Product updates

We have added the ability to preview pay calculation on a payroll item basis, vs having to preview the entire payroll at once. Passing in the ‘?item=’ query parameter to the Payroll Preview endpoint will trigger pay calculation for only the specified item(s), enabling more performant previews when viewing individual employee’s. Learn more in our Preview API documentation.

Net Pay Splits now fully support breaking out pay by percentages in the API, Components, and Console, alongside the amount-based splits that have always been supported. Due to a breaking change in the structure of the Net Pay Splits API needed to support this change, the percentage field is available on our latest API version. Please reach out to the Check team if you would like to enable the latest API version for your integration.

We’ve added a new set of validations to help ensure accurate payroll calculation and processing for all 2% shareholders in our system. Individuals who hold more than 2% of outstanding stock of a corporation are not permitted to receive pre-tax benefits such as Section 125 medical benefits (see here), and need to be designated as such via a company-defined attribute. The new set of validations reduce the need for corrections and will include:

• Employees can only be marked as 2% shareholders with an effective start date at the beginning of a calendar year
• Employees that have an active pre-tax health benefit associated with them cannot be marked as a 2% shareholder unless their pre-tax health benefits are either deleted or ended before their effective start date as a 2% shareholder
• When uploading historical payrolls, 2% shareholder earnings cannot be created for employees that are not 2% shareholders

The Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR) has updated Form G-4, State of Georgia Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate. Employees will be required to provide this new form, and will have an onboard status of Needs Attention until doing so. If an employee fails to fill out the new Georgia Form G-4, a default calculation will be used. This new form will be available in Console and Onboard by January 26th, 2024.