Release notes — October 2025

HR| MyCascade | Payroll

HR

Enhancements

  • Cascade - Custom Salary Review file format change - In Admin > Global Salary Update > Custom Salary Review we have changed to file format of the file that's exported from .xml to .xlsx

    This has been done as more IT systems are not allowing the xml format meaning customers couldn't use the feature.

    Note: If you have a review already in progress that used the old file format, you'll need to export the review again, in the new format. Then copy/move the data from the old file to the new file.

    This change in the file format has been built and tested using the very latest version of Microsoft Excel. If you are using an older version (.XLS) we cannot confirm this will work and you will be asked to upgrade to a .XLSX format for Excel.

  • Cascade planner - optimisations have been done to the print option on the planner. This has been done to improve the experience and the layout when printing in A4 and A3 sizes.

  • Admin Email Design - In preparation for the release of the new ability to add fields to emails, we have renamed to two tabs in Admin > Email Design.

    • Data is now Fields

    • TemplateHTML is now Email

Fixes

  • Maternity Qualifying Week - Fixed issue with Qualifying Week Start Date being populated with an incorrect date. This date would be incorrect in HR only. When integrated with payroll, the correct Qualifying Week Start Date would be populated and the Average Weekly Earnings would be calculated correctly for employees on SMP.

  • Admin - Performance issue when accessing a Role - We have added pagination to the Members tab in Admin > Roles so the loading of employees on that page is much quicker. It now uses the same format as the employee screens to load and show data.

    This was an issue for larger companies with 5000 plus employees assigned to a role.

MyCascade

Enhancements

  • My Details - Add sort functionality for the list screens in MyCascade > My Details The ability to sort records on lists screens in My Details has been added.

Fixes

  • Images not displaying in the Google Chrome browser

    When using Google Chrome, the images had stopped appearing. This affected the company logo and the employee picture.

Payroll

Enhancements

  • Office reports - The ability to Schedule Office Reports has been added. More information can be found here.

Fixes

  • Gross Pay Analysis Report - Fixed issue with Statutory Neonatal Care Pay Recovered and Statutory Neonatal Care Not Recovered appearing incorrectly when a period range is selected.