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September 2026 Release Notes | Plumm

Overview

This release introduces significant enhancements across Core HR, Hire, Learn, Wellbeing, Performance, Rota, Attendance, Timesheets, Money, and API Management. Key updates include new TOIL management capabilities, enhanced Time Off automation, deeper workforce reporting, GDPR-driven candidate management, improved payroll processing, expanded Timesheet functionality, and further automation across Reviews and Surveys.

Alongside these new capabilities, we've continued to improve platform performance, usability, governance, and automation to provide a more efficient experience for employees, managers, HR teams, and administrators.

Core HR

TOIL Management

We've introduced new Time Off in Lieu (TOIL) functionality, giving organisations greater flexibility when managing additional time worked by employees.

  • Employees can now request TOIL balances for eligible additional hours worked.
  • Managers can review and approve employee TOIL requests.
  • Approved TOIL can be allocated directly to the employee's available balance.
  • Provides greater visibility and control over earned TOIL while reducing manual administration.
  • Supports organisations operating flexible working and time-off-in-lieu policies.

Configurable Time Off Allowance Deduction

Organisations now have greater control over how employee Time Off allowances are deducted.

  • Configure allowance deduction rules to better align with organisational Time Off policies.
  • Provides greater flexibility when determining how leave impacts employee balances.
  • Helps ensure Time Off calculations accurately reflect company policies.

Years of Service – Monthly Accrual

Years of Service allowances can now be accrued on a monthly basis.

  • Supports organisations that increase employee Time Off entitlement based on length of service.
  • Allowances can progressively accrue throughout the applicable cycle.
  • Provides more accurate entitlement management without requiring manual adjustments.

Enhanced Time Off Imports

Time Off imports now automatically calculate request duration based on the employee's applicable cycle and working arrangements.

  • Reduces the need for manual duration calculations during imports.
  • Improves the accuracy and consistency of imported Time Off records.
  • Helps simplify bulk Time Off administration.

Leaver Time Off History

Time Off information remains accessible after an employee leaves the organisation.

  • Administrators can continue to access a leaver's historical Time Off information.
  • Time Off balances and history remain available for reference and reporting.
  • Supports auditing, payroll reconciliation, and historical record management.

Employee Salary History Reporting

A new Salary History report provides greater visibility into employee salary changes over time.

  • Review historical salary information across the workforce.
  • Provides HR and Payroll teams with a clearer view of salary progression.
  • Supports compensation reviews, auditing, and workforce analysis.

Staff Turnover & Retention Reporting

We've expanded workforce analytics with new reporting around employee turnover and retention.

  • Provides greater visibility into workforce movement and employee retention.
  • Helps HR teams identify workforce trends over time.
  • Supports retention planning and broader people strategy decisions.

Employee Data & Staff Import Enhancements

We've expanded employee data management and staff imports with additional fields and automation.

  • Added Gender Assigned at Birth as an employee onboarding field.
  • Added Contract End Date support within staff imports.
  • New Employee Levels can now be automatically created when importing staff where the required level does not already exist.
  • Reduces manual configuration and simplifies large-scale employee data management.

Hire (ATS)

GDPR Candidate Data Management

We've introduced enhanced candidate data management capabilities to help organisations manage recruitment data in line with their retention requirements.

  • Candidate information within job pipelines can now be automatically deleted based on configured GDPR retention requirements.
  • Reduces the need for administrators to manually identify and remove expired candidate records.
  • Supports more consistent management of recruitment data.

Mass Candidate Deletion

Recruitment teams can now delete multiple candidate records at once.

  • Select and remove candidates in bulk rather than managing records individually.
  • Simplifies candidate database maintenance.
  • Helps recruitment teams manage larger candidate pools more efficiently.

Company-Branded Job Description Templates

Organisations can now create more consistent, professional Job Descriptions using company-branded templates.

  • Helps standardise Job Description presentation across roles.
  • Provides a more consistent employer brand throughout the recruitment process.
  • Reduces manual formatting when preparing Job Descriptions.

Live Interview Duration Timer

Interviewers can now track interview duration directly during an active interview.

  • Provides real-time visibility of how long an interview has been running.
  • Helps interviewers better manage scheduled interview time.

Automatic Email Delivery Fallback

We've improved the reliability of recruitment communications.

  • Where delivery through connected Gmail or Outlook services is unsuccessful, Plumm can automatically use its email delivery service as a fallback.
  • Helps reduce failed candidate communications and improves the reliability of recruitment emails.

Learn (LMS)

Learn Performance Improvements

We've significantly improved performance throughout Learn to provide a faster and more responsive learning experience.

  • Faster course loading across the Learn module.
  • Improved responsiveness when navigating learning content.
  • Performance optimisations designed to provide a smoother experience for learners and administrators.

Personalised Course Assignment Emails

Course assignment communications can now provide a more personalised learner experience.

  • Improved assignment emails provide clearer and more relevant communication when training is assigned.
  • Helps employees quickly understand and access their assigned learning.

New Plumm Courses

We've expanded the Plumm Course Library with additional learning content, giving employees access to an even broader range of development and training opportunities.

Wellbeing

Revamped Wellbeing Dashboard

The Wellbeing Dashboard has received a major visual and usability refresh.

  • A sleeker and more engaging dashboard experience.
  • Improved presentation of wellbeing tools and resources.
  • Easier navigation to key wellbeing functionality.
  • Designed to encourage greater engagement with available wellbeing support.

Improved Mood Tracker Access

The Mood Tracker is now more prominently positioned within the Wellbeing Dashboard.

  • Makes it quicker and easier for employees to record how they're feeling.
  • Improves visibility of one of Plumm's key wellbeing tools.
  • Supports more regular engagement with personal wellbeing tracking.

Performance

Automatic Saving in Survey Builder

Survey Builder now automatically saves changes while surveys are being created or edited.

  • Reduces the risk of losing unsaved work.
  • Removes the need to manually save changes throughout the creation process.
  • Provides a smoother and more reliable survey-building experience.

Automatic Saving in Review Builder

We've also introduced automatic saving throughout the Review Builder.

  • Changes are saved progressively while Review Forms are being configured.
  • Helps protect work during longer review-building sessions.
  • Provides a more seamless form creation experience.

Team 1-on-1 Dashboard Widget

A new Team 1-on-1 widget has been added to the Team Dashboard.

  • Gives managers quicker visibility of their team's 1-on-1 activity.
  • Provides easier access to relevant meetings directly from the dashboard.
  • Helps managers stay on top of ongoing employee conversations.

Goal Document Management

Administrators can now delete documents uploaded against Goals.

  • Provides greater control over Goal attachments.
  • Makes it easier to remove outdated or incorrectly uploaded documents.

Review Task Creation Controls

Organisations now have greater flexibility over task creation when assigning Reviews.

  • Administrators can choose whether tasks should be automatically created when a Review is assigned.
  • Helps organisations tailor the Review workflow to their internal processes.
  • Reduces unnecessary task creation where Review tasks are managed through alternative workflows.

Rota

Expanded Open Shift Scheduling

Rota scheduling has been enhanced to support more complex staffing requirements.

  • Organisations can now create more than two Open Shifts per day.
  • Provides greater flexibility when filling multiple staffing requirements.
  • Supports teams with higher-volume or more complex daily shift patterns.

Enhanced Shift Audit History

We've expanded Rota auditing to provide greater visibility into shift changes.

  • Audit history is now available for edited and replaced shifts.
  • Helps administrators understand how a shift has changed over time.
  • Improves accountability and historical traceability.

Open Shift Request Activity

Activity logs now provide more comprehensive information for Open Shift requests.

  • Full Open Shift details are captured within request activity logs.
  • Provides managers and administrators with clearer historical context.
  • Supports better auditing of shift requests and changes.

Attendance

Attendance Activity Logs

We've expanded audit capabilities across Attendance.

  • Attendance configuration and policy changes are now captured within activity logs.
  • Provides administrators with greater visibility into who made changes and what was updated.
  • Strengthens governance and accountability around attendance configuration.

Timesheets

Calendar-Based Timesheet Summary

We've introduced a new calendar-based Timesheet summary to provide employees and managers with a clearer view of recorded working hours.

  • View Timesheet information in a calendar-based experience.
  • Provides visibility of billable and non-billable hours.
  • Makes it easier to understand how working time is distributed across the selected period.

Enhanced Timesheet Approval Workflow

The Timesheet approval process has been expanded for administrators.

  • Super Admins and Sub Admins can now participate in the complete Timesheet approval workflow.
  • Provides greater flexibility for organisations with different Timesheet approval structures.
  • Improves administrative oversight of submitted Timesheets.

Timesheet Submission Notes

We've enhanced communication between employees and Timesheet approvers.

  • Employee submission notes are now visible directly within Team Timesheet.
  • Notes support rich-text formatting for clearer and more structured information.
  • Gives managers additional context when reviewing submitted Timesheets.

Expanded Timesheet Reporting

Timesheet reporting has been enhanced to provide more comprehensive workforce information.

  • Expanded reporting around recorded Timesheet hours.
  • Additional custom reporting capabilities provide greater flexibility when analysing working time.
  • Supports operational, project, and workforce reporting requirements.

Smarter Timesheet Import Validation

Timesheet imports now include enhanced validation against employee availability and working schedules.

  • Validates imported entries against Time Off.
  • Identifies applicable holidays and non-working days.
  • Helps prevent conflicting or inaccurate Timesheet entries.
  • Improves the overall quality of imported Timesheet data.

Money

Pay Cycles Across Tax Years

Payroll scheduling has been enhanced to better support future payroll planning.

  • Pay cycles can now be scheduled across tax-year boundaries.
  • Provides payroll teams with greater flexibility when planning future payroll cycles.
  • Reduces manual intervention when transitioning between tax years.

Bulk Pay Code Import

Payroll teams can now import Pay Codes in bulk.

  • Reduces manual Pay Code creation.
  • Makes it easier to configure larger or more complex payroll environments.
  • Improves efficiency when setting up and maintaining payroll data.

Pay Schedule Alerts

New payroll alerts help identify employees who are not assigned to a Pay Schedule.

  • Provides greater visibility before payroll processing begins.
  • Helps payroll teams identify configuration gaps earlier.
  • Reduces the risk of employees being unintentionally excluded from payroll.

Add Employees to Active Pay Cycles

Eligible employees who have not yet been assigned can now be added to an active pay cycle.

  • Provides payroll teams with greater flexibility during payroll processing.
  • Helps accommodate employee changes without requiring the entire cycle to be recreated.

Pay Run Confirmation

A new confirmation step has been introduced before committing a Pay Run.

  • Gives payroll administrators an additional opportunity to review the Pay Run before final processing.
  • Helps reduce accidental submissions and provides greater control over payroll processing.

Automatic New Starter Inclusion

New starters can now be automatically included in applicable draft Pay Runs.

  • Reduces manual payroll administration when employees join during an active payroll period.
  • Helps ensure eligible new starters are included in the appropriate payroll cycle.

Employee Benefits Reporting

We've introduced more detailed reporting for employee Benefits.

  • Provides greater visibility into Benefits assigned across the workforce.
  • Supports Payroll and HR teams with Benefits administration and reconciliation.
  • Improves reporting and oversight of employee Benefit information.

Tech & API

API Access Audit Reporting

API Access activity is now available within Audit Reports.

  • Provides greater visibility of API-related administrative activity.
  • Helps organisations monitor API Access changes from a central reporting area.
  • Strengthens governance and traceability around API management.

Deactivated API Key Management

Administrators can now delete deactivated API keys.

  • Makes it easier to maintain and clean up historical API credentials.
  • Provides administrators with greater control over API key lifecycle management.

Bulk Device Updates

Device imports now support bulk updates to existing company devices.

  • Update multiple device records through a single import.
  • Reduces repetitive manual administration.
  • Makes it easier to maintain accurate device information at scale.

Platform Improvements

Alongside these new features, the September release includes a range of performance, usability, and stability improvements across the platform.

  • Continued performance optimisation across key modules.
  • UI and UX refinements for a more consistent experience.
  • Enhanced activity logging and audit visibility.
  • Improved workflow automation across HR and Performance modules.
  • Reporting accuracy and performance improvements.
  • General stability improvements and bug fixes across web and mobile.