Recent software updates
Recently issued SuperPayroll software updates are published below. More detailed update notices are sent to clients directly and updates are automatically installed for clients whose payrolls are on SuperPayroll's cloud infrastructure. Please contact us if you have any questions.
2026
This is an update to the Kenya NSSF (National Social Security Fund) earnings ceiling, effective 1 February 2026. The overall monthly NSSF earnings ceiling is increased from KES 72,000 to KES 108,000, resulting in new maximum employee and employer contributions of KES 6,480 each. The Tier 1 NSSF earnings ceiling is increased from KES 8,000 to KES 9,000, with a maximum Tier 1 contribution of KES 540 each. The contribution percentages remain unchanged at 6% each.
Please recalculate any Kenyan payrolls for February for the new earnings ceiling to take effect. If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Please recalculate any Kenyan payrolls for February for the new earnings ceiling to take effect. If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
This is an update containing the latest Angola tax rates effective 1 January 2026. The monthly tax-free threshold has increased from AOA 100,000 to AOA 150,000, eliminating the previous 13% bracket.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Please note: All Angolan payrolls for January 2026 will have to be recalculated after installing the update for the changes to take effect.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Please note: All Angolan payrolls for January 2026 will have to be recalculated after installing the update for the changes to take effect.
This is an update to the Zambian NAPSA (National Pension Scheme Authority) earnings ceiling, effective 1 January 2026. The monthly Social Security Ceiling is increased to K37,236.00, resulting in maximum employee and employer contributions of K1,861.80 each. The contribution percentages remain unchanged at 5% each.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Please note: All Zambian payrolls for January 2026 will have to be recalculated after installing the update for the changes to take effect.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Please note: All Zambian payrolls for January 2026 will have to be recalculated after installing the update for the changes to take effect.
This is an update to the ENPF (Eswatini National Provident Fund) earnings ceiling for Eswatini payrolls. The wage ceiling is increased to E4,300 per month, effective 1 January 2026. This results in a maximum employee and employer contribution of E215 each, or a maximum total contribution of E430.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates. After installing the update, all Eswatini payrolls must be recalculated for January 2026 for the new ceiling amount to take effect.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates. After installing the update, all Eswatini payrolls must be recalculated for January 2026 for the new ceiling amount to take effect.
This is an update containing the Discovery medical aid and Vitality rates for 2026. Discovery Vitality rates increased effective 1 January 2026, while annual rate increases for existing plans have been deferred to 1 April 2026. Two new medical aid plans have been added from 1 January 2026: Classic Smart Saver and Essential Smart Saver.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Please note: After installing this update, the January payroll will have to be recalculated for all employees on Discovery medical aid for the new rates to take effect.
If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Please note: After installing this update, the January payroll will have to be recalculated for all employees on Discovery medical aid for the new rates to take effect.
This is an update containing the Bonitas medical aid rates for 2026. After installing this update, the January payroll will have to be recalculated for all employees on Bonitas medical aid for the new rates to take effect.
If you run SuperPayroll in the cloud, the update will be installed automatically. If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
If you run SuperPayroll in the cloud, the update will be installed automatically. If you manage your own SuperPayroll installation, please complete the steps in the "Individual database updates" section of the "Software Update Instructions" on our website: SuperPayroll Updates
Archive
For software updates from 2020 to 2025, please visit our updates archive page.
Software Update Instructions
This document describes the SuperPayroll update process for different types of updates.
Please refer to the update notice received with the installation files and follow the instructions in the applicable section of this document to update the SuperPayroll installation.
If an update consists of two types, e.g. database updates and report files, follow the instructions in both sections to complete the update. If instructions from multiple sections are followed to install an update and more than one section end with the step to log into SuperPayroll through the front end, that step (logging in through the front end) only needs to be performed once, after all files have been installed/copied to the correct locations.
● Full release
1. In SQL Server Management Studio, make a backup of all SuperPayroll databases.
2. Save a copy of the entire C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ (or equivalent) folder.
3. Install the latest SuperPayroll application version by executing the setup.exe file supplied (e.g. setup(1.4.0.8).exe) as an administrator.
4. During the installation process you will be prompted to select the destination folder that SuperPayroll will be installed in. This will default to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ. If your SuperPayroll installation is located in a different folder, browse to that folder before continuing. When notified that the folder already exists and asked whether you would like to install to that folder anyway select "Yes".
5. On the "Optional Actions" step, select the option to Add to IIS before continuing.
6. On the final step (Completing the NuQ Setup Wizard) keep the "NuQ Culture Registration" option selected and then click on Finish.
7. In the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ (or equivalent) folder, open the Web.config and Web_AppSettings.config files in a reliable text editor like Notepad++. Open the same two files from the copy of this folder made during step 2. Search for any settings tags containing the word "timeout" and change the values in the new files to the same values as in the old files and save the changes.
8. In the same file, verify (and change if necessary) that all email settings such as smtp server, port username and password are the same.
9. Copy the Databases.xml file from the folder copied in step 2 above to the newly installed C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ (or equivalent) folder.
10. Once you have completed all installation steps, log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message to the effect that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● Individual database updates (DUs)
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. Copy all the unzipped files into the DatabaseUpdates folder in the SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates).
3. Log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message to the effect that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● All current database updates
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory.
2. The unzipped folder will contain a zipped file called DatabaseUpdatesCurrent.zip. NB: Do not unzip this file.
3. Save a copy of the DatabaseUpdatesCurrent.zip file that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates (or equivalent) folder in another location. This file can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of database updates.
4. Copy the new zipped DatabaseUpdatesCurrent file into the DatabaseUpdates folder in the SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates).
5. Log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● Database update module
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. The unzipped folder will contain a file named DatabaseUpdateModule.xml.
3. Save a copy of the DatabaseUpdateModule.xml file that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates (or equivalent) folder in another location. This file can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of database updates.
4. Copy the new DatabaseUpdateModule.xml file into the DatabaseUpdates folder in the SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates).
5. Log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● Report files (.rpt)
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. Save copies of the Crystal report files (file extension .rpt) that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\Reports (or equivalent) folder in another location. These files can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of a report.
3. Copy all the un-zipped files in the Reports folder of the update to the Reports folder of your SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\Reports).
● Tax certificate extract
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. Save copies of the xml files that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\TaxCertRules (or equivalent) folder in another location. These files can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of the extract.
3. Copy all the un-zipped files in the TaxCertRules folder of the update to the TaxCertRules folder of your SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\TaxCertRules).
4. Make sure that everyone is logged out of SuperPayroll and restart IIS (InternetInformation Services).
Please refer to the update notice received with the installation files and follow the instructions in the applicable section of this document to update the SuperPayroll installation.
If an update consists of two types, e.g. database updates and report files, follow the instructions in both sections to complete the update. If instructions from multiple sections are followed to install an update and more than one section end with the step to log into SuperPayroll through the front end, that step (logging in through the front end) only needs to be performed once, after all files have been installed/copied to the correct locations.
● Full release
1. In SQL Server Management Studio, make a backup of all SuperPayroll databases.
2. Save a copy of the entire C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ (or equivalent) folder.
3. Install the latest SuperPayroll application version by executing the setup.exe file supplied (e.g. setup(1.4.0.8).exe) as an administrator.
4. During the installation process you will be prompted to select the destination folder that SuperPayroll will be installed in. This will default to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ. If your SuperPayroll installation is located in a different folder, browse to that folder before continuing. When notified that the folder already exists and asked whether you would like to install to that folder anyway select "Yes".
5. On the "Optional Actions" step, select the option to Add to IIS before continuing.
6. On the final step (Completing the NuQ Setup Wizard) keep the "NuQ Culture Registration" option selected and then click on Finish.
7. In the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ (or equivalent) folder, open the Web.config and Web_AppSettings.config files in a reliable text editor like Notepad++. Open the same two files from the copy of this folder made during step 2. Search for any settings tags containing the word "timeout" and change the values in the new files to the same values as in the old files and save the changes.
8. In the same file, verify (and change if necessary) that all email settings such as smtp server, port username and password are the same.
9. Copy the Databases.xml file from the folder copied in step 2 above to the newly installed C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ (or equivalent) folder.
10. Once you have completed all installation steps, log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message to the effect that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● Individual database updates (DUs)
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. Copy all the unzipped files into the DatabaseUpdates folder in the SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates).
3. Log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message to the effect that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● All current database updates
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory.
2. The unzipped folder will contain a zipped file called DatabaseUpdatesCurrent.zip. NB: Do not unzip this file.
3. Save a copy of the DatabaseUpdatesCurrent.zip file that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates (or equivalent) folder in another location. This file can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of database updates.
4. Copy the new zipped DatabaseUpdatesCurrent file into the DatabaseUpdates folder in the SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates).
5. Log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● Database update module
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. The unzipped folder will contain a file named DatabaseUpdateModule.xml.
3. Save a copy of the DatabaseUpdateModule.xml file that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates (or equivalent) folder in another location. This file can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of database updates.
4. Copy the new DatabaseUpdateModule.xml file into the DatabaseUpdates folder in the SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\DatabaseUpdates).
5. Log in to each SuperPayroll database via the SuperPayroll login screen. When the updating of the database has been completed, you will receive a message that the database has been updated, and that you need to log on again.
● Report files (.rpt)
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. Save copies of the Crystal report files (file extension .rpt) that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\Reports (or equivalent) folder in another location. These files can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of a report.
3. Copy all the un-zipped files in the Reports folder of the update to the Reports folder of your SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\Reports).
● Tax certificate extract
1. Unzip the zipped update folder, e.g. "2022 no 06 RSA Tax rates.zip" into any temporary directory in your system.
2. Save copies of the xml files that will be replaced in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\TaxCertRules (or equivalent) folder in another location. These files can be used in case you need to revert to the previous version of the extract.
3. Copy all the un-zipped files in the TaxCertRules folder of the update to the TaxCertRules folder of your SuperPayroll directory (usually located under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NuQ\TaxCertRules).
4. Make sure that everyone is logged out of SuperPayroll and restart IIS (InternetInformation Services).
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