Keep up to date on all the significant releases to PayLab
March 2025
Summary of Updates:
- Align terminology used in PayLab with NZ Construction Contracts Act, to use payment schedule instead of certificate.
- Introduce ability for user to manually arrange the order of item in Base Contract / Variations. This user defined order will be used in payment claim/certificate pdf.
- For IPM linked contract when a claim is issued PayLab to push previous claimed amount to 'Previous Gross Invoice Amount' field in IPM.
- Update copy error state for self-claim and self-cert when there is no email entered.
Bug fixes:
- Fix no claims history displayed in (i) button in make a claim page.
- Fix issue with claimer external notes is not visible by certifier in issued claim page.
- Fix issue with not able to issue claim/certificate if there is empty approver/old data.
- Fix issue with importing material items.
- Fix issue for IPM linked contract
- Where latest contract value is not displayed in PayLab.
- Where payment schedule approvers are marked as optional approver when updated.
- Incorrect default value used for rejected variation in a new claim.
February 2025
Summary of Updates:
- Introduce new functionality to set default text to be displayed at claim / certificate. This can be setup in project or contract settings.
- PayLab - IPM integration improvement:
- Update logic when pushing claim to IPM: Paying this claim = current claimed to date less previous claimed to date (the logic before is paying this claim = current claimed to date less previous certified to date).
- Pull IPM job number as PayLab contract number.
- Allow user with no account access to open sync report.
- Introduce error handling when pushing issued claim and certificate from PayLab to IPM.
- Improve sync report so user with no account access can download the report.
- Copy variance reason from parent to line-item level if there is no reason entered at line level
- Improve pop up modal when subscription upgrade needed:
- Display no of active contract and the subscription limit in current subscription.
- Ability to upgrade to other subscription plan if current subscription is not Premium plan.
Bug fixes:
- Fix issue with missing 'duplicate project settings' functionality when creating a new project.
- Fix for performance issue.
- Fix issue with important notice page not displayed on claim pdf when there is no provisional item on the contract.
- Fix issue with claiming for provisional line item for $0 contract value.
- Fix previous amount selection in summary section, it will now consider previous approved claim / issued certificate even if they have the same claim period.
- In self-certificate mode stop sending email to user who issued claim.
- Fix display issue where yellow dot is displayed at line level when rejection reason is entered at parent/variation level.
- Fix issue where payment certificate can't be opened if claimer invite status is pending.
January 2025
Summary of Updates:
- Improve claim and certificate pdf
- Summary section is moved to the first page
- Document title, issued date and account image only displayed on the first page
- Add new footer to display file name and page number
- Fix account image display on certificate pdf
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When BCTI is switched on, update document title is updated to ” … - Buyer Created Tax Invoice” not ” … - Buyer Created Tax Invoices”
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For account country New Zealand: certificate pdf notes is updated from “This is a payment certificate under the Construction Contracts Act 2002.” to “This is a Payment Schedule under the Construction Contracts Act 2002.”
- Improve 'Send Claim' & 'Send Certificate'
- New option to send bulk email where one bulk email will be sent and all recipients can see who else has received the email.
- In self-certifying and self-claiming mode, 'To' section will be automatically populated with certifier and claimer email address. User will be able to add/remove the email address.
- Update Base Contract / Variations / Material edit page, user doesn't need to click 'pencil' icon anymore to edit. Click anywhere in the row and edit away.
- Add link to support hub in login page.
- Improve provisional functionality, user will be able to update item to be provisional if the item hasn't been certified. For variation, item needs to be in pending state.
- Introduce advisory banner when subscription level exceeded.
- Update modal when 'Premium' subscription level exceeded.
- Update UK public holiday per region.
- Various engineering improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Fix issue with not able to edit uncertified variations value to 0.
- Fix issue with line item value is updated to 0 when description is edited.
- Fix issue with editing variation and changing variation type for variation added in claim/certificate.
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Fix issue with 'Current Claim' column in 'Add Certificate' page.
- Fix issue with retention value when line item value is updated in claim/certificate.
- Fix issue with adding line item to a basic variation in a claim/certificate.
- Fix issue with creating account when default country is changed.
- Fix issue with helpdesk mode.
- Fix issue with opening a hyperlink when not logged in to PayLab.
- Fix issue with logging in for user with view access only.
- Fix issue with email not resent to next approver after claim/certificate is re-approved after being reverted to previous step.
- Fix issue with editing account details.
- Fix issue with claim page when claiming negative vaue.
- Fix issue with dashboard - project summary when this certificate value is $0.
- Fix badges display issue on contract list.
- Fix display issue with GST when claim/certificate value is $0.
- Fix display issue with 'Ref' column in contract overview page.
- Fix display issue when adding multi variation in contract.
- Fix display issue when expanding provisional item.
- Improve and perform fix for IPM integration:
- Introduce new error report.
- Allow contract to be created even if the payee contact is not populated.
- Do not display IPM inactive sub-contracts in list of contracts available to be linked with PayLab contract.
- Fix issue with delete contract button not displayed for draft contract and active contract with no claim.
- Fix issue with pushing claim from PayLab to IPM.
- Fix issue with contract and retention value.