Exo Employer Services 2024.02

The 2024.02 release of Exo Employer Services:

• Updates to personal income tax thresholds.
• Adds new filters for the FBAPS leave details report.
• Fixes an issue with incorrect PAYE values for cashed up leave.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2024.02 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2024.01

The 2024.01 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Tax updates for the 2024-2025 financial year.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2024.01 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2023.01

The 2023.01 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Tax updates for the 2023-2024 financial year.
• Improvements to password security.
• A new way to email payslips securely.
• Minor improvements to the user interface.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2023.01 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2022.01

The 2022.01 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Tax updates for the 2022-2023 financial year.
• Improvements to password security.
• More options when exporting a pay sheet as a CSV file.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2022.01 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2021.05

The 2021.05 release of Exo Employer Services addresses an issue with Extra Pays identified in a previous release.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2021.05 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2021.04

The 2021.04 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• A utility to update employee's Sick Leave entitlements in line with the minimum Sick Leave entitlement increase as of 24 July 2021.
• The ability to mark users as inactive.
• New warnings when employees' bank account details are edited.
• Updates to the Pay Details window and Statistics Return report.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2021.04 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2021.03

The 2021.03 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Tax updates for the 2021 - 2022 financial year
• MYOB Exo Payroll now produces files for payday filing in the new v2021 format
• New KiwiSaver options for payday filing
• Updates to reporting, including new report views: Pay and Leave Summary and Leave Without Pay

(Exo Employer Services 2021.03 replaces versions 2021.01 and 2021.02, due to a late change from the IRD regarding ACC Levy calculations for secondary income earners and an issue identified in 2021.01.)

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2021.03 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2020.07

The 2020.07 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Updates to how the system determines employees' ESCT rates
• Updates to the Holiday Pay report view
• Fixes to issues identified in previous releases

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2020.07 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2020.06

The 2020.06 release of Exo Employer Services updates Exo Payroll to calculate Holiday Pay in weeks. This has effects on several areas of the system:

• The ability to calculate Holiday Pay in weeks is enabled at the company level, then activated for employees individially or in bulk.
• An Agreed Definition of a Week value has been added to the Days/Hours Paid window in Standard and Current Pays. This value is used to convert values between days/hours and weeks.
• Holiday Pay amounts appear in weeks on employee maintetance and pay run windows, as well as in reports and payslips.
• A new Holiday Pay - Rate Comparison report view is available to check employees' Holiday Pay rates before and after changing to weekly Holiday Pay.
• A new Agreed Definition of a Week Change History report view is available to track changes to employees' Agreed Definition of a Week values.
• A new field is available on the Holiday Pay window in the Current Pay to specify the date that the Holiday Pay rate should be calculated at in cases where employees take leave over multiple pay periods.
• A new window is available for entering details of Parental Leave taken by employees.
• New options are available for adjusting employee's Holiday Pay rates when they take Leave Without Pay.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2020.06 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2020.02

The 2020.02 release of Exo Employer Services includes all tax updates for the 2020 - 2021 financial year that were introeduced in the 2020.01 release, and resolves an issue with online registration.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2020.02 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2020.01

The 2020.01 release of Exo Employer Services includes tax updates for the 2020 - 2021 financial year.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2020.01 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2019.06

The 2019.06 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Support for Domestic Violence Leave in Exo Payroll and Exo Time and Attendance.
• Taxation updates in accordance with IRD specifications.
• Security enhancements to user passwords.
• Updates to the Delete Old Information Utility.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2019.06 Release Notes.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2019.01 Release Notes.

For information on previous releases, see the Exo Employer Services Version History.

Exo Employer Services 2018.04

The 2018.04 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Compliance with recent changes to Payroll Tax in South Australia.
• An update to the PDF driver used by Exo Employer Services.
• Fixes to issue identified in previous releases.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2018.04 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2018.03

The 2018.03 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following updates:

• Updates the TLS security protocol, which is used to secure communications when sending emails.
• Improves the Resend to ATO function on the Single Touch Payroll Submissions window.
• Addresses issues identified in previous releases.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2018.03 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2018.02

The 2018.02 release of Exo Employer Services is an update to the 2018.01 release, which addresses the following issues:

• Adds an option to the Awards and Pay Classes feature.
• Addresses an error that occurred when sending STP finalisation events.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2018.02 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2018.01

The 2018.01 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following new features:

• Compliance changes for the 2018 - 2019 financial year.
• Updates to Deductions to comply with the IRD's directions around Protected Net Earnings.
• A new a option to calculate an employee's Ordinary Daily Rate as the higher of their Standard Pay rate or their 4 Week Average rate.

Click the link below for a quick video overview of these changes.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2018.01 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2017.04

The 2017.04 release of Exo Employer Services includes the following new features:

• The ability to pay Holiday Pay over a company closedown period to employees who have been employed for less than a year.
• New export options on the Employee List, Pay Details and Holiday Pay list windows.
• New options for specifying how many company backup sets to keep.
• The ability to give employees a Holiday Pay accrual on a pro-rata basis is now available for all employees.

Click the link below for a quick video overview of these changes.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2017.04 Release Notes.

Exo Employer Services 2017.03

The 2017.03 release of Exo Employer Services was an update to the 2017.01 and 2017.02 releases, which addressed the following issues:

• Addresses an issue where Allowance Cost Centres were overridden with the employee defaults.
• Addresses an issue where the "Termination HP" Allowance was not added to an employee's pay when the employee was terminated.
• Updates the behaviour of Exo Payroll for employees on the "NSW" tax code to account for a recent IRD ruling. Originally in 2017.02
• Addresses an error that occurred when standalone installs of Exo Time and Attendance were upgraded to 2017.01. Originally in 2017.02

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2017.03 Release Notes.

The 2017.02 release of Exo Employer Services is an update to the 2017.01 release, which addresses the following issues:

• Updates the behaviour of Exo Payroll for employees on the "NSW" tax code to account for a recent IRD ruling.
• Addresses an error that occurred when standalone installs of Exo Time and Attendance were upgraded to 2017.01.

For detailed information on the release, see the Exo Employer Services 2017.02 Release Notes.

The 2017.01 release of MYOB Exo Employer Services included the following new features:

• Compliance changes for the 2017 - 2018 financial year.
• A new Holiday Pay list window that shows Holiday Pay values for all employees.
• New columns on the Employee List and Pay List windows.
• The ability to set up reusable custom views on the Employee List, Pay List and Holiday Pay windows.
• The ability to conserve licences by creating test companies and archiving existing companies.
• Updates to various reports, including the ability to export to Microsoft Excel.
• A new look and feel for the Exo Employer Services suite.

Watch the video below for a quick overview of these changes.

For detailed information on the new features, see the Exo Employer Services 2017.01 Release Notes.

The 2016.03 release of MYOB Exo Employer Services addressed the following issues:

• In some cases, it was not possible to add a picture to an employee's record in EXO Employee Information.
• The Pay Sheet report did not display a total for Alternative Leave Paid in the Pay Summary section.
• The Leave Summary tab of the Leave Management screen (Current Pay) could show an incorrect Holiday Pay balance after an employee cashed up Holiday Pay in previous pay periods.
• If a Payslip was run after updating a pay in which an employee was terminated, the employee's Alternative Leave balances was doubled up.
• If the Custom Payslip was run after updating a pay in which an employee was terminated, the employee's Holiday Pay balance showed the employee's balance as it was prior to the update.
• The Custom Payslip report showed incorrect Pay Period dates when generating payslips for the Bi-Monthly frequency.
• Information entered in the User Defined fields on the Other tab of the Employee Maintenance window disappeared after having gone to the Distribute screen from the Custom Payslip.
• Notes regarding Unpaid Leave appeared with the "Alternative Leave Worked" note type on the Notes tab of the Employee Maintenance window.
• The error message "Error 39 Numeric Overflow" when adding a new incident in EXO Health and Safety.

For detailed information on the new features, see the Exo Employer Services 2016.03 Release Notes.

The 2016.02 release of MYOB Exo Employer Services addressed the following issues:

• PAYE was calculated incorrectly for Extra Pays, if the employee was on the S SL or STC tax code.
• PAYE was calculated incorrectly for Extra Pays that crossed the Earner Levy Threshold, when the pay included Public Holiday.
• The Pay Sheet report did not display the decimal units for hours correctly when printed in Portrait orientation.
• The Alternative Leave > 1 Year report could incorrectly show employees with negative or zero balances.
• The Leave Paid report displayed terminated employees who were terminated prior to the installation of Exo Employer Services 2016.01 with a holiday pay termination pay value of 0.00.
• The Alternative Leave Balances report would display a "No results were found" message if all selected employees had zero balances.
• The bank account suffix was not visible on the How Paid window, and other fields were misaligned.
• When exporting the Costing Analysis report to CSV, the Public holiday amount field was not exported correctly.

For detailed information on the new features, see the Exo Employer Services 2016.02 Release Notes.

The 2016.01 release of MYOB Exo Employer Services included the following new features:

• Compliance changes for the 2016 - 2017 financial year
• New list windows for managing employees and pays
• Options to cash up Alternative Leave and Long Service Leave
• Updates to reporting processes

Watch the video below for a quick overview of these changes.

For detailed information on the new features, see the Exo Employer Services 2016.01 Release Notes.

The 2015.02 release of MYOB Exo Employer Services included the following new features:

• Major updates to the Exo Health and Safety module
• Updates to reports, including the custom payslip
• Improvements to the backup process

Watch the video below for a quick overview of these changes.

For detailed information on the new features, see the Exo Employer Services 2015.02 Release Notes.

The 2015.01 release of MYOB Exo Employer Services included the following new features:

• Compliance changes for the 2015 - 2016 financial year
• Improvements to the registration process
• Updates to the Back Pay Calculator
• A new online Education Centre

Watch the video below for a quick overview of these changes.

For detailed information on the new features, see the Exo Employer Services 2015.01 Release Notes.