NetSuite has announced an updated payroll service to be released early next year. The company says that its next generation features a payroll interface that validates all leave, payroll and salary data; full gross-to-net calculations; support for check printing, pay cards and direct deposit; enhanced payroll workflows that handle extremely large transaction volumes; and employee self-service, expense tracking integrated into ERP.

Avalara has issued a major update to its Trustfile tax return software. The company claims the new version can cut the time needed to prepare sales tax returns to as little as five minutes. With a cloud version made available this year, the latest edition provides businesses with fully populated signature-ready tax return forms based on uploads of their sales and tax collection data in .CSV format.

Nonprofit software vendor Abila has introduced an update to its donor relationship management application, Millennium. The company has added Millennium Drive, an analytical feature that offers personalized dashboards and lets users access reports and Visual Analyzer pages, along with providing new search functionality. Drive offers a key tasks list, with the tasks shown in a daily, weekly and monthly calendar views.