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Whats New - Reckon Accounts Hosted 2020

Reckon Accounts Hosted 2020 contains exciting new features, enhancements and Legislative changes for the 2020/21 Financial Year.

New Features/Enhancements

Reckon Accounts 2020 contains exciting new features and enhancements.

Home page enhancements

The Home page has received a face-lift with new colours (applies to default themes only) and modern icons.

Payment Receipts

Thanks to our users who voted for this idea. You can now print/email Payment Receipt of Invoice/s in Reckon Hosted.

Find more information here.

Find in Employee Centre

You can now search for employee record/s based on your chosen criteria.

Find more information here.

Find item by Barcode in Invoice

You can now search for an item by its barcode in the Invoice now. You will need to add the new Barcode column in your Invoice template before you can use this feature.

Find more information from here.

Secondary ID

You can now add a Secondary ID of your business in Reckon Accounts. For example: NZBN, ACN etc.

This can be added to your Invoices by customising the Invoice template.

Find more information here.

Payroll Confirmation window enhancements

Based on user feedback, we have now added Email Pay Slips and Process STP (applies to Australian versions only) buttons on the Confirmation and Next Steps window after you complete a Pay run in Reckon Accounts.

New salutations in the email templates

Thanks to our users who voted for this idea. You now have more Salutation options to choose from that matches your personality. You can find it from Edit > Preferences > Send Forms > Company Preferences.

Overdue Stamp improvement

Based on user feedback we have made a small change to the way an Overdue Stamp is triggered.

The Overdue stamp will only appear if you have used a Term and the due date is passed. We've also reduced the stamp's size and added a transparent background.

If you do not wish to utilise the overdue stamp feature remove TERMS from the applicable template.

Tax File Number Declaration via Reckon GovConnect

Applies to the Australian version only

Thanks to our users who voted for this idea. You can now lodge Tax File Number (TFN) Declaration through STP via Reckon GovConnect.

Find more information from here.

Single Touch Payroll Lodgement window enhancements

Applies to the Australian version only

Based on user feedback, we have simplified the Single Touch Payroll Lodgements window.

Find more information from here.

Email - Special tags

Supported in Reckon Accounts Hosted 2020 R2 onwards.

Special tags can be used in emails which will be replaced by the relevant information when the email is sent.

Available tags are:

  • <Due-Date> - Due date of the transaction
  • <Transaction-Number> - Transaction Number
  • <Transaction-Total> - Transaction total
  • <Company-Name> - Company file’s Company Name
  • <Company-Telephone> - Company file’s Telephone Number
  • <Company-Fax> - Company file’s Fax Number
  • <Company-Email> - Company file’s Email address
  • <Company-Tax-Rego-Id> - Company file’s Tax Rego Id
  • <Company-Secondary-Id> - Company file’s Secondary Id
  • <Name-First-Last> - Customer/Supplier/Employee First and Last name separated by space
  • <Name-Last-First> - Customer/Supplier/Employee Last and First name separated by space
  • <Name-First> - Customer/Supplier/Employee First name
  • <Name-Last> - Customer/Supplier/Employee Last name
  • <Name-Company> - Customer/Supplier Company name
  • <Name-Contact> - Customer/Supplier Contact name
  • <Name-Email> - Customer/Supplier/Employee Email address
  • <PO-Number> - the PO text field from the Invoice screen. It’s not a dynamic field but a free text field available in an Invoice template
  • <Project> - The Job Name of Customer:Job

Tag

Invoice

Estimate

Statements

Sales Order

Sales Receipt

Adjustment Note

Purchase Order

Reports

Pay Slips

Payment Summary

Remittance Advice

Super Report Email

Payment Receipt

<Due-Date>

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<Transaction-Number>

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<Transaction-Total>

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<Company-Name>

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<Company-Telephone>

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<Company-Fax>

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<Company-Email>

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<Company-Tax-Rego-Id>

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<Company-Secondary-Id>

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<Name-First-Last>

Y

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<Name-Last-First>

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<Name-First>

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<Name-Last>

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<Name-Company>

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<Name-Contact>

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<Name-Email>

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<PO-Number>

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<Project>

 Y

Y

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Online Payment Services

Applies to the Australian version only

Get paid faster with Pinch Payments, now integrated with Reckon Accounts Hosted.

Great news for small businesses, Reckon has partnered with Pinch to provide a payment platform for Reckon Accounts Hosted users.

Accept one off credit card and direct debit payments online, set up recurring payments or break large invoices down into smaller payments using a payment plan using Pinch payments integration with your Reckon Accounts Hosted data.

For further information on Pinch Payments, click here

Tax window enhancement

Applies to the Australian version only

We have made some enhancements to the Employee's Taxes window:

  1. Study and training support loans (STSL): Help Debt and SFSS have moved to a new section called "STSL"
  2. CDEP adjustment continues to stay under the Subject to section
  3. For better user experience, we have re-positioned the fields

HTML support for emails in Accounts Hosted

Supported in Reckon Accounts Hosted 2020 R2 onwards.

You can now enhance your emails such as marking your text as bold, or even adding an image.

Examples

Here are some examples to get you started:

Image

Add an image by adding this block: <img src="URL of the image">, for example: <img src="https://www.google.com.au/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png">

Bold text

Add <b> at the beginning of the text, and </b> at the end of the text. For example, <b>I am sample bold text</b>

Italic text

Add <i> at the beginning of the text, and </i> at the end of the text. For example, <i>I am sample italic text</i>

Paragraph

Add <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end of the paragraph. For example, <p>I am a paragraph. Adding these tags helps keep my sentences together.</p>

Single line break

Add <br> to a new line in the body of your email to insert a single line break. For example, add one (or more) of these before your email signature. Note that <br> is an open tag, meaning it has no end tag. We automatically add <br> to the new lines found in the email template body, even if you don't add this tag.

You can learn more about HTML tags from: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp.

There are also HTML converters available online. Search for "Text to HTML converter" and you can paste the converted HTML text in the Send Form template body.


PayPal BankData

PayPal is now available as a BankData feed option.

Compliance update - NZ

PAYE Tax Scale update for FY 2020/21

Reckon Accounts 2020 R1 includes the latest threshold of Student Loan and ACC Earners' Levy, effective from 1 April 2020.

Compliance update - AU

PAYG Tax Scale update for FY 2020/21

Reckon Accounts 2020 R2 contains the latest Tax Scales for the FY 2020/21. Due to the economic impact of COVID-19, the Government delayed the Federal Budget until October 2020. However, Study and Training Support Loans rates and thresholds have been updated. As a result, HELP and SFSS rates and thresholds have been adjusted and new PAYG tax tables apply to Reckon Accounts.

New South Wales State Payroll Threshold update

Reckon Accounts 2020 R2 includes the latest New South Wales State Payroll threshold that has been increased from $950,000 to $1 million, effective from 1 July 2020.

You can find out more from Business.gov.au.

Western Australia State Payroll Threshold update

Applies to the Australian version only

Reckon Accounts 2020 R1 includes the latest Western Australia State Payroll threshold that has been increased to $950,000, effective from 1 January 2020.

Using Salary Sacrifice to reduce Employer Contribution

Effective from 1 January 2020, you can no longer use Salary Sacrifice to reduce Employer Contribution (SA, CA).

In Reckon Accounts, you will now get a warning message if you want to select this option that can be found under Employee > change tabs to Payroll and Compensation Info > Super Details ...

You will also get an information message when you access the Employee Centre and Payroll Centre.

SDK Changes

Applies to third party software providers who integrate with Reckon Accounts Hosted

Reckon Accounts 2020 contains some SDK enhancements. If you use a third party application that works with Reckon Accounts, please consult with the provider prior to upgrading to Reckon Accounts 2020 to ensure the integration continues to work seamlessly.

Click here to learn more.

Resolved Bugs

Below are the bugs addressed in Reckon Accounts Hosted

  1. Cannot email Employer SGA Contributions Report if the first Employee from the list is not selected.
  2. No employees show in the STP Lodgement screen if the computer date is set to the US format.
  3. ETPPaymentDate is mapped with PayeeStopDate (Release Date) instead of PayDay (Payment Date) of the ETP payment for Finalise Event.
  4. Replace ", carriage return and tab with blank text when exporting STP json file.
  5. SUMETP on the exported STP payevents includes the total of LumpSum A,B, D, E amounts instead of the total of ETP Payments only. Please note that this field data doesn't get sent to the ATO and is only shown on the Reckon GovConnect for reference.

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