Changelog

October 2026

5 October - the second batch for employers, and three things the law changed

• Four guides: employer duties by number of employees (what starts at 1, 5, 10, 20, 21, 50 and 250), RIDDOR reporting, how to run a workplace investigation and giving references.
• Six templates: an employee privacy notice, an equal opportunities policy, a whistleblowing policy, a DSE workstation checklist, an appraisal form and a supplier register.
• Three comparisons, each written from the other vendor's own published prices and terms: BrightHR, Employment Hero and Factorial. Each says what the other product does that CoDash does not.
• Three changes in the law, now reflected: DBS fees fell today to £20 and £41, and our three DBS guides show the new figures with the old ones beside them. Since 19 June a privacy notice must tell people they can complain to you first. And since 30 September the data protection regulator is the Information Commission.
• The three handbooks now download as PDFs, and seven template PDFs whose long titles ran off the page have been rebuilt.
• Seven older comparisons rewritten from each vendor's own site as it stands today - Breathe, Charlie HR, Access PeopleHR, Sage HR, BambooHR, Personio and HiBob - with real prices, contract terms and a plain statement of what each does that we do not.
• A correction: our Breathe pricing page priced Breathe's add-ons for a 30-person company at its 1-10 employee rate, and said Breathe had no performance features. Both were wrong. Its appraisals and objectives are in every plan, and the add-on prices now shown are the ones for each plan size.
• New template: a record of processing activities, as a CSV with the HR rows filled in.

4 October - a front door for employers

• New section: for employers - every handbook, guide, template and calculator organised by the job in front of you, from policies and hiring to safety, records and the asset list. CoDash is short for company dashboard, so it is not only HR.
• Three handbooks: an employee handbook template in fourteen sections, the HR policies the law actually requires (the list is shorter than most say), and health and safety for small businesses with every threshold and deadline sourced.
• Five templates: a disciplinary policy, a code of conduct, a health and safety policy, a hybrid working policy and a company asset register.
• Three guides written from the employer's side: TOIL rules, changing shifts and an offboarding checklist.
• A fix we should have caught sooner: on a phone, pages containing a table had their text cut off at the right-hand edge. They now fit the screen, and the table scrolls on its own.

September 2026

14 September - the salary sacrifice sum, and the sick pay answer

• New calculator: salary sacrifice - what it saves the employer at 15% employer National Insurance, what it costs the employee in take-home, and what the £2,000 limit arriving on 6 April 2029 does to both. It also checks the arrangement against the minimum wage floor, which is the compliance trap. Calculator number 27.
• New guide: company sick pay - the four decisions a scheme makes, whether it absorbs SSP or sits on top, and the discretion that hardens into a contractual term. It says plainly that no official benchmark for a "typical" scheme exists, rather than quoting one. Guide number 72.
• New template: the sickness absence policy - eleven clauses covering reporting, certification, sick pay, keeping in touch, return to work and triggers, with a clause listing the absences that must never count towards one. Template number 33.
• Every page now has its own social card rather than one shared image, the changelog has a feed, and FAQ structured data now matches the visible questions on every page.

6 September - the rest-rule warning we promised

• The rota builder now flags gaps under the 11-hour daily rest rule - amber on the draft grid, itemised at publish, week boundaries included. It warns rather than blocks: the regulations carry exceptions software shouldn't adjudicate. We said this would land in the changelog before the feature list; here it is.

2 September - two plans, everything in Core

• New pricing: Core at £99/month and Pro at £199/month, each including your first 20 people, then a flat £2.50 or £4 per employee. Everything is in Core - performance, surveys, learning and the AI coach are no longer gated; Pro adds IT controls (SSO, API, custom roles, 4-hour support).
• The terms went on the page too: archived leavers never bill, prorated both directions, no bands or cliffs, a 24-month rate lock, and a public calculator instead of "contact us".
• Prices are now quoted ex-VAT (nothing is added today - we say so plainly on the page). The founding offer stays as it was: 30% off for 12 months for the first 20 companies.

2 September - rotas get their own page, and the demo shows them off

• New product page: time & attendance - the rota builder, self-closing clock-ins and the overtime payout flow, including an honest section on what it doesn't do yet (rest-rule warnings are on the roadmap, not the feature list).
• The live demo now runs a published Sales rota with overtime mid-flight, so you can try the whole flow - we also fixed the nightly reset that had been quietly wiping several demo features each morning.

2 September - the checks that protect you

• New template: the right to work check checklist - the three check routes, the 2-year retention rule and the follow-up dates that must not slip. Verified against gov.uk, including the up-to-£60,000 civil penalty it exists to prevent. Template number 32.
• New calculator: the unfair dismissal basic award - age multipliers, the £751 cap, and an honest note on why the uncapped compensatory award now matters more. Calculator number 26.
• The statutory pay reclaim guide now spells out that paternity, shared parental, adoption, neonatal and bereavement pay all recover through the same 92%/109% mechanism.

August 2026

31 August - the grievance nobody writes about

• New guide: A grievance against a manager or colleague - who can fairly hear it, what the accused person is told, and a section most guidance forgets: what to do if the grievance names you. Guide number 71.
• Sharper titles where search data showed the gap: the employee cost calculator, gross misconduct, and the holiday purchase calculator (now covering buy-back).

31 August - primary-source statistics and a new calculator

• New guide: UK employment tribunal statistics - the MoJ figures with sources: single claims up 39% in a year, a 531,000-claim open caseload. Guide number 69.
• New guide: UK staff turnover statistics - every figure traced to a primary source, and the famous "15% average" called what it is: untraceable. Guide number 70.
• New calculator: holiday accrual - the 1⁄12th-a-month sum for starters and part-timers, minus days taken. Calculator number 25.

31 August - the buyer's guide we wish existed when we were buyers

• New guide: How to choose HR software - the requirements checklist, the questions vendors hope you skip (including "what happens if you shut down?", which we answer in our own contract), and an honest section on when not to buy at all. Guide number 67.
• New guide: Switching HR software - the export test, the parallel-run month and the cut-over checklist. Guide number 68.
• New template: the HR software requirements checklist - the buying checklist as a free download, exit questions included. Template number 31, and like all of them: no email address asked for.

22 August - a guide for the top of the house

• New guide: The HR board report - the five numbers a board actually uses, the risk section most packs miss, and why individual-level data should never appear in one. Guide number 66.

18 August - succession planning, done carefully

• A 9-box succession grid (performance against potential) for managers and HR - seeded with a suggestion from each person's last shared review, placed with a click, every placement audited.
• Built with the privacy model the rest of CoDash uses: people are never shown their own placement, it stays off profiles, and it is deliberately excluded from subject-access bundles under the management-planning exemption - a call HR makes on request, not one the software pre-empts.

20 August - a sectors page, honestly written

• All fourteen sector guides are now live from the sectors page - each one names which features carry the weight in that industry, and each says plainly what stays in your ops stack instead. The manufacturing guide states outright that the rota doesn't check rest gaps yet.
• The first two sector guides went live earlier the same day: digital and design agencies and recruitment companies - each naming what carries the weight and what we deliberately don't do.
• A new /sectors page maps CoDash to fourteen industries - which features carry the weight in each, including what we deliberately don't do (billable time, commission schemes). One product, not forked per sector; deeper sector guides will follow.

19 August - overtime lands where the money is

• The Accounts view gains an Overtime tab: approved pay-flagged overtime with server-computed weighted hours, a payroll-ready CSV, mark-as-paid, and a paid history for reconciliation. Managers still approve; finance settles - the same split expenses already had.

18 August - the app got faster between the clicks

• Most pages now serve from a short-lived cache when you hop between tabs, refreshing quietly in the background - about a hundred fetch-on-every-visit calls became cached queries. Same data, less waiting.

18 August - announcements that reach their audience

• Announcements can now target a department or location, not just teams - resolved to the same visibility rules the rest of the app uses.
• Acknowledgement-required announcements notify their audience on publish rather than waiting to be scrolled past, and the author can chase everyone still outstanding with one tap - throttled to once a day, because nagging is a policy decision, not an accident.

18 August - a calendar answer, and the receipts page itself

• This changelog. New vendors owe you proof of momentum; here it is.
• Calendar page now explains how to see your CoDash leave and events in Google or Outlook - the subscribe feed was always there, now it's findable.

18 August - navigation polish and a labelling pass

• The HR Area reorganised around how an HR manager actually works: compliance registers split from safety and workplace records, money configuration in one place, daily queues ahead of set-up-once lists.
• Every form control in the app now carries a proper accessible label - 632 of them - so screen readers, password managers and autofill all behave.
• Admin console reordered to match the setup journey; consistent Title Case across all navigation.

17 August - one definition of who manages whom

• Visibility for senior managers now cascades down the team tree on every surface - goals, 1:1s, timesheets, overtime, onboarding, assets and more - exactly as it already did for leave and expenses. One rule, applied everywhere, pinned by tests.
• Support tickets became a real two-way conversation: replies land in the app with the full thread, and email is just the nudge.

14-16 August - the self-serve pipeline

• Buying CoDash now provisions your instance automatically after checkout - your own database, subdomain and starter defaults, no waiting on us.
• Post Studio: branded social-graphic templates for announcements and hiring posts.

6-10 August - the HR-manager batch

• Employee-relations register, family-leave planner, fit-note tracking and leave year-end tools.
• Half days pick morning or afternoon and render as split calendar cells; sickness alerts the manager.
• Overtime became its own module: submit extra hours, approve as TOIL or flag for payroll, with pay multipliers.
• Hiring got its own section - openings, candidate threads, and a public apply page where candidates never create an account.
• Notification emails rebuilt: informative bodies, key-facts panels, and deep links that land you on the right tab.
• A first sign-in wizard replaces the cold-start dashboard.
• Leave engine understands working patterns: non-working days charge nothing; absence rates weight by FTE.

July 2026

28-31 July - performance, attendance, expenses

• Performance module: goals and OKRs, 1:1s with shared agendas, review cycles with templates and 360 feedback.
• Approval workflows with delegation windows; Bradford Factor, return-to-work interviews, TOIL and sabbaticals.
• Time and attendance with clock in/out; expenses with receipts, HMRC mileage and accounting export.
• Anonymous survey builder, gated by the same k-anonymity rules as everything else.

22-27 July - the foundations

• People directory with tiered profile visibility, org chart, and a team absence calendar.
• Community feed with kudos, celebrations, polls and threaded comments; private mood check-ins with k-anonymous team aggregates.
• Documents with read-acknowledgement, right-to-work register, audit trail and a who-accessed-my-record panel for every employee.
• Complete leave engine: per-type rules, half days, pro-rata, coverage checks.
• Two-factor authentication, session security, nightly encrypted backups, GDPR tooling (subject-access export, anonymise-on-exit, retention purge).

Entries are distilled from the real build log - the small fixes between them number in the hundreds. If something here matters to your evaluation, ask us about it and we'll show you it working in the demo.