Statutory Neonatal Care Pay & Leave (SNCP)
A new statutory payment has been introduced in this tax year (2025-26). Statutory Neonatal Care Pay & Leave is for employees with new-born babies who are admitted into neonatal care. This new form of pay can be entered via the Statutory payments tab in the Staff screen.
Preventing entry of Employer Charges on Attachments
It is now possible to prevent values from being entered into the Employer Charge field on Staff Attachments, to avoid inadvertently pushing employees below the National Minimum Wage.
In Setups> Setups & Defaults> Setups tab, a new field called ‘Allow Emp Chg on Attachments’. By default this will be set to Yes, but if switched to No the Employer Charge field in the Staff> Attachments tab will be disabled.
Holiday Log > Calculating Payment value
The value of holiday pay to apply to an absence was automatically calculated when you tabbed into the Day To Pay field. To prevent accidentally populating this value this no longer happens, and a Calculate button has been added to the bottom of the screen.
Holiday Clear Down to Portal
Running the Holiday Clear Down procedure will now trigger an update of holiday figures in the Portal (where applicable).
Pay > Statutory Paternity Pay
The number of Weeks Paid on SPP records was not being updated when closing a pay cycle. This has been fixed.
Credit Control Report > Colour Coding
A new ‘Colour Overdue Transactions’ option has been added to the Credit Control report, allowing you to choose the style of colour coding shown on the printed report. ‘Yes’ uses the new bolder colour scheme, ‘Original’ switches back to the previous scheme, and ‘No’ switches it off.
Xero Invoice Export
In the Xero invoice export, special characters were being removed from client names. However, Xero allows special characters (unlike Sage) and by removing them clients were not being recognised and were being added as new accounts. Special characters are now retained in client names when being exported to Xero.
Mobile Holidays > Day To Pay
Holidays booked on mobiles for employees in monthly cycles would sometimes be given an incorrect Day To Pay when imported into the Staff Holiday Log. This has been fixed.