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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In March 2021, we introduced beneficiaries to the system (refer to our blog post dated 9 March). We’ve now expanded this feature to allow you to pay beneficiaries in bulk.
We’ve expanded our beneficiaries functionality so that you can add beneficiaries for custom items.
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.
You can now bulk assign leave policies to employees not on the company default policy.
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.
The TWSS Reconciliation Report is now ready for download.
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.
Outline of the steps that you need to follow on SimplePay if you need to end employees’ service and / or close your Simple Pay account for any reason
We’ve revamped our employee filters to make it more convenient to find and select employees.
This new feature reminds you of outstanding employer loans and savings when ending an employee’s service.
We have added a feature that allows you to view all payslip items without previewing the payslip.
New changes have been announced for the Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme.
We have implemented two changes for the COVID-19 system items: Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme and COVID-19 Employer Refund Scheme.
We’ve expanded our pay frequency settings to give you more flexibility to customise payment dates.
The changes in national minimum wage will impact PRSI and USC.
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.
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.
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.
With the new tax year underway since 1 January, we’d like to reassure you that our system has been updated to ensure that you are always compliant with legislation. There is no need to do any manual updates as in other payroll systems – simply continue processing payslips into the new tax year. Your payroll will automatically meet all the requirements for the 2018 period, as announced in the 2018 Budget on 10 October 2017. If you are still processing payroll for the 2017 tax year, the old tax rules will still be used, as you’d expect.
