Release Notes - February 2022

Improvements & New features

• Improved error messages - Importing data could sometimes result in error messages that weren’t that helpful. These have been improved to explain what went wrong, and reduce the number of ‘whoops’ errors.
• More employee history tracking - new look new audit tool now has rate changes included in the more info section. These rate changes include both manual edits, and from the rate rise process.
• In an ongoing effort to improve the platforms ease of use, we’ve implemented more consistent button designs. You’ll start seeing these throughout the platform, along with a number of other updated design components to make things easier, and faster to use.
• Roster Templates released - Save any rosters as a template and load it into a future week. Use this to easily template shifts with or without employees or a combination of both.
• Custom Invoice ID/reference – Users are now able to specify their invoice reference and ID to allow customisation to suit external systems. Previously, the reference was set as the operation ID, with ID incrementing from 001. Typically represented as 001-001, where the operation ID is 1, and the invoice is the first invoice generated.
• Performance improvement on Payroll Batch selector – Platforms with large numbers of batches were not having the snappy performance we expect when selecting batches. Improvements have been made to ensure that the selector opens quickly regardless of the number of batches.
• No pay position on the labour management report – Volunteer/no pay position will now pull hours onto the labour management report if the option is selected when running it.
• ABA payment settings – When accessing the ABA payment settings page, platforms with many paying entities were having difficulties accessing all available ABA tabs. A scroll bar has been added to allow easy access to these additional tabs.
• Adding lines to invoices will behalf more consistently again, new lines will now be inserted below the row selected rather than the end of the invoice.
• Respecting Exclude totals in export option – The leave liability has an option to exclude totals from export, previously this would still export totals. The report will now respect this toggle.
• Changed the display of the ‘edit’, ‘copy’, and ‘delete’ options when a user clicks a shift on the roster edit screens. These options will now display as a dropdown for each shift.
• Improved the superannuation selection process in the onboarding workflow and employee financial details area to make it easier for employees to select their choice of super fund.
• Implemented a new notification for when a saved roster template is deleted. Users will now have the ability to ‘undo’ the delete action from the notification to restore the deleted template. 
•  Improved the display order for rostered shifts when an employee has multiple shifts for the one day and roster. Previously, on the roster, shifts were displayed in order of creation time (ID), but now they will be displayed in order of starting time. 
• Improved the display order of payslips under the Payslips section of an employee profile (admin side). Payslips will now be ordered by the period end date, with the latest date being displayed first. 
• Improved the position group selection field on the roster shift create/edit screen to now order position groups alphabetically by name rather than by creation time (ID).  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a display issue on certain screens, where the roster name field would extend off the modal if the name was longer than expected.
• Fixed an issue with the leave ‘Export PDF’ that was causing the file to generate without the ‘.pdf’ extension.
• Improved the data handling for the Sales/GM report to cater for cases where users were completing actions outside the expected process. This report is now more robust and able to handle these cases.
• Simplified the allowance and pay item selection when utilising items with ‘Tax Averaging’. Corrected period end selection and removed requirement for date fields when selecting annual averaging.
• When an employee was submitting a leave application request through the employee portal, if they tried to delete the request in the final review step, a generic error was thrown and the application was not deleted. Employees should no longer have issues with this workflow.
• Increased the number of supported rosters within Approved shifts to handle platforms with very large numbers of rosters resulting in some shifts not loading correctly.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the ‘Employees must provide a reason for clocking in if they were not rostered to work’ setting not respecting the selection set against the operation. Also moved this setting to ‘Clock General’ as it will apply to both the Clock App and Employee App.
• Fixed a display issue where custom fields with very long labels would extend over other page elements, making them difficult to read.
• Changed the Approved Shift export to use Operation trade name, rather than company name to be consistent with platform usage.