Pulse workspace version 4.6.115

Pulse Payroll & Rostering

Employee Enquiry

We have improved the performance of Employee Enquiry especially for employees with a large set of payroll data.

Rollback Employee Pays

New Requirement: A pay cannot be rolled-back until an STP Report for that pay has been successfully received by the ATO.

The reason for this is that the STP report resulting from a rolled-back pay is uploaded to the ATO as a Full File Replacement (FFR) report. It is an ATO requirement that an FFR report replaces a normal STP report previously received by the ATO.

Rollback Employee Pay will identify one of two reason why the ATO has not received a report…

1. The report is simply in a queue and has yet to be received by the ATO in which case you wait until the report has been received before proceeding with the rollback.
2. The report upload has failed. In this case you must use the STP Message Centre to re-send the failed report.

Importantly, DO NOT use Rollback Employee Pay to attempt to correct a failed STP Report.

STP Message Center

The ATO requires an STP report for every pay run. If an STP report upload fails there is an expectation that it be re-sent until it is successfully received by the ATO. A successful upload is indicated by a non-blank Max Severity for the report as displayed in the message center. This requirement has resulted in the following changes…

1. You can now re-send any failed STP report to the ATO. If, in the last financial year you have a number of failed reports please re-send them in reverse chronological order. That is, earliest report first.
2. Two new views of uploaded STP Reports are now available. The views can be accessed by clicking the required tab and are as follows…
   1. All Reports. This is the traditional view and lists all reports uploaded to the ATO.
   2. Failed Reports. This is a list of failed reports. A failed report is defined as…
      1. A report with a HTTP Status not equal to 201. This indicates the report has not reached the OZEDI gateway or has been rejected by OZEDI, or
      2. A report with a HTTP Status = 201 and a blank Max Severity and is older than 72 hours. This is a report that has been received by the gateway but has had no response from the ATO.
   3. Audit Report. A list of failed reports that have been resubmitted to the ATO and the associated replacement report(s).

Pulse workspace version 4.6.114

Pulse Workspace

1. In this version we have updated the Microsoft .NET framework from version 4.5.2 to version 4.8. The new version includes improved diagnostic messaging to assist us when errors occur and performance improvements..
2. The ribbon menu at the top of Pulse Workspace has been rearranged…
   1. The theme and opacity selections have been moved to the new Appearance tab.
   2. We have added the option to Clear QAM List. This will clear the Quick Access Menu of all entries and allow to rebuild from scratch.

Golf Competitions

Golf Review

1. An issue that caused the Championship Report to incorrectly calculate a net score when using the player’s handicap at the start of the championship has been corrected. The issue only occurred when a player’s registration had been deleted and re-created with a different playing handicap.

Payroll & Rostering

Pay Details Entry

1. Two new hours types have been added to the drop-down list in Hours Entry…
   1. ARDO Cashout. Use to cash out an employee’s ARDO entitlement rather than take time off.
   2. Accrued TOIL Cashout. Use to cash out an employee’s entitlement to Time Off In Lieu of Overtime.

The new hours types have been created in response to issues highlighted during our STP Phase 2 conformance testing with the ATO.

Pulse workspace version 4.6.113

Pulse Workspace

Quick Access

We have added the option to pin often used menu options to the Quick Access menu. Every menu item now has a context button to its right. Clicking this button on an item not on the Quick Access menu will add that item to the Quick Access Menu. Conversely, clicking the button on a Quick Access item will remove that item from Quick Access.

Payroll & Rostering

Corrected Errors

1. An issue that caused YTD totals on the STP Report to be inaccurate when the Pay Period Date Increment value was set to 0 has been corrected. The corrected YTD figures will be uploaded to the ATO when Produce Pays is next executed. The issue was introduced in version 4.6.1112.

Pay Details Entry

STP Validation

The Validate STP button now provides the option to validate the current STP Phase 1 (2018) report or the STP Phase 2 (2020) report. We encourage you to begin validating both reports as the Phase 2 validation is a more strict implementation of the ATO’s data rules.

Note that STP Phase 2 validation errors will not cause the current STP report to fail. It has simply been provided to assist you in preparing for the new report.

Manual Pay Entry

The Manual Pay entry form has been completely re-designed in readiness for STP Phase 2 reporting. Currently the ATO Income Stream field is ignored and the only Payment Type allowed is Normal Gross. These restrictions will be removed when Phase 2 reporting is enabled.

STP Message Center

You now have the option to select and display a formatted report when viewing a raw STP Report.