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Generate Appendix 8A and Submit it Within SimplePay!
We are excited to announce a significant enhancement to SimplePay that will further streamline your tax reporting process. Now, you can generate and submit Appendix 8A directly within SimplePay.
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.
Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard
Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard – a game-changing feature designed for streamlined payroll management.
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.
New Feature: Password Protect Reports
You can now encrypt reports with passwords.
New Enhanced Xero Functionality: Map Multiple Pay Points to Tracking Category Options
We’ve enhanced the way Xero tracking categories are mapped in SimplePay.
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 System Policy for Childcare Leave
SimplePay’s leave functionality provides extensive flexibility that allows you to customise your leave settings and policies to suit your needs. However, given the complexities of childcare and extended childcare leave in Singapore, the SimplePay team have been hard at work behind the scenes to deliver a system policy for childcare leave that takes all the hassles of changing variables away. We’re happy to announce that this policy is now live!
New Feature: Batch Pay Beneficiaries
In March 2021, we introduced beneficiaries to the system (refer to our blog post dated 9 March). We’ve now expanded this feature to allow you to pay beneficiaries in bulk.
New Feature: Approver Override
Our new approver override feature allows full admins to approve requests when approvers are on leave.
Annual Limit for Reimbursements
Our new opt-in feature allows you to set annual limits for custom reimbursement items.
New Feature: Bulk Leave Import
You can now capture leave in bulk by importing an Excel file.
Legal Name Format Customisation
You can now customise the format for each employee’s legal name.
New Feature: Custom Beneficiaries
We’ve expanded our beneficiaries functionality so that you can add beneficiaries for custom items.
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.
New Feature: Bulk Assign Leave Policies
You can now bulk assign leave policies to employees not on the company default policy.
Self-Service Hours Worked Input
We’ve expanded our opt-in feature for self-service claims to include inputs for hours worked by hourly paid employees.
Self-Service Employee Claim Requests
We have a new opt-in feature for employee claims via self-service.
New Feature: Show More Payslip Info
We have added a feature that allows you to view all payslip items without previewing the payslip.
New Feature: Managing End of Service in Bulk
We have introduced new functionality to allow users to manage their employees’ services in bulk.
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.
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.
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.
Customise your CPF calculation settings with this new feature!
This new feature gives you the choice of how to calculate the AW ceiling for CPF calculations.
Increased Security Features with 2-Factor Authentication
Introducing a new optional security feature, called 2-factor authentication, which requires users to enter a verification code as an additional step when logging into SimplePay or when changing their password.
New Feature: More Leave Functionality
Our new feature allows you to prevent self-service leave requests or notify employees if their request will result in the minimum leave balance not being maintained.
We’re Making It Easier to Identify Draft Documents
To make it easier for you to keep track of versions of your documents, we have added a stamp to the draft version of payslips and CPF Returns.
Your App can now Integrate with SimplePay!
We have built an API that allows integration with other HR and time and attendance systems.
Tax Certificates Now Available via Employee Self-Service
Employees can now view their tax certificates via employee self-service.
Add Supporting Documents to Self-Service Leave Requests
You asked and we delivered! We have expanded the self-service functionality so that employees can add documents when they request leave. Now employees can attach doctor’s certificates, birth and death certificates, or any other supporting documents to leave requests with ease.
Accounting Splits made Easy
We’ve listened to your suggestions and are thrilled to launch our long-awaited Accounting Splits feature.
Leave Take-Ons: New and Improved
The way leave take-on balances are captured has been re-designed - providing more information and greater flexibility. Additionally, leave take-ons are now possible in bulk.
New Roles and Permissions
Another exciting new feature has just gone live! We have added two brand new user roles, which will enable you to exercise greater control over what users can see and do on the system.
New Look Payslips
We are very excited to announce the introduction of a new payslip design. All of the same payslip features and functionalities that you have become accustomed to will still be available.
Accounting for SDL Rounding Made Easy
We have just released a new feature that enables you to deal with SDL rounding differences with the click of a button - no more need to do manual journals for these in Xero.
Lots of New Features
We are very excited to tell you about all the useful features we’ve developed over the last few months. They include a brand new leave system and help site, as well as improved integration with Xero and a simplified tax clearance process.
Payslips Delivered Right to Your Inbox
Amongst all the big updates that always come with the start of a new year, our tenacious developers have been able to sneak in some small but very useful features that we’re hoping will make your life just that little bit easier.
New Leave Overview
With annual shutdown just around the corner for many companies, our dedicated team of coding elves have been cooking up a feature that a lot of you have been asking for.
Leave Calendar Updates
Just in time for the end of the year, we are super excited to present to you our updated leave calendar. This new calendar is more than just a pretty face; it sports a number of new features to make leave recording simpler and more accurate.
Improved Self-Service Leave Workflow
You may have noticed that the leave hierarchy has had a facelift. The interface is now cleaner, more intuitive and easier to use. But the improvements go far beyond aesthetics; the entire approval workflow has been updated to provide you with a simpler and more reliable experience.
New Website Just Launched
We have been working hard on a new website design to provide you with an even better SimplePay experience and are very excited to announce that it just went live!
New Features
We’re happy to announce the following new changes that have recently been made to the system: