See exactly how leave balances are calculated, right in your leave event history.

What is it/Description
Now you can view the math behind every leave balance change, making it easy to understand and verify how leave is accrued for your team.

What’s New ✨

• See accrual rates: Instantly view the specific accrual rate used for each leave transaction.
• Check worked hours: See the total worked hours that went into each calculation, so you know exactly what was counted.
• Track historical accuracy: Calculations now reflect the correct policy version and milestone active at the time, giving you a true audit trail.
• Self-serve troubleshooting: Managers and employees can verify leave math themselves, reducing confusion and support requests.

How does it work?

1. Go to Leave Event History for any team member.
2. For each balance change, you’ll see new fields: Accrual Rate and Total Worked Hours.
3. Review the formula used: Worked Hours × Accrual Rate for each accrual entry.
4. Use this info to verify calculations or troubleshoot leave balance questions.

For more information, check the Help Center or reach out to support if you need extra guidance.

When will it be available?
This feature is rolling out now and will be available to all Deputy customers by Wednesday, March 18th. No action needed - just check your Leave Event History to get started!

Say hello to the new Bradford Factor report, available right within Deputy Analytics+. 

This report turns your team's raw leave data into actionable insights, helping you automate absence analysis to support your teams. Worry less about crunching numbers, and focus more on supporting your people to do their best work.

What’s New ✨

The Bradford Report allows managers to quickly come to a retrospective view of employee’s Bradford scores. Here's what you can do with the new Bradford Report:

• Smart consolidation: The report automatically groups consecutive leave days into single spells.
• Colour-coded concern ratings: Get an instant, at-a-glance understanding of absence patterns with clear ratings (Serious, Medium, Initial, Low).
• Interactive filters: Easily search for specific employees or drill down into the data by score and absence count.
• Location-specific insights: Quickly spot which locations are most affected by problematic absenteeism. 

How does it work?

These are the steps to access it:

1. Login to your Deputy account
2. Click on the Analytics tab on the top ribbon

1. Click on View all reports

1. Scroll down to the HR folder in the Reports side navigation 
2. Select the Bradford Score report

When will it be available?

This report is now available as part of the Deputy Analytics+ subscription (or HR add-on).

For further details on setup, principles, and other FAQs please read our Help Article.
To learn more about functionality common to every Analytics report, read our Using Analytics Help Article.

We’ve significantly enhanced the Australian onboarding experience to simplify the superannuation setup process, ensuring compliance and reducing the administrative burden for both managers and new team members. This overhaul addresses the complexity and manual effort historically involved in superannuation (Super) choice and tax file number declaration (TFND).

With a guided, staged experience, new employees can confidently select their Super fund and complete all necessary declarations, making them PayDay Compliant faster, leading to a faster employee Time-to-Start, and reduced admin effort.

What’s New ✨

• Guided, Staged Onboarding: New team members must complete one section before moving to the next, ensuring no critical information is missed.
• Multi-ABN Selection: Customers who have added multiple ABNs can now choose the relevant ABN during the onboarding process for the new team member.
• Instant TFND Creation: The necessary Tax File Number Declaration (TFND) is now created within the flow.
• Flexible Super Fund Choice: New team members have clear options to choose from an existing fund, instantly join a new fund, join their employer’s nominated fund, or utilise a Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF).

How does it work?

1. When a new team member is added, they begin the enhanced onboarding process.
2. If the business operates under multiple ABNs, the manager or new team member is prompted to choose which ABN the onboarding relates to.
3. The team member is guided through staged onboarding, ensuring they complete essential sections like personal details before moving on to Superannuation.
4. In the Superannuation step, the team member is presented with clear choices: selecting an existing fund, joining a new fund instantly, joining the employer's default fund, or using a SMSF.
5. The process now includes the creation of the TFND (Tax File Number Declaration).

When will it be available?

This improvement is now available to all Deputy customers using the AU Onboarding flow who have added an ABN.
Enterprise businesses' rollout will commence in January. 

We are excited to announce that End-to-End Time Off in Lieu (TOIL) management is now available in Deputy Payroll.

What's new ✨

We know that managing TOIL can be a manual balancing act - relying on memory to bank hours, manually updating spreadsheets, and somewhere to track manual balances. Processes like this make it difficult to stay compliant with specific award or Enterprise Bargaining Agreements without hours of manual admin work.

We’ve solved this by building a powerful, new end to end system that can handle even the most complex requirements. Yet it is simple enough that you can “set and forget” utilising Deputy's powerful pay rate builder.

How does it work?

• Smart Accrual Rates - You can now configure TOIL settings at the pay rate level. Whether you need a standard 1:1 swap or a specific rule (like accruing 1.5 hours of TOIL for every 1 hour of overtime worked on a Saturday) the system handles all the complex math for you.
• Automated banking of TOIL hours - No more manual data entry, or having to remember to update the excel spreadsheet. When you process a payrun, approved timesheets containing TOIL are automatically calculated and banked into the employee’s TOIL balance inside Deputy.
• Allow employees to select per shift - Some awards and agreements require employees to be able to make the decision about being paid overtime or bank TOIL hours at the end of each shift. Deputy can be configured to have this question asked at the end of each relevant shift, and on specific pay rates.
• Zero learning curve for teams - Implementing this requires no training for your regular staff. Employees continue to apply for TOIL using the existing leave request process they are already familiar with.

By automating the flow of data you remove the risk of human error. Once your rates are configured, the system works in the background to ensure your TOIL calculations are accurate and your team is accruing what they are entitled to - automatically.

You can setup custom accrual rates for Time Off In Lieu per pay rate inside the Deputy Pay Rate Builder.

Time Off In Lieu banked hours are automatically shown on the payrun after importing timesheets into Deputy Payroll Australia.

Timesheet calculations have a clear view of when Time Off In Lieu has been calculated during a timesheet approval.

When will it be available? 

This feature is available to all Deputy Payroll Australia users right now.

Click here to read more about how to use it

Introducing Leave Entitlements Bulk Management, a brand-new feature designed to save you time and minimise manual errors when managing your team’s leave data. Previously, bulk actions were limited to adding entitlements, forcing managers to individually update records one by one — a process that was often time-consuming and error-prone. With this update, we have removed that friction, giving you greater speed, accuracy, and flexibility to manage leave policies at scale.

What’s New ✨

• Bulk Add: Efficiently add multiple leave entitlements to one or more employees in a single action.
• Bulk Remove: Quickly remove existing leave entitlements for one or multiple employees, completely eliminating the need for manual, individual deletion.
• Bulk Replace: Overwrite existing data by replacing current leave entitlements with new ones, ensuring your records are always up-to-date with the correct values.

How does it work?

1. Navigate to the People tab and use the filters to display the relevant team members.
2. Select the checkboxes next to the team members you wish to update, or select all.
3. Click the Bulk actions menu and select Manage leave entitlements.
4. From the modal, choose your desired action: Add, Remove, or Replace leave entitlements.
5. Select the specific leave entitlement(s) from the dropdown list and click the confirmation button (Add/Remove/Replace) to apply the changes instantly.

When will it be available?

This feature will be rolled out progressively to customers starting from December 2025. 

Once available, you will find this functionality within the People tab under the Bulk actions menu.

For further details on setup, principles, and other FAQs please read our Help Article.

We've released a powerful upgrade that lets you automate data uploads directly via SFTP to ensure your data is processed accurately and securely.

What’s New ✨

• Automate or bulk-upload data using Deputy CSV templates (employee, employee payroll, sales, training module, leave balance, location, area, and more) directly into your SFTP folder to have them automatically imported into your Deputy account.
• Processed files automatically sorted into folders processing, sent_successful, and sent_failed folders, plus successful/error email notification and a magic-link interface for fixing errors
• Add and manage up to 10 public keys per tenant for separate access for automation systems and multiple users

How does it work?

Full help documentation available here.

When will it be available?

Currently in Beta so we can refine it based on your feedback.

Deputy HR onboarding has been upgraded to include built-in VEVO checks and an enhanced Right to Work workflow. 

What’s New ✨

Managers can now conduct right-to-work (Visa status) checks when onboarding new hires, and for allexisting employees.

How does it work?

Once enabled, new team members will move through an improved onboarding flow that collects all the information required to run a VEVO check directly within Deputy HR. As soon as the onboarding form is submitted, managers can complete the VEVO check instantly.

When will it be available?

To activate it, go to your Business Settings → Right to Work and connect your account to VEVO.

Read more about running VEVO checks for new hires and existing employees

We've revamped our business settings experience, making it easier to discover Deputy features and make configurations. It’s more than a redesign; we have built it from the ground up to ensure it scales to meet the needs of our customers and our growing product line. 

What’s New ✨

• Streamlined layout with clearer categorisation, making settings easier to find, configure, and manage.
• A scalable information architecture built to support an expanding suite of products, settings and increasingly sophisticated features.
• A complete rebuild on a modern, high-performance front-end tech stack for a faster, smoother experience.

How does it work?

For full information, view the documentation here.

When will it be available?

We’re progressively rolling out the new Business Settings experience to our customers.

We plan to deprecate the legacy Add Shift Modal in Schedule Web by the end of 2025.

If you still see this screen when adding or editing a roster from the web, note that it will be replaced by the new Add Shift Popover starting from 30th October 2025.

Why

• Up-to-date technology stacks for better reliability.
• Improved user experience — cleaner, and more intuitive, designed to feel familiar like other modern calendar tools (e.g., Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook).
• Full feature parity with the legacy modal — everything you could do before, you can still do now.
• A foundation for Micro-scheduling with Single Pay Rate, enabling smoother operations when managing multiple schedules for a single employee in a day.

• Many of our upcoming scheduling improvements are built on top ofof Add Shift Popover,  eg.

  • Multi-select with Bulk Update/Delete
    
  • Shift patterns
  • Revamped Shift History
  • And more are coming

How to use it?

Read more from help doc here

We've just launched a major improvement to payslip access experience giving both employers and employees more power and flexibility as to how they access their payslips.

Web Access for All - Employees can now view and download their payslips directly on the Deputy web platform—a perfect alternative for those who prefer desktop or don't have a smartphone.

Instant Email Notifications - Right at the end of a pay run, employers can send out email notifications to let everyone know their payslip is ready. (For high security, we send a secure link, not the PDF)

Always in control! - Need to notify a specific location, employment type, or just a single person about a payslip? Our filtering options make that easy.

How does it work?

When you complete and lock a payrun in Deputy Payroll now, a new option will appear allowing you to send payslip notifications to your employees.

Clicking Send Payslips will then open a dialog allowing you to select which employees to notify.

You can choose to email every employee, or you can filter based on options such as:

- Locations

- Employment type (Full Time, Casual etc)

Once you have selected who you want to email payslip notifications to, click Email Payslips and the notifications will be sent to employees. Allowing them to login to Deputy and view and download their payslips on the web application.

Availability

This is now available for all customers with Deputy Payroll in the Australia region.