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Workforce
Leave
Notifications
Employee Notifications for Direct Managers Only
If your organisation has an org chart configured, notifications about employee actions such as
leave requests
and shift swaps
will now be sent only to the employee’s direct manager
(this includes the Time Off daily summary emails).Previously, higher-level managers could receive notifications for employees who report to lower-level managers. This update ensures notifications go to the person most responsible for handling them.
Note that if all direct managers are unavailable or on leave, the notification will escalate one level up to their manager’s manager.
You can now
sync your Google Calendar to Tanda
, allowing interviews scheduled in Tanda Hire to automatically appear in your calendar.
When an interview is booked, updated, or cancelled in Tanda, the Google Calendar event updates automatically. Candidates and interviewers are added as attendees in the Google Calendar event, and
the candidate will also receive the calendar invite via email
.You can also choose to include a
Google Meet link
when configuring interviewer availability, allowing interviews to automatically include a video meeting link in the calendar. How to set it up
- Go to Settings > All Settings > Customise & Extend Tanda > Calendar Sync(alternatively, you will be prompted to connect your calendar from the Interviewer Availability page of a job ad).
- Click Connect Google Calendar
- Sign in with your Google account and grant calendar access

Once connected, upcoming interviews will sync automatically.
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Workforce
Customisable Email Templates: 'Next Steps'
The 'Next Steps' onboarding email, sent to employees after they complete onboarding, can now be customised alongside the 'Invitation to Tanda' email under
Settings
> Organisation Notifications
> Customise Standard Emails
.
Customisation is disabled by default, so existing onboarding emails will remain unchanged until a custom template is enabled.
Learn more about customising emails Here.
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HR
Hire
Qualifications
Collect Candidate Qualifications in Hire
You can now request qualifications from candidates during the hiring process.
How it Works
- Under the Edit Jobtab of a Job Ad, navigate to the newQualificationssection where you’ll see a list of the qualifications configured in your account.

- For any qualification, click Manageand choose at which stage of the application the qualification should be requested of the candidate.
- Whenever an application for that job ad is moved to the chosen job stage, the candidate will receive an email asking them to upload a copy of their qualification.

Uploaded qualifications appear in the
Answers
tab of the candidate profile. If the candidate is later hired, the qualification is also automatically saved to their employee profile.new
Compliance
Award Templates
New: Wine Industry Award Managed Template
The Wine Industry Award 2020 is now a Tanda Managed Award Template!
Find this among the other award templates under
Time & Attendance > Compliance > Award Templates
.
The Wine Industry Award Managed Template contains:
- Automated span of hours for cellar door employees
- Automated span of hours for vineyard employees during the vintage
- Automated penalty periods and shiftwork conditions
- Automated overtime conditions
- TOIL agreement conditions
- Higher duties
- Allowances
- Break rules
- Annual Leave loading
Pieceworkers:
In addition to the above, award rules have also been configured for piecework. Since piecework employees are paid by the piece/unit, the award rules configured for the Piecework stream capture only the worker's start, finish, and break times. Ordinary hours of work do not cost. We recommend setting the pieceworker rates as allowances so the total piece/units can be easily entered at the end of each shift.
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Rostering
Contracts & Documents
Employee Profile
Quality of Life Updates
We’ve recently rolled out some small improvements across Tanda to make certain tasks quicker and easier.
Accepted Shifts Spotlight on the Roster
: A new Accepted Shifts
option in the Spotlight menu highlights the shifts that employees have accepted.Dynamic Field Suggestions in Contract Templates
: Typing '{{' in the contract template editor now opens a popup showing available dynamic fields, making it easier to create your template and avoid errors.Indentation in Contract Templates
: You can now indent regular text in the contract template editor, making it easier to format structured sections.'Remove All Staff' Button for Teams
: A new Remove All
option in Teams lets you quickly clear all staff assigned to that team.'Clear All' Button on Filters
: Multi-select dropdowns, such as column selectors in reports, now include a Clear
button to deselect all options at once.Impersonation Button on User Profiles
: Admins can now impersonate a user directly from their profile page using a new icon next to their name.new
Payroll
UK
Email Payslip Preview for UK
You can now send payslip previews to employees while a pay run is still in Draft.

This allows employees to review their upcoming payslip before payroll is finalised, helping catch any issues early.
From a draft pay run, you can send preview emails to all employees in the pay run or send them individually from an employee’s payslip page.
Employees will see an alert in the mobile app home screen when a preview is available and can view it alongside their historic payslips.
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Onboarding
Payroll
UK
Improved UK Tax Declaration Flow for New Employees
You can now onboard new UK employees with a simpler tax declaration flow that’s aligned with HMRC’s recommended new starter process.
Instead of asking employees for details they might not know, we guide them through two clear options:
- Enter details from their P45 (if they have one), or
- Complete the HMRC new starter declaration flow.
This makes it easier to capture the right tax information, especially for employees starting their first job or working for multiple employers.
Additional improvements
Tax code history:
You can now save multiple tax codes per employee to track history and support retrospective payroll calculations (only one tax code can be active at a time).New ESS permission:
You can now allow employees to use ESS without being able to change their tax details, keeping tax updates with payroll/admin users.
To view this setting, navigate to
Settings > All Settings > Permissions.
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Rostering
Unavailability Updates
In preparation for the upcoming improvements to how Availability and Unavailability are managed in Tanda, you may notice some changes to unavailability in your rosters.
Approved Unavailability requests now have updated styling and show the specific times the employee is unavailable for without needing to click into the tile. 

The reason for the unavailability request can be viewed in the side roster menu.
Unavailability clash warnings now also include the specific times an employee is unavailable, giving you more context when resolving scheduling conflicts.

These changes are part of a larger update to how Availability will work in Tanda.
When hiring candidates under 18, you can now collect parental consent directly through the application process.

How it works:
- If a candidate enters their date of birth and is under 18, they’ll be prompted to enter their parent or guardian’s contact details (name, email, phone, and relationship).
- The parent or guardian receives an email with a link to review and sign the consent form.
- The parent or guardian can review and sign the consent form online.
- You can view the consent status in the candidate’s profile to see whether consent has been provided. Candidates with an unsigned parental consent form cannot be moved to the 'Hired' stage.
- If the candidate is hired, the parental consent form is stored in the Contracts & Docssection of their profile.
The age threshold for required parental consent can also be adjusted in
Hire
> Settings
> General
. This streamlines hiring for roles that commonly employ minors while ensuring the required parental consent is recorded and stored.
Learn more about this here.
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