Typically once an accountant or payroll bureau has read about our automation features and tried the software out with one or two employers they're sold.

by Duane Jackson

It can be annoying to run a large payrun, perhaps even fully-automated - and then have a failure when it comes to paying everyone due to bank details being entered incorrectly.

by Duane Jackson

It's been a busy week in terms of improvements. Tuesday saw the release of enhancements to Accrued�Holiday Pay. And yesterday we made it easier to manage P45s.

by Duane Jackson

We already automatically generate P45s for employees that have left, and we make it easy for you to send them via email. What we hadn't done - until today - is give you the ability to simply tick a box to say whether or not an employee has been issued their P45.

by Duane Jackson

We've added a few enhancements to the Accrued Holiday Pay feature. You can now override the default rate of 12.07%. You can do this either on the employer (so as to affect all employees) or you can override it on a per-employee basis.

by Duane Jackson

I really don't like having to say "Sorry, we don't have any support for that" when someone asks how to do something. So we've recently dealt with a couple of common requests.

by Duane Jackson

We're pleased to announce yet another addition to our growing list of integrated software. Deputy is staff management and rostering software that's been around a while, but recently a lot of our UK customers have been mentioning it as something that they'd like to see integrated.

by Duane Jackson

As well as the more noteworthy additions such as the recent addition of overtime codes and the new CJRS report, we are also constantly adding or tweaking other smaller bits and pieces.

by Duane Jackson

We've just added support for a new type of pay code. Many of you either import hours worked from an external system or CSV file. Or you pay your employees on a salary rather than an annual rate.

by Duane Jackson

After being the first to release a Furlough (CJRS) Claim report back in April, I'm pleased to say we now have an updated report to take into account the changes between now and October.

by Duane Jackson

As an employer, you have a legal responsibility to ensure your employees have the right to work in the UK. For relatively static workforces that isn't too difficult to manage.

by Duane Jackson

Hot on the heels of yesterdays product enhancements, we have a few more for you today. All are centered around employee management.

by Duane Jackson

We're constantly adding small features and making minor tweaks to improve the product for you. Often they're too small to warrant announcing. But here are a few of the recent changes and additions that you might find useful

by Duane Jackson

If you're on our mailing list you'll know I usually end my emails with a request to let me know about any features you need or any suggestions we can try and implement to make things easier or more efficient for you.

by Duane Jackson

We've supported importing time and attendance data from uAttend, TimeMoto and Access People Planner for a while. But as they don't have APIs it's meant fiddling with CSV files. Better than nothing, but not ideal.

by Duane Jackson

We've just added a new report based on requests from customers - the Variance Report. The report is intended to help you compare one period to another to identify any variations in pay as well as highlight joiners and leavers.

by Duane Jackson

I noticed last week that a new user, Sarah Carter @ Rocket Software, had run a payroll in our payroll software but the FPS had failed so I got in touch to ask if I could help.

by Duane Jackson

I was asked a great question a couple of months ago: "What kind of business is Staffology not suitable for?". Our customers range from single employee firms, to payroll bureaux and accountants, to a 1,200 employee business

by Duane Jackson

We've just released a new report to help you make a claim a payment for furloughing employees under the UK Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. We'll walk you through the process here. It's quite likely that HMRC will update the guidance on how we should be making calculations so we will update our system accordingly

by Duane Jackson

We like automation. It saves so much time. We know you make a lot of use of the automated payroll features we offer. But it's always been missing one piece of the jigsaw: Someone had to submit the BACS file to the bank for processing.

by Duane Jackson

We've just added notes to Employees so that you can store extra tidbits of information. You can access the notes by choosing a employee and switching to the new Notes tab.

by Duane Jackson

Part of the support being provided by the government due to the COVID-19 outbreak has an impact on payroll. Specifically furloughing of employees and SSP being paid from the first day of sickness.

by Duane Jackson

Many of you have already closed 2019/20 and have moved on to 2019/21. But for those that are about to do it, here's a little preview of what to expect.

by Duane Jackson

If you're working with Umbrella company payroll then your 2020 is off to a good start. We're really beefing up our Umbrella Features. At the beginning of the month we added CSV imports and now we're announcing to new reports

by Duane Jackson

A new feature has just been added to help those of you managing multiple employers. We now have Employer Groups. You can set up as many groups as you like and you can then add employers to those groups.

by Duane Jackson

There's just no escaping CSV files. They're everywhere. We already support importing many types of data from CSV files, but we've just added two more.

by Duane Jackson

Thanks to how easy it is to integrate other systems in to our payroll software, we now have a number of clients that are paying employees on an ad-hoc basis. Their systems tell our systems how many hours should be paid and the rest all happens by magic.

by Duane Jackson

It's rare that we're asked if our software can do something and the answer is 'no'. But one of those things is daily payroll. When it comes to doing PAYE daily, it's tricky as it's not something HMRC recognises.

by Duane Jackson

We're welcoming 2020 with the addition of a few new reports. Holiday Report - Found in the 'Employees' section of the 'Reports' area, the Holiday Report gives you an overview of the leave allowances for all of your employees at once.

by Duane Jackson

Unlike other blog posts, this one is going to get quite technical. If you don't know your JSON from your XML then this one might not be for you.

by Duane Jackson

We already have the ability to create departments and to add employees to a department (or multiple departments). That gives you a single level of analysis for your data which is sufficient for most of you

by Duane Jackson

Two big features that we've felt we're missing are an Employer Portal and an Employee Portal. There may only be one letter differentiating the two but they're very different beasts

by Duane Jackson

We've made a number of small-ish tweaks in the past month, we've listed some of them here

by Duane Jackson

A new feature we've just added will make life a lot easier for those of you that are managing multiple employers. You can now configure the system so that when you create a new employer it copies settings from an already existing employer

by Duane Jackson

Our Cloud CIS functionality has proven remarkably popular. I didn't realise just how little there was out there in terms of cloud-based, modern software for people paying subcontractors under the CIS scheme.

by Duane Jackson

We're trying to stay away from any HR functionality as there are already a lot of great products out there for that. We want to stay very focused on payroll. Managing leave and holiday allowances falls in to that fuzzy space between HR and payroll and it's something some of you have said you really need.

by Duane Jackson

We've just introduced global search to make it easy for you to find employers, employees or help articles from anywhere within the application.

by Duane Jackson

We now have full support for payrolling benefits. This is a new(ish) method for reporting employees benefits throughout the year rather than on a P11D at the end of the year.

by Duane Jackson

Until today the CSV Importer for payments only supported importing the basic pay amount for a paylsip. You couldn't use this tool to import additional lines to a payslip. Now you can. Simply include the employee multiple times in the CSV file.

by Duane Jackson

Whilst you've always been able to set the basic payment to employees as being either a fixed amount, an hourly rate or a day rate - when it came to adding additional lines you only had the option to add or deduct a fixed amount. Not any more

by Duane Jackson

Umbrella companies have to do some pretty complex calculations to work out how much to pay an employee. This sounded like a challenge, so we've started building features to make these calculations as easy as 1, 2, 3.

by Duane Jackson

Not as exciting or magical as last weeks new feature, but still very useful. You can now easily pay employees for mileage in their own cars.

by Duane Jackson

We've just released a big update to the automation side of things. The options for auto emails after payruns have expanded.

by Duane Jackson

July wasn't so quiet after all, lots of new features have been added in the last month or so

by Duane Jackson

The latest product additions are detailed below. There's a lot to like! Benefits, P11D and P11D(B). You can now record benefits for employees and create and submit the required P11Ds and P11D(B) at the end of the year. Which of course we'll do automatically for you

by Duane Jackson

If you're already running payroll in another system then you can easily get started with Staffology or just see what it has to offer by importing an FPS file from your current software. What's an FPS? Every time you pay your employees your payroll software has to create a Full Payment Submission (FPS) file and send it to HMRC.

by Duane Jackson

This month has mostly been focused on behind-the-scenes speed improvements and improved accounting integrations.. Accounting Integration. A journal entry will now automatically be posted to your accounting software when you finalise a payrun.

by Duane Jackson

Another month gone and a raft of new features added to Staffology Payroll. Read on to discover what we've added in the last four weeks. NEST Integration. We're now fully integrated with NEST Pensions, so your pension contributions can now be automagically sent.

by Duane Jackson

Just because we've now officially launched, doesn't mean that development has slowed down. We've added lots of new features in the past few weeks. Payroll Automation. Not everyone has the development resources

by Duane Jackson

It's official. Staffology has now launched. This morning TechCrunch published a post breaking the news. The first (or was it the second?) phase is now over. The hard work of getting a product to market is done now the hard work of getting customers to love us begins.

by Duane Jackson

It's great to see so many of you making use of the software over the last month and many are now confident enough to be using it as a live payroll system.

by Duane Jackson

The last update I posted was just before Christmas. Since then we've had a nice mention on AccountingWeb that ruffled a few feathers, and of course lots of progress on the software. I was aiming to get the software ready for public beta testing by the end of January and I'm pleased to say I reached that goal. Now anyone can sign up to try it out.

by Duane Jackson

I thought I'd send a final Staffology update for the year before we all wind down for a bit over Christmas. There has been lots of progress in the past 3 weeks. Specifically: 1) Email: We've gone from zero email functionality to a lot of email-related features.

by Duane Jackson

Since I announced the Staffology private beta a couple of weeks ago, lots more has been done based on your feedback. Below is a list of some of the changes and a heads-up on what we're now working on. Do let me know if you have any suggestions on what we should add/change or what the priorities should be.

by Duane Jackson