DotDigital, the third party provider responsible for sending SMS messages issued from your Platinum system, have made some changes to their service. As a result we have been required to make some background changes to the Platinum Software. To ensure no interruption to your SMS system please download and run this Platinum update.

It is now possible to create attributes and assign them to hire items, customer bookings and long term customer bookings.

• See How do I assign attributes to a hire item? and How do I assign attributes to a booking? for more details.

It is now possible to categorise media attached to property records.

Updates to the Making Tax Digital (MTD) VAT return to comply with changes brought about by Brexit and Postponed VAT Accounting.

• Boxes 1 to 9 have been renamed in line with the changes implemented by HMRC following Brexit.
• Platinum will no longer include in Box 2 the VAT on acquisitions of goods from EC members, unless your Company Country in Platinum settings is set to XI Northern Ireland.
• The addition of a field to allow you to enter an adjustment to the VAT return to account for your Postponed VAT Accounting (PVA) Estimated or Actual VAT amount.
• Boxes 1, 3 and 4 will include the adjustment for PVA VAT.
• The addition of nett value columns to boxes 6 to 9 to allow you to view and calculate your estimated PVA VAT from Box 7.
• HMRC have retired the option to file an XML return. This option has therefore been disabled within Platinum. Only systems authorised for Making Tax Digital will be able to submit a return.
• See Preparing for Brexit with Platinum for more details.

It is now possible to have a default attribute that is automatically set on foreign customers that are outside any customs trading blocks.

It is now possible to store an EORI number in "Customer Properties" and "Supplier Properties".

It is now possible to store an incoterm in "Customer Properties".

It is possible to print incoterms and EORI numbers on "Stock Control", "Order Processing", "Unit Sales" and "Unit Workshop" documents.

Stock Control, Order Processing & Unit Workshop Document Tokens

~248

• Incoterm.

~249

• EORI Number.

Unit Sales Document Tokens

~237

• Finance Company Incoterm.

~238

• Client Incoterm.

~239

• Client EORI Number.

~249

• Finance Company EORI Number.

• See our Knowledge Base for the full details of the above token(s).

It is also possible to import and report on incoterms and EORI numbers.

Import Variable

AD71

• EORI Number

AD72

• Incoterm

• See our Knowledge Base for the full details of the above data import variables(s).

Report Generator Variable

A071

• EORI Number

A072

• Incoterm Code

A073

• Incoterm Description

• See our Knowledge Base for the full details of the above report generator variables(s).

Changes to Platinum's "Payroll" module that allow you to start processing the year 2021/22, including:

• New: Student Loans Plan Type 4 (Scottish Student Loans).
• Printed report P11 has been updated for the new tax year.
• Updated England and Northern Ireland PAYE tax rates and bandwidths for 6th April.
• Updated Scotland PAYE tax rates and bandwidths for 6th April.
• Updated Wales PAYE tax rates and bandwidths for 6th April.
• Updated Class 1 National Insurance Contributions rates.
• Updated SSP rates.
• Updated SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP rates.
• Updated Collection of Student Loans "Plan 1", "Plan 2" (plus new "Plan 4") and "Postgraduate Loans" thresholds and rates.

• Operating PAYE in real time, aka Real Time Information - or RTI:

  • Full Payment Submission (FPS), which happens automatically when you close off a period, has been updated for the year 2021/22.
  • Employer Payment Summary (EPS) has been updated for the year 2021/22 (to clarify this, the year is included in the option name).
  • If you have not yet submitted your final EPS for 2020/21 then you can still do this by selecting the "2020/21 Final submission for the year" box, or going to "End of Year Payroll Routines" -> "Employer Payment Summary".

• See Payroll End of Year for more information, including details of changes you must make yourself that are not handled automatically, including:

  • Altering employee tax codes.
  • Taking employees off week 1/month 1 tax.

• For employers who have chosen to opt in to the system of deducting tax for certain expenses and benefits in kind through the payroll, you must record details of company car and fuel benefits in the payroll to be included in your Full Payment Submissions (FPS). See How do I Record Benefits in Kind? for more information.

• As always, look out for any other Payroll release announcements in Platinum Updates news.

Changes to Platinum's "Payroll" module that allow you to process your end-of-year 2020/21, including:

• Printed report P60 has been updated for this year's layout.

  • Platinum now prints directly on to plain paper - you no longer need to obtain HMRC stationary.

• See our knowledge base article Payroll End of Year for more details.

The facility to import new customer delivery addresses has been added to the "Data Import".

It is also possible to make changes to existing delivery addresses.

• See our Knowledge Base for the full details of the above data import variables(s).

It is now possible to prevent jobs with certain statuses from appearing.

It is now possible to limit the jobs shown to only those at the technician's depot.

It is now possible to see jobs that have not been scheduled a date.

• See our Knowledge Base to connect to your Platinum Online.