Posts with Category "sg"

Recent Feature Recap

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We’re kicking off 2025 with a look back at some smaller features that were introduced and enhancements that were made over the last few months. Read more about these in our blog.

Introducing the Getting Started Checklist

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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.

CPF Contribution Changes: 1 January 2025

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The next phase of the CPF contribution changes will start on 1 January 2025. Read more about these changes in our blog.

Introducing Our Revamped Help Site

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We’re excited to launch our new and improved help site! Read more about the updates in our blog post.

Quarter 2 Feature Recap

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In this blog, we recap some new features and feature updates that went live in the second quarter of 2024. Read more here.

Introducing Custom Bulk Inputs

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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

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In this blog, we recap some system updates that occurred in the first quarter of 2024. Read more here.

New Feature Labels

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Our new Feature Labels allow you to easily read more about new features, and to send us feedback about new and existing features.

Generate Appendix 8A and Submit it Within SimplePay!

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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

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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.

New Free Online Training Course

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It is with great excitement that SimplePay announces the launch of its free online training course! This blog provides information such as how to access the training course, as well as the topics that are covered.

Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard

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Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard – a game-changing feature designed for streamlined payroll management.

Important Update: Tier 1 S Pass FWL Levy Increase

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In a recent update, the Foreign Worker Levy (FWL) for Tier 1 S Pass holders has increased from $450 to $550 per month, effective September 1, 2023. Read more about it here.

Introducing Reminders: Email Notifications for Important Employee Events

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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

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Introducing Leave Expiry Reports! Our new feature is here to help you keep track of your employees’ expiring leave.

How SimplePay Handles Feature Requests

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In this blog post, we outline the process that we follow to evaluate feature requests and select features to add to our development pipeline.

IRAS Offline Application shut down

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As you may be aware, IRAS have disabled the functionality to submit form IR8S and Appendices A and B through their Offline Application. This change will affect all employers who submit their documents electronically using the Auto-Inclusion (AIS) scheme.

New Feature: Pro-Rate Custom Items

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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

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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

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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

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Our new approver override feature allows full admins to approve requests when approvers are on leave.

Annual Limit for Reimbursements

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Our new opt-in feature allows you to set annual limits for custom reimbursement items.

New Feature: Custom Beneficiaries

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We’ve expanded our beneficiaries functionality so that you can add beneficiaries for custom items.

Changes to CPF e-Submission Files

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We’d like to remind you that we take care of any regulatory changes so that you don’t have to.

Budget 2021

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Our blog post today highlights some of the key support measures announced by the Government in Budget 2021 last week.

New Feature: Payslips Export

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You can now download a ZIP file with all the payslips within a specific date range for selected employees or pay points.

PDPA (Amendment) Act 2020

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Today’s blog covers some of the key changes to data protection from the passing of the PDPA Amendment Act and what SimplePay is doing to protect your data.

JSS Payout Reminder and Update

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Our latest blog post gives some detail on what to expect from the upcoming JSS pay out and how you may be able to receive your payout sooner.

Updated App: Version 2.0

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We’ve released version 2.0 of our app with more functionality.

UI Tweaks for Profile Pages

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We’ve made changes to our user interface on profile pages.

Self-Service Hours Worked Input

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We’ve expanded our opt-in feature for self-service claims to include inputs for hours worked by hourly paid employees.

Ending Service on SimplePay

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Outline of the steps that you need to follow on SimplePay if you need to end employees’ service and / or close your Simple Pay account for any reason

Employee Filtering Revamp

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We’ve revamped our employee filters to make it more convenient to find and select employees.

New Feature: End Service Checklist

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This new feature reminds you of outstanding employer loans and savings when ending an employee’s service.

New Feature: Show More Payslip Info

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We have added a feature that allows you to view all payslip items without previewing the payslip.

COVID-19 – Support for Business

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This blog summarises the support measures put in place for businesses by the Government in the Unity, Resilience and Solidarity Budgets.

Year in Review

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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

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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.

We’re App Partner of the Year Finalists

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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

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You can now specify that leave days carried over from the previous leave cycle expires if not used within a specified time frame.

New Self-Service Features

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We have been working on expanding our self-service functionality recently and are pleased to announce that we have added two new features.

Additional Customization: Payment Dates

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You can now further customize payment dates, allowing you to more clearly depict when payments to employees occur.

Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference

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Small changes can make a big difference, so we have added a new leave report and made some tweaks to entitlement policies.

Bulk Actions for Once-off Payslips

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We are happy to announce that we have increased our bulk actions functionality to include bulk actions for once-off payslips.

Customise System Items

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SimplePay’s newest feature lets you create custom items that follow the same tax and payroll rules as system items.

Year-End Filing

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Year-end submissions to IRAS are due 1 March 2019.

Increased Security Features with 2-Factor Authentication

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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

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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.

Add Supporting Documents to Self-Service Leave Requests

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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

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We’ve listened to your suggestions and are thrilled to launch our long-awaited Accounting Splits feature.

Leave Take-Ons: New and Improved

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Getting Started with Employee Self Service

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Here at SimplePay, we believe that taking leave and getting paid should be the least stressful work related things that your employees can do. In the past, however, this hasn’t always been the case, mostly because of all of the red tape and paperwork involved in collecting payslips, and requesting and approving leave.

Updated Rates and IR8A Template

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With the new year comes new opportunities. However that is not all the new year year brings, as there are also new CPF rates to consider as well as new templates for filing documents such as IR8As.

New Leave Overview

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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

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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.

New Futurebooks Blog Post

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Futurebooks, a Xero partner accounting firm and one of our longest-standing clients in Singapore, has written a great blog post about us. Click here to see what they had to say about using SimplePay, as well as the details of some of our newest features.

Improved Self-Service Leave Workflow

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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

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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

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We’re happy to announce the following new changes that have recently been made to the system:

Blog Post by Futurebooks

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A Xero partner company operating in Singapore, namely Futurebooks, has written a blog post based on their impressions of SimplePay during the private beta period. You can read it here.