Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following HR plans: Free, Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Admin
Employment Hero occasionally releases new features in open beta—this means the feature is functional but still being fine-tuned before it's added to the standard HR platform.
You can choose to try out these features early and help shape their development. However, it’s important to understand how open beta features work before enabling them.
What you need to know about open beta features
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Not yet part of the core product
Open beta features are still under development. They may be missing polish, functionality, or performance enhancements found in our standard product. -
Optional participation
You can opt in or out at any time. These features might not meet all your needs just yet. -
Lower support priority
Bugs or issues with open beta features are reviewed but not treated with the same urgency as standard platform issues. -
Features may change
These features are in active development and may look or behave differently once officially released.
💡 We welcome your feedback. If you're using a beta feature, let us know what you think—your input helps us improve!
Getting started
- Click the Beta Flask drop-down.
- Click on the open beta feature you want to enable for your organisation.
- Click the Yes, Count Me In button.
Remove data
- Click the Beta Flask drop-down.
- Click on the open beta feature you want to disable for your organisation.
- Click the Yes, Opt Me Out button.
Further information
| AIO Shift Conditions Award cost |
Previously, Keypay connected organizations calculated shift costs using a simple formula: employee salary per hour multiplied by hours worked. This method didn't account for penalty rates or other pay conditions. By switching on this feature the Keypay costing engine will calculate shift costs, factoring in penalty rates and overtime, and you can click on the roster shift to see the cost breakdown. |
| Category exact matching for inclusion | |
| Email templates. | The open beta feature will introduce the ability to customise three of the HR platform's default emails. You can read further details in the following article. |
| Employee Approvals and Requisitions | |
| Employee happiness survey feedback loop. | This open beta feature allows you to comment on an employee's happiness survey response. You can read further details in the following article. |
| Enable legacy Organisation Chart |
This open beta feature will add a new organisation chart layout and some additional features. |
| HR PY Experience Employment Hero Work | If you use both HR and payroll, this feature will allow you to set up your business so that you can provide your employees access to HR features such as HR documents, Certifications, Policies and many more, while also having access to features that you were familiar with on WorkZone such as Clocking In/Out with Timesheets, Rostering, Unavailability, Expenses and Leave. article. |
| Pay inclusion mapping review filter | |
| Pay inclusion for Account mapping - new flow | |
| Prevent negative leave balances. | The open beta feature allows you to prevent an employee from submitting a leave request if it goes into a negative balance. You can read further details in the following article. |
| Rostering Positions |
Larger organizations often need more specificity, such as role and location-based filtering, to limit employee selection during shift creation. This feature enables you to roster by role (e.g., a Consultant role) rather than by individual employee. |
| Weekly Timesheets with Start/End Times | The open beta feature adds a new weekly timesheet type for your organisation to use. You can read further details in the following article. |
| Work Site Management |
Larger organizations often need more specificity, such as role and location-based filtering, to limit employee selection during shift creation. In the Settings > Work Sites (new) section, with this feature employers can now create Work Sites with Rostering Positions. |
| Enable legacy organisation chart |
This open beta feature will add a new organisation chart layout and some additional features. |
| New document widget in Employee Vision |
Merges the ”HR Documents” and “Uploaded Documents” tabs into a single, unified area. |
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- Minimum Software Requirements This article covers the minimum browser and mobile phone operating platform requirements to use our Employment Hero HR platform.