Pulse workspace version 4.5.17

Pulse SQL Database Maintenance

Pulse SQL Database Maintenance is the application that synchronizes your Pulse application software with your data stored in a Microsoft SQL Server database system. It is executed as part of the installation process. We have upgraded this program to allow support for all Microsoft SQL Server systems from SQL Server 2008 through to the very latest SQL Server 2017.

This update means that we can no longer support Microsoft SQL Server 2005. This database server is well over 15 years of age and very much overdue for retirement.

We believe very few clients are actually using this database server so the impact should be minimal. If you are, then you will be notified by the installation software. Follow the onscreen instruction to arrange a free upgrade to the latest version suitable for your server operating system.

Pulse Financials

1. The print preview’s document map is now displayed when a group of financial reports is printed with a Table of Contents.
2. An issue that caused the Financial Statement to error when selecting report groups has been corrected.
3. A recurring dissection’s description is now correctly displayed when creating cash payment / supplier invoice transactions.

Payroll & Rostering

1. Refactored (moved) shift finish time calculations from the VenueCloseOfTrade dataset to its own service class. This is an internal change designed to overcome intermittent dataset to database connection issues experienced in rostering.
2. Produce Pays now provides the option to omit printing / emailing of employee payslips if it is the result of a payroll rollback.
3. The Produce Pays reports dialog displayed at the end of the procedure now has an enlarged panel at the bottom of the form. This is intentional and will be used to display Single Touch Payroll (STP) status information when enabled.
4. Produce Pays now sets employee leave application status to Leave Taken when the leave end date is prior to the pay period start date. Previously the status was changed when the application start date equalled the paid leave start date. This could cause the leave application to be omitted from roster calculations in the current pay week.
5. The 2018 Dept of Human Services’ Protected Earnings Amount is now included in the software. It will not take affect until 1st Jan 2018.

Single Touch Payroll

NB: Single Touch Payroll is currently in a very fluid state. The procedures listed below reflect our current understanding of the new requirements. Please note that this may change over time.

1. There are three new procedures on the ATO menu…
   1. STP Message Center (Incomplete) access to messages sent and received through our selected STP messaging service.
   2. Mid-Year STP Update. A procedure designed to allow STP Update messages to be transmitted to the ATO.
   3. Final End of Year STP Update. A procedure designed to advise the ATO the last pay for the year has been finalised and all monies reconciled.
2. STP Normal upload is now included in Produce Pays. However, this procedure will not be activated until Single Touch Payroll is formally enabled.

Pulse workspace 4.5.15

Payroll & Rostering

1. Important. An issue introduced in version 4.5.13 that caused Produce Pays to fail if an employee was paid personal, annual or long service leave and also terminated has been corrected.
2. We have removed all end of year procedures from the Payroll menu group and placed them on the new ATO menu group. This menu group will contain the PAYG Summary procedures as well as new Single Touch Payroll procedures. User login permissions for the ATO menu group will be the same as that for Payroll. That means, if you can access the Payroll menu group you will also be able to access the ATO group.
3. We have created two new Single Touch Payroll procedures on the ATO menu…
   1. Mid-Year STP Update. This procedure will be executed during the financial year to advise the ATO of changes to employee details.
   2. End of Year STP Update. This procedure is executed at the close of a financial year to inform the ATO that employee pays have been finalised. It is similar in concept to completing the PAYG Summary Annual Report.

You are welcome to familiarise yourself with these two new procedures. At this point in time there is no transmission to the ATO or database update.