Maggie Rodriguez

The 2017 Year-End Fix Packs will be available for general release for all supported product releases in mid-December, 2017. The Year-End Fix Pack will include changes for both US and Canadian customers. Releases Supported for 2017 Year-End Processing

• eCMS v.4.1 Service Pack 1 or later
• eCMS v.4.0 SP3 Fix Pack 13 or later
• eCMS v.3.7 SP12 Fix Pack 4 or later
• CMS v.3.4.3 SP14 Fix Pack 2 or later

The Year-end Fix Pack will be customer installable and available for download from the Customer Support Website. Hosted eCMS customer environment updates will be installed by Computer Guidance within a week after the Year-end Fix Pack becomes available. Documentation and Webinar Presentations The US and Canadian Year-End Webinar Presentation Files, Links to the US and Canadian Year-End Webinar Recordings and Year-End Update Documentation will be made available on the Customer Support Website  by mid-December, 2017. Please watch for further communication in the coming weeks. If you have any additional questions, please contact your Account Manager.

This Quarter-end Fix Pack update (Q72) is for Second Quarter, 2017. It contains regulatory changes for Quarterly reporting for the year 2017. Installation is NOT dedicated. This Quarter-End is customer installable and is available for download from the Customer Support Website. Users can continue to work in the eCMS environment while this update is being installed. Typical install time is less than 5 minutes. Hosted eCMS customers: The Quarter-end update will be installed into all hosted environments no later than Friday, July 21, end of day. If you need the update before then, please submit a ticket with the request. Releases Supported:

• eCMS v.4.1 Service Pack 2
• eCMS v.4.1 Service Pack 1 Fix Packs 1 and 2
• eCMS v.4.0 Service Pack 3 Fix Packs 13 and 14
• eCMS v.3.7 Service Pack 12 Fix Pack 4
• CMS v.3.4.3 Service Pack 14 Fix Pack 2

DO YOU NEED THIS UPDATE? Canadian companies do not need this update. Only USA reporting is affected by this update. The only change included in this update for CMS v.3.4.3 customers is for the Year-end W2 form. There are no changes strictly for quarter-end in this update for v.3.4.3. All other companies doing USA quarterly reporting need to install this update. Documentation Please refer to the 2017 Second Quarter-end Release Notes document located on the Customer Support Website under Resources > Quarter End and Year End Documentation supporting documentation listing all changes contained in this update and the affected CMS/eCMS release.