Tag: Payroll & Rostering

Pulse workspace version 4.7.23

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Payroll & Rostering

  1. An issue in the aggregation of employee allowances which caused inaccurate year-to-date figures has been corrected.
  2. Previously if two or more postings for one employee on the same pay date occurred, the second pay was not reported on the employee earnings detail report. This has now been corrected.

Pulse workspace version 4.7.18

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Pulse Financials

Bank Reconciliation

A dialog with full deposit details will now be displayed If you double-click a deposit with multiple items.

Payroll & Rostering

Maintain Employee Rosters

  1. A caching issue that intermittently caused errors on data load has been corrected.
  2. Grid errors creating a new roster shift have been corrected.

STP Phase 2 Report

PAYEVNT Child Support and Child Support Garnishee values are now always reported even for zero values. Previously zero values were omitted to keep the report size to a minimum. The change was requested by Services Australia via the ATO.

Pulse workspace version 4.7.5

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Payroll & Rostering

Employee Payroll Register

An issue that caused the report to be printed with excessive detail has been corrected.

Pulse Financials

Bank Reconciliation

An issue that caused Bank Transfer transactions to be lost on leaving a reconciliation in an incomplete state has been corrected. Please note that previously lost transactions may reappear on your reconciliation. If this occurs and they are unwanted, simply delete them.

Transaction Entry

Bank account columns on the transaction summary grid are now displayed correctly. Only those bank accounts with transaction activity will be displayed.

Pulse workspace version 4.7.4

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Payroll & Rostering

STP Report Commencement & Termination Dates

The STP Report now reports the correct employee commencement & termination dates when an employee terminates and is reinstated in the same financial year. In this case, the last commencement date is reported without a termination date because the employee is currently employed. Lump sum, ETP and other termination payments paid are not affected by this change.

It is important that the employment history details on an employee’s record are correct to ensure the accurate submission of dates to the ATO. Importantly, never change the record type from Terminated to Commenced but, rather create a new commencement record. The image below shows the correct history for an employee terminated on the 23/8/2021 and reinstated the next day.

Produce Pays: User Interface

  1. We now display a flyout panel to remind you to check the Intended Payment Date. The flyout panel is “sticky”, click anywhere on the dialog to dismiss it.
  2. We now display toast notifications to confirm the STP report submission type, the saved reports folder is available & writable and the report & payslip printers are available and online. These notifications will be automatically hidden after display of 10 seconds.

Produce Pays: Failed STP Report Resubmission

The resubmission of failed STP reports has been improved. Failed STP reports from previous pay runs are automatically resubmitted to the ATO as part of the Produce Pays procedure. A failure in resubmission will no longer cause Produce Pays to fail. Rather the failure will be logged and Produce Pays allowed to continue.

Further discussion

A failed report is an STP report that was not received by the ATO. The most common reason for a failed report is insufficient credit with OZEDI but might also include things such as hardware or network issues preventing the upload. Your Pulse payroll system will resubmit failed reports during the Produce Pays procedure. This is automatic and requires no user intervention.

A error report is an STP report that has either been fully or partially rejected by the ATO. In this case the ATO has received the report but has identified errors with it. These errors must be corrected by you, typically by rolling back the pay, correcting the error and redoing Produce Pays. Error reports cannot be automatically resubmitted by Pulse.

The status of your STP report submissions can be viewed in the STP Message Centre application found on the ATO menu. This application now has three tabs…

  1. All Reports displays the status of all reports submitted to the ATO.
  2. Failed Reports displays those reports that have failed but have yet to be resubmitted to the ATO.
  3. Audit Report displays failed reports and their resubmission(s).

Maintain Employees

An issue that caused the employee dialog form to hang when an employee history record was deleted has been corrected.

Pulse workspace version 4.7.3

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Pulse Workspace

Setup

An issue that caused program shortcut icons to corrupt on Windows 11 has been corrected. There are currently no other known issues with Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 operating system.

Payroll & Rostering

Timeclock / Roster Data Import Wizard

  1. An issue that caused the timeclock data import to fail has been corrected.
  2. An issue that caused the reconciliation procedure to fail for an employee with a single rostered shift split but multiple timeclock shift splits has been resolved.
  3. An issue that cause Start & Finish Time status messages generated in a previous import to remain on file even when the issue is corrected in the current import has been corrected.
  4. Performance improvements during form load.

Club Membership

Member Analysis

The Member Analysis application has been renamed Member Analysis & Charts and has been completely re-written to provide greater flexibility in analysing membership statistics. It now replaces all charts and summaries formerly found on the Analysis menu group. Data access is fast and the grid summaries and charts are completely customisable.

Pulse workspace version 4.7.1

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Payroll & Rostering

The Pulse payroll implementation of the Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 report has received whitelisting by the ATO. That means the software has passed the ATO’s conformance tests and we are permitted to include the report in our production software.

The new report is included in this version.

For documentation on STP Phase 2 please click on the link below…

https://pulseclub.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/EXfxluGpTv1Mn5wPRp1G2uIBJSEDLcm4iQSXstUv8qJ8_g?e=PFA2Cv

Pulse Financials

An issue with the calculation of account balances in Financial Reports has been corrected.

Pulse workspace version 4.6.126

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Payroll & Rostering

An issue that caused the incorrect calculation of SGC for junior employees working 30 hours or less per week has been corrected.

An issue that caused a system “hang” processing and STP Validation immediately after deleting an employee pay in Pay Details Entry has been corrected.

Pulse Financials

This version includes performance improvements for the Trial Balance report and all financial reports (Profit & Loss, Balance Sheets etc). The improvement should be especially noticeable on busy networks and machine with multi-core processors.