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Employee Profile
Staff Profile
Individual Employment Periods for Rehiring
You can now start a new period of employment when you reactivate an employee, letting you
track their previous stints of employment in the same profile
. When reactivating, you’ll be given two options:- Start a new period of employment:the employee gets anew employment start date based on when they were rehired, which affects everything that checks tenure (e.g. Long Service Leave calculations). You can also choose to reset their leave balances at the same time.
- Reactivate:works the way it always has, switching the employee from inactive to active, with just one employment start date.
If you start a new period of employment, their previous periods will be listed on the Personal tab of their profile.
We also plan to add a third option to rehire and
onboard
soon.new
Rostering
Minimum Notice for Rostered Shift Swaps
You can now set a
minimum number of days’ notice required for shift replacements and swaps
.When the minimum notice is set, employees won’t be able to request a replacement or swap for a shift starting within that window. On the mobile app, they’ll see “Contact your manager to swap this shift” instead of the usual swap options.
Managers and admins are not restricted by this setting
and can still create replacements and swaps within the window.
Configure this under
Settings
> Roster Settings
> Shift Replacements
and Swapping
. Set the field to 0 to turn it off.new
Compliance
Award Rules
Award Templates
Creating Custom Award Templates
We’ve introduced a new, quicker and easier way to build custom award templates in Tanda. The
Quick Award Template Create builder
walks you through the details of your award or agreement, and Tanda automatically builds the individual rules for you based on the information you provide.Find it under
Time & Attendance
> Compliance
> Customise Your Setup
> Quick Award Template Create
.
You can learn more about this feature in this help guide.
When you post a pay run, you’ll now see a checklist at the top of the pay run showing what’s left to do, with a progress count such as 2/5 completed.
The steps are:
- Send payslips: email payslips to your team, or resend them.
- Pay employees: pay by Modulr or BACS file, or use the Activity Detail report.
- Submit FPS: go straight to the FPS tab on the RTI page. The step ticks once HMRC accepts it.
- Submit EPS: shows on the last pay run of the tax month when an EPS is due for the Apprenticeship Levy.
- Pay pension contributions: send contributions to NEST, or download the Pension Contribution Report or PAPDIS file for other providers.
- Record the journal: download it, or send it to Xero.
Each step shows whether it’s done, waiting on HMRC, Modulr or NEST, or needs your attention.
Also new:
- Pay run notes:leave notes on a posted pay run for your team. Employees can’t see them.
- Actions and Reports are now at the top right of the pay run.
- Email Payslips, Generate PAPDIS and the payment options (Pay by Modulr and BACS file) have moved from the Actions menu into the steps.
- If you revert and post a pay run again, the steps start again.
See Run payroll (UK) for details.
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Payroll
AT
New Zealand (NZ)
Managers Cannot Edit Employee Bank Details
Managers can no longer edit another employee's bank account details.
Only Admins and Payroll Officers can now edit employee bank details in Tanda Payroll. Employees can still update their own bank details.
If a manager currently handles these updates, those changes will need to be made by a Payroll Officer or Admin going forward.
This change is being made to reduce the risk of unauthorised changes to bank account details.
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Integrations
Qualifications
Police Checks with ANCC
Tanda now integrates with Australian National Character Check (ANCC), letting you
order employment police checks directly from an employee’s profile
and track the progress and result in Tanda.Once connected, assigning the ANCC Police Check qualification to an employee triggers the check. ANCC emails the employee a secure invitation to complete their application, and the status is written back to the qualification in Tanda as it progresses. When the result is released, the qualification is marked as current with an attained date and a one-year expiry.
The connection is set up from the ANCC Business Portal under
Integrations
> Tanda
> Connect to Tanda
. This integration is built and supported by ANCC.You can learn more in this help guide.
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Workforce
Contracts & Documents
Word Document Contract Templates
You can now upload a
Word document (.docx) as a contract template
under Workforce
> Contracts & Documents
> + New Contract Template
, giving you full control over the appearance and formatting of your contracts.This is currently rolling out to AU & NZ orgs, so you may not see this change in your account yet.
Preview how the document will render as a PDF before publishing, and use dynamic fields to place signatures, printed names, and signature dates precisely within the document.
You can learn more in this help guide.
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Payroll
AT
Permissions
New Zealand (NZ)
Settings
Payroll Officer Company File Scoping
You can now restrict a payroll officer’s access to
specific company files
, rather than giving them access to all payroll data in the account.This is currently rolling out to all AU and NZ accounts with Tanda Payroll, so you may not see these changes yet.
This is useful for organisations with multiple company files, franchise groups where a franchisee should only process payroll for their own location, or payroll officers who manage a subset of locations but not others.
When adding a payroll officer permission to an employee profile, you can
choose which company files they can access
(with Tanda Payroll enabled):
Once restricted, they will only be able to see pay runs, staff, timesheets, and leave requests for those files.
A few things to note:
- If an employee moves between company files, the payroll officer can still see payslips paid by their accessible files, but not the employee’s profile if they are no longer assigned to those files
- Scoped payroll officers can still view and edit organisation-wide settings such as earnings rates, leave types, deduction types, and super funds, as these are needed to process pay runs correctly
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Compliance
Award Templates
Decision in the Clerks – Private Sector Award 2020 - Working from home case
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) handed down a decision on Monday, 19 October 2026 in the Working from home – Clerks – Private Sector Award 2020 (AM2024/34) case.
The Clerks Award will be varied to contain a clause that will allow for the facilitation of working from home arrangements.
The variation will take effect from the first full pay period starting on or after 26 October 2026.
The working from home clause allows an individual employee and the employer to agree to vary certain clauses of the Clerks Award. The clauses of the Clerks Award that can be varied include:
- Working of ordinary hours continuously (clause 13.6(a))
- Working of ordinary hours at the discretion of the employer (clause 13.6(b))
- The time for taking rest breaks and meal breaks (clauses 15.2 and 15.3)
- The alteration of the spread of ordinary hours (clauses 13.4(c) or 25.2(c))
- Making up time taken off during working hours (clauses 13.8 or 26.5)
- Changes to times at which the employee will start and finish a shift (clause 26.4(b))
- Time off instead of payment for overtime (clauses 23 or 29)
The Individual Flexibility Arrangements feature can be utilised to automatically facilitate working from home arrangements in Tanda.
For further information on the Clerks - Private Sector Managed Template in Tanda, please see the Managed Template Guide.
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Payroll
Payslip Authenticity Verification Seals
Tanda is now adding a
secure, tamper-evident seal to the payslips you generate
, so lenders and other approved organisations can confirm that they are genuine when employees provide them as evidence of employment. The seal is applied as a QR code to the end of the payslip.
This is currently rolling out to all accounts, so you may not see this change in your account yet.
The seal is
added automatically, at no cost
, with no change to your payroll process. It simply confirms that the payslip was legitimately generated, and that the figures it contains are correct. No employer or personal information is shared.
For employers, it means you will handle fewer employment verification requests from lenders or other parties asking for verification of employment.
For your employees, it means a smoother experience when applying for finance or other places where verification of employment is required.
Tanda has partnered with Verifiabl to provide this service.
You can learn more about Verifiabl here.This is only available for Tanda Payroll customers.
If you don’t wish to use this feature, you can opt out by navigating to
Payroll
> Settings
> General Settings
> Verifiable payslips
.
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