You can now require all users on your account to set up 2-Factor Authentication (2FA), helping to keep your payroll data safer, and supporting stronger, organisation-wide security practices. Read more in our blog.
We have taken steps to ensure your data remains safe. Read more in our blog.
We’ve redesigned our Support page to make getting help even easier. Read more about the changes in our blog.
Budget 2026 introduces updates to USC rate bands, the minimum wage, and Benefits-in-Kind. Read more in our blog.
We’ve started implementing design updates to make the system even easier to use, with more changes to come. Read more in our blog.
We spoke with Montaque Swanepoel about his experience using SimplePay. Read more in our blog.
You can now view leave information in hours instead of days. Read more in our blog.
On 1 October 2025, certain PRSI contribution rates will increase by 0.1%. Read more in our blog.
We’re kicking off 2025 with a look back at some smaller features that were introduced and enhancements that were made over the last few months. Read more about these in our blog.
Our new Getting Started Checklist is here to streamline the process of getting set up on SimplePay. Read more about this exciting feature in our blog.
Introducing our new Custom Reports feature. You can now set up custom reports for repeated use, and choose the information that you want to see. Read more in our blog post.
The annual Budget Speech introduced various changes, which will take effect on 1 January 2025. Read more about these changes in our blog.
Important PRSI changes are due to take effect on 1 October 2024. More information can be found in this blog post.
We’re excited to launch our new and improved help site! Read more about the updates in our blog post.
In this blog, we recap some new features and feature updates that went live in the second quarter of 2024. Read more here.
We’re excited about the latest addition to our Reminders functionality: Leave Expiry! Read more about this in our blog.
Simplify your payroll management with Custom Bulk Inputs. Edit payroll items of your choosing — for multiple employees at once — on a single screen or via an Excel file generated by the system.
In this blog, we recap some system updates that occurred in the first quarter of 2024. Read more here.
Our new Feature Labels allow you to easily read more about new features, and to send us feedback about new and existing features.
We’re happy to announce that we’ve made our Employee Self-Service (ESS) claims available to our entire customer base — by default! Find out more about this exciting feature in our blog.
SimplePay conveniently offers ERR-ready claims to your Employee Self-Service to simplify the process for you.
In this blog, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the new Enhanced Reporting Requirements that will come into effect on 1 January 2024.
Introducing the SimplePay Account Dashboard – a game-changing feature designed for streamlined payroll management.
In this blog post we will discuss the Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) in the context of payroll processing.
The Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR) will require employers to begin reporting details of specific non-taxable payments made to employees and directors from 1 January 2024.
Introducing SimplePay’s newest feature: Reminders. Keeping track of important employee events has never been easier. With reminders, you can receive emails to keep you informed of upcoming birthdays, work anniversaries, and all other important dates.
Introducing Leave Expiry Reports! Our new feature is here to help you keep track of your employees’ expiring leave.
We have improved the recovery and reset processes for 2-Factor Authentication.
An overview of the proposed changes to the Benefit-in-Kind rules for company cars.
In this blog post we’ll further discuss Statutory Sick Leave, the status of it becoming a built-in feature and how it can be added currently.
Our system now allows Active and Inactive states for companies within a profile, in cases where companies must be closed, but not deleted.
We’ve added a new pay frequency for payslips every 4 weeks.
From 1 November 2022, 2-Factor Authentication will become mandatory for all Xero users.
You can now encrypt reports with passwords.
In this blog post, our customer success team tell us a bit more about who they are, what they do and how this impacts you.
In this blog post, we outline the process that we follow to evaluate feature requests and select features to add to our development pipeline.
SimplePay automatically calculates and applies a pro-rate percentage to the Basic Salary of employees if they do not work for a full pay period i.e. the are appointed after the start of a pay period or terminated before the end of a pay period. We’ve received several requests to allow for the pro-rata percentage to be applied to other items, and are delighted to announce that this functionality is now available for certain custom items.
Our new approver override feature allows full admins to approve requests when approvers are on leave.
You can now capture leave in bulk by importing an Excel file.
We’ve expanded our beneficiaries functionality so that you can add beneficiaries for custom items.
We’ve overhauled the page for bulk finalising payslips to make it easier to toggle additional payslip information.
You can now download a ZIP file with all the payslips within a specific date range for selected employees or pay points.
We’ve expanded our permissions functionality to include an option for read-only access.
Employees on the cumulative basis who are paid on 30 or 31 December will be taxed on a week 1 basis.
We’ve updated the system to reflect the changes in income bands for PRSI for 2021.
We’ve add a new built-in item to our system to accommodate the special tax requirements of permanent health insurance contributions.
We’ve released version 2.0 of our app with more functionality.
We’ve made changes to our user interface on profile pages.
Our new system items simplify the process of correctly recording and reporting salary sacrifices for travel passes and purchases under the Bike to Work scheme.
Hourly paid employees can now use self-service to submit their hours worked for the period.
We have created a new system item to cater for the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme.
We have a new opt-in feature for employee claims via self-service.
We’ve revamped our employee filters to make it more convenient to find and select employees.
We’re introducing a new 3-step process for company transfers.
This new feature reminds you of outstanding employer loans and savings when ending an employee’s service.
We have improved the process for deleting leave.
We have added a feature that allows you to view all payslip items without previewing the payslip.
A new Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme has been introduced, which is aimed at providing financial support to employees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This new scheme comes into effect today, 26 March 2020, and builds on the previous Employer COVID-19 Refund Scheme.
We have added a new COVID-19 Refund Scheme item, to allow for payment to employees who have been temporarily laid-off due to COVID-19.
On 15 March 2020, Regina Doherty, the current Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) announced that workers who are temporarily laid off due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) will be able to claim a special support payment of €203 per week.
The changes in national minimum wage will impact PRSI and USC.
We have introduced a new feature that allows you to bulk import employees from ROS.
As 2019 (and the decade) draws to a close, we’d like to thank you for choosing SimplePay as your payroll software provider. We really value the loyalty, ideas, feedback and love that we get from you, our clients.
Our new optional timeout feature allows you to choose how long the system can be left idle for before automatically logging you out of SimplePay.
We have upgraded our integration with QuickBooks.
To assist with the upcoming gender pay gap reporting obligations, SimplePay has added a gender field for employees.
SimplePay is delighted and proud to announce that we have been chosen by Xero as a finalist for the App Partner of the Year: South Africa.
You can now specify that leave days carried over from the previous leave cycle expires if not used within a specified time frame.
We now support dual employment on our system.
We now support PRSI sub-classes A8 and A9 for employees under a Community Employment Scheme.
Small changes can make a big difference, so we have added a new leave report and made some tweaks to entitlement policies.
Revenue recently announced an extension to the ROS return filing and tax payment date for certain customers.
We are happy to announce that we have increased our bulk actions functionality to include bulk actions for once-off payslips.
SimplePay is a global brand, so we have decided to present ourselves as such, with an enhanced global logo.
As of 8 April 2019, expect updated employee RPNs for DEASP Budget Changes.
Add your own fields to an employee’s Basic Info screen with our newest feature.
Live chat support now makes it even easier for you to get the assistance that you need.
Your first Statement of Account is produced by the Revenue computer system based on all payroll submitted with a pay date in January 2019. The Statement of Account contains a chronological list of all tax liabilities incurred, any amendments to these liabilities, all payments made in respect of these liabilities and the balance outstanding at the end of the period referred to in the statement. The Statement of Account for January will need to be submitted by 14 February 2019, with all subsequent submissions due on the 14th of the month following the payroll month.
The next step in preparing for 2019 payroll is complete: RPNs can now be retrieved for all employees.
Employers and agents can now upload authorisation certificates in SimplePay. This is the first critical step required for processing payroll in 2019.
Revenue released an end of year notice on Friday 23 November 2018. Here is a summary of the most important parts of the notice.
Get a glimpse of what we’ve been working on for PAYE Modernisation.
Are your accounts and payroll information not really on speaking terms? Well fret not, because SimplePay is now officially listed in the Xero add-on Marketplace.
