Here are our product releases for Week 39 of 2025, which includes September 22-26, 2025.
Automations
Custom Forms Uplift Slice 2 - Form Publishing
Release Date: 24/09/2025
Target Users: Global Forms users (EU, Employment Plus and Platinum)
Description: In Custom Forms, the current Publish Form modal is unintuitive and fragmented, making it difficult for admins to configure audience, availability, and notification settings confidently.
This leads to errors, delays, and abandoned forms, reducing adoption and slowing down the employee self-service experience.
Product features:
- Audience selection – choose between all employees, or targeted teams, roles, locations, or individuals.
- Availability window – set an optional expiry date, or leave blank for indefinite availability.
- Notification settings – decide whether to notify recipients via email (with templated subject/body) or publish silently with no notification.
- Streamlined modal layout – consolidates all publish options into a single, clear step before a form goes live.
Core HR
VEVO Check B2B API
Description: We have upgraded the VEVO check checking method from the previous Web Scraper Tool method to a business to business API between EH and VEVO. This allows for increased reliability and less maintenance to our VEVO checking process. From a user experience perspective the experience does not change on the front end.
Target users: First Stage Public Release 24/9/25. Live now. Released to first 1/3 of public members on EH platforms. AU Only
Decluttering the Dashboard
Objective: Decluttering the Dashboard and Personalising the Dashboard Experience for New Organisations
Description: The default dashboard experience has been updated to better support new users and newly created organisations.
What’s changed: To create a more focused and welcoming first impression, the default dashboard layout for new organisations now only includes widgets with immediate relevance. Widgets like Shout Outs, Recognition, Time Off Calendar, Goals, Goal Insights, Employee Onboarding, Pinned Reports, Payslips & Celebrations are no longer shown by default unless the feature is actively in use. All widgets remain fully accessible via “Add widgets”, allowing users to personalise their dashboard at any time. If a user adds a widget manually, it will always display – even if there’s no data yet. Some widgets will only appear if the associated feature is enabled in settings. We’ve also removed the mobile app download prompt from the dashboard for a cleaner experience.
Why we’ve done this: User feedback – especially from newer customers – told us the dashboard felt overwhelming. By reducing initial visual noise, we’re helping users ease into the platform and focus on what matters most first. These changes are designed to improve clarity, and support a more personalised experience for new organisations. Existing organisations are not affected.
Release Schedule: 24 September 2025
Target Users: HR Desktop
System Setup & Branding Page UI Uplift
Description: We have revamped the UI of the System Setup and Branding/Custom Branding pages. This also includes the moving of the 'Company Logo' from the Company Details Page > Branding Page. The Advanced Customisation features are available to users on a Platinum or Employment Unlimited plan. For CA Orgs, a quick link to the Opening Balances page is located on the System Setup page.
Target users: All Organisations, All Regions with the New Settings Look & Feel open beta enabled
Release Date: 25/9/25
Settings Uplift - Slice 3
Objective: Uplift of Happiness Survey settings pages.
Description: We’ve revamped the Happiness Survey settings page with a fresh, streamlined design to align it with the look and feel of other settings pages. The page is now organised as a clear, user-friendly form to enhance usability. Additionally, we’ve introduced an enable flow, allowing employers to configure and review their settings before activating the survey—making setup more intuitive and controlled.
Release Schedule: 26/09/2025
Target Users: All regions with the New Settings Look & Feel open beta enabled
Payroll
Ask Community feature within Payroll (AU, NZ, UK)
Objective: We're launching a dedicated, self-service community for payroll administrators. This new platform, powered by Circles, will enable peer-to-peer support and knowledge sharing, empowering our payroll professionals to find solutions more efficiently and aligning the payroll product with Hero Connect community pillars.
Key Changes: Introduction of "Ask Community" feature: A new, accessible forum for payroll administrators to collaborate and share knowledge. This is accessed within payroll dashboard > Get Help > Ask Community
Targeted User Base: Available to all Full Admin Managers in the payroll product.
Geographic Scope: The feature will be rolled out to customers in Australia (AU), New Zealand (NZ), and the United Kingdom (UK).
Partner Limitations: Not applicable to EH Partners without explicit consent.
Login Protocol: Due to technical constraints with the Circles platform, users will access the community via a separate user login and password, not through the standard Single Sign-On (SSO) solution.
BETA release schedule: 25/09/2025