Release notes: 15 April 2021 | Roubler v7.3

What's new?

MYOB integration

MYOB customers using the "MYOB Advanced" or "Pay Global" products can now use Roubler's workforce management system. The first stage of this integration includes:

• Re-skin of Roubler for MYOB users.
• An integration with MYOB's accounting and payroll back end.

Pay tags

For MYOB Advanced/PayGlobal users

• Pay tags can be used to identify specific employees that need to have a particular pay rule applied in addition to their ordinary pay rules. For example, an employee with the “first aid officer” pay tag can be set up to receive an extra allowance in each pay run.
• Payroll managers can create, edit and delete pay tags. If the pay tag is live and associated with an employee, the system will not allow you to delete it. Payroll managers can also import pay tags from a CSV file.
• Payroll managers can add, change, or remove a pay tag from an employee.

Pay rules engine

For MYOB Advanced users, and other users manually maintaining their own rule sets

• To simplify pay rules setup, payroll managers can now clone an existing pay rule set.
• Pay tags are now supported in pay rules. For example, an employee tagged as “first aid officer” can receive an extra allowance in each pay run.
• New pay rules have been created to enable: 
  • A timesheet to be matched with a specific leave type, such as compassionate leave or domestic and family violence leave.
  • Higher duties, when the employee’s rate of pay is greater than their standard rate or the rate associated with the position that they are working on a particular shift.
  • A minimum number of hours in a timesheet for a given day.

Alternative public holidays

For MYOB Advanced users, and other users manually maintaining their own rule sets

• These changes have been made in line with the New Zealand Holidays Act 2003.
• Roubler now supports adding alternative days as public holidays. This means that when a public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, an employee’s public holiday can be moved to the following Monday or Tuesday.
• These alternative public holidays are displayed in the roster to help managers understand the cost implications of rostering people on these days.
• Alternative public holidays are also taken into account when leave is calculated.
• Employees can now apply for leave in days or hours, based on their requirements. When an employee applies for leave, the exact number of days and hours is now calculated automatically and displayed. Admins and payroll managers can also now build pay rules to support this.

Other platform changes

• Admins and payroll managers can now import the following when setting up a company:
  • Pay types
  • Work types
  • Leave types
  • Cost centres
  • Employee requirements/qualifications
  • Shift requirement definitions.
• The JobMaker eligibility report is now available for businesses in Australia.
• The following New Zealand tax options have been added:
  • SA, SA SL, WT tax codes
  • Secondary income bands: 70k-180k, 180k+
  • Calculations (180k+, less SA or SA SL).

Talenox integration

• Employees can now view their payslips from Talenox in Roubler's employee self service feature and mobile app.
• It is now possible to bulk import employees from Talenox to Roubler.
• Employees' legal statuses are now synchronised from Talenox to Roubler.
• "Cash" is now no longer a valid payment option for companies in Singapore.

• Users were able to select the same end date as start date for overnight shift patterns.
• Users were able to select the same end date as start date for overnight standard hours.
• An error message appeared when attempting to reset password.
• An internal server error occasionally appeared when converting a shift to leave.
• An error message appeared when creating a new location in New Zealand.
• The pay conditions rule set was missing for New Zealand locations.
• Users were able to click "finalise" on a pay run that had already been finalised.
• Admins/managers of some companies were not receiving confirmation notifications when employees completed the onboarding process.
• Overnight standard hours calculation when changing from half day to full day was incorrect.
• Various UI issues.