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Unified Payroll migration completed

We finished migrating all customers to the new Unified Payroll experience, which enables you to run payroll for US (W-2) employees, international employees, and contractors worldwide, all in the same platform.Unified Payroll migration completedThe Unified Payroll experience offers many new features, including:
  • Pay dates account for bank holidays in different countries and are adjusted to avoid delays related to the holidays
  • Payroll charges for contractors are always made four business days before the pay date, to help make cash flow more predictable
  • You can continue to make changes to payroll until the approval deadline
  • You can view payroll items collectively by pay period, pay date, and country

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Other notes on Unified Payroll

  • The old experience will be retired and will not be visible after the final recurring payments are paid
  • Vendors are not supported in the Unified Payroll experience, but you can convert them to contractors if you wish to add them to payroll. Check out our help article for more details.
  • To learn more about the Unified Payroll migration, see our help article here
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Faster performance when paying contractors

A performance improvement was made to Pay contractors to speed up page loading. This means that, if you use Plane to pay hundreds of contractors in batch, you’ll get noticeably faster performance.A performance improvement was made to Pay contractors to speed up page loading. This means that, if you use Plane to pay hundreds of contractors in batch, you’ll get noticeably faster performance.Faster performance when paying contractors

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Other improvements and fixes

  • The Onboarding page loads faster and no longer displays cancelled onboardings
  • We fixed an issue that prevented some Form W-2s and 1099-NECs from displaying on Taxes > Tax documents
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Convert vendors to contractors

We added the ability to convert a vendor to a contractor. This is useful when you want to treat the vendor like a team member or if you’d prefer to use contractor features for a vendor, instead of using the streamlined…Please see these related help articles for more info:

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Other improvements and fixes

  • When a US employee is added before US payroll has been enabled for your organization, the onboarding for the employee will be paused until it has been enabled
  • When compensation is set for international employees, it will now always default to the local currency. Some countries were defaulting incorrectly to USD.
  • We fixed a defect related to work location changes for US employees, in which some changes did not get applied to payroll immediately
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Improvements and fixes

This update includes several improvements and fixes.
  • You can now filter by employment type (employee or contractor) in the Payroll Journal report.
  • We fixed an issue concerning approved expense reports attached to payroll. If a person was removed from payroll before the pay period was processed, the expense would remain in an unprocessed state without the ability to take action. Now when this happens, the expense is detached from payroll so it can be paid or “Marked as paid” as appropriate.
  • An issue that prevented custom contractor contracts from loading in the new HRIS experience has been resolved.
  • We fixed an issue that caused some team members to remain on payroll after they were terminated.
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Team members grouped by worker type in payroll summaries

The Payroll Summary statement (in Payroll History) now splits contractors and employees into separate sections.The Payroll Summary statement (in Payroll History) now splits contractors and employees into separate sections.Team members grouped by worker type in payroll summaries

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Other improvements and fixes

  • The term “Salary” has been replaced with “Regular earnings” throughout the platform
  • Some customers that migrated to the new payroll experience were affected by incorrect payroll calculations. We corrected a defect that caused old compensation amounts to be applied to new payroll items.

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For customers who migrated to the latest HRIS

  • Unfiled Form 1099-NECs are no longer displayed on a contractor’s or vendor’s profiles
  • When a compensation change is made for a date when a compensation record already exists, the change will overwrite the existing value. Previously, multiple compensation records were created for the same date, which created unnecessary records when corrections were made.
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Improvements when editing approved payroll items

Changes to an approved payroll item no longer move it back to a “draft” state.
  • Changes are applied with a new “Save changes and approve” button
  • You can reverse approvals using the “Cancel approval” action on a single payroll item or a selected group Improvements when editing approved payroll items

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Other improvements and fixes

  • Changes to the residential address of a US employee designated as “Work from home” are automatically synced to their work location
  • We fixed an issue with the display of termination dates in contractor contracts. If a termination date is provided, it will now display again in the contract.
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Usability and performance improvements to contractor payments

We made improvements for customers making payments to large numbers of contractors.
  • The Pay contractors page now displays a maximum of 30 contractors per page to speed up page loading
  • When the number of payments in a single batch exceeds 50, additional processing time is required. After authorizing the payments, you’ll be taken to a waiting page while the payments get set up. Upon completion, you’ll be taken to the Charges page.
  • When the number of payments falls below this threshold, you’ll be taken to the Charges page immediately after authorizing the payments Usability and performance improvements to contractor payments

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Other improvements and fixes

  • We made additional improvements to the Payroll Journal report. Funds debited, Net pay, and Reimbursements total were added to the report. We also added a filter for Pay date and made formatting enhancements.
  • When an admin views an unsigned contractor contract, the business entity associated with the contractor will always be displayed in the contract preview when applicable
  • We resolved an issue affecting the addition of Venezuelan bank accounts
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The most recently paid payroll for international employees is now displayed on the Run payroll page. Details can be viewed when clicking into the group.Paid payroll for international employees displays in Run payrollYou can also continue to view all payroll history for international employees in the Payroll history page, or by running a report.

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Other improvements and fixes

  • The Payments report now includes a column to display all approvers of the associated payment request
  • A new, blocking payroll issue is created when a company is “not in good standing” and is displayed in the blockers and issues list
  • We fixed an issue where void payroll was displaying incorrectly on the Run payroll page. Void payroll was never intended to be displayed here, but it remains available in Payroll history
  • We fixed an issue for US payroll where the funds debited calculation was incorrect for taxes that are not directly remitted by Plane. Taxes that need to be remitted by customers (e.g., NY SDI and NY PFL) are calculated and displayed on payroll statements and reports but are not included in funds debited.
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