IPPEX Cloud V 1.13 Release Notes

Introduction

The main component of IPPEX Cloud 1.13 is the completion of our bank payments foundation services, along with a set of integration points to support our new mobile app, ‘It’s Pay Day’; which will be released shortly in both IOS and Android versions.

Product Enhancements

Changes Reports

A new changes report configuration feature has been added, a check box to include reference columns. These reference columns appear at the beginning of the report, detailing the employee number, first name and last name. This has been introduced to support organisations in identifying employees by name rather than just by employee number.

Default Payroll

Extended list of functions offered from the action button against an employee:

In a situation where an employee transfers from one payroll to another, the employee can have multiple payroll assignments against their user account. We have introduced a new setting on the employee record, default payroll. This has been introduced to support future reporting. The setting only appears for those employees who are assigned to multiple payrolls. The default payroll will be assigned to the original payroll, the employes default payroll can be changed from the employee’s record in the target default payroll by selecting Set as default payroll.

GL Journal

Clarification regarding inactive codes and three amendments to the way GL codes are managed.

• A GL code in a particular code set can be set to be inactive, preventing the code from being used in future code set configurations.
• If a Code Set GL Code has been set to be inactive, all existing pay element code configurations using that code will continue to function.
• However, where the inactive codes have been used, they will be highlighted in red when opening the pay element code configurations.
• When a GL Journal configuration has been selected in the GL Journal report kick-off screen, if the pay element code configuration used by the GL Journal configuration contains an inactive code, a warning will be displayed. The user will not be prevented from continuing with the report generation.
• In a pay element code configuration, where a pay element does not contain either a debit or credit code, the word ‘none’ is shown in the debit or credit column.
• If a GL code set has been set to Inactive, all pay element code configurations using that code set will be set to inactive.

Employee’s Bank Account

A number of changes to employee’s bank account have been introduced.

• Bank Account Currency – is a non-mandatory field, but is a requirement for a significant number of XML payment files.
• Bank Account Type – in a number of countries for example USA, the bank account type has to be provided when making payments (Check or Savings). This is a non-mandatory field.
• Employee Bank Account Upload – This has been extended to include currency (3 digit ISO standard) and Bank Account Type (C=current/check and S=savings)
• Reporting – The reporting framework has been extended to include these two additional fields.
• Employee Update – The bank account view and update for the employees has been extended to include these two new fields.