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2024
| Release Date | Product | Feature | Benefit | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/13/2025 | FIN | Charitable Receipt Archives Create page and report to view historial charitable receipt data. | The ability to view legacy charitable receipt data from pre-24.5 | Release Notes |
| 12/16/2024 | HRP | Add new fields to Leave Change Request HR Request Form Added Calculation Start/End dates, and related processing. | Supports the ability to pick the Assignment while placing employees on leave. | Release Notes |
| 12/2/2024 | HRP | Add “Exclude from Retro Pay” flag to HR Pay Codes Enhancements to current Retro Pay process that will allow a selection of eligible Pay Codes to be included in the calculation of Retro Pay. | Ensures flexibility with configuring Retro Pay, and improves ease of use in mass change scenarios. | Release Notes |
| 12/2/2024 | HRP | Add ability to capture BC Teacher Certifications for EDAS Add ability to capture Certification Type, Certification No, Category and EDAS Code on the Employee Associations page so that for both TRBs and TQSs certification data of the employees can be captured. This certification data is needed by EDAS. | Allows British Columbia to be compliant. | Release Notes |
| 11/26/2024 | ALL | MAJOR UPDATE: Version 24.5 for Sparkrock 365 2024 Release Wave 1 Updated platform to Version 24.5 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform to 2024 Release Wave 1. Added Productivity, Finance, and reporting capabilities. | Release Notes | |
| 11/18/2024 | HRP | British Columbia TTOC Experience Transfer, Split, and Seniority Allows a BC Temporary Teacher On Call to split off TTOC and transfer it to teaching experience. Made changes so that the HR salary calculator now displays accurate salary amounts that are based on the pay grid code that is mapped directly to the years of experience. | Will ensure that employee salary calculations for experience in the future will automatically be updated on creation of HR requests. | Release Notes |
| 11/4/2024 | HRP | New HR Department Filter on British Columbia Pension Worksheet Specifies the one or more HR department codes that Sparkrock 365 is to filter assignment entries by when loading lines into the British Columbia pension report worksheet. | Increases productivity for BC customers running the British Columbia Pension report. | Release Notes |
| 10/28/2024 | HRP | British Columbia Pay Transparency Gender Capture & Reporting Data collection and reporting to support British Columbia customers who are required to report payroll and gender information under the BC Pay Transparency Act. | Allows British Columbia customers to be compliant. | Release Notes |
| 10/14/2024 | ALL | Increase Visibility of Guidelines in mySparkrock Change the colour, font size, and weight to make guidelines stand out on a mySparkrock page. | Improves customer experience by making Guidelines more clear when filling out expense claims and other documents. | Release Notes |
| 9/30/2024 | HRP | Add Non-Binary option to the Gender field Applies to Sparkrock 365 and mySparkrock. | Payroll employees can accurately capture and track employee gender. | Release Notes |
| 9/16/2024 | HRP | Enhancements to HR Request Worksheet and HR Request Inbox Temporary Assignment Transfer added to HR Requests and HR Request Worksheets. Additional HR Reason Codes added to HR Request Worksheet. Email Notifications added for processed HR Requests. Batch processing added to HR Request Inbox. | Payroll and HR employees can experience increased productivity when doing temporary transfers or doing mass HR requests. | Release Notes |
| 8/26/2024 | HRP | BC Pension Reporting British Columbia customers are now able to provide the pension data of their employees to the Superannuation Commission. | Allows British Columbia customers to be compliant. | Release Notes |
| 8/12/2024 | ALL | Ability to change mySparkrock Branding Customize logo and background images in mySparkrock. | Administrators can configure mySparkrock to reflect their organization's logo and branding. | Release Notes |
| 8/7/2024 | ALL | MAJOR RELEASE: Version 22.7 for Sparkrock 365 2023 Release Wave 1 Release Introduces new mobile-responsive mySparkrock employee and manager self-service portal. | Employee and manager mySparkrock users can perform tasks from their mobile devices, from any location. | Release Notes |
| 7/29/2024 | FIN | Apply mySparkrock Security Filters to purchase and expense documents Enhance mySparkrock security filters to apply to purchase orders, invoices, requisitions, payment requests, and expense claims. | Enhances employee privacy in the purchase and payment areas of Sparkrock 365. | Release Notes |
| 7/22/2024 | HRP | Employee Experience Ensures that employees are paid the right amounts based on their years of experience. Also ensures that the employee experience “progression” works accurately and the employee salary calculations for experience in the future will automatically be updated on creation of HR requests. | Will ensure that employee salary calculations for experience in the future will automatically be updated on creation of HR requests. | Release Notes |
| 7/16/2024 | HRP | EDAS Enhancements Updates to EDAS formatting from BCPSEA. | Allows British Columbia customers to be compliant. | Release Notes |
| 7/16/2024 7/8/2024 | HRP | Preferred Last Name and Middle Name fields Add two new Preferred Name fields to mySparkrock to comply with BC Human Rights Commission regulations. | Employees can select their preferred first, middle, and last names to more actively reflect their identity. | Release Notes (mySparkrock) Release Notes (Sparkrock 365) |
| 7/8/2024 | HRP | Absence Payout Grants ability to pay out some or all of the balance of specified pay codes via payroll. | Eliminates back office staff effort to manually pay out absence balances. Also reduces manual errors. | Release Notes |
| 6/17/2024 | FIN | Limit Manager Access to Employee Vendors Grants the the capability for finance department managers to be able to view, and then approve or reject expense claims that are associated with vendors that the manager is not authorized to view according to mySparkrock user or mySparkrock user profile security filters without being able to view employee information. | Improves employee privacy. | Release Notes |
| 6/10/2024 | HRP | Prorate Attendance Plan Annual Accruals Using Months Grants the capability for annual accruals to be prorated using months, instead of days. | Allows payroll employees to more accurately prorate accruals for teachers who work 10-month years. | Release Notes |
| 5/20/2024 | FIN | Close Partially Invoiced Purchase Order Grants the ability to close a purchase order and free up the encumbrance, even if part of it has been invoiced. | Improves productivity for back-office staff who need to undo receipt, cancel, or close a purchase order that has been partially received. | Release Notes |
| 5/13/2024 | FIN | Detailed Trial Balance by Account Set Report Report that allows customers to filter by Account Sets, G/L Account and Dimensions. | Allows Finance Managers, Accountants, Controllers and other Finance users at School Boards to view financial data without needing an external reporting solution. | Release Notes |
| 5/1/2024 | ALL | MAJOR RELEASE: Version 22.6 for Sparkrock 365 2023 Release Wave 1 Adds British Columbia EDAS Report and Role-Based Absence functionality | Allows British Columbia customers to be compliant. | Release Notes |
| 3/4/2024 | FIN | Always Allow Attachments for Finance Requests Grants the optional capability to add an attachment to a purchase requisition or payment request after an approver has approved the document. | Improves productivity for back office staff who need to attach documents to a Finance Request after approval. | Release Notes |
| 3/11/2024 | FIN | Allow users to see approvals Grants the optional capability for all users to view the approval entries for documents. | Improves usability by making approval entries visible to all users on records that they can access, without having to be set-up as a approval administrator. | Release Notes |
| 3/24/2024 | HRP | Set up time entry for terminated employees for a specific HR employee assignment Grants the capability to specify the one or more specific HR employee assignments for which an employee can perform time entry after termination. | Payroll administrators can allow employees who are terminated to perform time entry for a specific duration after their termination date. | Release Notes |
| 1/25/2024 | ALL | MAJOR RELEASE: Version 22.5 for Sparkrock 365 2023 Release Wave 1 Updates platform to Version 22.5 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Release Wave 1. Adds new Financial Analysis extension, the ability to reverse compensation journal entries, and other finance, HRP, and payroll enhancements. | Release Notes |
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