August Product Update: Flexible Time-Off, Smarter Notifications, and Improved Vacation Pay Handling
While the summer sun might be slowing things down for some, we’ve been working hard at Salsa to roll out features that continue to empower developers and partners. These updates focus on providing more flexibility, better visibility, and easier integrations, helping you streamline payroll processes and deliver an exceptional experience for employers.
Support Catch-Up Retirement Plan Schemas. Employers can now support catch-up contributions for employees nearing retirement age. This allows workers to contribute more than the standard annual limits to their retirement accounts, helping them maximize their savings as they approach retirement.
By adding this option when setting up retirement policies, employers can offer more flexibility to employees while staying compliant with retirement regulations.
Improved Employer Notifications. When building a payroll platform, ensuring timely and clear communication with employers is essential for smooth operations. Employers need real-time updates on critical events—whether it’s payroll issues, tax changes, or actions requiring immediate attention. Without effective notifications, payroll processes can easily become delayed or non-compliant, leading to frustration and additional support inquiries.
Salsa streamlines this process for developers by offering a comprehensive set of notifications via webhook events, enabling your platform to automatically inform employers about key actions. This reduces the need for custom-built notification systems, saving development time and effort. To make implementation even easier, we now provide default messages, so you can manage notifications with minimal setup. For more tailored communication, partners can customize these messages with their own tone and content, while still using Salsa’s notification parameters to ensure the right information is delivered at the right time.
By leveraging Salsa’s notification system, you can ensure employers stay informed, prevent operational issues, and focus on delivering a smooth payroll experience—without the overhead of building complex communication flows from scratch.
Improvements for Vacation Pay in Canada. Managing vacation pay in compliance with Canadian regulations requires a smooth and transparent process for both employers and employees. To enhance the experience, we’ve made updates that improve how vacation pay is handled and displayed. While setting up policies, employers can now easily choose between accruing vacation pay over time or paying it out with each paycheck.
We've also improved visibility: the accrued vacation amount is now clearly accessible in the balance section and included in worker paystubs, reducing confusion and minimizing employee inquiries. These enhancements ensure that employers can efficiently manage vacation pay while providing greater transparency to their employees.
Reminder and Quick Access to Collect Missing Employer Tax IDs. To streamline the payroll setup process and prevent compliance delays, we've enhanced our embedded components to proactively remind employers to provide their missing state tax IDs. Employers are now alerted via the Employer Dashboard with a dedicated setup task, ensuring tax IDs are collected in a timely manner. Additionally, during payroll runs, employers will see clear warnings with quick access points to submit missing tax information.
These proactive reminders and access points reduce the operational burden on your support team by minimizing the need for manual outreach. If you’re using our embedded components, this feature is automatically available without any further changes. For those using custom payroll UIs, this functionality is also exposed via alerts in the payroll run interface, making it easy to integrate.
Stay Ahead with Salsa
Stay ahead with these powerful updates designed to streamline payroll operations and enhance the employer experience. Explore these features today and build a product that boosts satisfaction—without the engineering hassle.
