Sneak peek at our upcoming release: part III

Upcoming enhancements to your payroll dashboard

We’ve heard from a lot of folks that having a quick overview of their payroll would really help them better manage their finances. Our challenge was to condense a lot of pertinent information into a concise and easy to read format that was legible at a glance but also contained the “drill-down” data you need to run your business.

As part of our next release we’re beefing up the account dashboard to show you dynamic (and beautiful!) charts which you can use to get a quick overview of your payroll history. Important notifications like cutoff dates are also displayed prominently so you can take action if needed.

It’s functional and highly visual – making your payroll experience amazing (yes, I said “payroll” and “amazing” in the same sentence!)

Sneak peek at our upcoming release: part II

A better way to get your payroll done

Better managing the payroll process and making it easier to get your payroll done – that’s what we’re aiming to do with our upcoming release. We’ve streamlined the payroll process while maintaining advanced features your accountant will love. It’s simple enough for your startup with just a few employees and can scale to meet the needs of your kick-ass, rapidly growing business when you add ten, fifty or even hundreds of employees.

Here you’ll see a functional but rich way to see individual employee earnings during the payroll process. You’ll get a clear indication of their net pay and as much detail as you need for their custom earnings, deductions and benefits.

Find us in the Bell Appstore

Thanks to the fine folks at AppDirect – we’re now in the Bell Business Appstore https://businessapps.bell.ca/apps/1081

If you need an easy way to provision your staff for cloud-based software, then the Bell Appstore is a convenient, one stop shop. By enrolling through this service you’ll be able to manage multiple subscriptions, permissions and software allocations for your staff.

PaymentEvolution payroll is available now in the store – so come check us out.

Scheduled maintenance

We’ll be posting an update to the system shortly. As part of our planned maintenance, the system will be sporadically available from Oct 17 0001ET (just after midnight) to Oct 17 0300ET. We’ll update this post once the updates are complete.

…and we’re done! Lot’s of new features … next blog post will have details.

Update and changelog

Based on client feedback we're releasing a few enhancements to the service today. As always, the feedback we gather at our user-community - community.paymentevolution.com - shapes the evolution of your payroll service. If you haven't had a chance to head there, take a look and let us know how to make the service better for you.

Changelog

• Rename your company - yes, you can now change the name of your company. This name is reflected on your employee payslips, records of employment and various tax forms. To change your company name, go to the setting menu bar and select company profile. Edit your company name and click "save" to record the changes.


• New report - cheques / payslips. Some clients have asked to have a printable payslip and/or cheque report so they can physically hand employees details of their pay. You can find the new report under the Reports menu bar. Remember, employees can still access their pay history through their own login credentials at www.PayChequer.com


• Custom rules for benefits and deductions - you can now add your own fields and have essentially unlimited number of rules you can apply in your organization. As always, you can customize the names of each rule (deduction / benefit) and give it a meaningful description so your employees know what the item is for (no more short codes and difficult to navigate legends). For information on how to setup custom rules for benefits or deductions see our community help article.


• Our e-Pay service now supports payments to your employees in the middle and last day of the month (in addition to Friday payments) allowing us to better support organizations on a semi-monthly pay cycle. Please remember to submit / finalize your payruns at least 7 calendar days ahead of the payment date to meet our processing time cutoffs.


• We continue enhancing the backend of the service to support new features. You may not see these immediately but we listen and implement the requests you make.

All these enhancements take place in our cloud infrastructure - without requiring you to download new software, install patches or update your system. Just log into your account, and the new features are available to you. Have an idea? We are always looking for feedback – if you have a feature request or want to see some changes, please let us know!

PayChequer

Today we're launching an exciting new addition to the PaymentEvolution payroll platform - an employee self-service portal and financial planning tool: PayChequer.com

PayChequer is your home for up to date information about your pay. You can use the service to check your most recent pay stub, see a history of all your previous payments and gather the data you need for tax or financial planning. Employers can use the service to provide their staff full electronic pay information and provide their employees an easy way to update personal information through the self-serve web app. Best of all - the service is free!

A few weeks ago we commissioned a study with Harris/Decima (the same folks who do political polling) to find out what employees really want when they view their pay statements. A surprising number of employees never received a proper statement or lost their statements because they were provided only on paper to them. More importantly, the vast majority of employees have difficulty understanding the arcane codes and abbreviations often used on their statements.

We knew we could do better. PayChequer gives employees a fresh view of their statements by presenting the most important information right up front (Net Pay!). We also provide useful data like vacation days and RRSP contributions to help make personal and financial planning easier.We worked with several beta testers to ensure we presented meaningful data and made it easier for them to "glance" at their statement and get the information they needed.

In addition to presenting a better paystub, the service allows employees to securely change their address, access their pay history, print statements and receive important tax related documents like T4 / T4a statements. Employers no longer need to absorb the expense of sending paper documents, tracking tax documents etc. PaymentEvolution's PayChequer does it for them.

Our beta testers have told us they love getting their statements this way. We think of it as an employee retention and attraction tool - if your staff is happy with how you present their pay, they'll be more productive and view you as a progressive employer. Give PayChequer a spin and let us know what you think in our feedback and support community.