Hi David,

Thanks for reaching out. As you may know, shortly after this announcement, we were notified of some alleged financial improprieties by the founder of IOIPay. The company filed for bankruptcy, and the assets (including the code base) were acquired by PrimePay, who then became one of our two premier vendors for payroll and HCM solutions. We've been working closely them and our other partner (more in a minute), and you can find out more at https://primepay.com/blackbaud

We also added another premier partner, Paycor, who also has a great deal of experience with the nonprofit space. You can find them at https://www.paycor.com/nonprofit-hr-software.

These two vendors have integration to Financial Edge NXT available. That integration is in the form of using our public SKY API endpoints to create balanced journal entries from your payroll runs (debits to gross wage splits and employer expenses, credits to liabilities and cash), and both have been well-received.

We also wanted to make sure you had the opportunity to select any modern payroll vendor you wanted to. If they can issues calls to our public endpoints (and some very extensive documentation is available at https://developer.blackbaud.com/skyapi/), integration as described above is absolutely achievable. There's also the free journal entry Excel add-in from the Microsoft Store available if they are unable to use SKY API, and of course, import is still available in database view.

I hope this helps in your trusted payroll partner decision moving forwards. Have a great day!

Eddie Barker

Product Manager, Financial Edge NXT

IOIPay is no longer Blackbaud's preferred payroll partner. What now?

We announced on 6/18/2019 that IOIPay has been selected as our preferred payroll partner. Blackbaud will not be doing any additional feature development on our payroll capabilities. We will still fix critical bugs and release EOY tax updates in December 2019 and December 2020. No end-of-support date has yet been announced. Once that date is reached, payroll will be inaccessible in Financial Edge. To arrange a demo of IOIPay Payroll/HCM capabilities as you plan your conversion, you can contact Bryan.Gorman@ioipay.com. Thanks!