The DCI maintenance release for the web portal will occur on the morning of Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and will require the DCI web portal to be unavailable for all users from 1:30 AM to 3:30 AM EST.
The DCI maintenance release requires a mobile app update. The new mobile app version will be available as early as Wednesday, January 8, 2025. All users will be forced to update their mobile app as early as Thursday, January 9, 2025. Thank you for being a valued DCI customer!
Improved Payroll Batch Processing Speeds
We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently released updates to optimize the payroll batch process, resulting in reduced processing time. We hope you’re seeing this benefit in action!
New URL(s) for Help Center & Articles
Organizations who utilize the DCI Help Center will notice new URLs for articles and the main help center website as we’ve migrated to the Cloud. Please be sure to update links you may have posted or shared within your organization. The Help Center icon in the web portal, mobile app, and mobile web for organizations who utilize the DCI Help Center will be updated on Wednesday, January 8, 2025.
Auto Approval Setting for Manual Entry Check
A new instance-level setting for auto approval, called auto approval manual entry validation is now available for account type Hourly! This new feature checks to see if an entry was made in real-time or was entered manually (not verified in real time).
Real time entries that pass the manual entry check include entries made via:
Real time mobile app
Real time phone IVR
FOB entry with valid tokens
All other entries are considered manual entries and fail the check
These entries are flagged for review and indicated by the red eye icon in the Needs Review column on the Pending Entries page. Supporting text when hovering over the eye icon states “Manual Entry.”
The Auto Approval tab on the punch detail page displays a new column indicating whether the manual check was attempted. This column displays for entries with account type Hourly. It does not display for Client Transportation entries.
If the result is “Not Approved,” the Failure Reason displays “Manual Entry: This punch was not verified in real time.”
The Events tab on the punch detail page displays an event when the Manual Entry validation runs. Events display as:
Subject: Auto Approved Manual Entry Check
Description: Failed or Passed
If the entry failed validation, a separate event displays on the Events tab as:
Subject: Punch Auto Approve Failed
Description: Manual Entry: This punch was not verified in real time
Optional to enable is the message template Punch Auto Approve Failed. Use the macros Annotation Data and Reason For Failure in the message template to auto-populate the message to include the reason the manual entry validation failed.
The Auto Approval Report includes the Manual Entry validation failure reason
Submit a DCI support ticket to request this new instance-level setting feature!
Resource:
Cost Center Payroll Container
In DCI a payroll container is the overtime grouping method. A new payroll container has been added - Cost Center Payroll Container. The cost center payroll container groups the employee punches by cost center and then evaluates for overtime. This feature is intended for organizations in which each cost center represents a separate employment entity for caregivers.
*Please note: This feature is only available for organizations with instances running in fiscal intermediary (FI) security mode and is an instance level setting. There are eligibility limitations and steps needed to implement for this feature. Please submit a DCI support ticket to request more information from a DCI account manager.
Resource:
Database Schema
