Parolla now supports “Sign in with Microsoft“. This service provides users with a fast and secure login option using their Microsoft account credentials. On the login page, users can click the “Sign in with Microsoft” icon, which redirects them to Microsoft’s login page to verify their identity, ensuring a seamless and streamlined authentication experience. Key Aspects of “Sign in with … Read More
SEPA Credit Transfer Changes 2025: What Parolla Customers Need to Know
As part of our commitment to keeping you informed about important regulatory changes, we want to bring to your attention a key update that will impact transactions across Europe starting in 2025. The SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Credit Transfer (SCT) file format is undergoing a significant upgrade that will affect how businesses process payments. What Is SEPA Credit Transfer? … Read More
Parolla Plugins is Xero’s Preferred Partner
It’s been a big start to 2023 for us. Parolla Plugins is Xero’s preferred partner in Ireland! The partnership allows Xero customers to make use of our Parolla Plugins web application free of charge, with Xero picking up the tab. So what does Parolla Plugins do, and how does it help Xero customers? Parolla Plugins is an updated version of … Read More
2022 Revenue Payroll Notifications
New 2020 RPNs’ are available for download from Revenue.
How To Give Your Best Customer Support
We’re consistently commended for our best in class levels of customer support. We aim to answer our customers questions promptly, correctly, and with respect. I recently contributed to an article on customer support in Software as a Services products. I was asked to outline some of the principles and tools that we apply. Answering your customers question correctly and sportively … Read More
Gender Reporting
Gender reporting is an upcoming requirement for companies to publish data on gender balance in pay scales across bands for all employees. In Europe women earn on average 14% less than men. The figure for Ireland in 2018 was 14.4%. The Gender Pay Gap Information Bill was published in 2019, but was delayed, and is now being redrafted for 2021. … Read More
Multi Factor Authentication Security
As of 15th September 2020 we have implemented multi factor authentication as an optional security enhancement for all users. Multi-factor authentication is an electronic authentication method in which a computer user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more pieces of evidence to an authentication mechanism: knowledge, possession, and inherence. Wikipedia Multi factor … Read More
Xero Bank Statement Converters
Xero bank feeds are temporarily out of action until Brexit gets resolved, so we have created our own Xero Bank Statement Converters. See Xero community page. In the meantime, you can still upload statement manually via CSV files. This week we have released two new bank statement converters on our Parolla Tools website, to assist Xero users in the ROI. … Read More
Employee Net Pay Arrangements
Employee net pay arrangements are where the employer has agreed to pay the employee an amount of money in-hand, after taxes have been deducted. This arrangement is generally discouraged by Revenue, and most business advisors, but is not prohibited. The arrangement is most often found in the construction sector, or where an employee might be paid in cash. The main … Read More
Personal Mileage Expenses
We’ve updated the Personal Mileage Expenses form following user feedback. New features added: We pre-populate the journey form with the details of the employees last approved vehicle, destinations and distance. You can enter multiple journeys in the one claim form. You can copy individual journeys within the same claim form. If you’re an administrator you can submit the journey immediately … Read More
Revenue Payroll Notification Update
The Revenue Payroll Notification is where Revenue publish the tax details for an employee. This blog posts covers some of the changes in this revenue payroll notification update. The RPN’s used to be called a P2C files, or employee tax certificates. They are possibly the most important piece of information that we download from Revenue. Each Employment of an individual … Read More
Xero Account Mapping Rules
We have added custom Xero account mapping rules rules to the Xero/Parolla account synchronisation process. The new rules allow you to post to specific Xero accounts based on the details of an individual employee. Rules can be created for departments, regions, or individual employees. If no rules are present, or if an employee doesn’t apply to any of the rules, … Read More
New Employee Wizard
The updated new employee wizard has been reintroduced to streamline workflow. Some of the changes include: The very first step of the wizard creates or imports Revenue RPN details. A new auto numbering system can generate the next available employee payroll/works number. The number of mandatory fields have been reduced There is an early finish button is available once the … Read More
Switching Payroll Systems
Under the new PAYE Modernisation system in 2019 it is now much simpler for people when switching payroll systems during the year. That is because each month is treated as its own mini end of year return. The pay run submissions now contain all the information required. Previously, the full picture was only given to Revenue in the end of … Read More