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Workforce ManagementHRPayroll
2 days ago

New release! Humanforce Cloud Workforce Management – Version 6.0.52

We’re pleased to introduce Humanforce Workforce Management (Cloud) version 6.0.52.  This release delivers a broad range of improvements across key modules, including Roster Manager, Template Manager and Integrations. We’re also delighted to share that automatic forwarding of employees to Humanforce Payroll is now available for those who wish to opt in for early access. 

Read on for all the details!

Release schedule

  • Customers with staging environments will be kept informed of the schedule for release to staging environments
  • All Humanforce WFM (Cloud) accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to version 6.0.52 overnight on Wednesday, 28 May 2025.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Improved shift sorting

We've added to the sorting criteria for shifts in Roster Manager.  Shifts are now sorted by shift start time, then shift end time. This means that when you have multiple shifts with the same start time and varying end times, they will appear in time order.

New option to edit Labour Group from Role View

When you are grouping by Labour Group in Role View (and are viewing a single day), you are now able to edit a labour group directly from Role View.

Labour Group break minutes in shifts created in bulk

When bulk adding shifts to a labour group and the labour group break minutes is set to 0, the break minutes in the shifts created will default to 0. 

Faster loading of Fill shift

We've improved the time it takes to load your employee list when entering the Fill shift screen. 

Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

New option to display Custom Roster Fields

Custom Roster Fields are now available in Shift detail settings so you can toggle display of each field in the shift tiles on/off as needed, improving visibility of key shift information directly on the template.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

Improved handling of timesheet splits

We’ve improved handling of timesheet splits in scenarios where a timesheet has a correct active break alongside deleted breaks. The timesheet will split successfully if the deleted break start times are later than the first timesheet split's end time.

Payrun upload to Xero NZ

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

After processing a payrun in WFM, attempting to do a Direct Upload to Xero API may have failed due to an integration issue. This has been resolved so the upload can complete without issue.

Employee Management

Management > Employee > Employee > Employee Management
Admin > Security Config > Access Levels

New permission options for controlling visibility of Pay Rate names and rates

The permissions for viewing pay rates within the Employee Management space have been expanded, to provide the option to allow a user to see and change Pay Rates without seeing the actual rate value. This enables more of your team members to help update Pay Rates within an employee's role revision by referencing the Pay Rate name, while keeping the hourly rate ($) information hidden.

Clocking

Improved usability for Shift Transfer

We’ve addressed a limitation in the Employee Self Service workflow when using the Shift Transfer function. This feature now allow users to end their active timesheet and immediately clock a new timesheet with different values (eg, new role or new department) without needing to re-select the Location.

Integration Central

Management > Advanced > Integration Central

Employee forwarding to Humanforce Payroll: early access availability

Automatic forwarding of employees from HR to WFM and Humanforce Payroll, including the employee's current active role and rates, is now available for customers who wish to opt in for early access. If you’re interested in opting in for early access, reach out to your Humanforce contact. 

Humanforce HR to WFM

Improved employee data sync of employees with termination dates (such as fixed-term contracts)

With this improvement, employees with a termination date in their profile at the point of creation (such as fixed-term contracts) will be successfully loaded to Humanforce WFM. Employee data will also sync with WFM after termination dates (up to a configured number of days) to ensure the accuracy of final pay processing.

Improved reliability for Qualifications syncing

We’ve improved the reliability of syncing employees' qualifications (that are in non-draft status) from Humanforce HR to WFM. This sync occurs when the Qualification Instance Updated webhook is triggered, or when an employee bulk import is run in Integration Central.

Improved logs of data syncs

Logs for all webhooks (that send data from HR to WFM) have been expanded to include data syncs that were successfully processed without any errors, improving traceability. Previously, only errors were logged.

Field mapping enhancements

Field mappings in Humanforce HR to WFM integration now allow mappings with HR Job.Remuneration fields (where applicable). We’ve also removed irrelevant fields in the mapping drop-downs making it easier to setup accurate field mapping.

File imports: improved handling of empty rows

With this improvement, all empty rows of data will be skipped and a log of these skipped rows provided back to users for review via Integration Central log screens. Further, we have also introduced a maximum row limit per file of 50k.

Datapay NZ: easier mapping and improved tasks

We’ve made mapping Pay-Types for the Humanforce Payroll - Datapay NZ integration much easier by keeping the column names in the table visible at all times.  Previously, the column names would disappear out of view when you scrolled down.

We've strengthened the stability of Datapay NZ tasks to ensure Pay-Type mappings remain intact. Previously, navigating directly to the scheduler page after reopening a saved task could cause configurations to be lost. With this update, managing settings is more intuitive and efficient.

REST API

Role revision improvements

This improvement aligns our API with the web application when it comes to modifying roles for an employee. Specifically, when using the POST and PATCH Employee and Employee/RoleRevision endpoints, the Revision Effective Date can no longer be older than the Employee Start Date. 

This ensures Role Revisions are not updated in a way that makes them incompatible when employee data is synchronized with payroll systems.

Award Profile with shifts

It's now possible to find the Award Profile associated with a shift using the Roster Items endpoint. It includes the award profile that was effective for the shift based on the roster date.

For more information and API documentation, visit Humanforce WFM REST API Overview.

Workforce ManagementPayroll
a month ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud Workforce Management - Version 6.0.48

We’re excited to announce Humanforce Cloud Workforce Management Version 6.0.48, which includes improvements to display options in Roster Manager and Template Manager, and better default filtering behaviour in Timesheets.  We’re also excited to provide early access to syncing New Zealand bank account details across Humanforce HR, WFM and Humanforce Payroll.  

Read on for all the details!

Release Schedule

  • Staging environments were updated on Thursday, 20th March 2025.
  • All Humanforce Cloud accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to version 6.0.48 overnight on Wednesday, 2nd April 2025.

Roster Manager and Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager/Template Manager

New option to show Event Export Code in shift tiles 

A new option for Event Export Code has been added to the Shift Detail Settings in Roster Manager and Template Manager. This allows you to view Event Export Code within the shift tile.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

New option to show Employee Code  

From Shift view, you are now able to add a column for Employee Code within the Role summary window.

Accurate Group By Location

We've fixed an issue in People view when Group By Location is applied. Employees were being displayed within all locations, instead of only the locations they were assigned to.

Accurate Hours Required calculation and display of Unavailable or on Leave warning

We've resolved an issue that was occurring within the Hours Required warning where non-attended shifts were incorrectly being included within the calculation of total hours worked.  

We've resolved an issue where the employee Unavailable or on Leave warning was not shown on the shift details.  Now you will see details of the warning within the shift if the employee is rostered during a period of leave or unavailability, as well as in the Alerts panel. 

Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager 

Accurate break validations after Date Effective is edited

We've fixed an issue that was occurring if the Date Effective date in a Template was edited. Previously this would cause incorrect break validations for overnight shifts where the break occurred after midnight.  Now all shifts will validate as expected and successfully import into the roster.

Filter options now displayed as expected

We've fixed an issue where the Event and Function filters were not displaying any options to select when clicking on the dropdown. 

Timesheet Admin

Timesheets > Timesheets 

Default filtering for improved performance

To improve performance, Unauthorised & No-Shows is now the default filtering applied on page load, when:

  • your browser doesn't have memory of the last filter you used on this page, or
  • the browser recalls your last view was All Timesheets or All Timesheets & No Shows.

We’ve made this change because the Unauthorised & No-Shows view is optimised for the most common Timesheet workflows, and will contribute to faster page performance.

Improvements to splitting timesheets that cross over midnight

We’ve improved the business logic within splitting timesheets that cross over midnight. When split, any splits which fall entirely within the second day were having the DateStart and PayDate values of the original timesheet. This has been rectified so their DateStart and PayDate values are updated to match the second day’s date.

Payroll (Workforce Management)

Export to Sybiz Visipay Payroll added

Humanforce Cloud now supports exporting pay runs to Sybiz Visipay Payroll (Pay Package ID:SYBIZ01). After processing a pay run, you can view it and then select Sybiz Visipay Payrun Export from the Export dropdown to download the data in the appropriate format, streamlining integration with third-party payroll systems. 

New option to use Custom folder for exports to SFTP

Customers using the Generic Payroll Config now have the option to use a Custom folder if they have the Export to Humanforce SFTP setting enabled in their Pay Company settings. This can make it faster for 3rd party payroll systems to download the file from a specific location. Please contact Humanforce Support if you are interested in using this option to ensure the shared folder mapping is correct.

Humanforce Payroll

Early access to syncing New Zealand bank account details now available

With this feature, your New Zealand region employees are able to setup their New Zealand bank accounts in HR and have it sync'd through to Workforce Management and (via Workforce Management) to Humanforce Payroll. This feature is now available for early-access customers. Please reach out to your Humanforce contact to enable it in your site.

REST API

We have improved the logic when using POST for a clock out request in the restful API. Specifically to only accept UTC Datetime provided in ClockInTimeUtc and ClockOutTimeUtc fields for clocking requests. If those fields are not provided, we'll use the server UTC time. You can find more information via https://[your-subdomain].humanforce.com/swagger/ui/index (just replace the [your-subdomain] with your company's humanforce domain.

For further background information, visit Humanforce Help for an overview of the Humanforce REST API.

Workforce ManagementPayroll
6 months ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud - Version 6.0.40

We’re excited to announce the latest updates to Humanforce Cloud! This release includes more alert configuration in Humanforce Cloud, and improvements to Timesheets, Payroll, and Leave Approvals to enhance functionality and usability. Read on for all the details.

Release Schedule

  • All Humanforce Cloud accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to version 6.0.40 overnight on Wednesday 27th November 2024.
  • Staging environments were automatically updated on Thursday 14th November 2024.

Holiday season release schedule for Humanforce Cloud

To ensure you are well placed to meet the challenges of operations over the busy holiday season, we are pausing our release schedule for Humanforce Cloud from the release of 6.0.40 on Wednesday 27th November 2024 until Wednesday 8th January 2025. 

As usual, we’ll provide advance notice of what the automatic update on 8th January 2025 will include, with release notes provided here on Monday 16th December. 

Back Office to Humanforce Cloud

We continue to invest in enabling you to perform key workforce management and payroll tasks faster and more efficiently in Humanforce Cloud. In this release, we’re pleased to bring the following capabilities into Humanforce Cloud.

Support for Restrictive alerts in Roster Manager

Roster Manager now fully supports the Employee Role Restriction and Hours Required alerts when configured as Restrictive.  The Restrictive option prevents saving the shift if it doesn’t meet the alert criteria, making it an error rather than a simple warning. Setup alerts via Admin > System Config > Clock-In Settings.

More roster alert configurations in Web

You can now fully configure the following roster alerts via web:

  • Employee's Age
  • Employee Working Hours, and 
  • Employee Gender. 

Setup alerts via Admin > System Config > Clock-In Settings. Note that the Employee Gender alert is not yet supported in Roster Manager.  

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager  

Improved search and filtering behavior

We’ve fixed an issue where searching by employee name or code combined with Filters did not display correct results. Searches now respect applied filters.  

Roster/Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster/Template Manager  

Simplified fill shift workflow

When using qualifications within shift definitions, relevant qualifications are automatically applied as filters in the Fill Shift modal, helping you assign shifts to the correct employees more efficiently.  

Leave/Availability

Management > Availability > Leave/Availability  

Public holiday availability settings

Public holidays can now be marked as unavailable if an employee's requested leave period includes a public holiday, and they have an insufficient leave balance for the selected leave type. Previously the option to mark the PH as unavailable was not being offered in this scenario.

Leave Approvals

Management > Availability > Leave Approvals  

Accurate leave balances and payroll processing

We’ve resolved an issue where leave accruals and deductions did not update as expected if linked leave requests were deleted or unauthorised. This update ensures accurate leave balances, payroll processing, and clearer timesheet records.  

Enhanced usability

The Leave Approvals screen now displays five requests at a time, with expanded column widths to allow approval actions without scrolling.

An image of the Leave Approvals page annotated with a red line with arrows at each to indicate the expanded column width.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets  

Real-time change notifications

A warning banner now appears if another user makes changes to timesheets you’re viewing. You can refresh the page to see the updated timesheet, and your applied filters will be retained.

An image of the timesheet modal window with a red line under the new warning banner. The warning banner reads

Improved drop-downs usability

We’ve adjusted shading and selection colours in multi-select drop-downs for better clarity and consistency.  

Reports

Reports > Roster > Roster By Roles  

Improved Roster By Roles report

Based on user feedback, the Roster By Roles report now uses a portrait layout, includes headers on all pages, and features more defined gridlines for improved readability.  

Payroll

Management > Timesheets > Payroll  

Support for Alesco Payroll integration

Humanforce Cloud now supports exporting payruns to Alesco Payroll. Once a payrun has been processed in Management > Timesheets > Payroll, click the Export drop-down and select Alesco to download the export file.

Humanforce Payroll Native Integration Enhancements

We’ve enhanced the cost centre mapping capabilities within Humanforce Payroll’s native integration with Humanforce WFM. This update introduces greater flexibility for managing cost centre allocations in payroll exports, helping ensure accurate timesheet data representation, even when employees work in cost centres different from their default.

  • Expanded Scope for Cost Centre Mapping

    We’ve expanded the supported scopes available when selecting custom cost centre mappings. The following scopes are now supported, Period, Award Profile, Employment Type, Pay Type, Event, Event Function, and Event Type. This update provides greater flexibility and precision, ensuring all cost centre mapping options are available for accurate payroll data alignment.

  • Default Cost Centre Mapping
    You can now use default cost centre values where a combination of timesheet attributes does not resolve to a cost centre map string. Instead of sending a blank string, it will now use the default value (if set).

    To set default cost centre values for an existing Humanforce Payroll integration:

    1. Go to Management > Advanced > Integration Central  and find your Humanforce Payroll integration
    2. Click the three dots on the right-hand side, and select Edit
    3. Click Payroll Export to skip ahead to the relevant section
    4. Click Next to go to Payroll Export (page 2 of 2)
    5. Select the checkbox for the relevant cost centre and enter the values in the Default Value field

For further details check out Humanforce Payroll: Native Integration with Humanforce WFM in Humanforce Help. If you have any questions about how setting default cost centre values will impact payroll, submit a request via Humanforce Help.

Workforce ManagementPayroll
9 months ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud - Version 6.0.33

In this release, we’re excited to deliver a few enhancements to Timesheets and the Roster Manager feature, improvements to the Payroll Processing Screen, and more.

Read on for more details!

All Humanforce Cloud accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to bring you the items below, overnight on Wednesday 21st August 2024.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

The ability to split multiple Timesheets that share the same Start Date is now available, providing a faster method for splitting multiple timesheets. 

For more details, visit Splitting Timesheets on Humanforce Help. 

When adding or editing a timesheet, the Shift Type dropdown now only returns items that are available under the employee’s effective award profile based on the date of the timesheet. Previously, this drop-down was showing Shift Types based on today’s date.


The Cost fields for all Authorised Timesheets in all expanded groupings will now be refreshed when a related timesheet becomes authorised or when changes are made to its Pay Start or Pay End using the inline edit function, eliminating the need to manually refresh to see the cost impact of changes.

We’ve resolved an issue that caused the date picker in New Timesheets from Rosters to only be partially visible until hovered over. The date picker now appears correctly at all times.

The recent date picker enhancements that provided the new 'Today' button, which caused issues with using the previous/next arrow buttons to move between predefined pay periods, have been reverted, and the issue is resolved.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Approved leave hours are now included in the CUR hours displayed for employees on People view. 

The Status filter now provides the options of Published and Unpublished shifts.

You can now easily unassign all shifts assigned to employees who have approved leave. A new option has been added under Actions > Unassign > All on Leave.  

Within Shift view, you can now bulk create unassigned shifts for a single location and department.  When clicking on the + icon to add a shift, you now have the additional option to Add multiple shifts.


Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

You can now filter your templates by Location and or Department to easily find the template you need.

Workforce Analytics

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics

The Export_Code label in the Timesheet datasource has been renamed to Location_Export_Code to better indicate which field the export code data is related to.

The Timesheet datasource now correctly excludes deleted adhoc allowances from the AdhocAllowanceCount.

Payroll

Management > Timesheets > Payroll 

The Payroll Processing Screen now correctly adheres to the permission "Allow viewing/editing payruns processed by other users." Accordingly, it will show payruns processed by other users only if the permission is enabled for the user. Previously, the payroll screen would ignore the permission and show all payruns processed by all users. 

Filters for Location, Department, Role, Employment Type,  and Award Profile have now been updated with a new dropdown list that allows easier data selection.

 

Humanforce Cloud now supports exporting payroll data files for Empower Payroll (EMPOWER_CONFIG1).  

Pay Comparison Report

Reports > Payroll > Pay Comparison Report

An issue affecting the selection of employees for Pay Comparison report has been resolved. The screen now displays the Employee Code, and Payroll code along with the employee name. 

Messaging

Employee > Messages 

Messaging |  An issue affecting the selection of employees when sending a message has been resolved. The screen now displays the Employee Code, and Payroll code along with the employee name. 

 

 

Workforce ManagementHRPayroll
10 months ago

Integration Update: Seamless Data Flow Across HR, WFM, and Payroll

We have exciting news to share about seamless data flow across your HR, workforce management, and payroll systems! The Humanforce team has been hard at work enhancing our suite of integrations to provide you with a best in one HCM solution.

We've focused on strengthening our suite integrations between intelliHR, Humanforce Workforce Management (WFM), and Humanforce Payroll, and building out our Datapay New Zealand integration with our partner Datacom.

Maintaining accurate employee data is crucial, and these integrations facilitate seamless transfer, ensuring precision and reducing administrative workloads.

🔥 What's New

Humanforce has significantly enhanced integration capabilities across its HR, workforce management (WFM), and payroll suites, enabling seamless bi-directional data synchronisation and transfer.

intelliHR and Humanforce WFM

Humanforce WFM and Humanforce Payroll

Humanforce WFM and Datapay NZ

Using multiple integrations

We are currently working on a new employee data forwarding feature that allows you to link multiple integrations together within Humanforce Workforce Management Integration Central to create a seamless experience. For example, data forwarding will link together the Humanforce product suite (intelliHR, Humanforce WFM and Humanforce Payroll), removing the need to click save in WFM to forward data changes made in HR to Payroll.

⭐️ Why it matters

A streamlined integration flow of your workforce data dramatically reduces manual entry, meaning fewer errors, and improved compliance. You'll gain better visibility, control, payroll accuracy, and overall process efficiency, improving productivity.

🏁 Getting Started

Keen to learn more? Check out our help articles for integration details, including integration workflows, setup details, best practise tops and available configuration options:

  • intelliHR integration
  • Humanforce Payroll integration
  • Datapay NZ integration

With our latest integration enhancements, you're clicks away from a unified HR, workforce, and payroll management solution. 

Don't miss out on these game-changing integration enhancements! Log a ticket to our friendly support team today to learn more, or reach out to your account manager today to explore upgrading your Humanforce solutions!

Workforce ManagementPayroll
11 months ago

Updated Library Awards – SCHADS, Security Services, Nurses, Aged Care and Cleaning Industry Modern Awards

We are thrilled to announce that Humanforce Workforce Management suite better assists employers in meeting the requirements of the following awards;  

  • Social Community Home Care and Disability Services (SCHADS) Award [MA000100] 
  • Security Services Award [MA000016] 
  • Nurses Award [MA000034] 
  • Aged Care Award [MA000018] 
  • Cleaning Services Award [MA000022] 

Each of our newly updated Library Awards covers the main award clauses and their application within the Humanforce system, catering to employers with employees covered by their Award.

Customers with the assistance of our Humanforce consultants, can quickly and easily apply the Award library, automate, manually handle, or reconfigure various aspects of the award, including ordinary hours, breaks, wages, allowances, overtime, and penalties. 

 With extensive and rigorous, multi-round testing, vetted by a team of third-party legal professionals, you can simplify compliance and gain compliance confidence.  

 

🔥 What’s New? 

The SCHADS, Security Services, Nurses, Aged Care and Cleaning Services Library Awards have been updated to align with their Industry Award, as covered on the Fair Work Ombudsman website. Here are the main notable changes; 

  • automated aspects, such as ordinary hours calculations, overtime rates, penalty rates, breaks between work periods, unpaid breaks, and appropriate allowances. 
  • Manual processes within Humanforce and payroll are also covered, including rostering practices for ordinary hours, long breaks, paid breaks, higher duties, and any allowances based on worked hours. 
  • Reconfigurable elements like alternate ordinary hours periods and daily overtime limits are mentioned. 

Note: currently, the award is configured for a single employment level scenario, and future updates may include support for higher duties assignments and corresponding pay rates. Please also note, any cycle other than weekly will require a Humanforce Consultant to make an adjustment to your award. 

  

⭐️ Why it matters 

 Ensuring compliance within each relevant award is crucial for employers in the security services sector. It is important to properly configure and utilise the Humanforce system to meet the award's requirements, avoiding potential non-compliance issues and associated penalties.  

By properly configuring and implementing updated your library award employers can streamline their compliance workflows, minimise errors, and maintain accurate records related to employee hours, wages, allowances, and leave entitlements.

With rigorous, multi-round testing, including deep validation and pre-release reviews by industry experts, our new award updates are peerless when it comes to delivering industry-leading Award interpretation and compliance confidence. 

 

🏁 Getting Started    

As a member of the Humanforce team will be required to enable this award and any appropriate award profiles within your Humanforce system, simply register a support ticket or contact your account manager and request your relevant library award be updated.  

For employers with employees covered by any one of these industry awards, who want to learn more about the award clauses, their application, and view a detailed support article, please read your corresponding Library Award Help article: 

  • SCHADS Library Award
  • Security Services Award
  • Nurses Award
  • Aged Care Award
  • Cleaning Services Award

Test documentation for the current version of the library award is also available. These test cases cover an exhaustive series of scenarios, from simple workweeks to complex cases, validating the award output across various award profiles. Simply click the applicable industry specific Help article link above to access the relevant test documentation. 


Payroll
a year ago

Announcement – new Humanforce Payroll STP Financial Year End 2024 processing changes

As Humanforce Payroll Customers are preparing for end of financial year 2024 STP processing, we are happy to announce that a few new changes have been made to help streamline and simplify the exercise for payroll teams.

Let’s dive into the product related update, some important information and the handy support resources available.

🔥What's New?

Most of the routines relating to Year End processing have now been automated so that once you finalise the last pay run of the year, there is nothing more to be done.

 Single Touch Payroll (STP) Processing

The data that gets sent to the ATO via a Pay Event each process is employees’ Year-To Date figures. This has removed a few of the processes within Humanforce Payroll that were previously needed to be done by a Payroll Department at Year End. The major change to the process is that you no longer need to produce a Payment Summary or lodge an empdupe file.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As a safeguard measure, Payroll teams are encouraged to add an additional ‘Special Run’ just before the end of the financial year (i.e. 29th June 2024). This will be Humanforce Payroll customers’ last opportunity to include transaction in the final year. If the final run isn’t needed, there is no harm or loss in having it set up as the run can be performed as a blank run.

Guides

To help with end of financial year 2024 processing the following guides have been constructed.

EOFY Checklist guide - Check off critical items that may be easily overlooked, however are necessary for end of financial year payroll processing. Items such as loading FBT, linking employees to employee numbers, adding a special pay run, reviewing itemised allowances, scheduling month end pay run, and more are covered in our handy check list.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) guide - Want to know if you are set up for STP2 or not, or how to best make corrections after closing off Year End payroll? Or how about how to enter in FBT figures for a terminated employee, or why special a pay run is recommended? Our FAQ guide can give you the clarity you need. 

⭐ Why it matters

End of year STP processing is crucial because it ensures that all employee payroll information, including wages, taxes, and superannuation contributions, is reported accurately and timely to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).

This streamlined reporting simplifies compliance, reduces paperwork, and minimises the risk of errors or penalties associated with manual end-of-year reporting processes.

In addition, it enhances transparency for employees by providing them with up-to-date and accessible information about their earnings and deductions, aiding in their personal financial management and tax planning.

🏁 Getting Started  

Humanforce Payroll customers are advised to follow the STP processing instructions that has been communicated to them via email.

For detailed assistance on end of year Humanforce Payroll STP processing, as well as access to the EOFY Check list guide, please access our Help article.

A FAQ guide has also been created to help support and guide Humanforce Payroll customers performing STP end of financial year 2024 processing and is available in this Help article.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to your Humanforce representative.

Workforce ManagementPayroll
a year ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud - Version 6.0.25

In this release, we’re excited to bring you more improvements to Roster Manager, Template Manager, Timesheets and more.  Read on for all the details!

All Humanforce Cloud accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to bring you the items below, overnight on Wednesday 1st May 2024.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

You now have easy access to employee profiles via the hyperlink added to employee name on People view.

We've fixed an issue when applying both the Assigned and Unassigned filters.  Any Roles or Employee rows (depending on which view you are in) will be hidden from the grid if they do not have any shifts. This has also been resolved in Template Manager.

Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

The Minimum Period hours warning has been added.  When the alert is set up within Clock in settings, you will now see the warning within your template.

The Employee Shift Definition Qualification warning has been added. When the alert is set up within Clock in settings, you will now see the warning within your template.

We've fixed an issue when applying both the Assigned and Unassigned filters.  Any Roles or Employee rows (depending on which view you are in) will be hidden from the grid if they do not have any shifts. This has also been resolved in Roster Manager.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

To enhance the user interface and streamline functionality, the redundant 'Authorise' and 'Authorise to roster time' buttons have been removed from the 'Authorised' status view. These buttons are still available in the other status views where they were previously displayed.

Department Rostering

Management > Rostering > Department Rostering

Any new template saved from the department roster will now automatically be set to Active.

We have fixed an issue where shifts were imported into the department roster incorrectly if the location setting "Override week start day," was set to a different day than the system wide setting “Department Roster Week Start Day”.

Workforce Analytics

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics

 The External ID field for employees is now available as a column for reporting in the following data sources:

  • Timesheet Data
  • Payroll Data
  • Payroll Data with cost code

Employee Management

Management > Employee > Employee Management

We have broadened email validation to allow for successful validation of email addresses that contain the specific special character ".-" when saving personal details.

Pay Comparison Report

Reports > Payroll > Pay Comparison Report

We have fixed an issue where pay comparison report produces incorrect award interpretation when using period rules that applies across multiple pay period. This is only applicable when the pay run comparison report is used to compare the award interpretation between two award profiles.

Work App

Messages > Chat (beta) 

We have released Chat Beta functionality for mobile to mobile chat.  This is turned on via a feature flag, so will require a support ticket to enable this in the Work app. 

Payroll
a year ago

New Service – Humanforce NZ and Datapay Professional Services and Support!

We are excited to announce our new Humanforce NZ and Datapay Professional Services and Support offering to our Humanforce and Datapay customers.

Now you can complement your robust API integration between Humanforce Workforce Management and Datapay payroll, with industry-leading support, training, resources, and unified implementation processes to help you accelerate integration time to value.

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🔥 What’s New?  

Our comprehensive Humanforce NZ and Datapay professional services and support offering ensures proper integration and configuration between Humanforce Workforce Management and Datapay payroll, through a best practice implementation methodology.

Our unified implementation and support team, follows important project milestones such as, discovery and planning, design and configuration, enablement and validation, deployment and operational handover.  

Customers receive fit-for-purpose services through customised Scope of Works (SOW) agreements, all under a set fixed price.


⭐️ Why it matters 

Gain the support and confidence your organisation needs when implementing a robust, powerful and seamlessly integrated Humanforce Workforce Management and Datapay payroll solution. 

Unified: One project team, one methodology.  Customers can experience a seamless and streamlined set of operations that fast tracks a successful, efficient and fit-for-purpose implementation process and implementation peace of mind.  

End-to-end: Customers can benefit from integrated project planning, template design, and support from a single team of Humanforce and Datapay implementation experts through crucial stages of testing and going live. Customers can breathe easy when it matters most with our additional pay run post-go-live support, Hypercare, reinforcing our commitment to support you every step of the way. 

Robust testing: Benefit from rigorous industry best practices testing procedures through critical phases such as integration setup, data alignment, early payroll and Time & Attendance setup, and even holiday pay period testing. Our testing processes go even further by conducting testing in custom-tailored scenarios to meet your specific requirements. Gain additional confidence with unit testing for Datapay and Humanforce that validates configuration and data alignment between systems. 

Parallel Run assurance: We support parallel runs with a robust checks and balances system, focusing on validation at each system's responsibility. This not only improves efficiency in issue identification at every stage but also considers the complexity of deploying two solutions simultaneously, and factors in different pay cycles, ensuring a smooth transition and business continuity with minimal disruption. 

 

🏁 Getting Started   

For inquiries, reach out to your Humanforce representative. 

Workforce ManagementPayroll
a year ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud - Version 6.0.19

Introducing new improvements to Timesheets, Workforce Analytics, Payroll and more, to help streamline timesheet processing, strengthen data driven decision making and enhance deliver pay run confidence. 

All Humanforce Cloud accounts will be automatically updated to bring you the items below, overnight on Wednesday 7th February 2023.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

To reduce clutter and improve UI, the separate Clock-In Coordinate and Clock-In Image icons have now been combined. Clicking the icon will open a single window displaying the map and/or the image.

For better visibility of the number of timesheets in each status, the Unauthorised, Authorised and No-Show counts now appear in the Totals bar at the bottom of the screen.

The Pay Date will now be retained when changing the Start Date to a past date on a timesheet where the 'Use current Pay Period for past timesheets' permission is enabled.

For more flexibility, we've introduced an 'Other' document type that can be used when employees or managers attach documentation to Timesheets.

Workforce Analytics

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics  

Gain greater data visibility and accuracy, through the following new improvements to Workforce analytics; 

  • Location and department columns are now available in the Sales & Budget workforce analytics data source  

  • Data for the total rostered hours and timesheet total hours are available in the sales budget data source
  • The log for the Payroll data has been removed to ensure Payroll Data built-in report loads the data without any reporting errors, and
  • A number of additional fields to the existing 'Shift Bids and Offers' data source have been added. Visit the Humanforce Help article for all the details.

Payroll

Management > Timesheets > Payroll

The following Payroll enhancements have been implemented to improve reporting clarity;  

  • When generating the report "Export to CSV - Full Details" for a pay run, the report now includes the Location, Department and Role of the timesheet instead of the employee's default Location, Department and Role
  • When creating a new pay run, the status column will not display the "error" text at the start. Instead the Status column will only display the progress (%) of the pay run.
  • The count of employee selected for pay run reprocessing is accurately displayed under "Employees selected for processing" in the pay company when the 'Process all employees in pay company' option is selected. 

Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager 

Overtime icon now correctly appears after dragging and copying a shift.

Rest API

A new API endpoint is now available which will return;

  • roster templates, and
  • all of the shifts for a roster template.