Winter can be a lot. Your software shouldn’t be. Here’s a roundup of the latest updates designed to make the day-to-day easier and eliminating unnecessary busywork.
New Features and Capabilities
Auto Payroll
What’s better than running payroll in 3-easy steps? Not running payroll at all. Now with Autopay, you can set it and forget it.
Employee Self Onboarding for New Hires
Let new hires self-onboard! They can securely enter their personal, tax, and direct deposit info—saving you time and reducing errors.
Health Benefits Integration
Payroll and benefits are better when they’re in sync. That’s why we partnered with SimplyInsured to bring health benefits into our software with a seamless integration. You can shop, compare, and enroll in coverage without leaving Patriot. Already have a plan? You can still connect benefits by making SimplyInsured your broker of record.
Setup Checklist in Accounting
We’ve updated the onboarding experience for new accounting customers so tasks are easily identified for setup success.
HR Center Access for Employees
Give employees limited access to the HR Center to access assigned LMS courses, or to review and digitally acknowledge receipt of your premium handbook. No following a paper trail, no back-and-forth emails, no confusion.
Improvements You’re Going to Love
Your business keeps moving, even when the weather says “stay put.” Your software should keep up. That’s why we keep rolling out updates that flex with your needs and match your pace all year long.
Employee Milestones
Employee milestones now display directly on your dashboard so you can see them at a glance. No more guesswork, or forgetting to order cake.
Employee Status Display
We’ve updated the employee list to make it visually clear who is on a leave of absence or has been terminated.
W-2 Summary Report
We have update the W3 Company Summary Report in Suite to list Box Codes in numerical order 1 to 99. No more calling out a search party to find specific boxes.
Stride Partnership
Patriot has partnered with Stride to offer 1099 workers access to affordable individual health insurance. Contractors will see messaging in their portal, and software users will have information in our Marketplace.
Contractor Pay Stub Improvements
Say goodbye to check stub clutter! We’ve improved the layout for Contractor and Vendor stubs by matching 1099 line items into one concise entry.
P&L Report Date Selector
We’ve revamp our date selector and also introduced a new “Date Period” option, giving you more flexibility when generating reports.
Bank Feed Improvement
We’ve updated our Plaid integration to support importing up to 2 years (730 days) of transaction history. Importing banking history has never been easier!
W-2 School District Tax Display
On Form W2 in Box 20 – Ohio School District (SD) Locality Names have now been replaced by 4 digit Codes. Making this transition is eliminating the issues of some SD names being to long and not fitting into the W2 box.
Based on Your Feedback
You’re the reason the software keeps getting better. You tell us what’s clunky, where you’re having a pain point, and what would save you time, and we turn that feedback into smoother workflows.
Closed Time Card Notification
We’ve added a notification when a time card is approved and closed solving and the mystery for employees when they can’t clock in.
Clearer Settings on Hour Types
We cleaned up the wording in Hour Type settings, so it’s obvious which options impact time-off balances and when to use them.
Geotagging Restriction Messages
New messaging gives employees who are required to use geotagging notice to update their settings in their mobile phone.
Keeping You Compliant
What kind of partner would we be if we didn’t make sure taxes are updated and laws are followed? It’s our goal to keep you compliant, so you can sleep easy.
FLSA Overtime
Now when you pay an employee over
40 hours and put hours in the overtime or double time boxes, you’ll be presented with step 1A to indicate which hours are FLSA overtime so W2s will be accurate.
TTOC for Tipped Employees
We’ve added an easy drop down to select required Treasury Tipped Occupation Codes (TTOC) for tipped roles for seamless 2026 W-2 reporting. You can add TTOC codes to as many roles as needed.
Quality Assurance Tests
Our QA team has created over 1600
new tests since June catching hiccups
and bugs before they hit your software.
Tax Updates
We’re continually updating payroll tax rates and adding new taxes to keep your payroll compliant and your business running smoothly in 2026.