MIP Ideas Portal

Let us know how we can improve MIP. When submitting a request, please be sure to include why the enhancement is useful to you and specifics on how you would use it. Please be sure to add screenshots wherever possible. Our product team will be reviewing new requests weekly, but please note that it may take more than a week for comments to be moderated depending on the volume of requests. We look forward to your feedback!

Resend Payroll Direct Deposit Vouchers is Now Available in the MIP Cloud Modern Interface

On more than 1 occasion payroll has failed in attempting to send email vouchers. this would save having to print out and manually distribute. and if someone ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (22 Jan, '20) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '23 Comments: 19
Pinned Implemented Payroll

I would love to have a multifactor authenticated login.

We are trying to increase the security for NCRTD and wanted to know if there was a version of the app that has MFA or 2FA authentication?
Suggested by: Salvador Sena (29 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 21 Aug, '23 Comments: 2
Pinned Implemented

Allow Customers to Set the Font Size in MIP Classic User Interface

Can you add the ability to adjust the font size for MIP?
Suggested by: Claudine Martin (17 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 15
Customer Suggestion Classic

Be able to Set a Delayed calendar Date to Send an Email delivery of a Payroll Voucher

Many times a payroll file is created days or weeks ahead of time due to holidays or work scheduling. Right now, the email delivery of the payroll voucher has to be ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (16 Sep, '20) Upvoted: 22 Dec, '23 Comments: 8
Planned Payroll

Do not clump deposits for bank reconciliation

When clumping deposits by Deposit # and date, it makes it hard to reconcile when they are not actually deposited together. There should be a way to clear only a ...
Suggested by: Kathie Titzler (28 Dec, '17) Upvoted: 22 Mar Comments: 5
Customer Suggestion Bank Reconciliation

EWS Warning for Duplicate Time Entry

Please add the capability for EWS to warn employee or manager when duplicate time entry is detected. This will help reduce errors and correction as well as ...
Suggested by: Andrew Dota (26 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 03 Jan Comments: 3
Customer Suggestion EWS SR 1

Reports should have an option to print the active filters along with the query result.

It would be helpful to view a report that someone else had printed and be able to tell what filters were actively modifying the query. This could be a simple option ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (06 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 13 Feb Comments: 4
Planned Reports

Email Payment Notification to EFT Vendors Should Allow Payment Remittance Advice or Other Attachment

Currently EFT vendors are receiving email payment notification containing only invoice # and payment amount. This information is useful, but doesn't always ensure ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (13 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 13
Under consideration

Viewing Statement of Rev & Exp by Period with Unposted Items Included

The most recent upgrade allows for the Statement of Financial Position to now include unposted items which is great. We use the Statement of Rev & Expense by period ...
Suggested by: Todd Suler (01 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 13 Feb Comments: 3
Customer Suggestion Reports

When selecting invoices for payment, display whether the payment method will be a check or EFT.

It can be helpful to run separate batches, as we have different approval processes for EFT payments and checks.
Suggested by: Anonymous (11 Dec, '17) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 3
Under consideration

Distribution codes

There should be an option to add the distribution code used as a column in GL and transaction reports. This would help in both being able to verify transactions were ...
Suggested by: yosef elbaum (02 Oct, '17) Upvoted: 08 Jan Comments: 5
Not planned SR 1

Ability to Print Previous Bank Reconciliation with Suspense Items used at the time of the Bank Rec.

The history of previous bank recs is lost if suspense items were used as they are removed going forward and also removed from the past. Audit trail is not adequate.
Suggested by: Anonymous (21 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 21 Feb Comments: 3
Under consideration SR 1

Ability to insert new lines between existing JV lines

It would be very helpful if I can add new lines in the middle of the JV (instead of always at the end of JV).
Suggested by: Kay (21 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration JV

Highlight row when selecting items to Post

In the Post Transactions section, when you click in the tiny box to select which items you want to post, it would be helpful if the row changed from gray to white.
Suggested by: Mark Casstevens (25 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 12 Jan Comments: 1
Under consideration Classic

Keep headers but delete page breaks when exporting a report to excel.

Currently when exporting a report Excel, the system gives the option of deleting headers and page breaks. It would be EXTREMELY helpful if the system could separate ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (24 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 8
Under consideration

Set Up/Adjust Employee Balances needs a comment field

When we enter adjustments to employee balances, it would be great if we could add a comment regarding the adjustment for a better audit trail.
Suggested by: Lori Wyse (05 Sep, '18) Upvoted: 22 Mar Comments: 2
Customer Suggestion Payroll

Move the box for prenote/direct deposit to the Direct Deposit tab in HR

In the HR Module, it would make more sense to have this box within the Direct Deposit tab since it actually relates to Direct Deposit.
Suggested by: Anonymous (21 Sep, '18) Upvoted: 20 Dec, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration

In payroll, would like to be able to enter negative hours so we can correct mistakes to grants etc.

Suggested by: Jacqueline Kauhi (16 Aug, '17) Upvoted: 12 Jan Comments: 5
Customer Suggestion Payroll

Excel transaction report output without MIP formatting and no blank row 2

When I export a transaction report to Excel, it is almost always for analysis. There are several formatting issues that have to be addressed to make the file useful: ...
Suggested by: Phil Symonds (12 Jun, '17) Upvoted: 13 Feb Comments: 6
Under consideration Reports

When we have a vendor payment that contains multiple invoices that overflow into additional checks,

This is useful so that when we run a check voucher register report, we will not see a gap in check sequence. Once of the checks we do monthly is to run a prior month ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (05 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 20 Feb Comments: 7
Under consideration Accounts Payable

Attachment - PDF view

Please bring back the PDF view document attachment. This was a selling point for us when we chose Abila MIP. The download function that replaced it is useless. The ...
Suggested by: Ingrid Joshua (08 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 22 Mar Comments: 4
Under consideration

Ability to copy a prior budget and change the dates

Currently you can copy a budget but can not change the dates. For example, copy the 2017 agency budget to use in 2018 agency budget. I know you can copy the lines ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (23 Aug, '17) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration

Vendor Balances Default to AACT

It would be beneficial to have the Accounts Payable Vendor Balances default to all activity(AACT) or allow users to decide which default to set the program too. If ...
Suggested by: Kirk Summers (16 Jan, '18) Upvoted: 13 Feb Comments: 6
Under consideration

Include posted and unposted transactions in Statement of Revenue & Expenditures by Period

I need to have a side-by-side monthly IS report for the current year. Currently your report of R&E by Period only picks up posted transactions. Having all (posted & ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (30 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 4
Under consideration

Allow for a re-emailing of payroll ACH vouchers to employees if there is an issue with the SMTP emai

We found when we got our database back after having a new field added to the chart of accounts that the data entered in the "SMPT Email" tab of "Organization ...
Suggested by: Betty Johnson (27 Sep, '17) Upvoted: 26 Mar Comments: 3
Under consideration

Add column to bank reconciliation interface in MIP classic

The user should be able to add a column to the Reconcile Cash Accounts interface to show the Session ID, in addition to the existing fields. This would make research ...
Suggested by: Patrick Ratcliff (15 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration

EWS > Approve Timesheets - option to hide pay rate.

Although it may be useful for employees to see their rate in View Timesheets, some organizations would like to be able to hide the pay rate from approvers in Manager ...
Suggested by: Andrew Dota (12 Sep, '17) Upvoted: 25 Aug, '23 Comments: 4
Under consideration SR 2

Duplicate Invoice Number by Vendor not by Session

I would like for the system to alert me to a duplicate invoice number for a specific vendor only. It should not matter if there are duplicate invoice numbers within ...
Suggested by: Bobbi Combs (11 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 26 Jan Comments: 3
Under consideration Alerts

Allow Attachment of AR Billing Documentation to an Invoice prior to Emailing Customer

Often times I have backup support documentation that must accompany a billing invoice to a customer. If that documentation could be attached at the billing creation ...
Suggested by: Lisa Gancel (19 Sep, '17) Upvoted: 12 Jan Comments: 2
Planned AR Billing

EWS - Submission of time should remind employees that they are certifying their time as accurate

There should be a message on the screen that reminds employees that their submission of their time is an electronic certification of their time and that their time is ...
Suggested by: Tonya Nunn (18 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 02 Nov, '23 Comments: 3
Under consideration

AP Invoice entry

When entering invoices, it would be more efficient to enter the invoice # first and vendor ID second and then move on to the other fields. This way you would be ...
Suggested by: Heather Rodig (20 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 27 Nov, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration Accounts Payable

Allocation Code - increase Pool code segments

As a non-profit who's primary source of funding is federal funds, many of the federal grants that are specific for 'individuals' (such as DOL employment and training ...
Suggested by: Jessica Roche (12 Dec, '17) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Enhancement SR 2

Add more information to the EFT form that is sent to the vendor

I've had a few issues with direct payments recently.  I paid Federated Electric for a client who receives assistance through CFS.  Although I enter the account ...
Suggested by: Carol Johnson (29 May, '18) Upvoted: 22 Nov, '23 Comments: 7
Under consideration Accounts Payable

Ability for employees to make changes to their direct deposit account via EWS

In an ongoing effort to make things more paperless, it would be helpful if EWS allowed employees to change their direct deposit information online vs. having fill out ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (14 May, '19) Upvoted: 08 Jan Comments: 5
Under consideration

Direct Deposit Text File for Multiple Processing Groups w/o PG Line totals

For smaller banks they cannot accept/process a direct deposit text file generated for multiple processing group because of the break lines in the file for each ...
Suggested by: Heather Lowry (03 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 03 Mar, '23 Comments: 5
Under consideration ACH SR 2

Allow quarterly W2 Calculation for Auditing

For Auditing purposes we would like to have the option in MIP to calculate W2's at the end of each quarter so that we can pull a report of the information and then ...
Suggested by: Heather Lowry (14 Apr, '21) Upvoted: 02 Aug, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration

EWS Timesheet Submission - add EWS System Setting to prevent unsubmitting approved time

With EWS Timesheet Submission enabled, when an employee submits a timesheet and the manager approves it, EWS allows that employee to subsequently unsubmit the time. ...
Suggested by: Andrew Dota (02 Mar, '18) Upvoted: 20 Dec, '23 Comments: 2
Customer Suggestion EWS

Allow Longer SMTP Passwords

Some modern SMTP relay services produce passwords longer than the max password length. This prevents MIP from using the correct password. As a workaround, I had setup ...
Suggested by: Alex Janes (04 Feb, '20) Upvoted: 29 Sep, '21 Comments: 1
Done

User Defined Fields (UDF) - locations/use in reports

UDF's are only able to be used in 'transaction' related reports. However, UDF's are highly needed in all detailed related reports as well. Such as all detailed ...
Suggested by: Jessica Roche (09 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 17 Dec, '23 Comments: 6
Under consideration

PLEASE REMOVE DOWNLOAD OPTION TO VIEW ATTACHMENTS

Since we have moved to the cloud we have continued to struggle with the system. We constantly get kicked out from the software for various reasons, the Abila team ...
Suggested by: Rhiannon Chelini (25 Feb, '20) Upvoted: 12 Jan Comments: 9
Under consideration

Allow Cut & Paste - Journal Vouchers & Accounts Payable Transaction Areas

The ability to cut and paste in the main transaction areas similar to excel would make using the system so much easier. Then we could insert lines were we need them. ...
Suggested by: Loren (09 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 22 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

OT in EWS

It would be helpful if EWS could calculate OT on all hourly time sheets. A lot of our ee's are not at computers all day, or even in cell coverage, so punching in and ...
Suggested by: Tina Morse (19 Apr, '18) Upvoted: 01 Dec, '23 Comments: 3
Under consideration EWS

Please add one additional timesheet approver

Please add one additional timesheet approver as we have some departments that could benefit from this.
Suggested by: Anonymous (22 Mar, '17) Upvoted: 12 Dec, '22 Comments: 3
Under consideration

Ability to pre-note a new direct deposit but leave existing (main) direct deposit active

We have clients with multiple direct deposit accounts on file. We would like to still honor their main direct deposit while being able to pre-note newly added direct ...
Suggested by: Heather Lowry (16 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 18 Oct, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration

Include unposted transaction in Statement of Activities

to capture transaction in real time.
Suggested by: Anonymous (30 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 07 Mar, '23 Comments: 1
Done

In HR Module under Attachments provide a way of organizing attachments such as with use of folders.

Suggested by: Anonymous (29 Nov, '17) Upvoted: 22 Nov, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration SR 2

Include an automatic email notification to Leave Request

When an employee requests leave, an email notification should be sent to the supervisor. This notification will allow leave requests to be approved more timely.
Suggested by: Anonymous (04 Oct, '17) Upvoted: 18 Oct, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration

Create a Functional Expense Report Format

We are required to submit a functional expense report for our audit that shows how all salaries or other line items are broken between our programs. Right now there ...
Suggested by: Barbara Finke (16 Feb, '18) Upvoted: 22 Nov, '23 Comments: 2
Not planned Stan