VERSION : 1.12.12
DATE : TBA

• "Spinner" added to period selection on report year/period form
• Tooltip added to period selection on report year/period form showing date range of selected period
• Filing of large datasets of starters/leavers speeded up (noticably quicker now where hundreds of starters/leavers are to be filed

VERSION : 1.12.11
DATE : 3 Nov 2011

• "Spinner" added to year selection on report year/period form
• Pay elements list added to employer form
• Filling in SMP parameters on absence screen automatically blocks SSP for 39 weeks
• Merge sickness option on payroll form allows consecutive sicknesses with same qualifying days to be merged, if requested
• Preprint and Selfseal payslip formats can now come out in Department sequence again (fixed from 1.12.9)
• User comment added to absence form
• Mass absence paste added to payroll form
• Payslip Summary report now works if large typeface is selected
• Premium: Import of timesheet items can have "importmode" column header which controls insert/replace/increment behaviour of lines previously imported
• Enterprise: Options added to control automatic production of accounts nominal ledger export at period end

VERSION : 1.12.10
DATE : 3 Nov 2011

• Context menu added to employee form for printing common employee reports
• Employee paid after leaver P45 issued now taxed at 0T/WM1, and NI is calculated using weekly bandwidths, regardless of normal pay frequency
• Student loan does not apply to deceased employees
• NI calculated using table "X" for deceased employees
• CIS: "Employee" (actually subcontractor) name validation relaxed (PAYE rules don't apply)
• Premium: Gross to Net report now reports correct tax code for previous period re-runs
• Premium: Payroll-wide advance weeks holiday pay builds Holiday Pay line for each employee. BASIC should be set to not multiply up holiday pay if this option is used
• Premium: Payroll summary report now includes zero value payslsips
• Premium: Error in payment export report where departmental totalling is required fixed
• Premium: Report of all payslips for an employee can be printed (from the employee's PAYE tab)
• Bureau: Report packs can override titles of individual reports in the pack (useful where the same report is in a pack twice with different filters)
• Bureau: Import of regular pay elements can include brought forward balances (which are entered into week 0)
• Enterprise: If payroll is locked operator not permitted to start edit on employee record
• Enterprise: SQL Backup timeout increased to 5 minutes

VERSION : 1.12.9
DATE : 21 Sep 2011

• Date of first new payroll created in a new employer file determines employer-level reporting PAYE year
• X and Y Document Offsets can be negative as well as positive
• Proxy Server setup form added to software, to allow sites with proxy servers to enter the address/user/password/domain
• Employee document password is revealed when the field gains the focus (users commented that employees kept forgetting their passwords and asking for them)
• Employee warnings report added to payroll reports list
• Statutory Paternity Pay now has truncate to payroll date option, like SMP and SSP
• Statutory Adoption Pay now has truncate to payroll date option, like SMP and SSP
• Premium: bug from 1.12.8 fixed where payslips ignored department sequence even if requested
• Premium: Duplicate Employee report in payroll reports lists employees with the same NI Number
• Premium: TUPE option added to employer form. Copies P11 totals to P45(3) on employees, then purges p11s and payslip history. Copy the employer file first!
• Enterprise: Short description added to pay element definition, used on pay columns reports if filled in

VERSION : 1.12.8
DATE : 13 Sep 2011

• Option to automatically credit SSP where duration of previously paid SSP absence is reduced
• Unpaid statutory absences can be deleted regardless of when they occurred
• Cumulative employers pension contributions for PAYE Year added to payslips
• Fixed weekly employer pension contributions multiply up by advance holiday weeks
• Starter/Leaver report added to payroll
• "Comment" added to historical employee payslip summary view
• Premium: email payslip run produces report of successes and failures
• Premium: Option added for dummy run of emailed payslips, which does everything but actually send them
• Premium: "Annual Salary" option added to custom payslip designs
• Premium: Quickbooks format nominal export function added (subject to confirmation of accurate implementation by QB users)
• Premium: Duplicate Employee report in payroll reports lists employees with the same NI Number
• Bureau: Report Filter option supports filtering reports based on particular departments and tags. A report filter can also support sorting/grouping override options
• Bureau: Report Pack option allows users to group together a collection of reports into a single PDF or zip file. Where a zip file is used the reports can be diverted to xls or csv rather than pdf, if required. All reports in a pack can have a filter applied
• Enterprise: Posting to SAP fixed where project codes used without nominal segmentation
• Enterprise: Option added to compress P14 data on large P35/P14 filing with HMRC
• Enterprise: Payment code has decimals option, allowing minimal decimal places on payslip, or hh:mm style output if requested
• Enterprise: An entire weekly payroll can be put on holiday (sub-option to "Calculate" on the holiday form)
• Enterprise: A one-off amendment can be made to regular payments, which revert to normal the following period

VERSION : 1.12.7
DATE : 13 Sep 2011

• Holding down Alt-Shift on keyboard when requesting P60s generates P60 without background form
• Data Lists (eg department, nominal code, etc) can be searched using '%' or '*' or right-click "Search..." selection
• Mail parameters setup form has separate tick box for SPA authentication
• Stationery P60s can be produced
• X and Y offset can be specified for stationery printing. Usually only required for malfunctioning printer drivers.
• Imported employee payment method automatically corrected if not cash/bank/cheque
• Rounding error on stakeholder pensions with both employee and employer %ages corrected
• Two new reports in payroll "Pay Columns" section summarising each employee in a single line, with annual and rolling annual figures
• Default description of PAYE changed to "PAYE" rather than "PAYE Tax"
• Premium: New version of annual hours summary report works using pay rather than hours
• Premium: Timeout on SMTP send increased to 1 minute
• Premium: KashFlow API link altered to new KashFlow URL
• Premium: Payslip Summary report added
• Bureau: Password protected payslips can be printed once opened
• Bureau: Payment codes can be grouped to allow easier selection when adding to employees when the list of codes is long
• Bureau: Expression handling logic improved in Report Writer module
• Enterprise: Distribution codes can have validated total fraction (which initialises to 100%)
• Enterprise: Multi-user SQL Server version introduced. Requires SQL Server licence
• Enterprise: Audit trail changes list is sortable by department code
• Enterprise: Backup added to SQL Server facilities (requires environment variable on client "12PAY_SQL_BACKUP_FOLDER" to be defined)

VERSION : 1.12.5
DATE : 11 Apr 2011

• Some minor changes to P35 form entry
• P35 submission commentary saved when P35 filing is complete

VERSION : 1.12.3
DATE : 11 Mar 2011

• SxP funding entry forces immediate recalculation of P35 totals
• P45(online) supplies this employment pay/tax for w1 employees even if tax code has been altered since last payment

VERSION : 1.12.2
DATE : 3 Mar 2011

• Premium: BRAL Bank output format added
• Premium: Timesheet import permitted for employees with no regular pay lines

VERSION : 1.12.1
DATE : 15 Feb 2011

• SSP1L behaviour entirely removed from software as this is obsolete
• Option to download software from menu on main form (under "Help")
• Better warning when printing individual payslips in Express Edition of "free" time running out
• Absence entered as entitled to SSP, then shortened, then lengthened again, does not cause zero calculation
• Ability to alter payslips style extended to Express Edition users
• Z-Fold pressure seal mailer P60 design added as an alternative to the standard A4 sheet (currently for 2011 only)
• Main payroll and employee form keeps better track of its location and its size
• D1 tax code operative for 50% tax band
• P11(NI) has 1a,1b,1c,1d,1e column headings to aid data entry also P11(Tax) columns numbered
• NI Calculation modified to take "Primary Threshold" into account ready for 2011/12
• P35 Part 1 text moved above parts 2 and 3
• P45 landscape layout removed from payroll reporting form (obsolete)
• Entering tax refund advance on P35 now forces immediate calculation of totals
• Error message when using out of range payroll year improved, suggests download of current release
• SMP/SAP/SPP removed from Council Tax attachments
• Holidays always appear in black on employee absences list
• 0T/w1 applies to employees with P46 where no status box is ticked
• Rates, bands, and rules ready for PAYE Year 2011/12
• Warning when cancelling licence form if any changes have been made
• Choice to offset SSP can be overridden for individual employees in each payroll
• Several new stationery payslip layouts and alternative blank A4/A5 layouts
• Bureau: Improved message where no payslip email parameters have been defined
• Bureau: Payslip emails can be password protected. Password is defined on the employee's HR tab
• Bureau: P60 emails can also be password protected.
• CIS: CIS300 can be filed without subcontractor UTR if Higher Rate is nominated
• CIS: System checks contractor UTR is filled in before attempting to file
• Premium: Northern Bank added to payment file formats
• Premium: No longer permitted to import pay for employee where current period for employee is already locked
• Premium: Excel export dates fixed to compensate for leap-year bug in Excel
• Premium: When entering payment history the system once-again automatically guesses PAYE year and month from payment date
• Premium: Natwest Bankline ad hoc bulk list output added to employee payment file options
• Enterprise: Users can maintain internal lists of nominal codes, departments, and Tags
• Enterprise: "Mask" can be used to generate nominal ledger journal text output. Default mask for the entire company can be overridden in each nominal code
• Enterprise: A payment group can be selected in each payroll to add a standard set of payments to new employees
• Enterprise: Distribution codes can be defined for an employer, defining proportions to divide up nominal costings
• Enterprise: Each employee, regular payment line, and timesheet payment line can attach a distribution code
• Enterprise: Distribution codes are used to construct nominal journals from the payroll

VERSION : 1.6.6
DATE : 2 Nov 2010

• Employer template file renamed to avoid confusion with live databases
• Employee PAYE history double-click shows correct history where employee payment frequency has changed
• Failure to load PDF viewer when report is requested automatically shows Windows "Open With..." dialog
• Date entry on forms has improved entry box
• Pension %age deductions can be negative sign to generate a payment, useful for calculations where one element is a %age of another group of elements
• Employer pension can be %age while employee pension is fixed amount
• Premium: Several new payslip formats added SE95/SE96/SE98/SE99/SE100/PS100
• Premium: Right-click on PAYE tab allows user to (a) rewind the employee to the line clicked on (b) create a new payroll dated as that line and (c) transfer the employee to the new payroll to redo their figures
• Premium: 4 new "Pay Columns" reports added to nominal reports list. These reports show the different payment types in columnar form, like a manual cashbook
• Premium: Custom payslips allow logo dimensions to be controlled
• CIS: CIS information panel moved to main employer tab... makes entering CIS information much more natural
• CIS: CIS A4 payslip shows employee name in correct order for limited company subcontractors if no override is selected for payslip employee name

VERSION : 1.6.5
DATE : 14 Oct 2010

• Zero value payment lines can have '$' as first character in description to force appearance on payslip ('$' is removed from payslip)
• New HMRC validation requirement, either DOB or NINO must be known for all employees
• Ability to select payment/deductions column on payslips extended to all payslip types
• When a payment for the current period is added the rate is taken from employee "Pay" tab showing permanent rates, if any such rate exists. (Otherwise standard rate is used, as before)
• Premium: Hours worked detail report added to custom reports list
• Premium: Body text for payslip emails can be changed on payroll form

VERSION : 1.6.4
DATE : 27 Sep 2010

• A variety of formats for employee names on payslips can now be chosen
• Premium:Bug fix for new employees when payslip email is being performed
• Enterprise: Support for quarterly, half-yearly, and annual payrolls added

VERSION : 1.6.3
DATE : 23 Sep 2010

• Error introduced in 1.6.1 where windows login exceeds 16 characters fixed
• A few minor fixes to new employee set up

VERSION : 1.6.2
DATE : 18 Sep 2010

• Employees on statutory birth payments (eg SMP) appear with name in pink
• Employees with date of death specified appear in black once P45 has been filed and printed
• Browser tooltips explain reasons for colour of employee text
• Outstanding balance of attachments shown on reports and payslips
• The software automatically warns every period end if last year's P35 should be filed
• You are now warned if you try to print P60s before internet filing of P35/P14, but allowed to continue anyway
• Employer's pension calculation had wrong sign in 1.6.1 if based on %age
• Premium: Data imports automatically rip dashes out of entries like 99-99-99 (sort codes) to turn them into 12Pay's expected 999999
• Bureau: P60s can be sent to employees as individual emails in a mass run
• Enterprise: Payslips can include total paid to date columns, either for current PAYE year or cumulative

VERSION : 1.6.1
DATE : 14 Sep 2010

• NI Cumulatives on employee NI form only show when employee NI adjustments are being entered
• Message on employee Pay tab explaining that this is for regular payments only moved to more prominent position
• More appropriate appearance for dropdowns where typing the text is not recommended
• SSP calculation can now be truncated to payroll date, allowing future sicknesses to be entered more easily
• NI Codes on employee NI tab menu dropdowns appear in alphabetical order
• Mass runs of P11/P60 now permitted for Express users
• HMRC gateway ID checked as 12 characters, this is a warning only
• HMRC gateway password checked as a maximum of 12 characters, this is a warning only
• Orphaned P11 (NI) records always removed automatically when P35 is requested
• PAYE Adjustment accounts for previous pay and tax on P6/P45
• Employer tax reference added to standard copier paper payslips
• Employer names can now be registered from the licence form, without logging in to the website and doing it manually
• Holidays sorted by date and holidays sorted by employee added to payroll reports menu
• If a regular payment is set to zeroise at the end of the week then it is not multiplied by advance holiday weeks
• You can add notes to the employer, as well as each employee. If the notes have an "alert date" less than the current date the employer name is shown in gold in the navigator
• Net Pay and Period Summary reports show count of employees
• Location of HMRC DPS website altered from November 2010
• Express Edition software will now file year-end return if fewer than 10 employees are involved
• Express Edition software will now file in-year movements if company has fewer than 10 employees
• The P45 button on the employee form now automatically asks if the user would like to file by internet first (if this has not already been done)
• Employer information is now hidden if an employer level password has been entered, not just reports
• Credentials form is displayed more intelligently when credentials have not been filled in, including some more assistance warnings
• HMRC PAYE Online password hidden when entered on company form
• Button added to employee HR tab allowing annual hours summary report to be produced for that employee
• Accrued holiday boxes on HR tab only visible when annual holiday entitlement has been filled in
• Newly entered absences (sickness/maternity) default to "truncate to payroll date" and "pay part weeks"
• Whenever a report that needs a licence is run a warning appears if the licence will expire within 6 weeks
• CIS: Payment types on employee current period tab restricted to non tax and non NI elements
• CIS: No longer permitted to set up regular payments for CIS subcontractors
• Premium: "Preprint" payslip design now includes copyright message on both payslips on the sheet
• Premium: Imported payment codes upper-cased as they are processed
• Premium: Timesheet import column headers can be preceded with payment code to allow crosstab style import of employee timesheet hours on different codes
• Premium: Tax code T9 and tax value 0.00 added to Sage export as these are required by Sage 2010
• Premium: Internet filing of P46 always files A/B/C in upper case (can be imported from spreadsheet in lower case)
• Premium: Nominal summary export is dated using P11 entries instead of current payroll date (useful when exporting an old period)
• Premium: Imported hours in format hh:mm will automatically have minutes converted to decimals. eg 3:30 would import as 3.5 hours
• Premium: Imported data with a dash ("-") in any cell gets ignored
• Premium: Option to include copyright msg added to custom payslips
• Premium: "Unity Trust" added to list of bank account output formats
• Premium: Custom reports can be automatically added to payroll/employer menu by prefixing their name with "Payroll-" or "Employer-" and storing the report file in the company or payroll reports folder
• Premium: Tax/NI already paid on P35 cannot be less than zero
• Premium: More validation added to Principal surname and forename when submitting internet P35
• Premium: P11 adjustments to employee figures automatically cause recalculation of P35
• Premium: P11 adjustments to employee figures are not permitted if this would vary a P35 that has been filed already
• Bureau: user can directly control root folder for report storage
• Bureau: HMRC dps now automatically ignores lines where NI number is wrong
• Bureau: HMRC dps colour codes ignored lines in red
• Enterprise: New Enterprise licence type for larger SME's introduced
• Enterprise: Several new methods for automatically part paying periods
• Enterprise: Regular payments can have pay rise date, with automatic pro-rata calculated if pay rise is in the middle of a period
• Enterprise: New starter can have back pay from previous periods automatically applied (including NI treatment of it)
• Enterprise: Bank account details captured on attachments/pensions to assist BACS transfers
• Enterprise: Bank accounts can be created (so that they can be used on attachments/pensions without keying all the details on every employee)
• Enterprise: Bank payments for (eg) pensions can be summarised as a single payment and included in the BACS file as a single line with a separate schedule of the per-employee breakdown shown in the bank payment report.
• Enterprise: Bank Payment Report includes separate sections for different types of payment (net pay/attachments/pensions/etc)
• Enterprise: Supplementary payroll runs permitted. These are additional payroll calculation runs after a period has been completed. Previous runs are subtracted so that a "differences" payslip can be constructed where an employee has additional payments discovered after the main payroll run.
• Enterprise: Numerous reports adjusted to permit supplementary runs to be printed individually or listed with other runs in the same period
• Enterprise: Multiplier rates can be based on daily BASIC rate, which is defined as (annual pay / 52)/working days in week
• Enterprise: Users can specify unit description on payment codes. eg "Miles" or "Days" as opposed to generic "Hours/Units" description
• Enterprise: Attachments can be specified as "All or Nothing" which means that if they breach protected net pay then nothing is paid at all
• Enterprise: Regular payments can be specified as always a singular value, even when the employee has advance weeks pay for holiday
• Enterprise: Pay codes can have an associated "Gross Up" pay code used for net-gross build up
• Enterprise: Regular and one-off payments and deductions can be marked as "Net Pay" and will automatically gross up when calculated
• Enterprise: New payment/deduction areas on custom payslips; Earnings are NI earnings, Earnings Deductions are everything that isn't NI earnings
• Enterprise: For each payment code you can override if it goes in Earnings or Earnings Deductions column on payslip

VERSION : 1.5.8
DATE : 2 Jul 2010

• Sliding pension ages for women introduced

VERSION : 1.5.7
DATE : 15 Apr 2010

• New starters in 2010-11 with P45s dated in 2009-10 had 44 added to their tax code. Now fixed

VERSION : 1.5.5
DATE : 8 Apr 2010

• Premium: Internet filing of starter/leaver documents uses 09/10 templates as HMRC did not change these

VERSION : 1.5.4
DATE : 8 Mar 2010

• 50% tax band for 2010-11 added above £150,000 taxable pay

VERSION : 1.5.3
DATE : 26 Feb 2010

• SxP standard rate for weeks near to year end is calculated using date at end of week rather than start week date
• NI Aggregation validation does not apply to directors where they have ticked the "Ignore Director" box
• All null entries are removed from the data when it is upgraded
• Premium: Nominal summary report for new companies does not show employee details unless requested

VERSION : 1.5.1
DATE : 12 January 2010

• Bands/Rates/Rules added for 6 April 2010 onwards (as usual the previous calculations will apply to payrolls dated before that date)
• "Working" graphics added to progress windows
• Intermittent error on reconciliation report fixed
• Employee find (F3) facility added (surname/forenames/NI No/Address 1/post code)
• Additional validation added to employee NI reporting for directors aggregation cases (QS Appendix 4)
• New Scottish Earnings Arrestment tables added from 6/4/2010
• Notes can be added to each employee. Notes can have an "Alert" date, and employees with notes where the alert date is before today are shown in amber on the navigator. Notes can be accessed via a button on the HR tab or by right-clicking the employee form background
• If the system fails to open a data file when the data file is already open in another session that file isn't removed from the recent files list.
• P35 designed for signature added. Can be printed out, boxes ticked, and signed (useful for bureaus)
• Premium: Address on preprint payslip moved about 6mm to the right to better fit window envelopes
• Premium: Sign on employer element of SMP/SAP/SPP reversed for nominal postings
• Premium: Regular payments can be imported
• Premium: Timesheet payment imports can have column headings
• Premium: P45 Part 1 now files correctly if employee has no P11 data for current PAYE year
• Premium: MS Office Accounting added to accounts integration options (just in time for MS to withdraw their MSOA product)
• Premium: System will no longer try to file internet movements where employee has blank employee code
• Premium: Pro-rata monthly pay can now be based on 260ths or 261st as well as variable daily rate for each month
• Premium: Cessation date can be entered on P35 for submission to HMRC (employer ceased trading)
• Premium: Mail PADF Payslip format added (blank selfseal mailer with window)
• Premium: Z Fold Payslip format added for big auto-selfseal runs
• Premium: Employer's Pension contribution added to RS34 payslip
• Premium: New "deeper" format for A5 payslips on A4 sheet has more lines for payments/deductions
• Premium: Additional validation on P45/P46 details before internet submission
• Bureau: P6 details can be retrieved online from HMRC
• Bureau: Many reports can export their data directly to Excel
• Bureau: Group columns no longer summed in custom reports
• Bureau: Custom reports can be added to payroll reports menu (Save report in program report templates folder preceded with "Payroll-" in the name)
• CIS: Repeated payments/deductions on CIS form no longer suppressed
• CIS: Internet CIS300 is not submitted if subcontractor has no UTR
• CIS: Mail PADF CIS Payslip format added (blank selfseal mailer with window)

VERSION : 1.4.8
DATE : 20 August 2009

• Payments and deductions on employee regular "Pay" tab can reset to zero at period end
• Deductions on employee regular "Pay" and "Current Period" tabs highlighted with red "Deduction" label
• Deductions on employee regular "Pay" and "Current Period" tabs appear with spreadsheet value in red
• Reports requested from employee "current period" tab now appear with colours/style selected in payroll
• Old payslip requested from employee PAYE tab now appears with colours/style for payroll
• Payroll year-end housekeeping happens automatically as payroll moves into first period in new year
• Statutory absences that don't meet payment criteria on employee absence grid shown in red
• Double-clicking payslip history form shows payment history of code on clicked line
• Double-clicking line from "Pay" tab shows payment history of code on clicked line
• Double-clicking payment history shows details of payslip of clicked line
• 4 week payrolls no longer prompt to load new version after week 12. Likewise 2 week payrolls after week 26
• Part weeks/months worked can be automatically part paid. Checkbox on each regular payment for this, and a payroll default checkbox for Basic Pay
• "Payment Reference" label on employer form changed to "Accounts Office Reference"
• Express and Premium editions limited to 30 employees. Larger companies need the Bureau edition
• Error in P60 printout fixed where employee has no NI earnings
• Premium: Senders email address is trimmed of leading and trailing spaces on HMRC submissions
• Premium: Navigator auto-scrolls at top and bottom when dragging employee to another payroll
• Premium: Employees can be dragged to a different payroll by originating the drag from the employee's tab bar
• Premium: Column header text in employee import can contain spaces
• Premium: Payment frequency and period number added to RS19 payslip format and selfseal format
• Premium: Employees can be sorted in employee browser using first name
• Premium: Reports can be sorted using employee first name
• Premium: Net -> Gross can be on repetitive pay basis
• Premium: csv export option on Excel Export no longer writes redundant blank lines into csv file
• Premium: Excel export no longer fails if dates before 1/1/1900 have been entered into 12Pay
• Premium: Excel export now has employee code and name on tables even if employee table is not selected
• Bureau: Report writer added to bureau facilities. Provided "as is" and without telephone support for the moment

VERSION : 1.4.7
DATE : 4 May 2009

• Employee names added to the P14/P35 incomplete calculations tabs
• Cumbernauld and Shipley bank account details changed
• Automatic link between employer details and F1 online help text restored
• Licence form moved back in front of company selection form 
• Scottish Earnings Arrestments new rates for 09/10 (enacted by Scottish Parliament March 09) (REMOVED AGAIN WHEN REPEALED)
• Tax code printed on P45 is taken from last-dated P11, not current employee data
• Internet P14/P35 now fills in box 25 (already paid) from HMRC payment summary if users have been filling in payments
• P38A and P11D questions added to P35 printout
• Button added to P14/P35 submission form to print P35
• NI Tables that require SCON cannot be used without a SCON being set up
• NI Tables that require ECON cannot be used without an ECON being set up
• Blank dates open calendar on current day if you drop them down
• Licence form has check boxes that hide password and prevent password from being stored by the system
• At year end checks that next year's release is already loaded, and prompts for new download if it isn't
• Premium: Cash Analysis added. Options to prevent £50 notes and force at least one £10 note
• Premium: Cash rounding option added. Option to round cash payments and carry forward rounding to next payment
• Premium: Authorised and unauthorised absences added to absence types
• Premium: Import of employee data without employee codes (works numbers) fixed
• Premium: Employee card report includes regular payments
• Premium: AIB csv added to bank export formats
• Premium: Generic BACS added to bank export formats
• Premium: When submitting P45 for new starter by internet now checks for valid P45 tax code

VERSION : 1.4.5
DATE : 5 March 2009

• "Company" text changed to "Employer" in many places (including help files). Many employers using 12Pay are not companies
• Help button added to employer selection form
• Predictive text on payment descriptions no longer appends, just suggests. Reduces unwanted code changes
• Net pay box on employee current period form is no longer a tab-stop
• "Before pension" checkbox on system payments can be altered to user's choice (eg you can choose if SMP is pensionable or not)
• ECON/SCON checks when preparing P35 show correct employee name if ECON/SCON is required
• CIS: Period summary report changes to CIS summary report if payroll is CIS
• Premium: Timesheet import can contain override of line description
• Premium: New payroll report, "Pay Element Detail" shows all payments sorted by type

VERSION : 1.4.4
DATE : 14 Feb 2009

• Net pay report now shows unique bank reference for employee where one is entered
• Net pay report includes a gap between amount and bank account name
• Employee in completed period shows padlock icon on current period tab for clearer visual indication that the period cannot be altered
• Rewind button on PAYE tab has key icon to match the padlock on completed periods
• PAYE tab history lines have visual indication of current and previous periods
• PAYE tab automatically sorted in reverse date order to show current period first
• P45 button added to employee form where employee is a leaver, shows "online" version when part 1 has been submitted online, otherwise new portrait version
• Addtional P45 selection option on company form for new portrait form as laser sheet landscape forms are being phased out
• P45s can only be printed where the employee left before the start of the current payroll period
• Entering a leaving date that will prevent the employee being paid in the current period generates a warning message
• Assorted changes made to the P32 summary report made to make it slightly easier for payroll novices to understand
• P45 from previous employer does not validate previous period or previous frequency if tax code on P45 is week/mth 1
• Employee card report now works correctly if reports are sorted by department
• P60 design added for 2010 onwards including UAP column for NI
• When printing P45 "Tax This Employment" no longer shows net refund as per Helpbook E13
• Backups restored using File/Restore can now be Read-Only, and will automatically be made writable as they are copied into the working folder
• New company has automatic file name suggested, which can of course be overtyped
• Tax this employment on P45 shows as zero if net rebate was given
• Option to enter employer contribution directly rather than employer %age for pension payments
• Pretty calendar displays introduced in 1.4.2 suppressed on Windows 2000 as that operating system doesn't seem to support them reliably
• Company name or payroll description with excessive spaces typed on end no longer prevent reports from displaying correctly
• Employee page heading added to attachment report
• Payroll report "department summary" more accurately renamed "Pay Element Summary"
• Assorted wording changes on employee forms for improved clarity
• Strap line on About... box and splash screen altered to "Payroll Made Easy"
• Employee browser re-sorts items as soon as payroll browser sort options are clicked
• Final date on which SPP can be taken extended by one day after clarification of specification from HMRC
• System no longer displays a message when a company is being updated
• Premium: New "Calculate Rate" button on employee current period tab allows you to calculate the rate at which holiday hours should be paid, based on the last 12 weeks weighted average pay rate.
• Department on employee's Personal tab shows list of departments used for other employees
• Premium: Commentary text on "Holiday" absence form can be entered/edited
• Premium: Submission of P45 to HMRC no longer shows net tax refund as per Helpbook E13
• Premium: Where employee surname sort sequence is used in browser identical surnames now sort in forenames order
• Premium: Employee transfer facility (from payroll to payroll) now a premium feature
• Premium: Employees can be transferred from payroll to payroll by "dragging" them in the navigator
• Premium: Employee transfer automatically deletes orphaned NI records in current period
• Premium: Excel export files saved in company folder not 12Pay folder
• Premium: Excel export now has csv export option. Useful for people who don't have Excel
• Premium: Excel export can exclude advanced columns on some tables with "Basic Data Only" option
• Premium: Maximum incentive on P35 submission increased to £750
• CIS: Option for test submission of CIS300 removed because it does not work in live HMRC system
• Bureau: Paste of employee data from external spreadsheet can update existing employees
• Bureau: P32 does not show comments about making sure that you've run period end (which may confuse clients sent the report)

VERSION : 1.4.3
DATE : 5 December 2008

• SMP payments can truncate automatically on payday, so you enter the entire duration from the start and it automatically pays month by month if you tick the "truncate" box on the absences form
• Option to pay part weeks of SMP added to absence form
• Premium: Self-Invoice print of premium licence handles changed VAT rate from 1st December 2008
• Premium: Payment history introduced in 1.4.2 fixed to allow storage of penny values

VERSION : 1.4.2
DATE : 21 November 2008

• PDF templates and xml payslip templates now load correctly even if software is launched by double-clicking on payroll data file
• New payroll gets created with simple dialog that only shows essential boxes (Frequency and Date) 
• Auto-complete available on description of regular Pay elements
• Regular pay elements change code to that which that matches entered description
• Pay elements with duplicate descriptions no longer cause pay calculations crash
• If database is from newer version than software the version no. of the software is displayed
• If you specify startup document as P46 then you must specify which box was ticked
• NI table X can no longer have adjustment figures entered against it
• Report filename suffixes now have time of day in 24hr format not 12hr format
• Payroll "Report Pack" appears as single PDF
• Generated report names use 24hr clock not 12hr clock
• NI from 6/4/2010 includes Upper Accrual Point (UAP) calculations (not activated in live version until 09/10 rates are known).
• Employees with identical names now repeat name on net pay report and period summary report
• Zero value payments/deductions on the Pay tab are no longer sufficient to generate a tax refund on an otherwise unpaid employee
• Simple "Payslips" menu item added to "Payslips" button on payroll form to reduce occasional questions from people who don't realise that you can just press the button itself to get payslips
• Employee with P45 from previous employer now has facility to override tax figure on P45
• Employee with P45 from previous employer now has facility when starting just before PAYE year end to indicate no pay during the year
• Absences calendar prettified. Shows different absence types in different colours and graphics
• Hold "shift" down when requesting absence calendar to display in alternate year-planner format
• Licence purchase "nag" form now closes automatically if you successfully download a paid-for licence
• Saving an employee with no name now offers "Abandon" option automatically
• Premium: Direct button to view absence calendar on employee HR tab
• Premium: Absences calendar button added to HR tab of employee
• Premium: Deleting a payroll with employees then immediately creating a new one, adding employees, and running calculations no longer causes an error
• Premium: Facility to add payments made to P32 report, so 2 new columns added for payments and net owing
• Premium: SSL support added to mail parameters (type SSL: in front of the user ID)
• Premium: Improved error message if "Email Payslip" fails
• Premium: Option to put various holiday accrual/taken messages on payslips
• Premium: HSBC Hexagon (HSBCnet) added to payment file output formats (thanks to our kind users who helped us with this format)
• Premium: HOBS payment output format has UHL1 header added
• Premium: Bankline Bulk List format added to net pay file exports
• Premium: Albacs IP added to net pay file exports
• Premium: Extra validation added to movements submissions to HMRC
• Premium: Extra validation added to year-end submissions to HMRC
• Premium: Assorted holiday pay text can be included on payslips
• Premium: Software recognised by HMRC for internet submission of P45(1), P45(3), and P46
• Premium: Tag1/2/3/4 and email address added to custom payslip specification file
• Bureau: New licence added, specfically for bureaus marketing payroll services
• Bureau: Sites with bureau licence can edit the copyright message that appears on report page footers
• CIS: Materials cost only submitted on CIS300 if it is positive
• CIS: CIS payroll automatically referred to as such if CIS box is ticked
• CIS: A4 CIS payslip format added

VERSION : 1.3.7
DATE : 13 August 2008 (release to registered users)

• This is a special edition specifically to allow existing registered users to continue to use reports in the system until 6/4/2009. After that most reports will only be available for a trial period of 6 payroll weeks or months unless the user buys a premium licence
• Payroll reports remain available until 5/4/2009
• Company reports remain available until 5/4/2009

VERSION : 1.3.6
DATE : 31 July 2008

• Entry fields moved around on payroll form to assist clarity
• Pay Statement added to payslip formats
• After a trial period (6 payroll periods) only pay statements are available for payslip
• After a trial period (6 payroll periods) most payroll reports become unavailable. Pay statements have to be requested individually
• After a trial period (6 payroll periods) most company reports become unavailable. P11 and P60 have to be requested individually for each employee
• Pay date cannot be altered if any employees have been calculated (use "Restart Period" in that case)
• K code regulatory limit applies to zero gross pay
• P60 added to individual reports on employees Pay tab
• Individual P11 and P60 reports on employees Pay tab can have PAYE year selected
• Maximum poll wait on internet submissions reduced to 30 seconds
• Company form Sender and Contact validated for appropriate entries/character set
• Transferring employees with one-off payment/deduction histories now completes without spurious error message
• Working day pattern can be altered directly on SSP absence as well as default on employee
• SSP Exclusion Start date removed from employee as this is never required and can cause confusion
• Software still starts up correctly even if drive with payroll data is inaccessible
• P32 is displayed automatically whenever a payroll period end moves on to a new month
• P32 automatic display can be suppressed from the reporting tab of the payroll
• New tax bands active from 7th Sept 2008
• Tax code L suffix incremented by 60 before first payroll run after 7th Sept 2008
• Period ending date added to net pay report and period summary report
• Dropdown re-instated on description of this-period's variations
• Question 1 on P35 declaration must have opposite value to P38a declaration for submission to proceed
• Company email address, phone, and contact name validated against HMRC requirements
• New P32 detail report shows each total payment date that makes up the PAYE months
• SSP Offset is now switched off on new payrolls until requested by ticking the box
• SSP1L will be ignored from 27 October 2008 when assessing SSP entitlement
• Edited attachment totals on employee Pay tab can be negative
• Premium: Employee pay can be rolled backwards one week/month/period at a time to go back and correct errors
• Premium: From 27th October 2008 P45s print on blank paper
• Premium: Users can password-protect the company-level reports (p11/p32/p35/p60) and data exports
• Premium: Custom payslip format added, driven using xml layout file, 4 standard variations supplied
• Premium: "P46 filled in" tick added to sheet showing new starter documents
• Premium: More explanation supplied if payroll software has difficulty exporting to Excel
• Premium: Software is recognised by HMRC for year-end internet submission of P14/P35
• Premium: Internet P14 is no longer created where pay, tax, earnings, eeNI and erNI are all zero
• Premium: Hours/Rate/Pay import works on Hours/Rate alone if Pay is zero
• Premium: Address on A4 payslip location adjusted to fit window-envelope better
• CIS: NI Number on CIS payslip altered to employee UTR
• CIS: Tax reference added to CIS payslip
• CIS: Total Payments line written on internet CIS300 even when invoice is for materials only

VERSION : 1.3.4
DATE : 18 April 2008 

• Authentication wizard added, displayed if HMRC submission fails with authentication error 1046
• Year and period selector for payroll reports appears for 5 seconds when reports are requested
• Software is now compatible with Spyware Doctor
• New payroll "Period Ending Date" initialises "Blank". Payroll cannot be saved until date is entered
• P11, P35 summary, P60 now show consistent employee lists. Previously P35 omitted employees with no PAYE and no earnings at LEL
• Calculation is automatic if payroll Reports or Payslips are requested. No need to press "Calculate" button on payroll form
• Option to hide bank details on payslips
• Title of P35 form altered to make it more obvious that it includes P14 data
• Default employee code has "A" added if it duplicates another employee
• "Period" labels on employee altered to Week or Month as appropriate
• Premium: Pre-printed Payslip can include address
• Premium: "Ignore hours for holiday accrual" box in pay element maintenance enabled
• Premium: P14/P35 submission for 08/09 activated, submitted for HMRC recognition
• CIS: Payslip improved to show deduction rate and "Tax/NI" tick columns removed
• CIS: CIS fields on HR tab now subject to maximum number of characters
• CIS: Pure CIS subcontractors excluded from P60 run (as they have zero taxable and NIable pay)

VERSION : 1.3.3
DATE : 7 April 2008

• Department box on "Personal" screen is now dropdown, which shows departments of other employees in the company
• KashFlow added to list of licenced products
• P60 rounds down NI table figures
• New payment/deduction codes are available as soon as they are added in the Payment/Deduction folder
• Pay and Week/Month n tabs on employees now show list of permitted payment/deduction codes straight away when a new payment/deduction is requested
• Better error message when generating internet P14s if employee has PAYE data but no NI data
• Splash screen added when software is loading
• Delete button on employee Pay tab now de-activates when no lines are present
• Mobile Phone number box on employee limited to 20 characters, and email limited to 100 characters
• Read-Only boxes (like Net Pay on Week/Month n tab) now don't show spurious help in status bar
• Internet submission forenames reduced to first two forenames
• Payroll "Reports" button now always shows list of reports. Select Report Pack" to get common reports
• CIS: Rates for 08/09 added
• Premium: CIS values rounded to exact pounds before making internet submission
• Premium: Import of employees from spreadsheet has financial values added (eg salary, pay/tax/NIC this employment
• Premium: Bank payment file no longer exports lines with zero net pay
• Premium: Bank payment takes heed of final "exclude" click even if line is not confirmed
• Premium: Excel export crashed if no data was in selected year/period. Now fixed
• Premium: Excel export is now independent of Excel version on client PC. Previously needed Excel 2003 installed
• Premium: Failure to transmit email gives more informative messages
• Premium: All internet submissions of P45/P46 are new 0809 format from now on

VERSION : 1.3.1
DATE : 14 March 2008

• P45 figures from previous employer are validated if the P45 tax code was cumulative (warning only if incorrect)
• Button added to toolbar which takes control up 1 level, from employee to payroll, and from payroll to company
• P60 template for 2008-09 added
• Pay on "Same day each month" now rolls forward correctly if date selected is less than the 6th of the month
• Registration key on company form automatically strips innappropriate characters
• Payment/deduction code and description lists on employee's Pay form appear in sequence number order
• Payment/deduction code and description lists on employee's This Period form appear in sequence number order
• Wording of "New Variation" button on employee's This Period form changed to "Add Payment/Deduction"
• Mild reminder of premium licence when well-used free software is launched cannot be cleared for a few seconds
• Warning now shown to users when new payment/deduction codes are added that a software restart may be needed before they can be used
• SMP now excludes SSP for 39 weeks, not 26
• 3 different Council tax attachments added
• Magistrate Court fines fixed table (England/Wales) attachment added
• Employer's COMP minimum for 2008 onwards altered to 1.4%
• SMP average earnings can be overridden to 5 decimal places
• SSP absence commentary shows last working day actually paid (useful when 28 week limit is exceeded)
• Column spacing on net pay report adjusted
• 2008/09 rates added for SSP/SAP/SPP
• Blank payroll code can be altered to non-blank code, allowing creation of new payroll
• Default filing incentive is now zero, user enters value of £150, £100 (or £75 next year) as appropriate
• Premium: Licence keys on licence form automatically strip innappropriate characters
• Premium: New schema for Internet P45/P46 for 2008-2009 now handled
• Premium: Integration with Kashflow web accounting system added
• Premium: Export to Excel Spreadsheet added. Client needs to have Excel 2003 for this release
• Premium: First Trust bank export added for net pay (Sage Format)
• Premium: Import file button added to variations tab on payroll form. Allows import of file generated by external timesheet/expenses software
• Premium: Hourly percentage holiday accrual rate added to HR tab
• Premium: Hours Worked report now includes holiday accrued and taken, based on hourly percentage accrual rate entered on each employee
• Premium: New employee details can be copy-pasted from Excel Spreadsheets

VERSION : 1.2.9
DATE : 31 December 2007

• P6 checkbox on main employee screen allows P6 (Notice of Coding) to be entered
• Multiplier rates on standard pay elements can be saved to 4 decimal places
• Employer's pension percentage can be a fraction of a percentage point, eg 5.25%
• If leaving date is cleared the employee name in the navigator reverts to normal colours immediately
• Pressing the "New Employee..." button selects the first tab, with the employee name on it
• New employee is saved as soon as user moves away from the first tab
• When entering NI adjustments the user can now enter employee's NI adjustment and/or total NI adjustment and have the system calculate employer's NI if they wish
• Changing the monthly date mode to "same date each month" no longer advances the month number
• Premium: Preprinted payslip format added (lasersheets, 2/A4 sheet)

VERSION : 1.2.8
DATE : 10 December 2007

• Wording on "tax refund for zero paid employees" question on payroll improved
• NI Rates for 2008/09 added
• Tax Rates from 6/4/2008 added
• Alt-key accelerators added to main menu options
• Wording on employee startup documents (P45/P46/P38S) box clarified in cases where employee didn't start in current PAYE year
• P35 submission questions appear in full on the year-end dialog rather than condensed versions
• CIS: UTR, Trading name, Company registration number, Partnership UTR and CIS Verification number added to employee record on HR tab
• CIS: CIS verification number from employee added to one-off payment variations to subcontractors
• CIS: CIS300 detail report shows makeup of figures required for monthly CIS submission
• CIS+Premium: CIS300 monthly submission can be made over the internet; Recognised by HMRC for this function
• CIS+Premium: CIS verification numbers can be requested over the internet at the touch of a button after entering subcontractor details; Recognised by HMRC for this function
• Premium: Payslips can optionally be printed 2xA5 on an A4 sheet
• Premium: Successful year end or CIS300 internet submission displays "Success" message box before continuing
• Premium: Employees with both postal code and country entry process correctly through internet submissions
• Premium: Employee detail report shows detail for the employees in a payroll
• Premium: Employee detail report can be requested for a single employee with button on employee tab

VERSION : 1.2.7
DATE : 5 November 2007

• When submitting internet movements or P14/P35 to HMRC can choose role: Agent/Employer/Bureau
• Director's NI; enter the date appointed as director rather than number of PAYE weeks. Easier to understand and get right. Existing data is converted.
• Label text on employee form altered to make directors more obvious
• Payroll tree is automatically expanded as soon as it is loaded
• Mild reminder of premium licence added when software is launched if no paid-for licence has been issued
• Mild reminder of premium licence added when software is launched if premium licence has expired
• P60 "none found" message enhanced to point out that P60s are not required for leavers
• CIS: Self-printed invoices for our CIS licence now show product description as CIS not Premium
• CIS: Storage of CIS Deduction corrected to include pennies
• CIS: Option to operate payments to CIS subcontractors added. The same company cannot be both a contractor and a subcontractor
• CIS: Payments to CIS subcontractors added to net HMRC liability on P32
• CIS: Payments to CIS subcontractors added to net HMRC liability on P35
• CIS: Payments to CIS subcontractors added to net HMRC liability when doing year-end return
• CIS: New payslip format added for employers paying CIS subcontractors pay and NI summary removed
• CIS: Payslips show CIS reference on the payment description line
• Premium: If several employees have internet start/leave documents submitted simultaneously all are now updated first time
• Premium: Payslips can be sent to employee email addresses, both individually and as a mass run

VERSION : 1.2.6
DATE : 4 October 2007

• Improved reporting of failure if software fails to load
• Payslips now use the specific word "week" or "month" as appropriate rather than generic "period"
• CIS: CIS Tax deduction line is not created in normal case where CIS Tax is zero
• Occasional rounding error on alteration of basic pay per hour on main employee screen fixed

VERSION : 1.2.5
DATE : 26 September 2007

• Fixed the ability of premium users to copy data from sheets onto the clipboard
• New payment and deduction codes created by users are taxable, NIable, and pensionable by default
• .PAY files associated with payroll application. Just click on the file to run the payroll software
• The colon character (:) is now permitted in company names without breaking the report folder structure
• Used to sometimes report success on test submissions of P14/P35 when they had actually failed
• Premium: Total pay to date in internet submissions now reported as pounds.00 regardless of pence value
• New licence type created, CIS allows for separate licencing of Construction Industry Scheme features. These features, outlined below, allow the operation of a payroll paying a CIS sub-contractor.
• CIS: Employees can be marked as Higher rate or Lower rate in the tax box on the main employee tab
• CIS: One-off payments/deductions automatically calculate CIS deduction according to employee CIS rate
• CIS: Automatically calculated CIS pre-payment can be manually adusted when employee payment is being entered
• CIS: A CIS deduction reference should be entered when a CIS pre-payment has been recorded. A warning is issued if this is omitted
• CIS: New payroll variation code created, CISTAX, used by the CIS system to hold CIS deductions as employer rebates (returned from HMRC PAYE/NI liability)
• CIS: CIS deduction is included as an employer pay element. Automatic nominal journal for premium users is CR Other Debtors DR PAYE/NI liability
• CIS: CIS deduction column is shown on the Employee Summary report and the P11 (Tax) Report
• CIS: P32 (Payment Summary Report) subtracts CIS deduction totals for month and quarter from the HMRC liability
• CIS: P35 (Year End Summary) subtracts CIS deduction totals for the year from total owing to HMRC at year end
• CIS: Internet submissions are automatically adjusted appropriately to include CIS deductions

VERSION : 1.2.4
DATE : 1 August 2007 

• Zero PAYE and NI on payslips have trailing 'R' removed
• All tax codes shown on Period Summary report, even when successive employees have the same tax code
• Backup and Restore initially return to the folder used for the most recent backup
• Blank payment/deduction codes cannot be created any more
• Existing blank payment/deduction codes can have a code entered
• When director's NI calculation rules are used payslips show Director's NI as the description
• Option to show this period's employer's pension contribution on payslip footer summary
• Payrolls with no employees in them are deleted (silently) when a company is loaded, as long as the company has at least one employee
• Licence button on company form colour-coded to show licence status
• Leavers are shown in the navigation pane in red. Reversed until their P45 has been printed
• Taxed employees are included on P35 even if they have no NI analysis at all
• Recalculate button on internet year-end submission form allows P35 to be recalculated
• Apostrophes are now OK in user IDs when using the Retrieve from Internet licencing feature
• Navigator Company/Backup/Help toolbar re-organised to be more like a conventional windows menu
• Employee icons in navigator distinguish between male and female
• Employee title is limited to 4 characters and limited to HMRC character set C
• Employees transfered from one payroll to another no longer have temporary variations blocked in new payroll
• It is no longer permitted to try to submit a P35 with no P14s on it
• Premium: Option for large fonts added to payroll reports (reduces payslips to 6 payments or deductions, but makes all payroll reports bigger and easier to read)
• Premium: Annual hours worked summary report, with one column for each month, and one row for each employee
• Premium: Employee HR tab has checkbox for Contract or Written Employment Particulars issued
• Premium: Employee HR tab has hyperlink to free Businesslink tool for creating Written Employment Particulars
• Premium: Employee HR tab has previous name (usually useful for maiden name)
• Premium: Employee list in navigator pane can be sorted with leavers appearing after current employees
• Premium: Any gif file in the company folder will be used for the company logo on reports. Logo1.gif will be preferred if present
• Premium: Users can paste one-off payments and deductions straight into a payroll from products such as Excel

VERSION : 1.2.3
DATE : 21 June 2007

• Incompatibility with new Acrobat Reader V8.1 addressed
• Bug on setting of payroll password fixed
• Help button added to payroll form takes operator straight to period procedure summary page
• Premium: Text on P32 moved to avoid collision with company logo

VERSION : 1.2.1
DATE : 12 June 2007

• Software officially recognised for year-end internet filing 2007/08
• Employee age at period end is displayed on the main employee tab if their birthdate has been entered
• Company name can now have characters in it which cannot be included in a folder name
• Deletion of an employee is confirmed with an "Are you sure?" dialog
• P35 appears even if all employees paid no tax and no NI, as long as at least 1 employee has LEL NI earnings
• Transferring an employee from one payroll to another sometimes displayed an error message even though it worked
• Error messages improved when company level reports are empty (wrong year and incomplete periods suggested)
• Employee with both Country and Postcode is now acceptable for online submission of P14/P35
• Employee/r nominal codes added to payment/deduction codes, pre-populated for Sage Line 50 defaults
• Employee/r nominal codes added to period department summary report
• Net pay nominal code and department added to company form
• Automatic local backup taken immediately before period-end
• Automatic local backup taken immediately before database upgrade
• Payroll with "Same day each month" no longer fails if previous month payday was 31
• Improved error message when employee with duplicate employee code is attempted
• Message added to printout of P32 to explain that incomplete periods are not included on it
• First use of software displays message suggesting that the introductory movie should be watched
• Premium: Option to sort employees within department in the navigation tree
• Premium: Accrued holiday is calculated for each employee, and compared with holiday actually taken
• Premium: Next of Kin and other employee information added to employee details
• Premium: External documents (eg Word/Excel) can now be linked to employee records
• Premium: Error message displayed when creating reports if logo1.gif is not a valid gif file
• Premium: Company name moved down on P35 when logo is displayed to avoid collision with report description when name is long
• Premium: Nominal Summary Report added to payroll reports menu
• Premium: Nominal Summary Export added to payroll reports menu (formatted for Sage Line 50 audit-trail import)
• Premium: New payroll report styles added (very/dark blue/green). Particularly smart for payslips
• Premium: Payroll colour-scheme override available to reflect company artwork style
• Premium: Users can print "self service" VAT invoice for their bookkeeping records when they have bought a premium licence
• Premium: Selfseal payslip layout added

VERSION : 1.1.7.1
DATE : 25 April 2007

• Improvements to text on payroll maintenance form
• Week 53 required marker on payroll maintenance form now ticked correctly when you return to a payroll
• Payslip hours exactly divisible by 10 were losing trailing zero
• Status button on payroll form shows calculation status of all employees in the payroll
• Date help text shows "C" to clear, and right-click context menu added for date fields
• Premium users can completely delete a payroll and all the employees in it
• Viewable summary of all manually entered variations in the period added to the payroll form
• Holiday pay payment code altered to be taxable, as its original function of net-pay loan has been altered

VERSION : 1.1.6.1
DATE : 20 April 2007

• Database name and version number appears on main caption bar
• Improvements to clarity of messages about registration keys and licence keys
• Payslip hours show decimal places if necessary
• Payslip rates not corrected if they already multiply up correctly to pay
• Some typos on labels and help-text corrected
• Premium licence holders get option to print A4 payslips (2-fold window envelope style)
• XML Export for premium licence holders only
• Premium licence holders can enter non-statutory absences such as holidays
• Warning message about HMRC test submissions resulting in "success" email added
• Previous payments can be entered on new statutory absences (makes mid-year setup easier where previous payments have been made in old system)
• Form display improved for non-100% font scales (still not perfect, but then neither is MS Office...)
• Premium licence codes and company registration codes can be retrieved directly from the internet
• Explanatory message is displayed when a requested report is empty
• P46 tickbox only alters employee tax code if employee is newly set up or if employee has no tax code currently

VERSION : 1.1.5.1
DATE : 26 March 2007

• Adjustments to PAYE summary totals take account of pay in previous employments
• P11 (Tax) printout improved for situation where PAYE summary is manually altered and employee has previous pay this year from another employment and no payments are made directly through software

VERSION : 1.1.4.1
DATE : 23 March 2007

• Licence form available from company maintenance screen.
• Licence number cannot be altered if any premium licences exist.
• Robustness of closing data file prior to backup improved.
• Deductions explained as negative payments on employee screens.
• Tax code entered on P11 tax adjustments, passes through to P14 submission if no actual payments are made. Defaults to employee tax code.
• NI adjustments are permitted to employees even if no actual NI payments exist for the current year.
• P11(NI) & P11(Tax) no longer shows current week if it is not completed.
• Company icon on navigator changed from hard-disk to building.
• Change Company and Backup buttons try to save current record first.
• Automatic loading of payroll companies into "recently used" list suggested if no companies are in the list.
• Protected net pay is multiplied by advance holiday weeks when they appl.y
• Web links added to toolbar.
• Director's NI weeks set to 52 at year end ready for next year.
• Company names increased to 35 characters from 30.
• Premium users can put their logo on reports.
• Clear green/red indication on current period tab of employee shows if employee is to be paid in the current period.
• payment/deduction from completed period can no longer be deleted.
• MSI install file and .exe digitally signed by Verisign.
• MSI install file checks for .NET Framework 2.0 before installation begins.
• Improved error message if PDF Viewer is not installed.
• Handling of unconfirmed calculations improved prior to internet submission. Deletion of them is now permitted 
• New PAYE bands from 18/5/2007 added.
• Assignment of report folders improved.

VERSION : 1.1.1.2
DATE : 2 March 2007

• XML export facility of all employee data.
• Improved status message for year end internet filing.
• Hyperlinks on labels related to product registration and licencing.
• Improved period<->date relationship in payroll maintenance.
• Just enter the date to get the PAYE period number.
• Additional data collected on starters P45 from previous employer.
• Internet submission of movements data P45(1) P45(3) P46 for premium licence.
• Improved registration message at foot of reports with URL to website.
• Limitation on number of period-end runs without registering.
• Default PAYE year for new companies ends 5 Apr 2008.
• Year end 2006/7 increments tax code L by 19.

VERSION : 1.1.1.1
DATE : 31 January 2007
First release of HMRC Accredited Payroll Software