Release Highlights
UKG Pro 2021 Fall/Year-End
Important Dates
Release Upgrades October 30, 31 and November 6
Version 17.0.0
Release Webcasts October 14 and October 15
Release Notes Available October 11
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Compensation
Payroll
HR Administration
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Customer Idea
Keep your user access to only active employees with an additional system configuration capability that will allow system administrators to remove terminated web users after a set number of days. Once selected, the terminated web user account and any of their remaining user roles will be removed from the UKG Pro solution. In addition, a log of users whose web accounts have been removed will be available.
User Removal Upon Termination
#1 Top Voted Idea
You’ll now gain the ability to update your company’s employee numbering method yourself. Once enabled, the feature will allow employees to be rehired in a new component company with their original employee number. It will be available for all UKG Pro customers that use the “unique across companies” numbering method rule. You’ll be able to update the last number used for your company and make updates to your rules for employee numbers without outside support.
Retain Employee Number Upon Rehire
Adjustments that require less processing time and result in reduced entry errors The flexibility to move and reconcile wages and taxes for the entire year Prompt identification of tax liabilities and reporting impacts from adjustments
Easily allow your people to keep their former employee number when rehired.
Feature Delivered
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Your UKG Pro ACA Manager solution will now include an enhanced ACA Monthly Details page (formerly called Auto-Population Summary) to provide you easier access to view all monthly ACA measurement data, Form 1095-C Part II data, and employment data across all employees. A new ACA full time override feature will also be added for those with edit rights enabled to allow greater flexibility in marking employees as full time regardless of their payroll hours or status within a health care measurement group. In addition, the capability to override ACA part-time months to ACA full-time months individually or all at once will be available and regenerated Forms 1094-C and 1095-C will reflect the change.
ACA Full Time Override
Get a better look at your payroll with Smart Pay Analytics.
Tired of hitting the point of no return by accidentally clicking Print or Finish when processing payroll and having no way to rollback? Well stress no more. Once enabled, our new UKG Pro capability will provide an “Are you sure?” pop-up confirmation window for your team to confirm if they wish to continue forward with finalizing payroll.
Finalize Payroll Pop-Up
Manage tax exemption status changes with ease in Guided Adjustments.
Cultivating a diverse workforce means being able to meet a variety of accessibility needs. With a refreshed look to match our new identity as UKG, your web pay statements will be enhanced to ensure they’re accessible to employees with disabilities. Clearer wording and a cleaner layout will make pay statements keyboard and screen reader accessible, allowing for easier data navigation
Pay Statement Accessibility Enhancements
A new pay statement layout ensures accessibility for all your employees.
Having to run various payroll reports and finalizing payroll figures every week can be a tedious task. Look no further as Smart Pay Analytics will add two new sections to the Payroll Overview screen in your UKG Pro solution, reducing your dependence on standard payroll reports. The first section will contain five clickable analytics, allowing Payroll Administrators to streamline their process and audit a list of employees: active not paid, zero net pay, terminated paid, leave of absence, and under/over hours. The second section will contain a side-by-side comparison of the current payroll totals to the last payroll processed.
Smart Pay Analytics Feature
You’ll no longer need to duplicate your configurations or recreate accrual codes for your UKG Pro Workforce Management solutions thanks to new functionality that will allow you to select your codes in Pro as they currently exist in Workforce Management (also known as UKG Dimensions).
General Ledger Rules for Accrual Codes
Timekeeping
A reorganized Payroll Gateway places what you use the most at the top.
Improve the user experience for your managers and administrators working with the UKG Pro Compensation solution by providing them the ability to enter and to view comments on worksheets for a smoother communication process. In addition, you’ll be able to provide administrators access to worksheets during the allocation process. With this capability, your people will be able to complete their salary planning process more efficiently and on time while providing better support to your managers.
Compensation Worksheet Enhancements
A cleaner pay statement layout provides accessibility for all your people.
Seamlessly and securely run payroll using a new API integration that will provide a direct connection between your UKG Pro Workforce Management solutions. Once configured, you’ll no longer need to download payroll files from Workforce Management (also known as UKG Dimensions) and upload them into Pro; instead, earnings and deductions from Workforce Management will pull directly into Pro, making your payroll process more efficient. Additionally, this API integration makes it a lot easier to undo a step — such as submitting pay data — when running payroll. You’ll no longer need to reimport time and payroll files from Workforce Management (also known as Dimensions), but can now easily go back and fix something and resubmit directly within Pro.
Payroll API Integration
Your UKG Pro Workforce Management solutions allow you to say goodbye to the extra step of having to manually configure Activity Profile templates and Healthcare Analytics labor types for your employees in Workforce Management (also known as UKG Dimensions). Now, you can set up both in Pro during the new hire process and they will seamlessly sync between your unified solutions.
Configure Additional Profile Templates
Smart Pay Analytics Enhancements
Our compatibility updates ensure you’re able to continue successfully accessing your UKG Pro solutions from the website browser of your choice. For complete details on the browsers and versions now supported – and those to use for optimal UKG Pro performance after your upgrade – review the revised UKG Compatibility Guide available on October 11 on the Learning Center home page.
Browser Compatibility
Being able to quickly find and access your UKG Pro content is central to your experience. That’s why we’re reducing the number of navigation clicks by allowing you to easily view all Menu items within each tab at once, including your Favorites. You’ll also have the option to choose standard spacing or a collapsed view within menu settings. For more details about plans to sunset the classic navigation across all UKG Pro products during 2021, please tune in to our release webcasts.
Menu Navigation Updates
Stay connected and keep up with critical workplace information with a fresh integration slated for your UKG Pro solution and the new Microsoft employee experience platform. Coming later this year, users of UKG Pro solutions and Microsoft Viva will be able to see their paycheck information directly in Microsoft Viva with more features being added in 2022.
Microsoft Viva Integration
Tired of waiting for the mail or uploading your signed power of attorney (POA) form via a case in the UKG Ultimate Community? You’ll soon gain the ability to easily and efficiently upload POA forms that require a physical signature thanks to a new Upload Forms button coming to the Payment Services Gateway in your UKG Pro solution.
Upload Physical Signature Power of Attorney Forms
Coming Soon: UKG Pro Payment Services - Tax Filing
Coming Soon: UKG Pro
Dimensions Pages on UKG Pro Mobile App
Revamped Timesheet Summary Page
Manage employee time with ease thanks to new enhancements coming to your UKG Pro Time Management solution. The timesheet summary page will get a makeover that includes new fonts, easy-to-read buttons, and a redesigned data grid. The grid will also feature an alert column that will notify you of pending time-off requests.
Coming Soon: UKG Pro Time Management
The new Timesheet Summary page gives you clearer access to your data.
The need to switch between mobile apps will soon be significantly reduced with new UKG Pro Workforce Management functionality coming to your UKG Pro mobile app. From a single app, you’ll gain access to more UKG Dimensions manager pages, such as Team Timecards and Team Schedule. In addition, administrators will no longer have to select individual pages on the Mobile App Access Rights page in the UKG Pro solution to enable access for their people. They’ll simply select the Time (Workforce Dimensions) option and Dimensions access privileges will be assigned for all pages and also respected in the UKG Pro solution.
Coming Soon: UKG Pro Workforce Management
Take advantage of UKG Dimensions pages on the UKG Pro mobile app.
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