This release note outlines key enhancements and updates introduced in the latest annual software upgrade for the PurePro application.
In line with our commitment to continuous improvement and adaptation to legislative changes, the upcoming update to PurePro will include a range of enhancements designed to address existing issues, resolve bugs, and deliver improved performance and optimization.
This document provides a high-level overview of the significant statutory changes and key updates introduced as part of this Year-End Release, ensuring that your experience with the application remains efficient, compliant, and up to date.
Admin>> Statutory Rates
The statutory parameters for the tax year beginning on April 6, 2025, have been updated in accordance with the rates published after the Autumn Budget 2024.
The statutory changes for the 2025-26 tax year will take effect from April 6th, 2025, and are based on the following rates:
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- Income Tax Rates (Scotland)
- Class 1 NICs rates & thresholds
- National Living wage & National Minimum Wage rates
- Student & Postgraduate Loans
- Employment Allowance
- Statutory Payments
- Apprenticeship Levy
- Scottish Earnings Arrestment
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- Income Tax Rates (England & Northern Ireland)
- Income Tax Rates (Wales)
- Personal Allowance
- PAYE Thresholds
- Standard/Emergency Codes
- Tax Code Uplifts
- Pension Thresholds
You can view the applicable statutory rates at any time using the Statutory Rates page on the Admin menu.
Any existing statutory payments dated after 06th April 2025 will be automatically updated to the new tax year rates when the release is installed.
Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP) will be supported in the system from the tax year 2025/2026 onwards.
SNCP can be applied once maternity pay has ended, or alternatively before or after statutory paternity pay. It is not possible to process SNCP that overlaps with other statutory payments.
To process SNCP, simply create a payment for the relevant worker using the new SNCP pay rate 2208, like all other statutory payments. Enter the birth date along with start and end dates of the first leave period, and the system will automatically calculate and process any payments that are due.
Additional periods of leave can be added to the same payment where required, up to a maximum period of 12 weeks. SNCP must be processed as full weeks, it is not possible to pay a partial week.
The P60 output has been updated for use at the end of tax year 2024/2025.
If a worker has a Freeport or Investment Zone NI letter (F, I, L, S, N, E, D, or K), a new requirement mandates the inclusion of a workplace postcode in the FPS submission. The Workplace Postcode field is now required and can be entered on the worker detail page.
Validation has been updated to generate errors for any workers with these NI letters if a valid workplace postcode is not provided. Since the workplace postcode is mandatory, payroll processing for these NI letters will not be possible without this information.
These NI letters can be used by women born prior to 6th April 1961 if they elected to pay reduced National Insurance before the related scheme ended in 1977. In this case, B is the standard NI letter, while I and E apply to Freeports and Investment Zones, respectively.
Validation has been updated to generate errors for any workers using these NI letters if their date of birth is later than 6th April 1961. As this requirement is mandatory, payroll processing for these NI letters will not be possible without amending the NI category letter or correcting the date of birth.
The system has been updated for the RTI Technical pack for 2025-26 Tax Year. This allows users to make HMRC submissions for the 2025-26 tax year including FPS and EPS. Changes include adding fields for Statutory Neonatal Care Pay, Workplace Postcode for Freeports and Investment Zone NICs and additional validations on NI letters.
P9 forms are typically sent before the start of a new tax year. Going forward, PurePro will automatically update any previously downloaded P9 forms so that they appear under the first period of the new tax year in the HMRC Inbox, rather than the period in which they were originally downloaded. This update occurs when the system moves into the new year, ensuring that all P9 forms for the new year will be displayed in one location for easier management.
Additional validation has been introduced to detect when a newer tax form has already been applied to a worker, preventing it from being overwritten by an older form. When P6 and P9 updates are applied, the system will check for any previously applied forms. If a newer form is found, a warning will be displayed to the user, prompting them to review the change rather than automatically updating the worker's tax code.
If a backdated leave date is added to a worker within a previous tax year and the worker has not been paid in the current tax year, they will not be marked as a leaver in the FPS submitted after payroll, in accordance with HMRC guidance.
In this situation, a manual FPS correction for the previous tax year must be submitted, and a task will be generated to notify the user of this requirement.
Where a new worker is added to the payroll, validation has been introduced to prevent the occurrence of duplicate employments being reported to HMRC. If the system detects a match with another worker that has the same name, NI number and/or gender and date of birth who is still live on the payroll then an error will be output advising that the existing record should be used instead of creating a new one. This is to avoid reconciliation errors in the event HMRC creates multiple employment records for the same person.
According to HMRC guidance, when a worker begins a new employment after being previously paid on the same payroll, they must be assigned a different start date to ensure each employment period is recorded separately.
To prevent reconciliation errors, validation has been introduced to prevent creating a new starter with the same start date as their previous employment. This ensures that the year-to-date figures held by HMRC for the first employment are not replaced by those for the new employment.
A new validation will detect when a backdated leaving date has been input in the current payroll period but there are payments dated after the leave date.
There is a new setting for the processing of pre-tax deductions. These deductions are deducted from the worker’s gross pay prior to paye deductions. Rates that need to be processed as a pre-tax deduction should have the pre-tax deduction box ticked.
To strengthen the security of the PurePro application, we have introduced a new policy requiring all user accounts to be secured with either Single Sign-On (SSO) or Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).
If your login is configured for SSO, you can continue accessing PurePro as usual. Otherwise, when logging in, an authentication code will be sent to your registered email address, which must be entered to complete the login process.
For more information on configuring Single Sign-On in PurePro, please contact the support team.
You can now access PurePro support and documentation using the icons on the top right-hand side of the PurePro page.
A new option has been introduced, allowing payslip previews to be sent at any stage of the payroll process.
To enable this feature, navigate to the Account Configuration page and select "Enable Sending Draft Payslips and Remittances." Once activated, an additional option will appear in the Control Centre under the Send Payslips and Send Remittances tasks, allowing users to send preview payslips to all workers included in the current payroll.
This feature applies only to workers who receive payslips via email, with the email clearly indicating that the attached payslip is a draft. By providing an early review opportunity, this workflow allows any necessary corrections to be made before finalizing payroll, reducing the need for post-processing adjustments.
Council Tax (Wales) has been added as a new Attachment of Earnings Deduction. You can add Council Tax (Wales) deduction when required using the Deductions page.
Additional validation has been added to identify workers whose email address is not correctly structured or contains invalid characters. In the event a worker has an invalid email address a warning will be output in the home page task list.
The Change Supplier feature has been enhanced to verify whether any payments exist in the current payroll before updating a worker’s associated supplier. If timesheets or payments have already been recorded for the worker, the supplier cannot be changed until these entries are removed.
A validation has been introduced to the Worker Transfer process to prevent errors in specific scenarios. If a worker is paid early in a new tax year, they cannot be transferred to a monthly payroll while it is still within the first period of the year.
When a timesheet is added via the PurePro API, if the worker on the timesheet has previously left, the API call will return a 400-error message.
PurePro holiday schemes have been enhanced to support the automatic uplift of accrual rates for workers who meet AWR qualifying requirements.
To enable this feature, select "Enable Holiday Uplift" within the Holiday Scheme settings. Specify the number of periods after which the higher rate should apply, along with the corresponding accrual rate—a set number of days for a daily scheme or a percentage accrual rate for an hourly scheme.
Workers will initially accrue holiday at the standard rate. Once they reach the required number of pay periods, the system will automatically apply the uplifted accrual rate.
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