Releases Since Our Last Meeting

• USPS-R 6.5.0 Release Notes

  • 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 6.5.1 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a bug in W2 XML output that was not combining City Tax amount for Deductions by positions

      • An employee would have to be setup with multiple positions with the same city tax deduction for each position

    • Fixed a bug in W2 processing that would omit Adjustments if the employee was never paid in the redesign system

    • Fixed a bug in a few queries that could allow skipped results

• USPS-R 6.6.0 Release Notes

  • New Features

    • Allow district to submit their own ODJFS submission files

  •  Improvements

    • Update Posting Period interface to behave similarly to USAS-R Posting Period interface.

    • Made 'last paid date' field more accurate

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fix various problems causing exceptions in the application

    • Fix various bugs in reports (SERS report, Payroll Item Detail Report, Employer Distributions and W2 Report)

    • Medicare tax calculations over 200,000

    • Fix bug with custom report query parameters

• USPS-R 6.7.0 Release Notes

  •  Improvements

    • Import Position Date Range on Position in addition to the Compensation

    • Prevent invalid account codes from being assigned or included in a Payroll

    • Budget Distribution Report no longer locks the UI, allowing users to continue working

  • Bug Fixes

    • Correct Compensation date selection in Benefit Obligation Report

    • Correct rare ordering problem during import 

    • Correct the inclusion of all Adjustments in SERS Per Pay Report

    • Correct CC Extract in regards to Local Contract Code

    • Fix problem with SERS Adjustments not rounding to 2 decimal places

    • Fix problem with EmailedDirectDepositNotices PDF in Payroll Archive when using Default form

Upcoming Releases

• USPS-R 6.8.0

  • Bug Fixes

    • If an employee is missing a federal withholding record and error should be produced.

    • Non-contract compensations should be configurable as daily

  • New Features

    • Compensation journal totals will be reportable.

  • Improvements

    • Payroll item withholding order will be modified.

    • Payroll will withhold missed deductions using an "all or nothing" approach.

    • Payroll report will include counts of female and certified employees. 

• USPS-R 6.6.0

  • This release will focus on several STRS advance related bug fixes and improvements.