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Status Future consideration
Categories Reports
Created by Joe Williams
Created on Mar 13, 2024
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit STAF-I-1766 Naming Conventions of Reports.

Consistent report file names Merged

Downloaded reports have inconsistent naming standards - a small thing, but it looks messy when sharing them with clients.

For example, in a typical month we have:

  • Payslips: "payslips-Month 12.pdf" (lower-case p, mix of hyphens and spaces between words)

  • Payments: "Payments-2023-Month-12.pdf" (includes year as well as month)

  • Gross-to-net: "GrossToNet-2023.pdf" (no month included)

  • Pension contributions: "file.pdf" (just a generic file name!)

  • P30: "P30-2023-2024-04-05.pdf" (includes month & day of end of tax year, no month included)

It can't be too difficult to apply consistent standards to this surely?

  • David Mitchell
    Aug 12, 2025

    Merge with STAF-I-1766 perhaps?

  • Joe Williams
    Jul 10, 2024

    One other small but significant annoyance - the 'Full Summary Of Pay' report downloads with the file name 'CostOfEmployment....'

    When we download both of these reports for the same pay run, it's too easy to overwrite the Cost Of Employment report by mistake.

  • Joe Williams
    May 22, 2024

    @S Mackin - as a cloud product that's entirely dependant on your browser settings. A website cannot specify a file path when downloading a file.

  • S Mackin
    Apr 25, 2024

    It would be useful if we could specify a default file path for downloaded reports that the software could add a company folder and year folder to when downloading reports