v.26.3.00

Release Summary

This release includes important compliance updates for Australia and Canada, along with payroll enhancements and platform improvements across ZonePayroll.

🚀 Highlights At A Glance

👉 Action Required: Review Key Actions After Updates

• All Customers: Ensure you understand how this bundle update impacts Roles and Center Tabs to maintain system accuracy. Read the Key Actions After Bundle Updates Guide.

• Australian Customers: Review the Payday Super changes before July 1, 2026 to ensure payroll administrators are familiar with the updated workflow.

• Canadian Customers: Customers with employees in British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, or Prince Edward Island should review their first July payroll following the CRA tax updates.

🇦🇺 Australia: Payday Super — Preparing for July 1, 2026

🌟 Payday Super Readiness

Beginning July 1, 2026, employers are required to remit Superannuation Contributions on the same Pay Day that employees are paid.  To support these new requirements, ZonePayroll has introduced several enhancements to payroll processing, super remittances, and STP reporting.

What’s New:

• STP Reporting Updates: STP reporting has been updated to support Payday Super requirements, including reporting on QE (Qualifying Earnings) and mandatory reporting of Super Liability (SL).

• Start Super Remittance Button: A new Start Super Remittance button has been added to the pay run, making it easier to begin the super remittance process immediately after payroll is completed.

• Super Due Date Reminder: A reminder banner will now appear in the pay run to display the super remittance due date and help payroll teams stay on top of upcoming deadlines.

• Yearly MCB cap: New yearly MCB cap instead of the current quarterly cap. The cap applies to reported YTD QE.

• Please review a summary of the Payday Super updates as well as ZonePayroll Updates and Customer Expectations for more details. These pages will be updated periodically with instruction guides, FAQ and important updates to help navigate the new compliance. 

📘 End of Year (EOY) Guide Now Available

Please take a moment to review our comprehensive EOY Guide to ensure your business is fully prepared for the financial year transition.

What’s New in ZonePayroll

• FY 2026/2027 Tax Rates & Thresholds: ZonePayroll has been updated with the latest Australian Taxation Office (ATO) tax scales, Medicare levy, and Study and Training Support Loans (STSL) rates. These will apply automatically to all pay runs processed in the new financial year.

• VIC AFL Grand Final Holiday: The Victorian AFL Grand Final public holiday has been successfully added to the 2026 public holiday calendar.

• Finalized Payslips Only for Super Remittances: Superannuation remittances now exclusively include contributions from finalized payslips. This enhancement helps prevent incomplete or premature submissions.

📅 Key Action Items & Compliance

• Post-June 30 STP Finalisation: Once your final pay run for the financial year is processed after June 30, 2026, you must submit your final year-end STP reporting. This declaration marks your employees' income statements as "Tax ready" in myGov.

• The Deadline: The ATO requires this finalisation declaration to be completed by July 14, 2026.

• How to Finalise: For step-by-step instructions on how to complete this process in your account, please follow our guide here: 👉  Click here to read our Post-June 30 STP Finalisation Guide

⚠️ System Automation: No system action is required to update tax tables. The FY 2026/2027 rates will automatically apply to all payrolls processed on or after July 1, 2026.

🇨🇦 Canada: 2026 Mid-Year Tax Updates

ZonePayroll has been updated to support the CRA's July 2026 payroll deduction changes. These updates will automatically apply to payrolls with a pay date on or after July 1, 2026.

What’s Changing:

• British Columbia: Provincial income tax rates and basic reduction amounts have been updated for the remainder of 2026. Because the original tax changes were retroactive to January 1 but are only being implemented mid-year, prorated amounts will apply to to payrolls with a pay date on or after July 1, 2026:

  • Lowest Tax Rate: The lowest tax rate permanently increases from 5.06% to 5.60%. To catch up for the first six months of the year, a prorated rate of 6.14% will apply from July through December 2026.

  • Basic Reduction Amount: The full-year basic reduction amount increases to $690 (originally indexed to $575). To balance the year, a prorated basic reduction of $805 will apply for the remaining six months of the year.

• Newfoundland & Labrador: The Basic Personal Amount (BPA), prorated to $15,000, has been updated to reflect the CRA mid-year changes. Employees who previously submitted a TD1NL do not need to complete a new form.

• Prince Edward Island: A new 21% prorated tax bracket has been added for annual taxable income above $200,000 (Jul-Dec).

Action Required: No action is required. We recommend reviewing your first July payroll following the CRA tax updates.

🇨🇦 Canada: Enhancements & Fixes

💵 Expense Reimbursements

Expense Reimbursements are now available for Canada, allowing approved NetSuite expense reports to be processed directly through payroll.

• What’s New: Process approved NetSuite expense reports directly through payroll.

• Unified Ledger: Reimbursements are included in employee pay runs, payslips, payroll journals, and payment processing.

• Efficiency: Manage employee reimbursements through a single, streamlined payroll workflow.

• 📘 Knowledge Base: Expense Reimbursements

🏢 Multi-Vendor Allocations by Province

Pay Component Subtypes now support multi-vendor allocations by province, providing greater flexibility when managing payroll liabilities across multiple jurisdictions.

• What’s New: Configure different vendors by province for supported pay component subtypes.

• Automation: Automatically allocate liabilities to the appropriate vendor based on the employee’s province.

• Administration: Simplify payroll administration for organizations operating across multiple provinces.

• Accuracy: Improve tracking and remittance accuracy for province-specific obligations.

💼 Common Use Cases:

• Workers’ Compensation (WCB) premiums administered by different provincial authorities.

• Other payroll liabilities that require province-specific vendor allocation and remittance.

• 📘 Knowledge Base: Configuring Multi-Vendor Allocations by Province

📋 Record of Employment (ROE) Improvements

Several enhancements have been made to simplify Record of Employment processing and improve accuracy.

• Batch ROE Improvements: Improved batch ROE processing by automatically populating common values during bulk ROE generation, reducing manual data entry and administrative effort.

• Calculation Fix: Corrected an issue affecting insurable hours calculations so that only eligible earnings will now contribute to insurable hours.

👤 TD1 Forms

Federal and provincial TD1 forms can now be generated directly from the employee record.

• Benefits: Simplifies employee onboarding and maintenance while reducing manual administration.

• Quick Access: Provides immediate access to vital employee tax forms natively within ZonePayroll.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom: FPS Validation Improvements

Resolved an issue affecting the display of the employer National Insurance value within FPS validation results.

• What’s Changed: Employer National Insurance values now display correctly during FPS validation review.

• Note: This was a display-only issue and did not impact FPS submissions to HMRC.

🌍 General Improvements: Leave Accrual Processing

Improved leave accrual processing by excluding terminated employees from nightly accrual calculations.

• Benefits: Significantly improves nightly processing efficiency and prevents unnecessary calculations for inactive employees.

• System Health: Helps maintain cleaner leave balances and overall system performance.