Introducing the Getting Started Checklist
Our new Getting Started Checklist is here to streamline the process of getting set up on SimplePay. Read more about this exciting feature in our blog.
Posts with Tag "Payroll"
Budget 2025 Changes
The annual Budget Speech introduced various changes, which will take effect on 1 January 2025. Read more about these changes in our blog.
PRSI Changes Effective from 1 October 2024
Important PRSI changes are due to take effect on 1 October 2024. More information can be found in this blog post.
Introducing Our Revamped Help Site
We’re excited to launch our new and improved help site! Read more about the updates in our blog post.
Quarter 2 Feature Recap
In this blog, we recap some new features and feature updates that went live in the second quarter of 2024. Read more here.
Feature Enhancement: Email Reminders of Expiring Leave
We’re excited about the latest addition to our Reminders functionality: Leave Expiry! Read more about this in our blog.
Introducing Custom Bulk Inputs
Simplify your payroll management with Custom Bulk Inputs. Edit payroll items of your choosing — for multiple employees at once — on a single screen or via an Excel file generated by the system.
Feature Recap for Quarter 1 2024
In this blog, we recap some system updates that occurred in the first quarter of 2024. Read more here.
New Feature Labels
Our new Feature Labels allow you to easily read more about new features, and to send us feedback about new and existing features.
Self-Service Claims Now Available By Default
We’re happy to announce that we’ve made our Employee Self-Service (ESS) claims available to our entire customer base — by default! Find out more about this exciting feature in our blog.
Updated Enhanced Reporting Requirements Functionality
SimplePay conveniently offers ERR-ready claims to your Employee Self-Service to simplify the process for you.
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR) Made Simple
In this blog, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the new Enhanced Reporting Requirements that will come into effect on 1 January 2024.
Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard
Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard – a game-changing feature designed for streamlined payroll management.
The Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP)
In this blog post we will discuss the Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) in the context of payroll processing.
Enhanced Reporting Requirements
The Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR) will require employers to begin reporting details of specific non-taxable payments made to employees and directors from 1 January 2024.
Introducing Reminders: Email Notifications for Important Employee Events
Introducing SimplePay’s newest feature: Reminders. Keeping track of important employee events has never been easier. With reminders, you can receive emails to keep you informed of upcoming birthdays, work anniversaries, and all other important dates.
New Report: Leave Expiry Report
Introducing Leave Expiry Reports! Our new feature is here to help you keep track of your employees’ expiring leave.
Simplified 2-Factor Authentication Reset Process
We have improved the recovery and reset processes for 2-Factor Authentication.
Upcoming Changes to Benefit-in-Kind Rules for Company Cars
An overview of the proposed changes to the Benefit-in-Kind rules for company cars.
Statutory Sick Leave in Ireland
In this blog post we’ll further discuss Statutory Sick Leave, the status of it becoming a built-in feature and how it can be added currently.
New Feature Alert: Active and Inactive States for Companies
Our system now allows Active and Inactive states for companies within a profile, in cases where companies must be closed, but not deleted.
New Pay Frequency: Every 4 Weeks
We’ve added a new pay frequency for payslips every 4 weeks.
Xero Users to Secure Accounts with 2-Factor Authentication by 1 November 2022
From 1 November 2022, 2-Factor Authentication will become mandatory for all Xero users.
New Feature: Password Protect Reports
You can now encrypt reports with passwords.
SimplePay: Your Partners in Success
In this blog post, our customer success team tell us a bit more about who they are, what they do and how this impacts you.
How SimplePay Handles Feature Requests
In this blog post, we outline the process that we follow to evaluate feature requests and select features to add to our development pipeline.
New Feature: Pro-Rate Custom Items
SimplePay automatically calculates and applies a pro-rate percentage to the Basic Salary of employees if they do not work for a full pay period i.e. the are appointed after the start of a pay period or terminated before the end of a pay period. We’ve received several requests to allow for the pro-rata percentage to be applied to other items, and are delighted to announce that this functionality is now available for certain custom items.
New Feature: Approver Override
Our new approver override feature allows full admins to approve requests when approvers are on leave.
New Feature: Bulk Leave Import
You can now capture leave in bulk by importing an Excel file.
New Feature: Custom Beneficiaries
We’ve expanded our beneficiaries functionality so that you can add beneficiaries for custom items.
Revamped Preview Page for Bulk Finalising Payslips
We’ve overhauled the page for bulk finalising payslips to make it easier to toggle additional payslip information.
New Feature: Payslips Export
You can now download a ZIP file with all the payslips within a specific date range for selected employees or pay points.
New Feature: Give Admin and Leave Admin Users Read-only Access
We’ve expanded our permissions functionality to include an option for read-only access.
Week 53 Guidance for Non-Monthly Salaried Employees
Employees on the cumulative basis who are paid on 30 or 31 December will be taxed on a week 1 basis.
System Updates for PRSI Changes
We’ve updated the system to reflect the changes in income bands for PRSI for 2021.
New Feature: Permanent Health Insurance
We’ve add a new built-in item to our system to accommodate the special tax requirements of permanent health insurance contributions.
Updated App: Version 2.0
We’ve released version 2.0 of our app with more functionality.
UI Tweaks for Profile Pages
We’ve made changes to our user interface on profile pages.
New System Items for Salary Sacrifices
Our new system items simplify the process of correctly recording and reporting salary sacrifices for travel passes and purchases under the Bike to Work scheme.
Claims Request Expanded to Include Employee Hours Worked
Hourly paid employees can now use self-service to submit their hours worked for the period.
Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme
We have created a new system item to cater for the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme.
Self-Service Employee Claim Requests
We have a new opt-in feature for employee claims via self-service.
Employee Filtering Revamp
We’ve revamped our employee filters to make it more convenient to find and select employees.
New Process for Company Transfers
We’re introducing a new 3-step process for company transfers.
New Feature: End Service Checklist
This new feature reminds you of outstanding employer loans and savings when ending an employee’s service.
Improved Functionality for Deleting Leave Requests
We have improved the process for deleting leave.
New Feature: Show More Payslip Info
We have added a feature that allows you to view all payslip items without previewing the payslip.
Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme
A new Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme has been introduced, which is aimed at providing financial support to employees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This new scheme comes into effect today, 26 March 2020, and builds on the previous Employer COVID-19 Refund Scheme.
Update: Employer COVID-19 Refund Scheme
We have added a new COVID-19 Refund Scheme item, to allow for payment to employees who have been temporarily laid-off due to COVID-19.
Employer COVID-19 Refund Scheme
On 15 March 2020, Regina Doherty, the current Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) announced that workers who are temporarily laid off due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) will be able to claim a special support payment of €203 per week.
National Minimum Wage and PRSI AX Changes
The changes in national minimum wage will impact PRSI and USC.
Bulk Import Employees from ROS
We have introduced a new feature that allows you to bulk import employees from ROS.
Year in Review
As 2019 (and the decade) draws to a close, we’d like to thank you for choosing SimplePay as your payroll software provider. We really value the loyalty, ideas, feedback and love that we get from you, our clients.
Automatic Logout Feature
Our new optional timeout feature allows you to choose how long the system can be left idle for before automatically logging you out of SimplePay.
QuickBooks Integration Upgrade
We have upgraded our integration with QuickBooks.
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
To assist with the upcoming gender pay gap reporting obligations, SimplePay has added a gender field for employees.
We’re App Partner of the Year Finalists
SimplePay is delighted and proud to announce that we have been chosen by Xero as a finalist for the App Partner of the Year: South Africa.
New Feature: Employee Leave Expiration
You can now specify that leave days carried over from the previous leave cycle expires if not used within a specified time frame.
Introducing Dual Employment
We now support dual employment on our system.
We Have Expanded Our PRSI Classes
We now support PRSI sub-classes A8 and A9 for employees under a Community Employment Scheme.
Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference
Small changes can make a big difference, so we have added a new leave report and made some tweaks to entitlement policies.
Extension of Pay & File Deadline for ROS Customers for 2019
Revenue recently announced an extension to the ROS return filing and tax payment date for certain customers.
Bulk Actions for Once-off Payslips
We are happy to announce that we have increased our bulk actions functionality to include bulk actions for once-off payslips.
Notice anything different about our branding?
SimplePay is a global brand, so we have decided to present ourselves as such, with an enhanced global logo.
Updated RPNs for DEASP Budget Changes
As of 8 April 2019, expect updated employee RPNs for DEASP Budget Changes.
New Feature! Custom Employee Info Fields
Add your own fields to an employee’s Basic Info screen with our newest feature.
New Live Chat Support
Live chat support now makes it even easier for you to get the assistance that you need.
ROS Statement of Account
Your first Statement of Account is produced by the Revenue computer system based on all payroll submitted with a pay date in January 2019. The Statement of Account contains a chronological list of all tax liabilities incurred, any amendments to these liabilities, all payments made in respect of these liabilities and the balance outstanding at the end of the period referred to in the statement. The Statement of Account for January will need to be submitted by 14 February 2019, with all subsequent submissions due on the 14th of the month following the payroll month.
PAYE Modernisation Release 2: Bulk RPN Retrieval
The next step in preparing for 2019 payroll is complete: RPNs can now be retrieved for all employees.
PAYE Modernisation Release 1: Authorisation Certificates
Employers and agents can now upload authorisation certificates in SimplePay. This is the first critical step required for processing payroll in 2019.
Revenue End of Year Notice
Revenue released an end of year notice on Friday 23 November 2018. Here is a summary of the most important parts of the notice.
A Sneak Peek at PAYE Modernisation Changes
Get a glimpse of what we’ve been working on for PAYE Modernisation.
We’re in the Xero Marketplace!
Are your accounts and payroll information not really on speaking terms? Well fret not, because SimplePay is now officially listed in the Xero add-on Marketplace.