
Updated UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND to UNITED KINGDOM for the SBR EOFY File.

V16.20 - Released 23 December 2016 (Effective from 1 January 2017)

New

Working Holiday Maker Tax changes from 1 January 2017.
Payroll Tax (BETA)
The Practice Company has now been updated to Financial Year ending 30 June 2017.
Added 'Print Reports' option to the Reports drop-down menu.
Added 'All Birthdays' and 'Birthday Not Available' in the Report Period for the Employee Birthday List Report.
Employee Job Title now allows up to 30 Characters.
New Reports
- Payroll Analysis - Landscape Report
- Reference Report - All
- Reference Report - Employee
- Reference Report - Pay Run

Improvements

A number of grammatical and spelling errors have been corrected.
Employee Masterfile Report now correctly refers to Personal Leave (Instead of Sick Leave).
Removed Employer Periodic Superannuation Contributions (Cheque) Report as it is no longer required.
Removed 'Deposit Disbursements - Selected Bank Name/s' and 'Deposit Disbursements - Grouped by Bank Name' as they are no longer required.
You are now unable to finalize pay runs after 1st August if you are not running the correct version for that financial year.
The Period Start Date for the Default Fund in new Company creations will now populate with 01/07/20XX.
Removed information from the Client.INI for new installations which is no longer required.
Available Database Feilds in Import (e-Port) have been sorted in alphabetical order.
An Import Specification can be saved in Import (e-Port) without selecting an Import File.
A number of warnings have been altered to be more descriptive when submitting an incomplete TFN Declaration.
Removed a number of Log Files that are no longer required.

Issues Resolved

Removed options from Utilities Drop Down Menu (Log Files and Support Fles) as they are no longer used.
Importing Employees in e-Port would not create the EmpSuper Record.
Report Period - Current Pay Period is now a valid response for batch reporting.
Search and Replace in Superannuation was not functioning correctly.
Adding a new Employee through NEW would display an error when assigning the employee to a Superannuation Fund.
Updated all links to the new Online Guide in the Installer/s.
Updated all links to the new Online Guide in e-PayDay.
When Super File Format is set to you No Fund, a Receipt number can be now entered.
Removed 'All Employees' option in Report Period for the Employee Birthday List Report.
An internal Error would display when the Employee BarCode/s (Employee Clock Id) Report was previewed or printed.
A White box would appear in Company - Banking next to Payment Method until the window was closed.
SG Start date was not pre-filling when an employee is added using the Employee Wizard.
Copy a Company would allow you to exceed the Company Limit.
Duplicate a Company would allow you to exceed the Company Limit.
An error would display if an employee was linked to the default fund which had no period start date.
Sort Criteria was not being kept when used in Batch Reporting.
Import (e-Port) would display an error that the number of fields did not match the import parameters.

V16.10 - Released 30 September 2016 (Effective from 1 October 2016)

New

A number of Tax Tables have been updated to apply from 1 October 2016.
For users who do not need to create a SuperStream File, No Fund has been added to Super Manager Menu.
New Report : Pre-printed Cheques (ANZ July 2016 Format) (V16.02).
Pay Slips can now be printed by a specific date range instead of individually by pay period.

Improvements

Changed Add to New where required.
Report Selection Criteria is now available for all Reports in Pay Run Reports (V16.02).
New Employee Wizard has been resized to display all text.
Payment Details/Notes in Payment History (Super Manager) has been resized to display all text.
Updated the Link to e-PayDay SuperStream Gateway.
e-PayDay Trial can now be installed over e-PayDay FREEPAY.
Taxscales.MDB is no longer included in the Transfer to New Computer Backup.
Updated the Awards and Agreement Examples when adding a new Company.

Issues Resolved

Due to a number of reported issues with the SunSuper, Care Super, Australian and HOST Plus files not being in a suitable format for SuperStream, they have now been removed.
Super Rules were not functioning as required when multiple rules were set.
Report Selection Criteria has now been reinstated for Employee Hours Summary in Pay Run Reports (V16.02).
Report Selection Criteria in Pay Run Reports now defaults to All Employees (V16.02).
Pay Runs can now be finalised after the licence expires IF the Pay Run dates are equal to or before the Licence Expiry.
Although e-PayDay 15 Desktop allows 2 Companies, Copy Company and Duplicate Company were not functioning.
Employee Superannuation Personal Contributions Details are now able to be added.
When transferring an Employee to a new Super Fund, an Internal Error would display once the + icon was clicked.
Employees can no longer be transferred between Super Funds if the Period Start Dates are different.
An Estimated Accrual Balance of over 1,000 hours would not transfer correctly when saving from the Accrual Calculator.
Check Employee Accrual Balances against Transactions in Health Check was comparing the Long Service incorrectly.
If the Payee Type is set to Sole Trader (Individual), a percentage for Tax is no longer required (V16.02).
An SBR file is no longer able to be created if a Sole Trader (Individual) is missing the ABN.
Date Hired and Termination Date for an Employee can not be the same as EOFY data is unable to be sent to the ATO

V16.01 – Released 28 June 2016

Issues Resolved

Changed the Version date from 27 June 2016 to 1 July 2016 to resolve You are currently using e-PayDay® Version 16.00 designed for the Financial year ending 2016 message.

V16.00 – Released 27 June 2016
Designed for the Financial Year Ending 2017

New

All Reports now default to Active Employees in Report Selection Criteria.
HELP and SFSS have been updated for Financial Year Ending 30 June 2017.

Improvements

e-PayDay UC Desktop has now been renamed to e-PayDay 1500 Desktop, allowing up to 100 Companies with up to 1500 Employees per Company.
As e-PayDay 15 Desktop now allows 2 Companies, Copy Company and Duplicate Company are now available from the File Menu.
Pay Advice Slips (Pre-Printed 2 Part – Letter 210 x x279mm) (Forms Express 04-350) have been removed.
Users are no longer prompted to reboot their Computer after installation.
Updated a number of links to the Online Guide within e-PayDay® as the Online Guide has new documentation has been completed.
Minor cosmetic change in Tax Tables
The Software Licence Agreement has now been updated to load from a text document rather than a URL.
Support Contract Number has now been updated to Software Client Number.
The Branch Code in SBR is compulsory, however, if it is not entered by the user, e-PayDay® will populate the field with 001.
Once a Company is created, the Pay Run Navigator will be the first loaded when it is opened.
If an Employee is not linked to any e-Cost Cost Centres, the alert will only display if Basic or Advanced Pay setup is edited.
Transfer to New Computer now contains all .LIC Files
If e-Cost is no longer active in e-PayDay, the reminder alert will now only display ONCE before commencing the Pay Day.

Issues Resolved

A number of clients who have been using e-PayDay for 15+ years reported that the Annual Leave, Long Service Leave, Personal Leave and Personal Leave with Date Hired reports would not generate and an error would display.
User (Custom Level) is not displaying in User Access.
You are no longer prompted to upload your SuperStream File once the Superannuation Funds have been marked as paid.
The Superannuation Fund Name field no longer allows illegal characters (an illegal character is anything other than a to z)
Employees can no longer be reinstated if it will push the user of the employee limit for their product.
Employees can no longer be reactivated if it will push the user of the employee limit for their product.
Superannuation Funds can only be marked as inactive if they are linked to a Terminated Employee and the Super Fund has been marked as paid (no outstanding contributions).
Users are no longer prompted to upload their SuperStream File after marking the Superannuation Funds as Paid.
Awards or Agreements can only be marked as inactive if they are linked to an Terminated Employee.
The e-PayDay Support Dashboard was not being updated with the correct Software Client Number (SCN) or Licence Information if the Software Serial number was updated.
As edited data was being deleted, updated Only import new Times? to Only Import times for EMPTY lines? in e-Time™.
If the e-Cost reminder is turned off, it is now able to be turned back on in Company Preferences.