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# 12 Jan: Version 5.6.0 – Payee Data Model Upgrade, ACH Flexibility, and Smarter Batch Statuses

Version **5.6.0** delivers a major upgrade to payee management and payment accuracy across the platform. This release introduces a **new Payee Data Model**, enabling multiple bank accounts per payee and a fully redesigned Payees experience. It also adds greater flexibility for ACH routing configurations, improves batch status accuracy, and expands bulk actions for managing payee invitations.

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#### ✨ **New Features**

* **New Payee Data Model & Payees Redesign:** Introduced a new underlying Payee Data Model that supports **multiple bank accounts per payee**, alongside a complete redesign of the Payees module for improved clarity, navigation, and scalability.
* **Flexible ACH Routing Configuration:** Added support for configuring an **ACH-specific routing number**, separate from routing numbers used for checks and digital checks, providing greater control over payment processing.
* **Accurate Batch Status Based on Payment Outcomes:** Updated batch status logic so that when all payments share the same outcome (e.g., all voided, rejected, or canceled), the batch status accurately reflects the true state of the batch.
* **Bulk Actions for Payee Invitations:** Added the ability to **bulk re-send and cancel payee onboarding invitations**, streamlining payee management for teams working with large volumes.

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#### ➕ **Improved**

* **Payees Experience:** Improved responsiveness and visual consistency across the redesigned Payees module to support the new data model.
* **Payments Visibility:** Enhanced status clarity and alignment between batch-level and payment-level states.
* **General UX Refinements:** Improved interaction patterns and consistency across forms, tables, and modals.

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#### 🔧 **Fixed**

This release includes **36 bug fixes** across the platform, focused on improving stability, accuracy, and day-to-day usability.

* **Payees & Invitations:** Fixed issues related to payee visibility, invitation state handling, and UI inconsistencies in the Payees module, including edge cases introduced by the new data model.
* **Payments & Batches:** Resolved issues where batch and payment statuses could become misaligned, corrected state transitions for canceled and rejected payments, and fixed inconsistencies in batch-level indicators.
* **Bank Accounts & Routing:** Addressed validation and display issues related to bank account configuration and routing number handling.
* **Outputs & Documents:** Fixed errors affecting output generation, downloads, and document rendering under specific conditions.
* **UI & UX:** Corrected layout, alignment, and responsiveness issues across tables, modals, and forms, particularly in high-density views.
* **Performance & Reliability:** Resolved backend and frontend issues that could cause unnecessary requests, delayed updates, or inconsistent data refreshes.