Q3 2023 Release

Focus Areas: Employee Experience, Operational Efficiency and Performance

Get the full scoop on all the Q3 enhancements!

The Q3 2023 Release is scheduled to be deployed on the following Saturdays: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23. Each quarter we release new features and enhancements across the platform to help you operate more efficiently, improve the employee experience, and expand opportunities to deliver value to your clients.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerThis feature or enhancement was inspired by customer feedback through one of the PrismHR Voice of the Customer programs.

Q3 Release Highlights

UEX: Improved Employee Experience

Unified Employee Experience (UEX): Wow prospects and clients alike with a modern and consistent interface across Employee Portal, Onboarding and Benefits Enrollment that will help you compete in the market and retain clients.

REPORT CENTER: Operational Efficiency

New PrismHR Reports from HRPyramid: Get faster access to the data you need with several new reports, including Employee Turnover, Workers’ Compensation Analysis by Client/Class Code, Tax Register Summary and Detail, and ASO Payroll Register.

PAYROLL: Improved Employee Experience

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerPreferred Names in Employee Portal: You can now change preferred names to ensure that people are being addressed as they would like. This change can be performed by the individual employee or service provider.

TALENT MANAGEMENT: Performance & Stability

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerPlatform Performance Enhancements: Experience significantly faster page load times and maximize productivity with increased performance.

COMPLIANCE: Operational Efficiency

Check Stub Configuration: Customize check stubs through enhanced global level settings for Check Options and Pay Details. Additionally, you can customize check formats with header displays and add Gross and Net Wages to check stub outputs.

Check Out the Full Q3 Update for Each Product:

Unified Employee Experience (UEX) | Report Center  |  Payroll & HR
Benefits Administration  |  API  |  Talent Management  |  Compliance

Unified Employee Experience (UEX)

Q3 Focus: UI/UX, Operational Efficiency, Performance and Stability

Highlights

Our Unified Employee Experience (UEX) improves the employee journey by delivering a modern and consistent interface across essential worksite employee/manager applications like Employee Portal, Onboarding, Benefits Enrollment, and Talent Management. UEX provides the opportunity for expanded configuration possibilities, advanced branding options, improved accessibility, and heightened responsiveness on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

Wow Prospects: The modern designs, new interactions, and innovative Employee vs. Manager views will help you compete in the market. Take advantage of these new designs in demos, sales scripts, marketing materials and more.

Expanding Self-Service Functionality: This release marks the first in a series of releases that will bring enhanced functionality into the SMB experience with a focus on supporting the needs of worksite managers, admins and trusted advisors.

Demo Environment Ready: Activate the new designs in your demo environment for training and internal team review, documentation and testing.

 

For more information about these and other Q3 enhancements, watch the preview video and check out the release notes.

Report Center

Q3 Focus: Operational Efficiency, Peformance and Stability

Highlights

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerNew PrismHR Reports from HRPyramid: Get faster access to the data you need with several new reports, including Employee Turnover, Workers’ Compensation Analysis by Client/Class Code, Tax Register Summary and Detail, and ASO Payroll Register.

Tax Report Performance Enhancements: The new Quarterly Tax Reconciliation report features performance improvements when grouping by more than six different attributes.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerNew Report Center Reports for HRPyramid Conversion: To improve your post-HRP experience, we have created new reports in Report Center—including the new Quarterly Tax Reconciliation Report and Client Profitability Analysis Overview—and improved the Insurance Census by Date report.

 

For more information about these and other Q3 enhancements, watch the preview video and check out the release notes.

Payroll & HR

Q3 Focus: Operational Efficiency, Employee Experience

Highlights

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerPreferred Names in Employee Portal: You can now change preferred names to ensure that people are being addressed as they would like. This change can be performed by the individual employee or service provider.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerAuto-Populated Holidays: Boost efficiency and say goodbye to manual entry of holidays with our new process which automatically populates holidays on timesheets, saving valuable time for clients.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerRevitalized PTO Approver Transformation: In Q2 we revamped your ability to assign separate PTO approvers and managers for each worksite employee. This quarter, we continued work on this enhancement, expanding functionality to imports and secondary screens throughout the system.

 

For more information about these and other Q3 enhancements, watch the preview video and check out the release notes.

Benefits Administration

Q3 Focus: Operational Efficiency

Highlights

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerImproved New Hire & Dependent Required Fields: Simplify benefit enrollment with the addition of user-friendly checkbox selection options for new hire and dependent fields.

Benefit Rules I Max Contribution Amount: You can now have more refined benefit rules with the Max Contribution Amount feature that allows you to define a maximum contribution amount per plan type for medical age-rated plans.

Terminating Dependent Coverage & COBRA Qualifying Events: Simplify the process of terminating dependent coverage and COBRA qualifying events through a new user-friendly form that allows you to provide qualifying life events for multiple dependents.

 

For more information about these and other Q3 enhancements, watch the preview video and check out the release notes.

API

Q3 Focus: Operational Efficiency

Highlights

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerNew Manager and Preferred Name Fields: It’s simple to retrieve and update an employee’s new manager and preferred name with the addition of these fields to the API.

Operations Enhancement: Streamline operational processes by downloading positive pay files and retrieve account receivable transactions for your GL needs utilizing the API.

Client Update Expansion: You can now update client status, miscellaneous GL codes and tpa download options.

Improved PTO Approver Functionality: Improve operational efficiency and streamline the PTO approval process by utilizing multiple PTO approvers.

 

Talent Management

Q3 Focus: Operational Efficiency, Performance, and Self-Service Functionality

Highlights

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerPlatform Performance Enhancements: Experience significantly faster page load times and maximize productivity with increased performance.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerIntegrated Email: Enhance your candidate experience and streamline your communications with the new Office 365 integration. The revamped, thread-based email management design enables users to communicate directly within the platform allowing you to stay connected effortlessly.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerState Wage Posting: Ensure compliance with emerging regulations on salary range transparency through our implemented setting which enforces the inclusion of salary range in postings. Elevate the experience further with the salary range override function on requisitions, giving you full control over the process.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerConfidential Feedback Redesign: Improved UI and functional design of solicited and unsolicited feedback within Performance Management gives you, your clients, and their employees peace of mind with the ability to leave feedback without a username attached.

 

For more information about these and other Q3 enhancements, watch the preview video and check out the release notes.

Compliance

Q3 Focus: Operational Efficiency

Highlights

Check Stub Configuration: Customize check stubs through enhanced global level settings for Check Options and Pay Details. Additionally, you can customize check formats with header displays and add Gross and New Wages to check stub outputs.

PrismHR Voice of the CustomerACA Compliance Setup Enhancements: Streamline year-end processing with automations to ACA Control Groups, ALE Group Members and required inputs on the 1094-C Form.

Creditor Garnishment Lookback Enhancement: Streamline your payroll process with expanded garnishment lookback logic that eliminates the need for manual adjustments when processing multiple payroll batches that include garnishments.

 

For more information about these and other Q3 enhancements, watch the preview video and check out the release notes.

Final release notes will be available at the time of the release in the Customer Resource Center.

The PrismHR Customer Support Team