We’re making team communication instant, effortless, and built right into Deputy—so you can connect where work happens, without juggling multiple apps.

What is Deputy Messaging?

• Instant group and direct messaging – Chat with individuals or groups, instantly reaching the right people.
• Location channels – Dynamic channels for every location, updating automatically when staff join, leave, or move.
• Media and file sharing – Share images, documents, videos, and links directly in chats.
• Integrated communication experience – Messaging is part of the same Deputy app you already use to schedule, manage, and check in with your team—no extra logins or switching tools. Available on both mobile and web.

Why we built it

Until now, teams who used Deputy relied on a mix of external messaging apps, SMS, email, or Deputy News Feed – making it hard to keep everyone aligned, especially when rosters change. Deputy Messaging helps you:

• Keep all work conversations in one place
• Cut down admin with automatically updated groups and channels
• Prepare for advanced Messaging+ features coming later this year

Rollout

Deputy Messaging is available to all customers. Learn more on how to activate Deputy Messaging here.

Messaging+ coming soon

With this rollout, you’ll have access to all Deputy Messaging features (including Messaging+) at no extra cost.
From October 1, Messaging+ will become a paid upgrade, offering advanced features like read receipts and polls.

Updated Help Centre

New Messaging help guides are available here.

Deputy HR have partnered with JobTarget to bring you a new, improved way to post jobs.
With this new connection, you gain access to 25,000+ job boards, helping you find the right candidates faster 

• Connect to JobTarget in Hire Settings
• Post job listings to your favourite job boards via JobTarget
• Pay directly through JobTarget to post to sites like LinkedIn
• Manage all your candidates within Deputy

How to use it
Help Article

What's New?

• Update All Visible Schedules - Instantly update all schedules shown on your current view using Options → Bulk Update.
• Multi-Select for Maximum Flexibility - Holding CTRL (Windows) or CMD (Mac) key to manually select multiple shifts and apply updates or delete them in one go from the dropdown.
• Proper Employee Selector - Easily search and assign employees using an enhanced selector with built-in search functionality.
• Intuitive Time Pickers - No more clunky dropdowns, update start and end times with clean, modern time pickers.
• Customisable Break Times - Breaks can now be added or adjusted freely — no longer tied to the original schedule’s configuration.
• Flexible Notes Handling - Choose to delete, replace with new notes, or retain existing shift notes with full control.
• Supporting Micro-scheduling shifts to save tones of time

Why the Change?

• Fewer clicks, faster actions
• More flexibility across a wide range of scenarios
• A more intuitive and modern user interface
• All designed to help managers adapt quickly and keep operations running smoothly — with less effort and more confidence.

• Bulk update shifts on schedule
• How to bulk update shifts' notes

Rolling out to your account over the next few weeks will be the ability to include leave with your 1, 2, 4 week and monthly schedule excel exports! This is one of many steps we'll be taking to ensure more flexibility within the schedule to help solve whatever problem or process you have in front of you. 

1. The export menu can now be found in the options menu where you'll notice "Print Schedule" (PDF or Excel) or "Export Schedule" (CSV, JSON) 

2. By Selecting "Print Schedule" and "Excel" as the format - you'll notice a leave checkbox is available if you'd like to include this in your schedule export.

If you have any feedback, or other items you'd like included on export, submit a feature request and the team will be here to help!

• Work 4 shifts
• Rest for 2 days

To access this, from the add shift popup:

1. Select options
2. Select "Repeat for set pattern" 
3. Choose your pattern and end date
4. Watch your shifts create until the end date you set

If you have any feedback, drop us a feature request and we'll continue to shape shift patterns together. 

What's New?

• Access it via: Schedule Tab → Insights dropdown → Show Hours in Areas
• A breakdown of daily total hours by area, comparing:
  • Scheduled hours (including both filled shifts and all shifts)
  • Daily budgeted hours per area
  • Actual hours (from timesheets, available only when viewing past dates)
  • Compatible with sub shifts from Micro-scheduling

Why the Change?

By comparing budgeted, scheduled, and actual hours in one view, managers can make more informed, data-driven scheduling decisions—without the need to toggle Areas on and off in the Stats Panel to check daily hours data.This feature also serves as a valuable add-on, offering a more tailored experience for managers to monitor Micro-scheduling hours by area.

Please check details from the help doc here.

What's New?

• Improved error handling by enhancing the import logic to better detect and manage errors, with improved editing capabilities to make corrections easier.
• Support for Micro-scheduling sub shifts by introducing a new optional field, "Group Reference", to support importing Micro-scheduling rosters's sub shifts.
  • For standard (single-area) rosters, this field can be ignored.
  • For Micro-scheduling rosters, only the sub shifts need to be included in the file, each with the same Group Reference to indicate they belong to the same parent Micro-scheduling shift.
  • These enhancements make it easier to manage complex scheduling needs at scale.

Why the Change?

Bulk Import Schedules from File is a powerful tool that streamlines the bulk setup of rosters—especially valuable during the implementation or easily migrating from excel/google sheet into Deputy digital solutions. 

The new changes also support for Micro-scheduling schedules to be seamlessly imported into your Deputy account that will help you setup many rosters in a shorter period by significantly reducing the onboarding time and efforts.

How to use?

Please check details from the help doc here.

• Effortlessly trace the entire lifecycle of a shift from beginning to end.
• Swap history details are now presented in natural language—no more cryptic status codes.
• Enhanced support for Micro-scheduling with complete visibility into sub-shift updates.
• The entire UX is pretty similar vs. its legacy version to ensure an easier adoption for managers.
  
  
  

• A clearer, more readable history enables managers to quickly grasp the full context of any shift.
• With the upcoming Micro-scheduling launch, we've ensured the feature is optimized for performance and scalability, providing full visibility for both standard and multi-area Micro-scheduled shifts.

• Hire
• Team Member Documents 
• Onboarding
• Diversity & Turnover Report

• Access easily via the Reports tab
• Trial Deputy HR today 🚀

What's New ✨

This game-changing feature will help you streamline how your organisation stores, shares, and tracks company documents.

✅ Effortless storage & bulk sharing of company documents
✅ Automatic tracking of employee acknowledgements
✅ Seamless onboarding with auto-sharing documents to new hires
✅ Easy document access for employees in the app

How to get started 👇🏻

• Set up your company's document library now.
• Trial Deputy HR today!