FastTrack360 Version 12 Online Help

FastTrack360 Release 11.37 (UK Release 12.10).

Overview of the 11.37 FastTrack360 release

Get ready for even more possibilities across the entire recruit, time, pay and bill process with over 55 enhancements coming to your FastTrack end-to-end platform.

These enhancements are designed to simplify and automate the complexity of your business day-to-day - and to make life easier, you don't have to use all the new features at once. Designed to minimise the impact to your business-as-usual operations, you have the flexibility to enable many of these enhancement as you need.

You'll also be excited to know that a some of the enhancements included in this upgrade are your ideas!

The Top Highlights

With so many awesome enhancements, here are our top features split across the main modules in front and back office:

New APIs (coming soon)

 

Easily Preview & Download Documents 

 

Automatically Close Jobs 

 

Skip between records in Candidate Search results 

 

Assign Rates to a Job Template at Country & Parent Level 

 

Pay Rate Description on Base Rate for loaded Pay Rates 

 

Delegate Timesheets 

 

Add Comments to Timesheets 

 

Submit & Approve Timesheets in a single action

 

View the type of rate on a Timesheet

 

Add email messages as attachments

 

Skip Pay Batch Stages 

 

Transfer Super Balances outside of Pay Batch Process 

 

Better RDO Management - Leave Setup  Pay Batch Stage 

 

Group multiple pay batches into one EFT file 

 

Copy Pay / Bill Codes and Copy Rate Rules

 

Group Invoice data by Cost Centre

 

Group deliver invoice emails

 

Attach supporting documents to manual invoices 

 

Create Manual Invoices & Credit Notes without link to a Job

 

Create Custom Rate Bill Formulas 

Other Features to Look Forward to

In addition to the items above, you will also receive improvements briefly described below. You will find even more detail in the new online What's New Guide.

Improvement

Short Description

Front Office

Back Office

Activities & Notifications (Dashboard)

Separate launch icons for Activities and Notifications allow you to retrieve targeted information. You can also personalise the list to show specific (default) activities on open. Read more.

Please read the important notices relating to this functionality prior to upgrading to v11.37.

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Set Section Defaults in Recruitment Manager

Globally set the default display order of sections within Parent, Client, Cost Centre, Contact, Job and Candidate records (Read more). Within front office records users can now also add / remove sections to suit their own preferences. Read more.

Please read the important notices relating to this functionality prior to upgrading to v11.37.

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Candidate Primary Resume Preview

You can now preview a resume without having to open the attachment via the new Primary Resume Preview section in the Candidate record. Read more.

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Enlarge Profile Pictures

Hover your mouse over a Candidate or Contact profile picture to expand the image to view more detail. Read more.

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Search Candidate by Comment

Find Candidates with or without a specific Comment in Search Candidate. Read more.

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Search Candidate by Creation Source

Find Candidates by their creation source, e.g. created from Outlook Extensions, or Job Board Application. Read more.

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Delete a Candidate / Contact Portal User

Delete an unused Candidate / Client Contact Portal User (Online Profile) where the Portal User has, for example, been created with the wrong user name. Read more.

Please read the important notices relating to this functionality prior to upgrading to v11.37.

 

 

Client Pay Bill Section Permission

Restrict access to the Client's Pay / Bill section via a new security permission. Read more.

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Add Activities from the Client Contact Record

Add Activities from a Client Contact record, without having to navigate back to the Client record. Read more.

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View Details on a Job's Oncost Calculations

Click on a pay or bill oncost in the agreement or standard rate matrix on a Job Order, to see details about how the oncost was calculated. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

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View Rate Rules on Assignment of an Agreement

View a list of Rate Rules when assigning an Agreement to a Job so you can check you are assigning the correct agreement. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

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Assignment/display of Employee Benefits

See which employee benefit types are applicable to a job order or job template and assign benefit rate rules directly on the Job Order/Job Template screen without navigating to a separate popup screen. Read more.

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Create Rate Matrix Formulas

If a system-defined formula, for example Gross Profit, does not suit your business requirements, you can create a formula to display calculated results in a Job’s rate matrix. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

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View Rate History in a Job’s Agreement Rates

See a history of changes made to a pay or bill rate by clicking on the Pay or Bill Code within the rate matrix on a job order. Read more.

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Display a Minimum Rate Value in a Job

If you are paying above award rates, you can set a minimum rate value so that the difference between the defined award rate and the rate being paid is displayed within the rate matrix on a job. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

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Manage Locked Records

Unlock locked records, for example, where a user has closed a session without logging out. Read more.

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Timesheet Improvements

Timesheet improvement items are shown in the feature section above.

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See the Agreement Description in the Interpreter

Check a timesheet has been interpreted against the correct agreement prior to releasing for pay and bill by viewing the agreement description in the Interpreted Timesheet screen. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

 

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Restrict Attendance Types based on Pay Agreement

Restrict the attendance types that can be selected by timesheet initiators, to what is defined in the shift type conditions in the corresponding agreement. Read more.

 

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Unpaid Break Rule enhancements

Define if and how an unpaid break is to be deducted from the total hours worked for the purposes of time interpretation, where a payee finishes a shift prior to the end of an unpaid break. Read more.

 

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Dollar Based Pay and Bill Oncosts

Define pay and bill oncosts as a fixed monetary amount. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

 

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Pay Code Group New Validity Period

Copy existing linked pay codes when copying an existing pay code group. Read more.

 

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Supplementary Rates for Pay & Bill Oncosts

Link pay codes to supplementary pay codes, so that the pay rate of the supplementary codes can be used in oncost calculations to control margin creep. Watch a short demo video. Read more.

 

 

Pay AU - Support for Low Income Tax Offsets

Automatically apply a tax offset to the tax withholding of payees who are eligible for a low-income tax offset. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

 

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Pay AU - Amend Reported STP Data for a Prior Financial Year

Make corrections to Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting submitted for a prior, finalised financial year by processing a balancing payments adjustment batch for an adjustment period in a prior financial year and submitting the balancing payments adjustment batch to STP. Read more.

 

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Pay AU - Amend Reported STP Data for the Current Financial Year

Make corrections to Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting submitted for the current financial year when a payee is no longer working, without the need to wait until the end of financial year. Read more.

 

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Pay AU - EOFY

Process Enhancements

The Single Touch Payroll (STP) end of financial year process has been enhanced so that the tax year no longer defaults and a confirmation prompt is displayed when finalising a financial year for a pay company, thereby helping to prevent finalising the incorrect financial year. Read more.

 

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Pay AU - Capture & Report Payments Subject to Fringe Benefits Tax

Capture the value of reportable fringe benefit amounts applicable to payees, including those amounts subject to fringe benefits tax (FBT) and those that are exempt from FBT, on their Payee records and report the amounts through Single Touch Payroll (STP). Read more.

 

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Pay AU - Enhancements Around Payments to Working Holiday Makers

In line with the latest ATO reinterpretation of the Working Holiday Maker legislation, the ability to pay lump sum payments and termination payments to Working Holiday Makers at the Termination pay batch stage has been re-enabled as has the ability to itemise taxable allowances in Single Touch Payroll reporting, as opposed to reporting all taxable allowances under gross payments. Read more.

 

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Pay - Deductible Service Fees

Flag deductions that are taken from the earnings of independent contractors for services that have been provided by the agency, so the deductions can be itemised on a deductible service fees invoice. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

 

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Pay – Deduction Headers: Define Protected Earnings, Deduction Rate and Rolling Child Support

Define net protected earnings and optional default rates settings for child support deductions ( Read more.) at the deduction header level ( Read more.) so that changes in net protection and deduction rates can be managed and applied centrally (read more). Watch a quick demo video.

 

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Run Pay Reports at all Pay Batch Stages

Run payroll reports at any stage of the pay batch process so that manual adjustments can be identified and actioned before the pay batch progresses to the next stage. Read more.

 

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Improvements to the accrual and reporting of superannuation

Create weekly, fortnightly and bi-monthly superannuation contribution periods. Read more. Field superannuation accrual related payroll inquiries from payees with the help of the new Superannuation Accruals report. Read more.

Use additional information that is now provided on the existing Superannuation Contributions report to remit superannuation contributions under the SuperStream standard. Read more.

 

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Filter Accrued Leave Balance Report

by Pay Batch Numbers

Report on leave accruals that occurred in specific pay batches only. Read more.

This feature is available in v11.37P1 onward.

 

 

Accrued leave cost

View the combined cost of leave accruals and entitlements within the Leave Balance Summary on a Payee record. Read more.

 

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Leave Improvements

  • Use new leave rate types to facilitate payment of leave using a greatest rate or on a first in/first out basis. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

  • Additional leave set hierarchy levels that provide more flexibility for configuring leave rules. Read more.

  • Search for leave requests based on whether they have been paid. Read more.

  • Visually identify in the Leave Request calendar which days of the request have not been paid. Read more.

  • View the cost of accrual and average monetary rate for leave accruals that are shown on the Accrued Leave Balance report. Read more.

  • Report on leave taken that was unpaid and the reason why the leave could not be paid. Read more.

  • Manually adjust automatic leave payments ( Read more.), identify instances of leave taken that was not paid (Read more.) and cancel automatic leave payments at the Leave Payments pay batch stage (watch a quick demo video, Read more.).

  • Accrue and adjust banked leave, such as rostered day off (RDO) leave. Read more.

 

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Invoice Delivery Enhancements

Bulk select and invoke delivery of multiple invoices. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

 

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Payslip Superannuation

Use new fields within the Payslip Superannuation layout component on payslip document formats to generate payslips that give payees a better understanding of how much superannuation they have accrued and how the superannuation was accrued. Read more.

 

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Document Format Type Enhancements

Create and edit new supplementary document formats, which allow additional documents to be generated and issued along with payslips and invoices. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

 

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Document Format Groups

Group document formats to define which documents are to be created, and the document formats that are to be used to generate those documents, when a payee is paid or a debtor is invoiced. Watch a quick demo video. Read more.

 

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Bill Code Totals & Placement Summary on Invoice Formats

Add a new format component to invoice formats to print bill totals by bill codes and to print a summary of the number of individual job placements that have been invoiced. Read more.

 

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Enhancement to Leave $ Balance Field for Payslip Formats

The $ Balance field, which is available to display the accrued leave balance cost on payslips, has been enhanced so that the logic behind how the value in that field is calculated, for leave types that accrue on a first-in-first-out basis, is consistent with the accrued leave cost that is shown on the Accrued Leave Balance report in the Leave module and in the Leave Transaction Details on Payee records in the Payroll module. Read more.

 

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Finance Integration

  • Schedule finance exports to run automatically. Read more.

  • Export debtor record import/export mapping codes in the generic sales export file. Read more.

 

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