Payroll News, Spring 2025: Time and Attendance, Employee Self Service, Roles and Permissions, Payday Super, and you.
- Brett Reed
- 2 days ago
- 5 min read
Updated: 5 hours ago
Payroll News for Spring 2025
We had a fantastic and smooth end to the financial year! A heartfelt thank you to all our wonderful customers for expertly managing their processes; your efforts truly made a difference! We are proud to share our progress with e-PayDay Go®. We recently released Series 4, which includes many features we've been eager to implement. Many enhancements have also been completed to meet our agile software development goals.
One standout feature is our first STP mobile app, ClockMeIn® (EPSS) Payrollee Self Service, now available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. While other apps have similar functionalities, ClockMeIn® shares a unified code base with e-PayDay Go®, ensuring seamless integration with our payroll platform. Many features have yet to be added, but we had to start somewhere, so stay tuned for our upcoming enhancements.
Another big-ticket item was improving Roles and Permissions, which we wanted to provide in an earlier release, but had many other items that needed to be completed first. The Roles and Permissions functionality included in our first releases needed to be rewritten entirely, which we have now finished. With this new foundation, we can provide for improved granular control in future releases. You can micro-manage access to almost every aspect of e-PayDay Go®'s extensive features and functionality.
Happy PayDays,
Brett
You can find me on LinkedIn.
You now provide a powerful free Employee Self Service (ESS) tool, allowing your team to manage their pay days with ClockMeIn®.
Your employees can manage multiple tasks, making it easier to control their payroll experience. ClockMeIn® is provided at no additional charge for all subscription plans. Certain features and functionalities will be limited depending on the chosen e-PayDay Go® plan level.
Many features are now available with more to come:
View plain language Pay Slips for any period
Automatically record in and out times and geolocation
Manually enter in and out times, dates, and notes if needed
View Timesheets for any period recorded using Clock-In or Manual entry
Direct Messaging sends timely notifications and essential messages as soon as the pay slips are available after completing the pay run
Keep employees informed and ensure they never miss vital updates about their earnings and Payday Super payments!
ClockMeIn® can now be easily configured as a time clock Kiosk, allowing employees to clock in and out from centralised locations.
ClockMeIn® offers an adaptable time and attendance solution that can be configured as a dedicated kiosk on an Android or Apple tablet. This versatility allows the ClockMeIn® mobile app to seamlessly integrate into and meet the diverse needs of nearly any workplace environment, from small businesses to large enterprises.
Our unified time and attendance payroll system offers several benefits for employers. You can record time and attendance data from centralised locations and multiple mobile devices. The recorded information is seamlessly integrated with payroll, as all our features and functions operate on the same core product.
You evaluate your employees' performance, but do you let them rate you? Now we provide the ability with ClockMeIn® Mood-a-Rater™.
Employee feedback is essential for fostering a positive workplace environment. ClockMeIn® Mood-a-Rater™ allows you to collect anonymous employee sentiment regularly to monitor morale. Mood-a-Rater™ is optional and fully customisable.
Real-time employee sentiment visibility is now accessible on your payroll management dashboard.
Roles and Permissions are a must-have to manage your payroll securely.
Roles and Permissions empower you to create and manage distinct user roles within the e-PayDay Go® platform. Each user is assigned a specific role, which outlines their access rights and capabilities within the system. You can restrict a Role to access only specific Menu Items and limit the functionality within that section.
For example, you can configure a role that restricts the user to only generating reports, enabling them to process or analyse data while keeping other functionalities, such as processing a pay run, off-limits. This tailored approach ensures that users have the appropriate level of access to perform their tasks effectively and securely.
In the upcoming release, Version 4.80, we are excited to introduce a new Timesheet permission explicitly designed for Managers and Supervisors. This feature will empower them to review and approve individual employee timesheets, ensuring accuracy and accountability in tracking work hours.
Additionally, we already have an established permission that allows for the review and approval of timesheets prior to processing the payroll run, streamlining the payroll management process and enhancing overall efficiency. This enhancement provides a structured approach to timesheet approvals, significantly benefiting employers and employees. You have the option to continue without the timesheets being approved if this step is not part of your natural business process.
We're excited to announce that the powerful Accounting Export feature is now available in e-Port™, streamlining your financial processes!
e-Port™ has now been expanded to include Accounting Export. This functionality has been on the roadmap since the first release of e-PayDay Go®, now we have finally added it to Series 4.
We are providing the most requested flat file exports to begin:
Kitten Software ServiceMaster (V7+)
Before you ask, XERO is next on our list of available exports. To participate in the beta, please complete the e-PayDay Go® Xero Integration Beta form.
We have partnered with SuperChoice to streamline your Superannuation Contribution reporting and payments.
With e-PayDay Go®, superannuation reporting and payments are fast, accurate, and compliant. Our payroll software provides a streamlined superannuation experience, removing the complexity of managing your Superannuation Contributions and Payday Super obligations. We have partnered with SuperChoice, Australia’s premier Clearing House service, which is trusted by the nation’s most prominent brands. We provide this seamless service at no additional cost, all within e-PayDay Go®.
Using e-PayDay Go®, you can:
Instantly report and pay Superannuation Contributions with one click and no extra cost
You can also easily create a SuperStream Alternative File Format (SAFF) file containing your payees’ superannuation details and contributions for other clearing house solutions
Produce a Banking File (.aba) for efficient processing of Superannuation fund payments if required
Eliminate reliance on the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House (SBSCH), which will be closed from 1 July 2026
Stay compliant with the government’s upcoming Payday Superannuation requirements
We're excited to share that our FREEPAY customers can also take advantage of this completely free Clearing House offering.
As we look to the future of our development roadmap, we are investing thousands of hours (and $$$'s) in enhancing our payroll solutions with exciting new features to ensure you have the powerful payday tools you need!
The team works perpetually, adding new features and functionality, building on our solid framework. Since our beta launch on December 1, 2022, we've eagerly introduced hundreds of features, and we remain committed to developing exceptional Australian Made payroll software that we genuinely believe in and are proud of.
What's currently on the development roadmap:
Single Touch ePayDay Super™
Absence Requests and Leave Management
Employee Onboarding
We would greatly value your insights regarding potential future features and your thoughts on their importance and prioritisation. Your feedback will help us tailor our future developments to suit your needs effectively.
We recommend reviewing our disclaimer concerning the content of this post to remain informed and make suitable decisions for your circumstances.
Comments