Highlights
Global Payroll Gross-Up
| Generate automated country-specific gross-up calculations without relying on local payroll providers, with the new Global Payroll Tax Engine. Calculate accurate, up-to-date gross-up of amounts in Comp Worksheets, allowing you even more confidence and control over your payroll instructions. |
Equus Guide Business Travel
Business Travel is now available in Equus Guide! Travellers can view and confirm trip details with ease, giving you increased visibility into business trips worldwide. For confirmed trips, they can view the results of risk assessments - and even provide their responses to immigration questionnaires in the app, for a seamless travel experience. New calendar makes it easy to find trip data and keep it accurate, available in Equus Guide App. |
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VisaDoc Integration
| Take the complexity out of managing business travel with the Equus Platform and give your travellers a completed visa or ESTA at speed. Our new partnership with VisaDoc lets immigration assessments and visa handling be automated and consistent, keeping you compliant - and your data connected. |
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Features
Business Trips Assessments
Checklists
Domestic Gross Up & Payroll
Ecosystem
Email Integration
Equus Connect
Equus Guide
General
Global Payroll Gross-Up
HR Portal
Imports
Requests
Security Enhancements
What-If Cost Estimates
Business Trips Assessments
Business Travel Assessment on Equus Platform have been enhanced with Immigration assessments provided by VisaDoc
When this assessment is enabled, VisaDoc results will be visible in the Immigration columns
Additional required fields are included to support the immigration assessments
Users can initiate assessments for Business Travel via the Mobility Manager Widget and benefit from the new immigration results from VisaDoc
Visa Application status from the VisaDoc process will be updated frequently to capture any progress in its completion.
Notification for both the traveller and mobility team member once assessment results are available and follow up for visa application is required.
Mobility Teams will have a button available on the Equus Platform or Mobility Manager widget,
The traveller can receive a link.
Follow up for Visa Application is done on VisaDoc
The Immigration Assessment Override screen is available at the company level to avoid specific country lanes on relevant assessments like intra-Schengen moves
Automations have been enhanced, so as soon as a Business travel record is created - if the required fields are all present - an automated assessment including the new immigration option will be triggered
Enhanced Routed Approvals for Business Travel moves with information from Immigration assessments returned from Vialto
A list for Immigration Requested Activities are now available which can allow multi selection to provide more accurate assessments
Fixed an issue on the Mobility Manager Widget, when creating a new Business travel record is not saving correctly
Checklists
Resolved an issue where opening Assignment Details in Equus Connect would fail to load if it had a checklist not properly configured with a template item definition
Domestic Gross Up & Payroll
Fixed an issue where Business Expenses would be counted twice in a Tax Calc Payroll Report
Ecosystem
In this release, we have added:
BTR International as a one-way connection
Rocket Mortgage as a two-way connection
Enhanced the ASSIGNMENT_CASE and ASSIGNMENT_VISA integration fields to better support immigration cases for vendor process
Email Integration
Resolved a scenario where the email import service would generate an error if the Email Account Name and the From Address were the same
Equus Connect
Connect now allows users to manage the Service Order process without leaving Connect. Users can now create and send new Service Orders directly in Connect. Ordering is supported for both integrated and non-integrated vendors
Connect search has been enhanced to make it easier to identify and find the correct employee or assignment. Search results now display the Employee Number and Assignment Number, helping users distinguish between employees. Users can also use the new Advanced Filter option to search. These filters can be used independently or together
Connect now uses consistent, configured terminology throughout the application when referring to assignments. Terms are now aligned with the terminology configured and cover labels, headings, page titles, buttons, tooltips, empty states, and other frontend-generated text
Connect users can now view key Employee Identifiers directly on the assignment record, making it easier to reference the correct employee information from the Assignment record
The Relocation Policy filter now loads its options once on initial load and only reloads them when the selected company changes or the user opens the filter. The Assignments list now loads normally for all users, regardless of how many companies they have access to
Solved an issue where the Notes and Communications view modal in Equus Connect Desktop always showed emails as sent to two others, even when CC and BCC were blank
The Equus Connect dashboard now correctly displays the Invoice Reconciliation navigation
Equus Guide
New calendar makes it easy to find trip data and keep it accurate, available in Equus Guide App with a Desktop version in a future release
View trips at a glance, see details and risk assessments from the Equus Compliance Engine
Access the Fragomen Immigration Questionnaire as part of the immigration risk assessment
Edit, confirm to lock in trip details, or cancel trips that did not take place
A new Risk Assessment tab in EMWP makes it easy for the type to be shown or hidden at a system or company level, with the company-level taking precedence. Employees only see the risk assessment types intended for them (Immigration, Posted Worker Directive, Tax Liability, Social Security) as part of the Equus Guide configuration screen
Improved the Home and Your Feed pages by displaying current move details (dates and locations) and the ability to easily switch to a different record if there are multiple move records. With a single tap, users can view trip details for a single or multiple destinations grouped by current/future/past
Fixed an issue wherein employees see the list of request types evaluated for their own assignment incorrectly
Resolved an issue where data dictionary overrides on certain Spouse and Dependent fields were not honored, causing them to appear editable in Guide even when set to read-only.
Fixed an issue where answering a pulse check or an election set incorrectly marked it pending and user are unable to respond to it
Made a number of UI enhancements to the Guide Desktop version for a cleaner, more consistent experience
Fixed an issue so that users who have security rights to view fields that have encryption/private enabled are shown the actual values rather than the encrypted values
General
Important Notice: We will no longer support any version of Windows Server 2016 as of v.26.6, scheduled to be released November 25, 2026. All Equus Mobile Workforce Platform applications running on any version of Windows Server 2016 will need to be updated to Windows Server 2019 or Windows Server 2022 to ensure compatibility, security, and access to updates and support. Dropping support for Windows Server 2016 is in line with Microsoft’s End of Life (EOL) support & retirement schedule. Microsoft will drop support for Windows Server 2016 on January 12, 2027 (extended end date)
Global Payroll Gross-Up
Gross up transactions sent to the Equus Payroll Engine now carry the full Account details including identity, taxability, and gross up application settings, so the engine has what it needs to calculate gross-up correctly
Payroll systems now have a setting to enable gross-up processing, allowing the Equus Payroll Engine to calculate gross-up for eligible assignments
Company Compensation Worksheet Template Line Items now have an "Enable Gross-Up Processing" flag, so assignments using the template start with the correct default gross-up treatment for each line item
A new grid on the Payroll System Wage Code tab lets you map Wage Codes for the four Gross-Up accounts (Income National, Income Subnational, Social National, Social Subnational) by reporting type (Primary, Secondary, Shadow Primary, Shadow Secondary). This grid is only visible when Enable Gross-Up Processing is turned on for the Payroll System
A new assignment-level Payroll Gross-Up screen is available and displays key employee and assignment details. This screen allows default gross-up settings to be overridden, giving the Equus Payroll Engine what it needs to calculate accurate gross-up amounts
A new Payroll Country Inputs section on the assignment's Payroll Gross-Up screen shows the Home and Host fields the Equus Payroll Engine needs to calculate gross-up
Company Relocation Policies now have a dedicated Payroll Gross-Up Settings tab for defining a default gross-up method along with authority, account, and country-level overrides that default onto assignments under that policy
System Account Details now includes a Country Taxability Overrides section under Global Payroll Gross-Up, allowing you to add country specific Income, Social, Payroll, and FBT taxability overrides (with effective and end dates) alongside the read-only Equus default values
System Account Details now includes a Global Payroll Gross-Up section with Payroll Tax Input Line Item and Frequency fields, sourced from the Equus Payroll Engine and stored at the system account level to support downstream gross-up calculations
A new Fiscal Year to Date Wages tab on the assignment's Payroll Gross-Up screen lets wage data be viewed, entered, and maintained for the country payroll systems, so the latest figures are available to the Equus Payroll Engine for accurate gross-up calculations
A new Calculate Gross-Up Preview screen shows every assignment in the Compensation Worksheet Transaction Process along with its gross-up eligibility, so the run can be verified before committing to it
A new Calculate Gross-Up button on the Compensation Worksheet Transaction batch screen sends processed compensation transactions through the Equus Payroll Engine to process gross-up
HR Portal
The Policy Navigator is a new AI Agent that is being previewed on Equus Connect
Serves as a portal that allows users to browse the Company's existing Policy catalog, ask clarifications about the terms, ask for suggestions for specific cases as well as request comparisons that will allow a deeper understanding of what a policy can offer to specific cases
Imports
The Compensation Import Assistant, Comp Accumulator Simple Format Import by PaySource, now accepts a Primary or Secondary wage code (in addition to an active Account Number) in the Account_ID column, mapping each row to the correct active account based on the move payroll systems and showing the mapping result or an error on the Review Entries tab
Dates on the Review Entries tab of the Compensation Import Assistant now display in ISO standard format (YYYY/MM/DD) regardless of browser language, and import correctly across different date formats and browser cultures
Fixed a scenario in the Compensation Import Assistant where Description was not populated during a Compensation Accumulator Simple Format Import, even when the source file contained valid data. Description now imports correctly for all rows
Fixed an scenario in the Compensation Import Assistant where importing files for the Compensation Accumulator Import (by Pay Source) and Compensation Accumulator Simple Format Import incorrectly returned "No active account was found for {Account Number.Sub Account Number}" for valid sub-account entries. Sub-accounts now resolve correctly during import
Requests
Request types can be made available based on a user's security role allowing "External Client" users to see and create the request types relevant to them. This is configured using the new Visibility section, with the ability to grant or restrict access by role for external client users
Security Enhancements
As a standard process, Equus fixes vulnerabilities found through testing and analysis. For this release, enhancements have been made to address those findings
What-If Cost Estimates
Fixed a scenario where a WICE user would be stuck on a screen loading message after clicking Continue


