Calculation engine

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General

Skovik regularly make changes to improve our system, by adding new functionality or making adjustments to calculations. Some changes may need customers to adapt by informing employees, change processes or align with internal bookkeeping functions. To avoid breaking your workflow, changes will not be applied immediately.

Each new version will be named by the date it is released. For the next twelve months, that new version is available as an optional upgrade, so you can choose when to apply it. After twelve months, if it still hasn't been adopted, your account will be upgraded to that version automatically.

When upgrading the calculation engine, you choose a new version which you want to upgrade to. All changes between your current version and that new version will be added, so it is important to read information in the change log.

Examples

• Adding support regulation in a country that isn't supported today; Say we'd add support for per-diem in Fiji, we want to give customers a chance to review impact and update any manual workflows first.

• Changes to export formats; for example adding a column to a tabular format (CSV or Excel), since this may break scripts or Excel-formulas based on such files.

• Adding a new type of meal benefit in a country; since this may require alignment with bookkeeping or payroll software.

• Dropping support for deprecated functionality; for example if an old export format has been replaced with a new analytics feature covering the same data, but in a new shape.

Upgrade your calculation engine

When you have read through the version notes and made any necessary changes or preparations, you click prepare upgrade. You will then be able to choose which version to upgrade to, and click "upgrade" to confirm.

When the calculation engine has been upgraded to a new version, you can not roll it back.

Yearly regulation updates are out of scope

Most countries will have annual updates to per-diem rates and other tax rates. Such regular and expected rates changes are not part of the versioning, because they won't break any backwards compatibility. Put differently, for expected changes such as new per-diem rates, you don't have to do anything to get them in your Skovik account.