Summer’s here, and it’s heating up with fresh features designed to make your days easier, your work lighter, and your goals well within reach—preferably from a shady spot with Wi-Fi.
New Features and Capabilities
Geotagging for Time Punch Employees
Geotagging automatically records where employees clock in, giving you peace of mind with verifiable work location data—no more guesswork or disputes. The best part? There’s no additional charge for the geotagging feature with our time and attendance software.
Employee Time Card Settings
One page. Total control. Use the Employee Time Card Settings page to enable geotagging, set up time card entry, and manage preferences for your whole team—all in one place.
Employee Status Enhancements with Effective Dates
Pay Schedule Enhancement
We’ve enhanced our pay schedule feature to let you easily organize employees by location, department, or pay frequency. Semi-monthly, monthly, quarterly or annual pay schedules? Got it. Need to run an off-cycle payroll? You can do that too–and, without affecting your regular pay periods or pay dates.
Improvements You’re Going to Love
Your business isn’t static, and your tools shouldn’t be either. We build software that adapts as fast as you do.
New Accounting Setup Checklist
New accounting customers, meet your setup sidekick. Our interactive setup workflow keeps things easy, breezy, and button-click simple.
Discount Descriptions on PDF Invoices
All invoice templates now include clear discount breakdowns, so your customers can see exactly how you’re saving them money.
Plaid Integration Enhancement
Your bank connection shouldn’t ghost you.
We’ve resolved the Plaid issue with an improved integration. Bank connections stay put, and transactions flow like they should.
New Style, Cleaner Pages
Breathe easy—your software just got a refresh. We updated our font, added a sleek left column for headings (and soon, helper text), cleared out the clutter.
Payroll Integration Improvements
More control, less hassle. Our improved payroll integration lets you fine-tune journal entries with employee-level detail, paper check tracking, and more.
Journal Entry Preview
See it before you save it. Our Generate Preview feature gives you a clear view of your payroll mapping to accounting before you commit so nothing catches you off guard.
Starter 401(k)
Small plan, big step. Patriot now supports Starter 401(k) and Roth Starter 401(k) in payroll, so you can easily track deductions and stay compliant.
1099 Filing Improvements
Year-end panic? Not on our watch. File, post, and refile 1099s and 1096s—all from our software. All
tax filings should be this easy!
E-signature Enhancement
No check left behind! Transparent e-signatures and nudging now work across employees, vendors, contractors—and both preprinted and blank stock.
Connection Status Improvement
Smarter syncing with QuickBooks Online is here. See your connection status upfront and disconnect with a single click –without the guesswork.
Roth IRA
Save now, withdraw tax-free later. You can now add new Roth IRAs to Patriot for correct payroll taxation and W-2s.
Geotagging Status Report
We’ve added the Geotagging Status Report: One glance. No guesswork. Total visibility into who’s correctly setup geotagging–and who’s not.
Based on Your Feedback
Behind every great feature is a customer who spoke up. Your input steers our roadmap, and we’re always listening.
Geotagging Status Report CSV
Spreadsheet lovers, rejoice: You asked, we exported. The Geotagging Status Report is
now downloadable as a CSV — go ahead and
get your nerd on.
First Payroll Date
Want to pay a new hire before their official start date? Now you can. We’ve added a new “First Payroll Pay Date” field, so you’re not stuck waiting for the hire date to cut that first check.
Number Validation
We’ve squashed those pesky “invalid number” errors. We now support comma validation in accounting, so copying and pasting numbers is smooth and error-free.
FUTA for SUTA Exempt Employees
We’ve improved how we handle FUTA for SUTA-exempt employees, helping prevent large year-end collections by spreading the tax throughout the year.
Keeping You Compliant
We’re not just here to help you run your business—we’re here to protect it. That starts with keeping your data safe, secure, and exactly where it should be.
Payroll Tax Updates
Tax laws don’t slow down, and neither do we.
We’ve updated over 139 payroll tax rates and added 13 new taxes since January to keep your payroll taxes compliant and your business
running smoothly.
Quality assurance tests
Payroll has to be perfect. That’s why we have a top team of quality assurance engineers who created and executed 157 new integration tests and 1856 new tests cases to make sure your software is error free in the past 6 months.
Check Out What’s Coming Next
Ready for a taste of what’s next? We thought you might be. Here’s a quick preview of what’s in the pipeline.
- Time card functionality for overnight shifts – Sign up for the beta group.
- Time off requests in Time and Attendance
- Employee self-onboarding – RELEASED
- Auto Payroll (Cue the confetti! It’s coming soon!)
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