Year-End Filing Reminder 2025
Year-end filing submissions to IRAS are due 1 March 2025.
Year-end filing submissions to IRAS are due 1 March 2025.
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.
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.
The next phase of the CPF contribution changes will start on 1 January 2025. Read more about these changes in our blog.
We’re excited to launch our new and improved help site! Read more about the updates in our blog post.
In this blog, we recap some new features and feature updates that went live in the second quarter of 2024. Read more here.
We’re excited about the latest addition to our Reminders functionality: Leave Expiry! Read more about this in our blog.
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.
We’ve recently enhanced our identification number validation to help prevent duplication of records. Read more about this on our blog.
In this blog, we recap some system updates that occurred in the first quarter of 2024. Read more here.
Our new Feature Labels allow you to easily read more about new features, and to send us feedback about new and existing features.
Year-end filing submissions to IRAS are due 1 March 2024.
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.
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.
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.
SimplePay is proud to announce a refreshed look and feel to our branding.
Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard – a game-changing feature designed for streamlined payroll management.
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.
The CPF contribution rates will once again increase with effect from 1 January 2024.
The Ministry of Manpower has declared 1 September 2023 a public holiday for Polling Day.
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.
Introducing Leave Expiry Reports! Our new feature is here to help you keep track of your employees’ expiring leave.
The CPF has announced upcoming changes to the OW ceiling.
We have improved the recovery and reset processes for 2-Factor Authentication.
IRAS will be discontinuing the functionality to submit form IR8S and Appendices A and B through their Offline Application after December 2022.
Our system now allows Active and Inactive states for companies within a profile, in cases where companies must be closed, but not deleted.
The yearly CPF contribution rates increase will take effect from 1 January 2023.
From 1 November 2022, 2-Factor Authentication will become mandatory for all Xero users.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will cease to collect Foreign Worker Levy (FWL) related payments through the CPF EZPay platform from 26 September 2022.
We’ve enhanced the way Xero tracking categories are mapped in SimplePay.
In this blog post, we outline the process that we follow to evaluate feature requests and select features to add to our development pipeline.
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.
The CPF contribution rates will increase with effect from 1 January 2022. Read more about this here.
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.
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!
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.
Our new approver override feature allows full admins to approve requests when approvers are on leave.
Our new opt-in feature allows you to set annual limits for custom reimbursement items.
Today’s blog post summarises the Work Injuries Compensation Act and discusses the upcoming increased salary threshold for the non-manual worker exclusion.
You can now capture leave in bulk by importing an Excel file.
You can now customise the format for each employee’s legal name.
You can now record leave adjustments in bulk - a particularly handy feature for off-in-lieu leave.
We’ve expanded our beneficiaries functionality so that you can add beneficiaries for custom items.
We’d like to remind you that we take care of any regulatory changes so that you don’t have to.
Our blog post today highlights some of the key support measures announced by the Government in Budget 2021 last week.
We’ve overhauled the page for bulk finalising payslips to make it easier to toggle additional payslip information.
You can now download a ZIP file with all the payslips within a specific date range for selected employees or pay points.
We’ve expanded our permissions functionality to include an option for read-only access.
You can now bulk assign leave policies to employees not on the company default policy.
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.
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.
We’ve released version 2.0 of our app with more functionality.
We’ve made changes to our user interface on profile pages.
Our blog today brings you an exciting update on some of the new and extended support measures available to businesses.
We’ve expanded our opt-in feature for self-service claims to include inputs for hours worked by hourly paid employees.
We have a new opt-in feature for employee claims via self-service.
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
We’ve revamped our employee filters to make it more convenient to find and select employees.
We’re introducing a new 3-step process for company transfers.
This new feature reminds you of outstanding employer loans and savings when ending an employee’s service.
We have added a feature that allows you to view all payslip items without previewing the payslip.
This blog details the various options open to employers as alternatives to retrenchment during the lockdown period
This blog summarises the support measures put in place for businesses by the Government in the Unity, Resilience and Solidarity Budgets.
We have introduced new functionality to allow users to manage their employees’ services in bulk.
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.
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 have upgraded our integration with QuickBooks.
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.
You can now specify that leave days carried over from the previous leave cycle expires if not used within a specified time frame.
We have been working on expanding our self-service functionality recently and are pleased to announce that we have added two new features.
You can now further customize payment dates, allowing you to more clearly depict when payments to employees occur.
You can now change payment dates per payslip. This, and payslip end dates, can now also be done in bulk.
Small changes can make a big difference, so we have added a new leave report and made some tweaks to entitlement policies.
We are happy to announce that we have increased our bulk actions functionality to include bulk actions for once-off payslips.
SimplePay is a global brand, so we have decided to present ourselves as such, with an enhanced global logo.
SimplePay’s newest feature lets you create custom items that follow the same tax and payroll rules as system items.
Add your own fields to an employee’s Basic Info screen with our newest feature.
Year-end submissions to IRAS are due 1 March 2019.
This new feature gives you the choice of how to calculate the AW ceiling for CPF calculations.
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.
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.
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.
We have built an API that allows integration with other HR and time and attendance systems.
Employees can now view their tax certificates via employee self-service.
We have officially launched our new user interface design!
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.
We’ve listened to your suggestions and are thrilled to launch our long-awaited Accounting Splits feature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are pleased to announce that SimplePay has been added to the CPF board of Singapore’s official list of Payroll E-submission service providers.
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.
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.
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!
We’re happy to announce the following new changes that have recently been made to the system:
SimplePay is pleased to announce the following changes in your payroll program:
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.