We have released a new 'Forms Response Report', accessible by navigating to

This report shows you all the answers people submitted on HR forms in one place. Now, instead of clicking through individual form submissions one by one, you can now generate a report that shows everyone's responses in one convenient location.

In the same way that our Survey Report and our Survey Response Report are distinct, so too is the Form Response Report distinct from the existing Forms Report, which shows statistics about form counts and completion rates, but does not contain responses.

To learn more, see our help guide: Managing Reports.

We have added Employee Self Service (ESS) functionality to survey templates, meaning Tanda HR users now have the option to select whether the survey is accessible to:

This mirrors the employee assignment interface used in our form templates, providing greater consistency and feature parity across Tanda HR.

To access this feature, navigate to

To learn more, see our help guide: Surveys Explained.

We have added new leave balance management options for Tanda Payroll NZ customers. You can now set maximum leave balance caps and manage leave anniversary dates for more accurate accrual calculations.

The maximum balance feature is especially useful for NZ sick leave compliance, where balances are capped at 20 days per year. When employees reach this maximum, they'll only accrue additional leave up to that limit.

You can also now set ‘last leave anniversary’ dates for employees, ensuring accurate accrual calculations when setting up mid-year leave balances.

To access these features, navigate to an employee's leave balance settings via their Staff Profile. To learn more, see our Tanda Payroll NZ help centre.

Several new improvements are now available (on an opt-in basis) in the Children’s Services Managed Template, including:

We have set a 6-week opt-in period for these updates. Clients will have until Tuesday, September 16, 2025, to voluntarily enable the changes in their managed templates. After that point, the changes will be in all accounts from Wednesday, September 17, 2025.

To learn more, see our help guides: MA000120: Children's Managed Template Improvements and MA000120: Children's Services Award 2010 Managed Template Summary.

Tanda now supports Liquid Syntax in contract templates, allowing for dynamic content generation and conditional logic for more sophisticated contract customisation. This includes conditional statements, loops, and other previously unavailable advanced formatting options.

The main benefit of this change is that it should reduce the number of contracts customers need to support and maintain. For example, a potential use case for this feature is to selectively render part of a contract for full-time staff only, rather than maintaining two separate contract templates for full-time and casual staff.

We have fixed a minor issue in the HR form assignment process to ensure forms are fully accessible when assigned to employees.

Previously, when assigning new HR form templates to employees, there were edge cases where employees couldn't access or complete their assigned forms even though they appeared to have been assigned.

Following this update, this issue has been rectified, meaning all HR forms will be fully accessible to the users to whom they are assigned.

We have added a new "Move to Actioned" button to the self-service dashboard.

Previously, when transitioning to Tanda Payroll from other systems, there was no way to mark these items as fully actioned, leaving them incomplete even though they had been handled automatically.

Now, you'll see a "Move to Actioned" button that lets you complete the workflow for these auto-processed changes.

Tanda Payroll NZ now provides detailed breakdowns of how holiday leave pay rates are calculated directly on payslips, making it easier to understand and verify leave payments.

Following this update, when Tanda Payroll NZ customers view payslips with holiday leave, they’ll see a help icon under ‘Weekly Rate’.

Clicking this icon opens a detailed breakdown, showing exactly what payslip data and opening balance information has been used to reach this calculation. For example:

This helps employees and payroll administrators understand how holiday pay rates are determined and provides more transparency into the data sources used for these calculations.

To learn more, see our Tanda Payroll NZ help centre.

Tanda Payroll NZ now supports users with multiple bank accounts, allowing employees to split their pay across different accounts using flexible allocation options.

As such, Tanda Payroll NZ customers can now add multiple bank accounts to their staff profile and allocate payments using either fixed dollar amounts or percentage splits between accounts.

For example, you could allocate your base salary to your main account and bonuses to a savings account, or split your pay 70% to a checking account and 30% to a savings account.

To do so, navigate to a user’s staff profile and select

To learn more, see our Tanda Payroll NZ help centre.

We have simplified the leave request process in our Leave (Beta) interface, adding a time-saving new single-step leave form.

This new single-step leave form eliminates redundancies and provides a seamless experience whether you request leave from your desktop or mobile device, as the desktop and mobile versions now align. For example:

Additionally, we have improved how multi-day blackout events display in our Leave (Beta) view to provide better visibility across entire blackout periods.

Previously, blackout icons only appeared on the first day of multi-day blackout events, making it difficult to see which days were affected by longer blackout periods.

Now, blackout icons will display on all days of a multi-day event, giving you complete visibility over when leave requests are blocked.

Please note that both updates apply solely to our Leave (Beta) view, and not to our main Leave view.