Release Notes
Release Notes for BrightPay
23rd March 2026 - Updates
BrightPay Cloud 2026-27 is now available
Legislation changes for 2026-27 to include: (New Payroll Tax Card available here)
- Updated Scottish Income Tax rates for 2026/27 (no changes for England, Wales or Northern Ireland)
- Updated National Insurance thresholds, including the Lower Earnings Limit
- Updated Student Loan thresholds, with support for the new Plan 5
- Updated Statutory Pay rates, including Statutory Sick Pay and Parenting Pay
- New Statutory Sick Pay calculations, removal of waiting days and removal of the Lower Earnings Limit
- Updated Company Car and Fuel Benefit rates
- Updated National Minimum Wage rates from April 2026
- Added support for Parental Bereavement Pay (Northern Ireland), ensuring compliance with new reporting requirements
- Minor Feature Parity Items
18th March 2026 - Updates
- Departmental User access for an employer on the Client Portal
- Employee can be marked as confidential for the Manager and Client Portal
13th March 2026 - Updates
- A Team Member on the Organisation can access employers on the Client Portal by default
- Custom Bank Payment File templates created for Desktop can be imported into BrightPay Cloud
- Coding Notices improvements
20th February 2026 - Updates
- Email delivery improvements for greater speed and reliability at high volumes
4th February 2026 - Updates:
- Auto Enrolment letters in the Employee Self Service
- Auto Enrolment Journey Report
- Batch View/Download/Email Auto Enrolment letters
- Ability to Batch Download payslips for a pay period in the Client Portal
- Option to email Employee Portal instructions to employees from the Client Portal
- Email/Download Multiple Reports to PDF
23rd January 2026 - Updates:
- Option to download/export RTI Submissions to PDF or XML
- Payslip email notification for users on the Client Portal
19th January 2026 - Updates:
- Batch Payroll Entry and Approval Requests
- Bureau Statistics Report
- Copy Report Template from another employer
- Employee Count Report
- Payroll Journal Document
- Pending Code Notices Document
- Historical Code Notices Document
- Automatic Enrolment contributions submission - employee and employer amounts
- Portal Document Availability Emails – P60s, P45s and PBIKs
15th December 2025 - Updates:
- PAYE Bill reminder notification email for users on the Client Portal
14th November 2025 - Updates:
- BrightPay's Virtual Support Assistant is available
12th November 2025 - Updates
Manager and Employee Mobile App available to download
11th November 2025 - Updates:
- The option to send a notification email to an employee to advise a resource is available for the employee to view on their EESSP
- An activity log to view when a resource is created and by who, if email notifications were sent and if the resource was viewed by an employee and when.
4th November 2025 - Updates:
- New UK and London Living Wage Rates
23rd October 2025 - Updates:
- P30 and P32 updates
- Option to send Payroll Entry/Approval notifications to specific users on the Client Portal
2nd of October 2025 - Updates:
- Integration with BrightCIS and BrightPay to post Gross CIS Deductions via API
22nd September 2025 - Updates:
2nd September 2025 - Updates:
- Statutory parenting leave calculations and schedules
- Statutory Pay Forms
- Attachment orders summary
- Employment allowance summary
- Batch Operations for employers that have ‘preferred’ gateway credentials
- People's Pension name and logo update
18th August 2025 - Updates:
- TimeKeeper’s timesheet integration with BrightPay for single employers
7th August 2025 - Updates:
- Employees can view other employees' leave on the Employee Self Service Portal
- Teammates tab and a New Planner view on the Employee Self Service Portal
- New Planner view for the employer calendar on the Manager's Portal
- New Planner view for the employer calendar on the Client Portal
29th July 2025 - Updates:
- Date and time stamp for emailed payslip
- Option to enter in a 'preferred' Government Gateway User Id for any given employer
- New Planner view of the employer calendar
15th July 2025 - Updates:
- Editible Piece rates
- A4 payslip template
- Password protect pdf documents
- Download/Email multiple payslips for each employee
- Custom bank file templates
- Employees display ordering on documents
- Invitation for users on the Client Portal
2nd July 2025 - Updates:
- Payroll Entry and Approval Requests
- Import from a csv file on Payroll Entry Requests
- Option to Filter by Department on the Payroll Entry or Approval Request
- Employer Dashboard - status of Payroll Entry and Approval Requests
- Employer Dashboard - next estimated pay date colour warnings
- P30 document on the Client Portal
25th June 2025 - Updates:
- Employee Payroll and HR Documents Import from Connect
29th April 2025 - Updates:
- Filtering employees
- Period timeline navigation
- Validation/flagging for employees on class B (or similar) who are born after 5 April 1961.
16th April 2025 - Updates:
- Departmental Manager option for employees in a department
- Option for Managers to add leave and cancel leave
- The Calendar report and Annual Leave entitlement report available on the Client Portal
4th April 2025 - Updates:
- Supports recording an employee's workplace postcode and reporting it on FPS (which may be required where an employee works in an NI Freeport or Investment Zone that is at a different location from the employer's registered address).
- Supports FPS 'Pension commencement excess lump sum indicator' and 'Stand alone lump sum indicator'.
- Updates Cushon pension contributions CSV file format.
20th March 2025 - Updates:
- Legislation changes for 2025-26
- Option for Two Factor Authentication for Employees
- Increases the Employee Numbers limit to 300 (including leavers)
- Resources option for Employees
- Client Portal - url: https://client.brightpay.com
- Super Users and Standard Users can be enabled to access the Client Portal
- Ability to update Employer and Employee information
- Option to enter leave on employees' calendars
