What we shipped, in plain language.

Audit report, abstract, bank statement, cash acquittance, exceptions, unpaid, exit, provision and year-on-year reports, plus statutory Form C and Form D.

Statutory bonus is calculated from released regular payroll results on the wage types flagged as bonus wages, with arrears counted in their original month. The Act is a floor: the employee receives the higher of the scheme and the statutory amount.

• Bonus year per company with category rules, staff slabs, gift amounts and minimum wages; copy to a new year, close and reopen.
• Bonus groups resolved from the assignment, payroll area or employee type.
• Full, interim and supplementary runs: calculate, check (override, hold, disqualification, deduction), submit and approve (HR Manager, Management Auditor, MD).
• Approval pays through one bonus off-cycle run per payroll area, with TDS, GL posting and bank files of up to ₹49 lakh each; confirm paid, or reverse before the bank file.
• A month with no payroll result is reported as an exception, never counted as zero.

Final Settlement pulls the bonus due to a leaving employee, with an eligibility panel. Employees see their bonus under My Bonus in self-service, with a bilingual bonus slip.

On Windows the browser installer could hang after the download, so every start of the demo shell downloaded Chromium again and never launched.

• The shell now checks whether Chromium is actually installed rather than trusting the installer's exit.
• A first install finishes as soon as the browser is complete, with a 15 minute limit.

Payroll now floors one-time deductions at net pay. The unrecovered remainder is carried and recovered when the run is approved.

A versioned referral scheme with one case per referred hire, created when the hire is made. The qualifying-day counter reads attendance results and is recomputed, never incremented.

• Release and pay through payroll, accounts payable (agent GST per partner) or an off-cycle batch.
• Clawback when the referred employee separates; it reverses if the separation is withdrawn.
• Public kiosk for referrals, and company / plant scoping.

One-time payments are paid in a real off-cycle payroll run with marginal one-time TDS and a separate bank file.

Configure an SMS gateway and templates per tenant. With none configured a message is logged as skipped rather than raising an error.

UAT scripts and help articles covering the referral scheme, cases, release and payment.

Both AP notes are issued by us: the debit note reduces the payable and the credit note increases it. The credit note now posts Cr Trade Payables against the offset and input tax, appears as a credit in the vendor ledger, and is no longer offered as a credit to apply against invoices.

An unreachable SMTP host held the request for minutes while workflow emails were sent. The connection now times out after 10 seconds.

• A price difference was filed as a quantity mismatch; each is now recorded as its own exception.
• Simulate failed on an invoice line with no GL account; it now reports a blocker.
• Approve and Reject worked at any status; they are now allowed only where valid and return a clear error otherwise.

A 35-step walkthrough with a generated training guide takes a presenter through capture, matching, approval and posting, proving each posting against the journal, Trade Payables and the vendor ledger.

Submit, Approve and Post used to act on the last saved version, so an edited but unsaved form was posted with the old values. The form is now saved first on Journal Entry, Customer Receipts, Direct Invoice, Vendor and Non-PO invoices, Debit/Credit Notes, GL Payment and Bank Transaction.

• Simulate on GL Payment and Bank Transaction saves a draft first, because the preview reads the saved record.
• Once a document is posted, Simulate reads Display.
• The Simulate dialogs carry Save / Submit / Approve / Post buttons, including Advance and Manual Payment.

The grid showed only the first 100 receipts and sorted and searched within that batch. It now pages, sorts, searches and filters columns on the server, and Excel export covers the whole result set.

The retired FI-AP reconciliation package and its empty tables are removed. Nothing visible changes; AP permissions are unchanged.

The voucher panel is removed from the receipt form and now lives under GST in the sidebar, with a register of issued vouchers and an issue dialog over on-account receipts.

• A return order goods issue needs a Released order and is recorded as a delivery with its own transport, gate-out and vendor acknowledgement or dispute. Partial shipments are supported.
• Optional per company: a fully shipped return settles itself, closing the order or raising the AP Debit Note as Draft, Approval or Auto-post. Failures are recorded and can be retried.
• Goods billing nets returned goods that were not on a posted invoice, so a vendor cannot bill goods sent back.
• e-Way Bill is refused without vehicle, transporter and distance.

• A consent question left blank is no longer saved; Record stays disabled until every question is answered.
• The Hostel Manager can now mark guardian consent as not applicable on a draft request, with a reason.
• Food cost per resident-day is entered on Hostel Charges; Hostel Setup shows it read-only.
• The employee master Hostel tab lists only pending employee group changes.

The Travel Management UAT scripts shared their codes with the Time Management scripts, so loading one replaced the other. Travel is now UAT-HR-086 to UAT-HR-090, the Time scripts are restored, and existing Travel test runs move to the new codes.

Cutting room bundle labels now print as 50 mm x 50 mm stickers, one label per page, with the Bundle No and a scannable QR code. The on-screen preview matches the printed label exactly.

A new Hostel group under Real Estate manages worker hostels. A hostel is set up on a Real Estate property of type Hostel; its rooms and beds come from the property's spaces.

• Admission - a hostel request with a voluntary declaration, rules acknowledgement, emergency contacts and guardian consent where required, approved in up to two levels.
• Check-in, beds and transfers - bed status (vacant, occupied, held, blocked) is worked out from the residents; bed and hostel transfers are recorded.
• Movement - out and in, overdue returns, native leave and the night strength count. Gate device punches are recorded as movement, never as attendance.
• Visitors, incidents and damage - damage is recovered only after the Hostel Manager approves it; suspension and eviction come from an Employee Relations order.
• Monthly charges - rent and food are calculated from the nights stayed and deducted in payroll; net pay is never driven negative and the balance is carried forward.
• Self-service - employees see their hostel on /ess/my-hostel; check-out joins the separation clearance. Ten hostel reports are included.

Seven UAT scripts (UAT-HR-079 to UAT-HR-085, 64 test cases) cover hostel setup, admission, check-in, movement, visitors and incidents, charges, self-service and check-out. Twelve help articles explain each hostel screen.

The demo bundle publish step was being skipped on merge builds, so new walkthroughs did not reach presenters. It now runs on every production build, uploads only when the content has changed, and uses the server's own storage settings.

A manual payment could be made against a draft, blocked, cancelled or reversed vendor invoice. The payment is now refused, naming the invoice and its status. Only posted invoices can be paid.

• A requisition set to approved now records who approved it and when.
• A requisition line with quantity 0 is refused.

A new guided walkthrough takes a presenter through the full purchase cycle in 25 steps: requisition, two purchase orders, two goods receipts, two vendor invoices built from the receipts, a part and a final payment, and the PO History trace.

Every step is checked against stock, GR/IR, input tax, Trade Payables, the bank and the vendor ledger.

• The grid no longer stays blank after loading or after choosing another account until the page is changed.
• When an account is flagged for open items but has none yet, the page says so and offers Build from history.

• Registering an attendance agent failed with a server error on every tenant. It now works.
• Creating a shift swap request no longer fails.
• A plant time zone must be a name such as Asia/Kolkata; offsets such as "GMT+5:30" are refused, and existing ones are converted to Asia/Kolkata.

• The Hire-to-Retire Pay stage uses the standard House Rent and Conveyance Allowance wage types every tenant has.
• The demo connects to local tenants on Windows machines that cannot resolve *.localhost.

Creating or editing an employee now opens a full page (/hrm/employees/new and /hrm/employees/<id>/edit) instead of a dialog over the list.

Creating or editing a purchase requisition now opens in the page in place of the list, instead of a pop-up dialog.

The Reference column on GL Open Items used to read "Line 1 Tax" or "Line 2" for vendor invoice items. It now shows the supplier's Bill No, the payment's Cheque No / UTR, the supplier credit note number or the customer invoice number, whichever applies. Existing items are corrected without any data repair.

The Human Resources menu has been regrouped so related screens sit together.

The Vendor and Customer Balance Lists show the control account by name only, for a shorter, more readable column.

Presenters can run the guided demo walkthroughs without the source code. A small demo shell downloads a signed bundle of walkthroughs, verifies it and runs it; new demos arrive as a new bundle with no reinstall. The bundle is published automatically after a production deploy.

A GL account could show one balance on the GL Ledger and a different one on the Balance Sheet. Several causes are fixed:

• Older foreign-currency receipt journals that already held rupee amounts were being converted a second time. They are restated by a repair command.
• A GL account with postings can no longer be deleted, and a second live account cannot be created on the same chart of accounts node. Existing duplicates are merged.
• Both balance sheets now carry Surplus brought forward for earlier years that have not been closed.

Customer receivables, invoice revenue, tax codes and AP round off name one GL account, so one company's sales invoices could post into another company's ledger.

• The account is now resolved to the posting company's own account on the same chart of accounts node, or the posting is refused with the account named.
• Journals to another company's or a deleted GL account are refused at entry and on Post.
• AP Posting Configuration refuses another company's accounts.

A journal that had been posted to another company's GL account could not be reversed. A reversal now hits exactly the accounts its original hit, so it always cancels it.

The GL repair commands can be re-run safely: an already repaired journal is skipped quietly, deleted accounts with postings and no live twin can be restored, and reversed pairs are left alone. A production run book is documented.