In case you missed it: Product enhancements that’ll help streamline your 2025

Before 2024 fades in our rearview mirrors, we wanted to bring you up to speed on some of the product enhancements we’ve made so you’re better equipped than ever to tackle the year ahead. After all, staying on top of the latest workforce management trends and ideas from our clients is one of our favourite excuses to put on our thinking caps!

This past year was packed with exciting evolutions to our solutions (and psst: we’re really looking forward to what’s to come), so without further ado – here’s a highlight reel of the most significant improvements we’ve made to empower you and your team.

Keeping compliant with legislative changes and year-end reporting

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Revenu Québec (RQ) introduced several new codes for 2024 year-end reporting impacting Indian Act exempt income, Phased Retirement, and Security Options and Capital Gains reporting. You can get all the nitty gritty details by visiting Heads up: new T4 and RL-1 boxes for 2024.

Payworks clients can rest assured that we’ve already evolved our solutions and year-end process to reflect these changes. Whether it’s updates to our helpful Year-End Checklist and training videos, or through our expert support, legislatively-compliant product enhancements and tax form automations (that we even file on your behalf), we’re here to help you sail smoothly through tax season!

Simplifying scheduling to save you time

Like we’ve said before… with the right tools, time tracking and scheduling doesn’t have to be time consuming or complicated. These latest enhancements to our Time Management solution will show you how!

Say goodbye to the scheduling shuffle

Wish you could start each scheduling period with a pre-set timetable instead of starting from scratch? Now you can!

Designed to make managing your team’s schedule a total breeze, you can now create templates from your ideal schedule and apply them to future dates, making it easier than ever to build new schedules and manage recurring patterns.

Whether you’re applying a template to a shift with dedicated employees or leaving shifts up for grabs through Available Shifts, your scheduling templates can be applied over an extended period of time, alleviating the complications of manually building your schedule and showing your team you’ve got scheduling down to a science.

See what you want, not what you don’t

Giving you more control over how you view, build and manage your schedule, our new filters help refine your view.

You can now apply filters to organize your schedule and display employees or shifts based on what you need to see in that moment. Whether you’re viewing the schedule of an individual employee or department, or a combination of positions or employment types, or more, you can easily refine the schedule you’re working on without a bunch of back and forth.

Making onboarding a breeze with our improvements to Checklists

Seamless onboarding: not just wishful thinking? Yep, seriously! We’re here to help you empower your new team members, and even your HR pros.

One of our favourite Human Resources solution enhancements takes our configurable checklist templates and tasks to the next level by giving you the ability to effortlessly manage the order of employee onboarding tasks (so that everyone’s clear on what needs to be completed first!). Your HR pros can now create and organize tasks in a prioritized sequence, making it that much simpler to guide your new hires through each task while they track and check off each item as they go.

The result? Streamlined onboarding, detailed expectation setting, and a more confident start for your employees. Managing your team’s workflow has never been easier!

Improving the benefits of a Benefits integration…

…And the benefits of client feedback? Seeing it turned into actionable results! With our latest enhancement to our TANDEM Benefits Integration, we’ve made it smoother and more efficient than ever.

You can now save time by optimizing your employees’ premium contributions for greater tax efficiency, sharing the appropriate leave and termination reasons to automatically apply the right amendments to employee benefits, leveraging new reports, and more!

These enhancements make managing benefits a breeze so you can get back to what’s important… your people.

Partnering with you in taking care of your team

We’re no strangers to the fact that, on top of managing your day-to-day tasks, you also have a team of employees with questions that need your attention. That’s why we revamped our Self Service help section by creating a brand new Help Centre that’s meant exclusively for your employees.

With improved navigation, enhanced search functionality and a fresh, modern design, this new and improved resource delivers the information your team needs quickly and effortlessly. With this reimagined and user-friendly support, your employees will feel confident and supported every step of the way.  

Saving you time finding year-to-date (YTD) adjustments

Maintaining accurate YTD records isn’t just a best practice – it’s essential for keeping your business on the right side of legislative remittance requirements (and maintaining your own peace of mind!). But let’s be honest…manually sifting through multiple Audit Trail reports to find YTD adjustments can be a headache.

Through our Year-To-Date Adjustment Report screen, you can now review YTD adjustments made throughout the calendar year in one centralized location. It’s just one more way we’re designing our products to make your payroll processes more efficient and help keep your business on track.

New Year, new way to stay in the loop!

It’s safe to say it’s been a busy year filled with lots of exciting enhancements and updates! We’ve stepped into 2025 at a running pace, with the momentum of this past year inspiring even more innovation and improvement that we can’t wait to share with you! Payworks clients can stay up to date on the new features and functionality available within their accounts by subscribing to our brand-new Quarterly Product News e-newsletter! Get the inside scoop with this client-exclusive resource, featuring our latest innovations and actionable steps to help you implement them right away for maximum impact! https://www.payworks.ca/landing-pages/campaigns/product-news.

And if you’re not a Payworks client (yet), but are curious to learn more about our workforce management solutions, we’d love to chat! Start the conversation today with one of our experts so we can get to know you and learn more about how our people and products can support you in achieving your business goals: https://www.payworks.ca/landing-pages/campaigns/book-a-demo.