RELEASE NOTES

Release Number:   2020.01.01 (Year.Quarter.Month)

Development Periods: 6th to 25th January 2020

Release Closed:   25th January 2020

NOTE:  The numeric ID that is used to identify each item is of no significance to the client and is for the use of HRplus Software personnel only.

NEW FEATURES

6th to 25th January 2020

Personnel

HR431 Job Responsibilities

New templates, with the ability to import, were created for Job Responsibilities and Job Competencies.

• Personnel>>Setup>>Jobs>>[expand Job]>>Primary Responsibilities
  
• Personnel>>Setup>>Jobs>>[expand Job]>>Job Competencies
  

POWERpay

HR164 Barbados Insurable Earnings

A new Barbados Insurable Earnings (Fortnightly Cycles) report was created for fortnightly pay groups.  The report was also adjusted to handle fortnightly pay cycles that overlap pay years.  Also, the incorrect figures, that were being displayed for the cycles of the first month ever run for a fortnightly pay group, was fixed.

• POWERpay>>Payroll Reports>>Payroll Reports>>Barbados Statutory Reports>>Barbados Insurable Earnings (Fortnightly Cycles)
  

IMPROVEMENTS

6th to 25th January 2020

POWERpay Payroll

HR663 Employer’s Annual Return (SO2)

The report was modified so that (1) the error, “Error executing Ajax callback function" that occurred when no pay group was selected and when the Download in PDF or Download in Excel buttons were clicked, is no longer being displayed; and (2) multiple pay groups can be selected.

• POWERpay>>Payroll Reports>>Payroll Reports>>Jamaica Statutory Reports>>Employers Annual Return (SO2)
  

HR681 PAYE Monthly Upload Form

The report was modified as follows: 

3. The fields, Submitters TIN, Submitters Name, Submitters Address, Year, Month, were added to the report header.
   
4. A row, displaying the Totals, was added to the top of the report.
   
5. The spelling of Travelling was changed to Traveling. 
   

• POWERpay>>Payroll Reports>>Payroll Reports>>Barbados Statutory Reports>>PAYE Monthly Upload Form
  

HR767 Pay Cycles

Permissions were added to allow users to view data on the drop-down list.  Previously, no data was being displayed.

• POWERpay>>Pay Cycles>>Pay Cycles>>Current
  

BUG FIXES

6th to 25th January 2020

Event Reminders

HR107 Event Reminders

The issue where Reminders would appear after the event has passed was resolved.  Event Reminders are correctly displayed before the event.

• Personnel>>Event Reminders:
  

Home

HR453 Change Password

The issue, where users were seeing the message “Successfully changed Password” but the new password was not saved, was resolved.  Note that the old password must match that of the currently logged-in user in order for the password to be changed.

• Home>>Change Password:
  

Personnel

HR565 Separations by Department

The report was modified so that Separation Types are now accurately displayed.

• Personnel>>Personnel>>Reports>>Separations by Department
  

POWERpay

HR775 TD5 Consolidated by Company

The following reports are now being printed successfully and are no longer blank:

• POWERpay>>Payroll Reports>>Payroll Reports>>St. Lucia Statutory Reports>>Print TD5 from Edit File (Consolidated by Company)
  
• POWERpay>>Payroll Reports>>Payroll Reports>>St. Vincent Statutory Reports>>Print TD5 from Edit File (Consolidated by Company)
  

HR785 Out of Cycle Pay Register

The issue, where the Pay Year drop-down was missing the current year, that prevented users from generating the report for out of cycles run in the current year, was fixed.  Reports for out of cycle payrolls run in the current year, can now be successfully generated.

• POWERpay>>Payroll Reports>>Payroll Reports>>Register Reports>>Cycle Pay Register>>Archived>>Out of Cycle