What's New in Harmony Payroll?

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What's New in Harmony Payroll?

The release notes below contain the latest updates and changes that do not appear in the user manuals for Harmony. 

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Date ReleasedVersion Number  Changes
2024-Nov-134.1.309
  • Increased character limit for employee number (previously 8, now 12) 
  • Sage Intacct seamless integration - additional assets and fields now available
  • New receiving data center "21990" for CPA Standard 005 direct deposit interface (Canada only)
  • Fixes: 
    • Payroll group data filter did not apply to Assign Payroll Categories lists
    • Random number is genereated in the "Supervisor" field if an employee is removed from the supervisor role 
    • When assigning a payroll category at the time of creation, a null value is entered into the master paycard
    • Statutory Holiday Report genereated incorrect totals (Canada only)
2024-Oct-094.1.301
  • Fixes: 
    • Accrual balances in the paystub show YTD accrued value instead of current balance
2024-Oct-074.1.300
  • Show accrual balance on paycards while processing payroll 
  • Improved error messages for SAP B1 seamless integration 
  • Updated parameters for Sage Intacct seamless integration 
  • Fixes: 
    • Multiple Payroll Category (dynamic report) displays incorrect values 
    • Accrual Category (standard report) displays incorrect value in 'Paid in Period'
    • Error message when saving general ledger account setup
2024-Sep-234.1.294
  • Ability to choose to which email addresses paystubs will be emailed to 
  • New Acumatica Summary with Subaccount GL export 
  • New 'Other ID' field in Multiple Category Report (dynamic) 
  • Fixes: 
    • 'Finalize' step of the payroll wizard combines values together instead of adding 
    • Layouts including 'cheque' does not print correctly 
    • Accrual Category Report shows $2 as paid in period 
    • "Originator ID" is required in HSBC bank interface layout (Canada only)
2024-Sep-114.1.288
  • Fixes: 
    • Check/cheque layouts do not include the paystub portion
    • Error messages in the Control/Approval Sheet report 
    • Error message when changing the password
2024-Sep-044.1.285
  • Allow searching by employee numbers when assigning payroll categories
  • Removal of currency codes ("$") in cheques/checks, paystubs, and reports
  • Mexico states added to employee addresses 
  • Fixes: 
    • Payroll Category reports do not show existing records 
    • Benefit payroll cateagories with only units do not get added to the grand/company total in the Payroll Journal report 
    • Invalid formula for a payroll category is successfully valid
2024-Aug-214.1.280
  • New seamless integration with Sage Intacct for job cost export  
  • Bank interfaces to Telpay 
  • Option to hide inactive/terminated employees in the Payroll Employees list
  • Fixes: 
    • When cloning a payroll category, the tax form box assignemnts do not get added 
    • General Ledger (Department) Report does not split by department 
2024-Aug-084.1.276
  • Fixes: 
    • Incorrect error message when removing an employee from a payroll group in the middle of a pay period
    • Importing inactive employees from Time & Attendance (when payroll status is inactive) is successful 
2024-Aug-014.1.275
  • Beanstream/Bambora seamless & file-based bank interface
  • Option to remove inactive payroll categories from master paycards during Year-End process
  • Removal of deleted paystubs from Paystub History
  • New Control / Approval Sheet for payroll prior to posting the pay period 
  • Direct deposit and cheque/check information is now included in the Posting Balance Sheet
  • New summary sections in the Deposit Register and Cheque/Check Register
  • Ability to include user-defined taxes into 'Total Reported Gross' in the Government Remittance report (Canada only)
  • Fixes: 
    • Paystub printing margins printing incorrectly 
    • Payroll Journal displays incorrect number of records and total accrual balances
    • Incorrect destination country for Royal Bank of Canada Bank File Interface (Canada only)
2024-Jul-114.1.265
  • Ability to mass-delete payroll categories
  • Row numbers in General Ledger Setup > Account Setup > 'Overwrite' tab
  • New countries available in country dropdowns
  • Fixes: 
    • Basic Salary payroll category 'Hourly Wages' shows the formula for 'Amount' instead of 'Rate' or 'Units'
    • Ability to process payroll for a different pay period when open in different tabs or browsers
    • "Employee" parameter does not work when generating the Workers' Compensation Report 
    • Values are incorrectly zero when generating the Workers' Compensation Report
    • Removal of "EI Group" header in reports (USA only)
2024-Jun-274.1.257
  • New filters when creating general ledger records
  • New 'Rate' field in Payroll Category (Paycard) report
  • Order of dimension dropdown in labor step of the payroll wizard is now sorted alphanumerically
  • Ability to export job cost records 
  • Fixes: 
    • General Ledger (department) and General Ledger (company/summary) reports display the same values
    • Exporting Payroll Category reports to Excel or CSV, it shows invisible columns 
    • Rounding was not done in calculation for maximum % of net
    • When navigating from Employee Reports to Payroll Reports, the list of reports is not correctly displayed
2024-Jun-134.1.249
  • Fixes: 
    • Edited paycards do not get refreshed automatically 
    • Multiple Payroll Category report (dynamic) does not display values
2024-Jun-054.1.247
  • New 'Rate' field in Multiple Payroll Category Report (dynamic reports) 
  • Fixes: 
    • Unable to delete an employee's bank account (Canada only)
    • Rounding issue in company summary in the Payroll Journal and Deposit Register reports
2024-May-294.1.244
  • Add date format to Syspro GL exports
  • TD Canada Trust - 80 Byte Layout headers and field labels are changed (Canada only)
  • CPP2/QPP2 will be included in CRA Remittance section in the final step of the payroll wizard (Canada only)
  • Fixes:
    • Subject To section for salary-based tax payroll categories was disabled 
    • Inability to update tax tables from 2022 to 2024 / skipping years 
    • Sage 100 GL export was exporting in the wrong columns if subaccount parameter was not entered
2024-May-164.1.241
  • Sage 100 GL export 
  • New option to calculate income tax based on totals of the pay period instead of independently in Preferences
  • Show unsent emails in Tools
  • Fixes: 
    • Saved dynamic reports don't preserve the order of columns 
    • Employee Year to Date Journal report includes unlocked paycards even if the parameter is not selected
2024-May-024.1.236
  • Seamless company login 
  • Fixes: 
    • General Ledger (Department) Report showed full company values instead of per department
2024-Apr-244.1.232
  • New General Ledger (Summary) report 
  • Fixes: 
    • "Ethnic Origin" validations were not triggered
    • BAC bank file updated with "Other ID" field (Honduras only)
2024-Apr-184.1.228
  • Netsuite Summary GL export 
  • New "Other ID" field in employee profile 
  • Fixes: 
    • WCB rate is missing from the Workers' Compensation Report (Canada only)
2024-Apr-104.1.222
  • BAC bank file for Honduras (Honduras only)
2024-Apr-044.1.219
  • Dealertrack GL export 
  • Fixes: 
    • Inability to download, print, and export older tax forms before 2023 (Canada only)
2024-Mar-274.1.217
  • Storage will now show space used by paystubs & checks/cheques in addition to backups
  • Payroll Categories report can be split by month
  • Fixes: 
    • Invalid 'email' field for Reports 
    • Inability to create past year tax forms after 2024 tax table update (Canada only)
2024-Mar-074.1.213
  • New button in the employee payroll profile that allows you to view tax forms from the HR module
  • Fixes:
    • Changing benefit payroll category with a maximum to type 'script' causes an error 
    • Improvement to T4 and T4A error messages when Box 015 and Box 45 are missing (Canada only)
    • "SSN" and "SSN Type" are missing from Employee Reports parameters (USA only)
2024-Feb-224.1.209
  • Fixes:
    • Aatrix creation is too slow 
    • Going to the 'next' employee does not show the correct country 
    • Cannot mass update 'opening amount' for unit-based accruals
2024-Feb-204.1.208
  • Aatrix - Running 943s/941s are prorated only if there are salaries assigned to Box 943 (USA only)
  • Fixes:
    • Cannot email T4s for a second business/EI/RP number (Canada only)
2024-Feb-134.1.207
  • Improved field labels for SAP Business One (SAP B1) seamless integration
  • Fixes: 
    • Sage Intacct file-based integration cuts header row into two lines 
    • Maximum for employer-paid taxes missing on employee master paycard 
    • TD-1 values in new Canadian companies were incorrect (excluding basic personal amount) (Canada only)
2024-Feb-084.1.205
  • Improved error messages for integration to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (direct/seamless)
  • Improved error messages for integration to SAP Business One (direct/seamless)
  • Updated list of countries 
  • New 'date identifier' option in check/cheque options 
  • Fixes:
    • SIN/SSN are now required fields if payroll module is purchased 
    • 'Payroll Group' filter does not work in Paycard History section 
    • Some values were incorrect in Form A-3 (USA only)
    • Web slip number should be printed on all copies of RL-1s (Canada only)
2024-Jan-294.1.201
  • Government Remittance (Federal) report should calculate taxes based on tax form box assignments (Canada only)
  • Updated translation for bank account types 
  • Fixes: 
    • Tax table upgrade does not update 'full claim' amount (Canada only)
    • Adding CPP2 payroll category prompts to enter a percentage (Canada only)
    • Employer address is not printing on employee/recipient copies of T4s (Canada only)
    • Cannot change payroll category code for QPIP (Canada only)
    • Cannot save a payroll category with a scipt when it was originally a formula
2024-Jan-224.1.197
  • Fixes: 
    • Tax table upgrade overwrites basic amount for employees with zero basic amount
2024-Jan-184.1.196
  • Changes to Payroll Journal report
  • Changes to seamless import from Time & Attendance to Payroll - import only approved records
  • New "Print Employer Address" checkbox on T4 (Canada only)
  • Fixes: 
    • Payroll Journal 'sort by' option was not working as expected
    • Option to mass-assign a payroll category to a payroll group was not working as expected
    • Box 45 on the T4 and Box 015 on the T4A was not printed correctly (Canada only)
    • Box 45 should be visiblel only in one place in T4 edit window (Canada only)
2024-Jan-044.1.190
  • Improvements to adding payroll categories to employees
  • Salary advance and salary advance receovery for US companies (US only)
  • Fixes:
    • Missing red underlined for 'First Day Worked' in ROE (Canada only)
    • Employee Year to Date Journal is not showing the correct accrual balances
    • Some reports should not be year-specific 
2023-Dec-18v4.1.185
  • Fixes:
    • Social Security was not deducting correctly if nothing is subject to federal income tax (USA only)
2023-Dec-08v4.1.184
  • New report: One-Time Adjustment Report
  • New ACH bank interface: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
  • Fixes:
    • Incorrect taxable gross amount displayed on Government Remittance (Federal) and Government Remittance (Quebec)
2023-Dec-01v4.1.180
  • Additional options to download Canadian tax forms (T4, T4A, RL-1)
  • 'City/Town' character limit was changed from 25 to 28
  • Negative values are allowed to be entered into the master paycard for 'amount', 'units', 'opening amount', and 'opening units'
  • Fixes: 
    • Error when creating holiday calendars
    • Unable to enter negative values into timesheets
2023-Nov-16v4.1.172
  • Fixes: 
    • Error when deleting older paystubs 
    • Employee History Detail Journal and Payroll Journal Year-to-Date values do not match
    • Accrual balance is shown on the Payroll Journal from previous years 
2023-Nov-08v4.1.168
  • Fixes:
    • Cannot change languages 
    • Navigating to Paycard History displays an error
2023-Nov-02v4.1.164
  • Fixes:
    • Government Remittance Report (Federal) displays the incorrect number of employees for Canadian databases
    • Cannot import timesheets if payroll category is a permanent or temporary benefit
    • Missing error message when importing timesheets for inactive employees
2023-Oct-18v4.1.153
  • Release notes are shown in User Settings
  • New date format selection for in-progress labour dynamic reports 
  • Fixes: 
    • ROEs not loading for Canadian databases
    • Improvements to bank file exports
    • Empty employee record was created in specific instances 
    • Improvements to paycard history import 
2023-Oct-05v4.1.148
  • Changed Email Settings
  • GL Export for Netsuite added to GL export interfaces
  • Labor Sub-Module: Allow for units in time and decimal formats
  • Fixes:
    • Adagio GL export interface spacing for columns
    • Loading issues in job cost structure page
    • Filter options not appearing in job cost structure
    • Inability to create employees without last start date and termination date
    • Labor payroll process for overwriting the amounts with amounts from master paycard or last value of import file
    • Importing employees shows a missing image
2023-Sep-15v4.1.144
  • Emailed Paystub file is renamed
  • Fixes: 
    • Incorrect label when assigning payroll categories
    • Inability to delete more than one custom report at a time 
    • Incorrect label for employer tax payroll categories
    • Error message pops up when printing T4s 
    • Ability to create a paycard for a terminated/inactive employee 
    • Importing labor records is delayed 
    • Inability to allow negative values to be allocated by percentage and amount in GLs
2023-Aug-17v4.1.136
  • Allow negative values in GLs to be allocated by percentage and amount
  • GL export to Sage Intacct (seamless) 
  • Fixes: 
    • 'Successful import' message doesn't appear when importing labor records
    • Error message when printing 2022 T4As 
    • Two labor records appear only once in Labor Report 
    • Workers' Compensation is not visible in paycard adjustment 
    • 'Employee Notepad' section spelled incorrectly
2023-Jul-19v4.1.118
  • GL export to Sage 300 
  • GL export to Deltek/Vision Journal Entry with Three Dimensions 
  • New Employee HIstory Detail Journal report with labor records 
  • Expanded default text box size for employee payroll notepad 
  • Improvements to message in the 'Finalize' step of the payroll wizard 
  • Improvements to database upgrade message 
  • Improvements to security 
  • Fixes: 
    • User interface for Location GL was not updated 
    • 1000+ units cannot be imported into timesheets 
2023-Jun-30v4.1.101
  • North Dakota state tax (USA only)
  • Fixes: 
    • Cannot create AUF file due to execution timeout expired
2023-Jun-27v4.1.101
  • Updated message when editing Canadian tax forms 
  • Fixes: 
    • Icon to upgrade tax tables not always visible, depending on Internet speed
2023-Jun-22v4.1.99
  • Improvements to mass-assigning payroll categories to employees 
  • July 2023 tax tables (Manitoba, Quebec) (Canada only)
  • Income tax calculation allows overwrite of TD-1 basic amount for federal, Nova Scotia, and Yukon (Canada only)
  • Changes to taxes for Arkansas, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho (USA only)
  • Fixes: 
    • Printing RL-1 summary displays an error message
2023-Jun-14v4.1.94
  • Additional confirmation message before posting payroll 
  • Improvements to security 
  • Fixes: 
    • Gross amount for federal and provincial income tax does not include bonus
    • Incorrect federal and provincial income tax for commissioned employees with deductions that are deducted before taxes 
    • Federal and provincial taxes not calculating for employees with negative salary
2023-Jun-06v4.1.85
  • Vision Journal Entry GL Export - with two dimensions
  • Security improvements based on security rights
  • Fixes:
    • Federal and State unemployment taxes not matching what was exported to Aatrix
    • Email subject could not be null
2023-May-15v4.1.78
  • New option in Employee Payroll Information for Canadian tax province: 'Outside provincial limits'
  • Employee Notepad Report 
  • Sorting by payroll category code when assigning payroll categories to Master Paycard 
  • New date format field in Labor Report 
  • Sage Intacct GL Export - Construction Payroll 
  • Fixes:
    • Units missing from Posting Balance Sheet 
2023-May-09v4.1.75
  • Sorting of Master Paycard by payroll category code 
  • 'Username' and 'Password' of email settings are no longer required 
  • Ability to open Labor Report in the payroll process 
  • Identify timesheets with rate and units of zero in the payroll process 
  • New confirmation warning when restoring a backup 
  • Fixes: 
    • US federal unemployment rate doesn't stop at maximum 
2023-May-04v4.1.70
  • Updated 'WCB Maximum Assessable Earnings' label for QC 
  • Fixes:  
    • Scripted earnings not adding to EI hours 
2023-Apr-28v4.1.69
  • Updates to 'English US' language translation 
  • Employee Payroll Notepad 
  • Two-Factor Authentication 
  • Fixes:
    • Ability to import new child dimensions 
    • File size restriction when importing timesheets 
    • Taking too long to send out hundreds of paystubs 
2023-Apr-254.1.66
  • Added pronouns to the employee profile 
  • Added GL export: Deltek/Vision/Vantagepoint
  • Fixes: 
    • Saving employee payroll information in US databases displays an error 
2023-Apr-204.1.64
  • Changes to the 'password reset' functionality 
  • Added GL export: Acumatica GL Journal Transactions Summary 
  • Fixes: 
    • Running 2022 W-2/W-3 report displays an error 
    • SSN not appearing in Payroll

 

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