2020-01-15 USPS-R Completed Work Review
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Releases Since Our Last Meeting
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug in ODJFS report that was pulling the historical employee name for the report
Fixed a bug in Employee Direct Deposit that would fail if the job name was longer than 150 characters
Fixed a bug in Attendance View that would not allow the user to select a blank substitute if one was already selected
Fixed a bug in Payroll Item Detail Report that was causing odd formatting on the summary totals page
Improvements
Payroll archive will now store submission files along with reports
Updated User Listing Report to match USAS version
New Features
State of Pennsylvania electronic submission file for 2019
State of Pennsylvania csv transmittal form for 2019
Contract compensations can now adjust pays paid field via Compensation Journals
Bug Fixes
The release of USPS-R 6.1.0 introduced a new feature to allow users to adjust the pays paid of a contract compensation. When we implemented the patch to do some behind the scenes calculations during startup to add journals for pays paid to each contract, we did not omit the New Contract Earnings pay types from our calculations. This has caused the pays paid to be inflated for a few districts.
Side effects of this change have caused pay per periods to be off as the contract has to compensate for one less pay. This will only be an issue if the compensation do not use the pay per period override option.
This release of USPS-R has a new patch that will run at startup and create off setting compensation journal adjustments if the pays paid does not equal the value it should based on the history. If a district or ITC has already created offsetting records, the patch will not create new records for that compensation.
New Features
Add ability to mass load pays paid when loading Compensation Adjustments
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug in the Employee Master Report that could result in an exception being displayed to the users
Fixed a bug in the Account Sync View that prevents polling when unnecessary
Fixed a bug in the AFFORD Report related to start / stop date filtering excluding pays that should be reported
Fixed a bug in the AFFORD Report to search for adjustment journals based on transaction date, not posting period
Fixed a bug in the Payroll Report to allow Pay Amount Subtotals more column width so the totals don't truncate
Fixed a bug in the Advanced Leave Calculations that was incorrectly including other leave transactions
Fixed a bug in Payroll Item Missed Error Adjustments to prevent the pay date from being set when created
Fixed a bug in HSA / ACH Submission that would cause exception or invalid report if there was no data to report
Improvements
Improved the performance of Payroll Unposting
Improved the performance of Payroll Posting when an error occurs
Improved the performance of Account Sync queries
Internal improvements to our query paging. Will be used in the future to lower memory usage
Internal changes to multiple reports to use the new query paging
New Features
Add the State of Ohio 2020 tax tables
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug in the Payroll Item Refund ACH service that prevented user from creating an ACH file for a refunded item
New Features
Allow W2 reports to be included in report bundles / payroll archive
Added component to allow users to override sort and control breaks for template reports
Added new W-4 properties to Federal Tax Item
Added new W-4 properties to check / direct deposit XML files
Updated USPS-R for new 2020 Federal Tax calculations
Updated all necessary withholding tables for 2020
Updated Account History Report to take advantage of new dynamic sorting
Improvements
Revert previous change to Spring Batch processing timeout
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug preventing internal batch jobs from completing if the docker container is restarted while processing
Fixed a bug in the W2 report comparing the incorrect values from the Medicare / SS table to produce an incorrect error on the report
New Features
Added new properties to the Adjustment Journals to allow journals to be excluded from month, quarter, year, fiscal to date values
Improvements
Added tooltip to 'two like jobs' on the federal tax item
If an employee had both medicare pickup and their yearly medicare applicable gross exceeded $200,000 the software was incorrectly adding the additional .9% medicare withholding to a portion of these earnings in excess of $200,000.
Please note both of the above conditions would have to be true for an employee to be affected by this issue.
The W2 report would detected and flagged this if it occurred.
If you believe you have an employee that could have been affected, but are unsure ITC staff can open tickets with the SSDT and we can assist in determining if they were impacted.
The federal withholding allowance was not correct for 2020 prior to this release. This amount was updated in the software based on a draft version of the IRS regulations, but this amount was changed prior to the final version of the regulations being released. A corresponding update was not made in the software until this release. Any payrolls processed after this release is installed will be correct.
The federal withholding allowance is used in conjunction with an employee's claimed exemptions as part of the federal taxable gross calculation.
Since this amount was too low for 2020 prior to this release any 2020 payrolls processed before this release is installed would have resulted in a small federal over-withholding for 2020.
Using the Custom Report Writer, users will be able to report MTD, QTD, FYTD, and YTD values for the following Payroll Item totals
Amount Withheld
Applicable Gross
Total Gross
Employer Amount
Upcoming Releases
USPS-R 6.5.0
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug in the Payroll Report that was excluding error adjustments from the Summary Totals
Fixed a bug in Payroll Item Refund Service that incorrectly withheld Medicare
Fixed a bug in Payment Printing that excluded payroll item error adjustments in gross totals
Fixed a bug in Attendance Import combine like entries that would fail due to rounding
Fixed a bug in Employee Master Report where non currency columns had a '$'
Fixed a bug in Job Calendar View that allowed users to enter 'Day Detail' of the component when in create mode
Fixed a bug in USPSR related to date formats
Fixed a bug in File Archive grid not showing file information keys
New Features
Added new Classic W-4 fields to the UDMS extracts
Added new W-4 fields to the Payroll Item Importer
Updated ODJFS Taxable Wage Base figure from $9,500 to $9,000 for Q1 2020
Improvements
Significantly improve the performance of Payroll Posting
Significantly improve the performance of Payroll Validation
Significantly improve the performance of EMIS Soap Bridge retrieve positions call used by the Data Collector
Add Position Number to Adjustment Journal UI when a payroll item has a reference to position
Add new properties to Outstanding Checks Report
Update Outstanding Checks Report to query based on issued date
USPS-R 6.6.0
New Features
Allow districts to submit ODJFS