Progress Report

Current Version :payrollbash-1.06( released 06-04-2007)

The following Statutory Payment facilities are to be considered work-in-progress. With enough testing and bug reports it is to be hoped that these will be nailed by the next release . All bug reports will be responded to immediately and bugs fixed within 7 days .

• Statutory Sick Pay automated.
• Statutory Payment Calculator for SMP,SPP and SAP.
• Student Loan deduction automated.
• P30 Report via OOo Calc.
• Payslips via OOo Calc.
• Extract references to Tax Credit that was discontinued re' payrolls from 2006/07
• NI Rates 2007/08 included on March 24th 2007
• Tax Rates 2007/08 included on April 6th 2007

Work Done since :payrollbash-1.05( released 17-01-05)

• NI & Tax Rates 2006/07 included on May 18th 2006
• NI & Tax Rates 2005/06 included on March 18th 2005

Work Done since :payrollbash-1.04( released 21-09-04)

• Write CGI scripts in bash and the necessary bash modules so that server/browser option is available.

Work Done since :payrollbash-1.03( released 21-12-03)

• Write subroutines in bash to do simple maths so that bc is used less.

Work Done since:payrollbash-1.02( released 02-11-03)

• Minor changes announced by IR Notes for Payroll Software Developers Series 10 - Number 16 : December 2003 implemented.
  • NI Rates : 2004/05
  • Tax Codes "A" and "H" no longer valid.
  • Temporary NI codes to have M(ale) or F(emale) as last character.
• IROfficeNumber in the "Organisation Editor" now accepts 0 as first character.

Work Done since: payrollbash-1.01( released 26-10-03 )

• "Payroll Preperation" : the opening menu lists the prevailing payment/deductions so that you no longer have to go through each of the available screens to see the total picture.

Work Done since: payrollbash-1.00( released 19-10-03 )

• "Payroll Preperation" now uses same keys as "Edit/Create Payroll Database" to go backwards & forwards through records .
• Payslips are now in window envelope format .
• "Payroll Preperation" : when entering pension details the appropriate pension to the existing NI Code is prompted.
• Problems with Payslip not having employee name/ni number details possibly due to gawk 3.1.2 problems with pipes and the "getline" function. Rewrote code in reports.mod and periodend.mod to bypass use of pipes.