New Tax Declarations and Proofs – Now Fully Inside HR Blizz for India Payroll Read the release note
HR Blizz
Updated Oct 28

What's new in HR Blizz

The latest releases and improvements across the payroll platform.

54 updates

October Oct 2026

38 updates
7 10 21
New feature
PayrollAdmin

Payroll now catches the arrears you used to chase

  • Backdated changes that land during period close are no longer missed - when a backdated salary change arrives while the previous period is closing, the next payroll now calculates the arrears for you, instead of leaving you to spot and correct them by hand.
  • No more surprise retro in formula-based pay elements - a pay element built from a formula over others (such as an employer burden or offset) now includes retro only where it should, so your current payroll shows the value you expect for active and terminated employees alike.
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Improvement
ReportsAdmin

Reports that stay right when your layout changes

  • General-ledger (GL) XML files keep every value in the right place - templates can now read each value by its column heading, so adding, removing or reordering a column in your GL report no longer risks shifting figures like cost centre or pay element into the wrong field. ↗
  • Employer and bank files built from entity details show the right values - employer-level reports that use only legal-entity details (bank account, code, name) no longer come out with blank columns, however they're grouped. ↗
Improvement
PayrollAdmin

Hand auditors your pay-element tax treatment in one export

  • Export how each pay element is treated for statutory purposes - the Pay elements export now adds a column per regulation (pension, income tax, social security and the like), each showing Yes, No or N/A, so you can review treatment offline or share it with auditors without copying it off the screen. ↗
Improvement
PayrollAdmin

Your custom reports always show the approved numbers

  • When you approve a continuous payroll, HRBlizz now regenerates every custom report already produced for that run (except Pending Inputs) - on first approval and on every re-approval after an unlock - so your reports always reflect the approved figures, with no list to rerun afterwards. ↗
Improvement
PlatformAdmin

The Integration view is now on for everyone

  • See every file arrive from your source systems in one place - the Inbound view covers every integration, operational and statutory. ↗
  • See every file that leaves after approval in one place - the Outbound view covers every integration, operational and statutory. ↗
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New feature
ReportsAdmin

Run gross-to-net reports across tax years, yourself

  • Produce a gross-to-net (G2N) report that spans two tax years yourself - pick any date range, even one crossing tax years (such as June 2025 to August 2026), and get a single consolidated report.
  • No more waiting on Mercans for cross-year figures - it's a report you now run on demand.
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New feature
PlatformAdmin

Give reporting-only users the access they need — nothing more

  • Let view-only people see payroll without the keys to run it - Viewer users can now open the Payroll tab and see results, reports and interface files, with no need to hand them the Manager role just to look. ↗
  • Keep reporting controlled - generating custom continuous-payroll reports now takes a higher role, so you grant exactly what each person needs. ↗
  • Manage access with confidence - roles are now complete, consistently named and the same everywhere you look, so you're never second-guessing who can do what. ↗
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Improvement
PayrollAdmin

Continuous payroll runs faster and smoother

  • Continuous payroll runs finish about 12% faster, and hold steadier on large payrolls. ↗
  • No more duplicate or conflicting calculations when data changes mid-run - the latest data is always picked up, and your reports and validations reflect it. ↗
  • Approving, locking and unlocking feel smooth and predictable - each action takes you straight to the right screen in one step. ↗
Improvement
PlatformAdmin

Smaller improvements across PAC

  • The PAC Dashboard opens and switches faster - no waiting for it to reload each time you move between views.
  • Currency-rate imports now tell you exactly why an upload failed, so you can fix it and move on instead of retrying blind. ↗
New feature
Core HR & ESSEmployee

Your documents, one click away

  • My Documents is now a dedicated item in the main ESS sidebar - your tax certificates, HR files and other documents are no longer buried under My Information sub-tabs.
  • Reach and download what you need in one click, straight from the sidebar - with country-level field-group settings still respected.
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Improvement
PlatformAdminEmployee

Small improvements that save you clicks across PAC

  • The payslip "Send to integration" tooltip now reflects the real state of the action - it previously showed even when payslips with an outbound configuration existed, which was misleading. You get a clearer, correct indication of when payslips can be sent to integration. ↗
  • Open a payroll from the Dashboard's payroll-runs card and land on the exact step you left off - continuous or batch - instead of the generic open-payrolls page. ↗
  • Keyboard handling is now consistent across overlays - Esc closes the topmost dialog, modal or drawer, and Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on Mac) runs its primary action, so you move through confirmations and forms faster, without reaching for the mouse.
New feature
ReportsIndiaAdmin

Get every employee on the right challan – without the manual grind

  • Assign employees to the right tax challan individually, or map large numbers at once with a bulk Excel upload - so each challan reports exactly the right people for Form 138.
  • A new Challan Data page gives bulk challan management a home - upload, validate, save, edit, download and delete challan records in one place.
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Improvement
ReportsAdmin

Reports that are both more complete and more correct

  • Report on dependent data straight from PAC - Dependent is now a selectable field when you generate the master-data report, so you no longer need Back Office to include it. ↗
  • Split reports now count records correctly per file - the footer total resets for each file instead of running on, preventing bank rejections and reconciliation mismatches on WPS / SIF files. ↗
  • Report status now reads correctly once a run is locked. ↗
Bug fix Priority fix
Core HR & ESSUAEAdmin

Right Education Allowance balances, every reset

  • Education Allowance balances now reset according to the entity's configuration - after August off-cycle claims, the September cycle previously showed incorrect remaining entitlement, remaining balance and "claimed so far". Entitlement, claimed and remaining figures are now correct from the reset period, so employees see the right balances. ↗
Improvement
PayrollAdmin

Handle pay-element changes yourself, right inside PAC

  • Reset a cumulative pay element (like the taxable-earnings tracker) to zero directly in PAC when a tax card changes - no more Back Office round-trip just to set a zero value. ↗
  • Imports now tell you when an amount was rounded - a clear "Amount automatically rounded to comply with country decimal regulations" message appears in the import result, across new-employee import, batch payroll inputs and continuous-payroll import. ↗
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New feature
PlatformAdmin

A dedicated role for managing connections

  • A new Connection Editor role lets you give the right people connection-editing access - and only that.
  • Assign it to whoever manages connections, without handing over broader permissions they don't need.
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Bug fix Priority fix
PlatformAdmin

Access Management filtering now returns the right results

  • Filtering the Access Management list by whether someone has a login credential now shows the right people - it previously matched on the wrong field and returned incorrect results. ↗
  • The underlying filter logic for "has / no login credential" has been corrected at the server level, so results are now accurate. ↗
  • Login-credential handling now behaves correctly across both the admin console and employee self-service. ↗
Improvement
PayrollAdmin

Less waiting at the end of a pay run

  • Download all of a run’s reports in one go, as a single ZIP, instead of one file at a time.
  • Daily auto-close now runs at 23:00 UTC instead of 01:00, so a same-day run isn't closed in the early hours.
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New feature
PayrollAdmin

Finish payroll your way, even after it’s closed

  • Send payslips to your connected systems even after a pay run is closed - no need to reopen the period to handle a late or repeat send.
  • Prepare and double-check your bank payment files before you approve, instead of only seeing them after.
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Bug fix Priority fix
PayrollAdmin

Reliability fixes for continuous payroll

  • Pay-group off-cycles can be created again on continuous-payroll entities — a validation error that returned a 400 and blocked off-cycle creation has been fixed. ↗
  • Employee inclusion is now reflected correctly once a retro off-cycle is closed — the run picks up the right employees and no longer errors. ↗
  • Continuous payrolls open when they should — a validation that wrongly warned employees were "already present in other continuous payrolls" no longer blocks a valid open. ↗

September Sep 2026

1 update
1
New feature
PlatformAdmin

Every integration, in one view

  • One screen for every feed, inbound and outbound, operational and statutory, each with a clear status and a Live/Down health signal.
  • Persist, reject, hold, retry, submit or exclude a file yourself.
  • A Status Log and detail drawer show exactly what happened, so you can diagnose without raising a ticket.
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August Aug 2026

1 update
1
New feature
Core HR & ESSAdmin

All employee requests, one screen. Finally.

  • Leave, Benefits & Expenses, Timesheet and Document requests now sit in one Workflow Requests screen in the Payroll Admin Console.
  • Filter by status and type, search by employee, and export any view to Excel in one click.
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July Jul 2026

1 update
1
New feature
PayrollAdmin

Instaroll: Continuous Payroll – the payroll run is now always-on

  • Calculation starts the moment the period opens and stays current in real time.
  • The multi-step run collapses into one place to review pay and a single action to finalise it.
  • Up to 60% less time spent processing a run, with no change to your compliance position.
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May May 2026

2 updates
1 1
New feature
Core HR & ESSIndiaAdminEmployee

Tax declarations and proofs, now fully inside HR Blizz for India

  • Employees declare investments and upload proofs directly in ESS.
  • Admins configure, audit and approve from a single dashboard, and every action is tied to TDS calculations automatically.
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Bug fix Priority fix
PlatformAdmin

Employee history Source column shows the real integration

  • Changes made through an integration showed the generic EIF token in the Source column. It now shows the actual integration file name, so audit trails can be followed end to end.
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April Apr 2026

3 updates
1 1 1
New feature
Core HR & ESSAdmin

Leave balance adjustments that explain themselves

  • Adjust leave balances at the component level.
  • Every change captures a reason, timestamp and source.
  • A single bulk upload carries both balance adjustments and leave-taken records.
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Bug fix Priority fix
ReportsAdmin

Pay group missing from report headers

  • System default and GLType report headers did not say which pay group a report covered.
  • The Pay Group field is now filled from the run and matches across on-screen, Excel and PDF outputs.
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Improvement
PlatformAdminEmployee

Log in once. Go straight to work.

  • After login, users go straight to their role-based landing page. The app and entity selection screens have been removed.
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March Mar 2026

3 updates
3
Improvement
ReportsIndiaAdmin

Review Form 24Q (Q4) data in a readable format

  • Download Form 24Q (Q4) data to Excel, organised across sheets for employee details, challans, deductions, salary and statutory sections.
  • Catch errors before generating the final submission file.
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Improvement
Core HR & ESSAdmin

Payslip filenames that match local requirements

  • Configure payslip filenames to include HR field values, such as employee tax IDs.
  • Files are named correctly at the point of generation.
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Improvement
ReportsAdmin

Run reports before payroll is closed

  • Generate reports as soon as a run reaches Result review, for main, off-cycle and correction runs.
  • Multi-run periods consolidate automatically.
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February Feb 2026

4 updates
3 1
New feature
PayrollAdmin

No employee left behind in payroll processing

  • Pay group assignments are validated before payroll progresses. An unmapped employee is flagged before it becomes a downstream problem.
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New feature
PayrollAdmin

Manage pay groups without a support ticket

  • Create pay groups and move employees between them directly in HR Blizz.
  • No support request needed, so structure changes happen on your schedule.
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New feature
PayrollAdmin

Rounding differences no longer delay month-end close

  • Rounding variances are allocated to a designated General Ledger account automatically, so journals stay balanced without anyone touching them.
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Improvement
Core HR & ESSAdmin

Employee change history, right where you need it

  • Change history is embedded in the employee profile and listing view.
  • One click shows what was updated, when it changed and who made the change.
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January Jan 2026

1 update
1
New feature
PayrollAdmin

Load loans, advances and recurring balances at once

  • The import template supports multiple pay elements per employee with opening balances.
  • Load a whole population's loans and recurring deductions in one upload.
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