Software Updates

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Change Employee Salaries On-the-Fly

September 17, 2026

Payroll doesn’t always go according to plan. A last-minute bonus. A raise that starts this pay period. A correction you catch while reviewing Step 1. Before, making a change meant stepping out of your payroll run, opening the employee’s record, updating their pay, heading back to payroll, and checking your totals all over again. Now, […]

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HR Manager Permissions

May 26, 2023

We’re excited to announce Manager Permissions for our HR Software, allowing employers or payroll admins to assign manager permissions so they can see key information about their direct and indirect reports. And because you can determine how much access you want managers to have, you can efficiently manage and support your workforce like never before. […]

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Save Payroll and Make Changes

May 9, 2023

You’re almost done entering hours for payroll, and then it hits you. You forgot to change an employee’s contribution amounts, tax information, or direct deposit. Sigh. You take a screenshot of the page and plan to come back and re-enter all of the information. What a pain! We think so, too. And we discovered that […]

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example of making a change to an hourly employee during payroll on Patriot Payroll step one.

Semi-monthly and Monthly Pay Frequencies for Time & Attendance 

May 4, 2023

We’re so excited. And we just can’t hide it. We now handle more frequencies and we know you’ll like it. Patriot’s Time & Attendance now supports semi-monthly and monthly pay frequencies! Previously, our Time & Attendance only supported weekly and biweekly pay periods. But now, you can pay employees weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly and […]

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Multiple Departments in Journal Entries

May 4, 2023

Lovers of organized accounting books, listen up. This one is for you. We want to give users greater editing flexibility on journal entries that they create and allow for more granular categorization of transactions, so we’ve added a way to add departments by line item during your Journal entries. This way, you can easily track […]

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An example of splitting departments in a je

Refund Prefund Directly in Patriot 

April 11, 2023

Refund prefund? Say that five times fast! Patriot payroll customers who use prefunded direct deposit can now initiate a balance return directly in the software without calling Patriot’s Support team. This update gives you an easy and seamless experience that puts you in control of your money. And if you miss talking with our fabulous […]

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example of how canceling prefund will appear in the software

Employee Statuses & Effective Dates Access for Vestwell Customers 

March 23, 2023

Are you a payroll customer with a Vestwell 401(k) plan? One of your responsibilities is to track and report employee termination dates to Vestwell. In the past, you needed to have our HR software add-on to track this info directly in Patriot’s software. And if you didn’t use our HR software add-on, you had to manually track employee termination statuses and effective dates on your own. We know that’s a pain. So, we’ve opened up employee status and effective dates access to all our payroll customers with Vestwell 401(k) plans. But wait, there’s more! We’ll also automatically send that info to Vestwell as part of our seamless integration.

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employee statuses and effective dates access for Vestwell customers

Patriot’s Fresh New Look

February 17, 2023

Patriot’s Suite is getting a fresh coat of paint and some new finishes. But don’t worry—it’s still the same accounting and payroll software (and the same navigation) you’ve come to love! We’re simply modernizing our software for an improved user experience.

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Patriot's accounting and payroll's fresh new look

Prefund Balance Display

February 2, 2023

You don’t know what you don’t know. But for payroll customers who use prefunded direct deposit, now you do! You can now view your prefund balance on Step 1 when running payroll, giving increased visibility before running payroll with prefund.

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Prefund balance display on Step 1 of Patriot's payroll Software