In April 2026, we are delivering a broad set of improvements across Payroll focused on making day-to-day processing safer, more transparent, and easier to manage at scale. The changes span wage determination, imports, reporting, and overall UX, but they all aim at the same outcome: reducing avoidable payroll errors and the manual work teams do to detect and fix them.

Today, payroll admins struggle with three core issues: 

• Limited visibility into blockers
• Fragile data flows
• Tooling that makes simple tasks harder than they should be. 

Onboarding issues and configuration problems (e.g., invalid SSNs, contractor validation errors, conflicting wage rates) often surface late, at the point of finalizing payroll, through cryptic messages or not at all. Import workflows for earnings, reimbursements, and overrides are powerful but fragmented, forcing teams to rely on manual entry or ad‑hoc spreadsheets that are error‑prone. At the same time, key insights like cash requirements, paystub exports, and tax filing status require too many clicks or external tools to share in a usable format.

This release addresses those problems in three ways:

• Make blockers obvious and actionable - Clearer onboarding indicators for employees and contractors, better wage‑rate validation in Wage Determination, and more precise error messages in payroll processing ensure issues are caught early, with enough context to fix them quickly.
• Strengthen and streamline data flows - Expanded import capabilities for reimbursements, hourly and non‑hourly earnings, and benefit/deduction overrides reduce manual data entry and bring more of the payroll data pipeline into a controlled, auditable process.
• Improve insight, navigation, and configuration - New and enhanced reports (invalid SSN/contractors, cash requirement, PDFs), GL mapping refinements, and usability updates (global people search, widget settings, clearer dashboards, setup pages) help admins find the right information and controls without jumping between systems or relying on screenshots.

By surfacing problems earlier, tightening integrations, and simplifying the user experience, this release reduces risk in each pay run while giving admins clearer, more shareable views of what is happening in payroll.

Enhancements

Wage Determination

1. We’ve added validation to the Payroll “Save Draft” action to prevent employees from having conflicting compensation rates (for the same earning type, job, and labor class) when Wage Determination is enabled, helping you avoid confusing discrepancies.
2. On the Wage Determination tab in Payroll, a new error chip now flags when a person has conflicting compensation rates for the same job and labor class, helping you quickly identify and fix rate issues.

Updates to Reports

1. A new Invalid SSN report highlights employees whose SSN data is invalid, helping you fix issues that would otherwise prevent them from being paid. The report can be downloaded as a CSV or PDF file.
   
   

   • Three columns will appear:
     • Employee Id
     • Employee Name
     • Termination Status

   

2. A new Contractor Validation Issues report lists contractors with validation issues (including identifier, name, error, and payroll ID) so you can quickly correct setup problems.
   
   

   • Four columns will appear in the report.
     • Contractor Identifier
     • Contractor Name
     • Validation Error
     • Payroll Id

   

3. You can now save Contractor Payments reports as PDFs as well as CSVs, making them easier to share and archive.
   
   

   • Eleven columns will appear in your report.
     • Payroll
     • Period Start
     • Period End
     • Payday
     • First Name
     • Last Name
     • Business
     • Payment Method
     • Amount
     • Reimbursement
     • Net Pay

   

4. From the Payroll Review Summary tab, you can now generate a PDF summary (including cash requirements) with a layout that mirrors the on-screen summary, making it easy to share with finance stakeholders.
   
   
5. A new Cash Requirement Report is now available within Payroll, providing a detailed breakdown of what will be debited from your bank account for each payroll run, including net pay, taxes, and garnishments.
   
   

Adding Support During Payroll Processing Import

1. You can now import employee reimbursements so they flow directly into payroll instead of being entered manually.
2. A new import type for employee hourly earnings lets you upload hours and related details from CSV, including adding employees to the payroll if they’re not yet present.
3. A new non-hourly earnings import supports a wide range of earning types beyond bonuses, with validation to ensure the correct type is used.
4. CSV imports for employee benefit overrides are now supported, with safeguards to prevent duplicates or importing overrides for employees not in the payroll.
5. CSV imports for employee deduction overrides are now supported, again with validation for employee existence and duplicates.
6. The payroll import page has been streamlined into a single set of controls with a dropdown to choose the import type, simplifying how you download templates and upload files.
   
   

Usability Updates

1. A new Labor Classifications page in Setup provides a read-only view of synced labor classifications, reducing the need to jump between systems.
   
2. The Payroll dashboard now includes a “Widget Settings” section (under the gear icon) so you can configure dashboard widgets.
   
3. The tax filing tab now supports the new “submitted” status from Check, giving you clearer visibility into filings that have been sent to agencies but not yet accepted.
   
4. A new global people search bar appears at the top of every screen, letting you jump directly to an employee profile without leaving your current task.
   
5. The admin menu now includes a direct link to the support site and displays correctly even for short usernames, making it easier to reach help content.
   
6. The dashboard now includes a “Contractor Onboarding Issues” widget so you can see when contractors are blocked, alongside employee onboarding issues.
   
7. When there are no onboarding issues, the “Employee Onboarding Issues” widget now clearly shows “No employee onboarding issues,” and its loading state has been smoothed out.
   
8. The global search now refreshes the person’s page content correctly when you navigate to another person, and resizing the search bar no longer covers other components.
9. Pay schedules on the Create Payroll page are now sorted alphabetically so you can more quickly find the right one.
10. Paystub downloads now support two-line employee addresses so the exported file works correctly when importing into Core HR.
11. The Pay Stubs report no longer limits off-cycle payroll selection to the last 60 days, you can choose any paid off-cycle payroll.
12. You can now flag a rate code as a “Base Rate” during setup and see this in a new column on the Rate Codes screen, supporting more accurate benefit calculations.
    
    
13. An informational note now appears for GL mapping type “Employee Non-Hourly Earnings Other” when both debit and credit accounts are used, aligning it with other similar mappings.
14. New GL subtypes have been added for “Deductions, Company Benefits (Employee)” to match company-paid benefits, improving the granularity of GL mapping.

UX Enhancements

1. Payroll processing now displays onboarding statuses directly on employee and contractor pages, making it easier to see who is ready to be paid.
   
2. Finalizing payroll now shows clearer, customer-friendly error messages when employees or contractors have blocking onboarding issues, including their name and ID so you can resolve problems quickly.
3. The employee/contractor search in payroll processing now includes searching by person ID, making it easier to quickly find specific individuals.
4. We’ve improved the employee/contractor search layout in payroll processing so search results no longer cover the “Add” actions; everything now appears on a single, easy-to-use line.
5. Selecting employees and contractors in payroll line item edits now uses a multi-column dropdown that shows both their ID and name, making it easier to choose the right person.
6. The People page and company onboarding now show the number of blocking issues and warnings (not just an icon), with alerts moved to the right side so they are easier to spot.
7. When adding a Pay Rate Table in Wage Determination, the job selection dropdown now uses a multi-column view to show both job identifier and name.
8. When adding or editing classifications in Wage Determination, you now see both identifier and name in a multi-column selector for better clarity.
9. When adding account numbers to General Ledger segments, you now choose from a multi-column list that shows both account identifier and name.