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'R' we dropping the '-R' from USXS?  You bet we 'R'

Happy New Year! And what a great start to the new year!  We are very excited to report all Classic migrations are complete!  The last of the inventory migrations wrapped up in December.  CY2022 included the last two waves (9 and 10) with approximately 115 remaining districts migrating USAS and USPS during the year.  In addition to that, we also had a large influx of inventory migrations take place during the year.  Out of the 370 districts scheduled to migrate their inventory, 300 of them migrated during CY2022! Both district and ITC staff should give themselves a huge pat on the back for this incredible accomplishment.   We did it! 

With the retirement of Classic,  the 'R' is no longer needed to differentiate between Classic and Redesign.  Yes, the current applications are our redesigned software but I think we all can agree, we no longer need to refer to it as 'Redesign.'  It's State Software - USAS, USPS, Inventory, if you will, and we will be updating our wiki this year to no longer refer to to the 'Redesign' moniker.

As with every January newsletter, we like to review some of the features and improvements added to the software in the prior year.  Many of these were requested from user feedback with assistance from the State Software Steering Committee.  Listed below are just a handful of the new features/enhancements that took place in 2022:

• USAS
  • Ability to modify certain fields on the User record
  • FYE related changes including removing INFOTECIRN and changing CFDA number to be ALN (Assistance Listing Number)
  • Implemented auditor report bundles, including sending reports to auditors via SFTP
  • Allow districts to print 1099s directly from USAS
  • Performance improvements made to AP Invoice and Payables UIs
  • Ability to change a vendor on a new PO without having to reopen a posting period
  • Ability to reverse a receipt without having to reopen the posting period associated with the original receipt
  • Ability for Group Manager role to disable report bundles

• USPS
  • Completed a collection of audit focused enhancements including implementing audit report bundles, audit logging and more options added to the existing audit report
  • Ability to filter expenditure account selection in pay accounts, future pay and current pay
  • Job Calendar report enhancements were added
  • Payroll Account user interface was added to display all accounts in a grid
  • User interface improvements added to Future Pay
  • Allow multiple days for the same calendar day for different retirement entities
  • Updated several reports to generate in Excel/CSV
  • Allow districts to print W2 forms directly from USPS
  • Allow payroll items and configuration to be archived
  • Print screen options were provided in several of the UIs
  • Included payroll item refund payments in the Earnings Register
  • Perfect Attendance Report crated
  • Salary Notice created

• Inventory
  • LDAP Implementation
  • Creation of the Audits report
  • Creation of a FYE report bundle (when closing the period)

• ITCM 
  • Ability for ITCs to submit 1099s, W2s and ODJFS on behalf of their districts