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Release Notes (2022)

Modified on Sat, 7 Dec, 2024 at 5:56 PM

Welcome to the Cintra Cloud Release Notes.

Your go-to source for staying informed about the latest developments. Our release notes offer a concise overview of all new features, resolved issues, and known challenges in the most recent version of Cintra Cloud.

 

November 2022

Automatic Calculation

When adding new employees via Cintra Cloud, the system will automatically perform the initial calculation. This allows you to quickly view the salaries or allowances entered using the new employee wizard.
 
 

November 2022

Associate posts with one-off payments

 
To accommodate customers who use connect hours worked and any other one-off payments, to posts, we have been enhancing the one-off payment/deduction wizard. Next week we will release post related functionality within the one-off payment wizard and edit one-off payment. Further work will be done to enable posts in the bulk one-off payment/deduction import tool, and we are aiming to have this in place by end of the year.
 
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November 2022

Cintra Cloud has a fresh new look

 

Exciting new colours, logos and designs have arrived for Cintra Cloud.

We are very proud of our new branding and hope you agree that it looks amazing.


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October 2022

We have moved the add new buttons

 

To improve your Cintra Cloud experience we have moved the following buttons:

  • Add new starters
  • Add one-off payments & deductions
  • Add salary & allowances' 

Each add buttons can now be accessed by clicking on the corresponding tile (see animation).

For example, if you would like to add a new starter, click on the New starters tile, and then click on Add new starters, which is located to the right of the page under the tiles.


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September 2022

Submission functionality for effortless payroll handover.

 
To improve the payroll hand-off process, we have built payroll submission functionality into Cintra Cloud. 
 
When clients have completed their period input, they will be able to click on the new ‘Submit’ button located on their payroll page.  Once submitted, the payroll will be locked for the client and OSS will be notified via Cintra Cloud messaging, indicating work can commence on the client’s payroll. 

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Payroll
 

We are currently piloting this functionality with a small set of clients and working alongside the Operational Readiness team with the aim to roll out this functionality to all source clients.  Don’t worry if you are not yet familiar with this functionality, your Operational Readiness team will be in touch soon.

 

 

September 2022

Introducing the user-friendly one-off payment and deduction wizard in Cintra Cloud.

 
By popular demand we have added a one-off payment and deduction wizard that can be used by both Payroll and Group users in Cintra Cloud. The wizard can be accessed by clicking on the 'one-off payments' button located at the top of the screen, or by clicking 'Add New' from the 'One-off payments' page.
 
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Users can use this feature to add individual one-off payments to employees without needing to prepare a spreadsheet for import. Easy access to edit or delete one off payments has also been added to the one-off payments page: 


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August 2022

Instantly Identify HMRC Tasks on New Starter Page

 

We have added a new column to the New Starter page, quickly see if any HMRC checklists need to be completed.

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July 2022

Simplified Navigation

 

It is now easier than ever to navigate our system. At the top of the page we have a clear and comprehensive menu that is always visible.

A glance at this menu reveals every major feature of the system and a single click takes you where you need to go.

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Not only is this new navigation intuitive and easy to use it also paves the way for some really exciting developments that are on the horizon.

 

 

July 2022

Streamlining payroll oversight with Cintra Groups

 

For those clients who have Cintra Groups licensed and to assist payroll administrators in checking group input, we have introduced group column and group filters.  This allows payroll administrators to click through each of the tiles, view employee group allocation and filter group data.

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July 2022

Enhanced edit user experience

 
The following improvement has been made in Cintra Cloud:
 

Edit employee pages

Improvements have been made to the Edit Employee page including:
  1. Spinners to indicate the page is loading.
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  2. Employee name id included in the form header.
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  3. Improved workflow in the HMRC starter checklist.
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    Note: Support for a default tax coding when an HMRC starter checklist is not supplied. 
  4. More detailed summary page – leaving reason and HMRC starter checklist.
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July 2022

Messaging

 
The following improvements have been made:
  1. Cleaner inbox.
  2. Message threads grouped by date and recipient.
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  3. Read by me indicator.
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  4. Read by you indicator.

 

 

July 2022

Effortless payslip notifications 

 
A switch in Cintra Cloud turns the notifications on and then the emails are automatically sent to Self-Service employees whenever payslips are published. To switch the notification on, go to the Organisation Settings in Cintra Cloud.

 

The email will have the following format.

Payslip
 
 
 
July 2022

Easily identify variances for your salary and allowances. 

 
 
A salary and allowance variance pill has been added allowing users to identify current vs previous period changes.

Variance
 
 
 
February 2022

Cintra Groups now has interactive tiles

 

Development for manager access to Cintra Cloud continues and tiles have now been rolled out on the manager dashboard.

 

Users can click on the Gross Pay, New Starters and Leaver tiles to drill down into the data. Work continues to allow drill down into the one-off and recurring payments and this will be complete by the end of this month.

 

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January 2022

One-off payment history

 

One-off payment imports are now linked to batches in Cintra iQ. This means the OSS team now have visibility on uploads and the ability to delete any uploads that may have happened by mistake. Scroll along the batch screen in iQ, and you can see if the batch has come in via the cloud.
 
 
History of one-off payment imports can also now be accessed through Cintra Cloud.
(Currently only released to Cintra and PSSG users until download functionality is in place).
 

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