Q2 14.18.0 to 14.29.0 release notes

New Directors Annual NI rates effective from 6 January 2024.

Directors, on the standard calculation approach, who were previously on a 12% National Insurance rate reduce to 11.5%.

Directors, on the alternative calculation approach, who were previously on 5.85% National Insurance rate reduce to 5.35%.

New National Insurance parameters, with effect from 6 January 2024.

Decrease to the National Insurance PT to UEL rates from 12% to 10%.

For employees on a reduced rate NI letter, the rates decrease from 5.85% to 3.85%.

Updated to the correctional FPS submissions now include any manual changes made to an employee’s year to dates without the need of manual manipulation.

Improvements made to the matching criteria for employees when data sends from HMRC to Paycircle.

Updated made to the Smart Pension API to cater for new relief at source setting and the People Pension API to process the new earnings basis types.

Improvements to the pension PAPDIS file, when you add contributions via the Pension Salary Sacrifice element, in addition to employee receiving Relief at Source (RAS) or Nat Pay Arrangement (NPA) pension the addition via the Pension Salary Sacrifice element added to the employer contribution on the PAPDIS file.

We’ve made a small user interface update to show individuals’ pension status dates within their team card for easy visibility without having to click within the employee’s profile to view dates.

Updates to the P32 reports to include any CIS suffered and CIS deductions added manually within nil period submissions.

We have made working hours available within the custom report builder for employees on a standard work pattern.

New alerts available if you’re importing an employee’s date of birth which is under 13, under 16 or above state pension age.

We’ve recently made an update to the way that the fast search facility works in Paycircle. We monitor all the different areas in the app, so we can see the use of certain areas and functionality, and we constantly monitor the speed and performance. Our user base has grown since we first introduced the fast search feature. When you perform a fast search, the system looks across the entire database to bring back the appropriate results. Through our monitoring, we can see that this function was going to start to decrease in speed and performance, so to keep the fast search living up to its name, we’ve needed to introduce a way of giving the function some parameters to search on. We’re aware that this means a few more clicks to set the search, but the outcome is that you can still enjoy a fast, fast search experience.

We’ve updated the Community Forum links within payroll.paycircle and my.paycircle to Paycircle’s new ideation portal for easy navigation if you’d like to request a new feature, check the status of a raised feature, or vote on an existing feature.

The system now alerts you if you’re performing a supplementary pay run at year end into a previous tax year. This is to ensure the settings for employment allowance are accurate for that tax year prior to the submission going through.

There’s a new activity log when you don’t submit an EPS, employer payment summary, as you approved the period outside of the HMRC EPS window.