Product updates

You now have the ability to mark payroll items and contractor payments for failed payrolls as manually paid in Console.

After experiencing a failed funding, employers sometimes choose to pay their employees and/or contractors manually via paper check to ensure that they are paid on payday. In these cases, you can now update the corresponding items to manually paid, which will update the cash requirement for the payroll before it is retried.

See Failed Funding Guide for instructions on how to mark payroll items as manually paid and information about failed fundings in general.

We have made several changes to processing timing and statuses for payrolls that are funded by wire:

1. The approval deadline for all payrolls funded by wire is now 4pm ET on payday, updated from 5pm ET the day before payday. This allows you the ability to create and approve payrolls with same-day payments if they are funded via wire. Note: if a wire payment is received by 5pm ET the day before payday, payments settle in employees’ bank accounts on the morning of payday; otherwise, they will settle by 6pm ET on payday.

2. Payrolls funded by wire will remain in a “pending” status until the wire is received, rather than transition immediately into “processing.” This means they can be reopened until the wire is received.

3. Payrolls funded by wire will move to a “failed” status if the wire is not received by the approval deadline. This does not create a failed funding strike for the employer, but will prevent the approval of additional payrolls until the payroll is funded or voided.

4. An updated fund by wire modal allows you to select a payday for payrolls funded by wire before approving payrolls.

These changes offer partners and employers greater flexibility and clarity when processing payrolls funded by wire. For more information about funding payrolls by wire, refer to our Fund by Wire guide.

The Workers' Comp feed included irrelevant 1099 payments. 1099 data is now excluded. Affected employers will reconcile normally at annual true-up.

When a partner created an integration with NEXT directly, policy_purchased status wasn't always updated, causing missed payrolls. Now, NEXT alerts Support when policies finalize and we push status to purchased immediately. New policies should move to purchased within 24 hours.