BerniePortal Product Updates
Want to know what BerniePortal’s been up to? We’ve been busy! Take a look at our past updates and feature releases.
BerniePortal Product Updates
Recently Released
August 2019
1. Reporting: improvements to employer reports
2. “Life based on Health”
3. Custom Employer Profile Page
4. COBRA-related build-out improvement
June 2019
1. Reporting: improvements to broker-level reports
2. Reporting: new standard report – “Payroll Report”
3. Enrolled employee’s Benefits Area: improved user interface
May 2019
1. Improvement to carrier forms
2. Dependent definition now appears on employee election PDFs
3. New default “Confirmation & Authorization” language
4. New “# of deduction” amounts
5. Improvements to reports
6. New benefit type: Limited FSA
7. New option for plans of the FSA benefit type
April 2019
1. Additional Employee “Hire Types:” “Test” and “K-1”
2. More information about beneficiaries on the enrollment PDF
March 2019
1. Spouse/dependents able to apply up to employee’s “applied for” amount for Voluntary Life
2. Custom labeling for Voluntary Life benefit types
3. New benefit type: LTD (2) and custom labeling of LTD benefit types
4. New effective date rule option: “first of the month only”
5. New report type: onboarding report
6. Improvements to the employer’s user interface for reports
7. Custom reports: Step 1
November 2018
1. PTO ability to request time off in 15-minute increments
2. PTO user interface enhancements
3. PTO audit area
October 2018
1. Reporting: employee’s and dependents’ primary care physician(s)
2. Reporting: new “Employee SSN” column
September 2018
1. Indeed integration
2. Purchase minimums for Voluntary Life
3. Employees can now upload files into their own personnel file
June 2018
1. Cleaned up employer integrations area
2. Insurance company page
3. Hiring from within the Applicant Tracking System
4. New benefit type: Identity Theft
May 2018
1. New funding option: $ and % rate split
2. Two new benefit types: Hospital Indemnity and Legal
3. New riders capability
4. Shells
March 2018
1. Employee information pages have a new and improved look
2. Enhanced capabilities for part-time employees
February 2018
1. Custom labeling
2. Uploading PDFs to non-custom onboarding categories
3. Attaching a PDF to an onboarding document
4. Improvements to carrier form mapping
January 2018
1. BernieBill: Clean bill guarantee
2. BernieBill: The ability to write notes on past bills
December 2017
1. 1095-C updates and mailing capability
2. Email notifications for BernieBill
November 2017
1. BernieBill with Guardian and Allstate
2. New Feature: Applicant Tracking System
October 2017
1. Employers can now view dependents
2. Variable LTD
3. Carrier forms text color change
September 2017
1. Ability to indicate when salary changes impact benefits
2. Improvements to benefits booklets
3. Age banded Critical Illness
4. Open enrollment bills
August 2017
1. PDF settings–salary option
2. Issue age
3. Preloading dependents and previous elections
July 2017
1. New short-term disability & long-term disability approaches
2. Short-term disability & long-term disability volume rounding
3. Life coverage rounding
May 2017
1. New EOI functionality
2. Age banded life
3. Salary changes
4. Improvements to election PDFs
April 2017
1. Rate testing
2. Updated employee onboarding experience
3. Reports & waiting periods
March 2017
1. Age banded health plan rate configuration
2. New navigation
3. www.BerniePortal.com
4. Optimizing BerniePortal
5. Rate testing
February 2017
1. 1094-C/1095-C
2. Subgroup tweaks
3. New navigation
4. Benefit booklets
5. Change report
