Your feedback continues to drive meaningful improvements across the Humanforce HR platform. This month, we’ve delivered a series of updates designed to make onboarding smoother, contract generation more flexible, and the platform more intuitive and aligned to the way your teams work.

In July, we introduced improvements to contract templates and signature formatting, refreshed the look and feel of qualifications and issued tasks, and made a series of usability and design improvements across the platform.

Here’s what's new:

Feature Updates

Custom Contract Template Variables
You can now create your own custom variables in contract templates for details you don’t need on the employee profile, such as an onboarding buddy’s name or a meeting point. Simply wrap your variable in curly brackets (e.g. {OnboardingBuddyName}) and customise as needed.

Visit the Use Custom Variables in Contracts help article to learn more.

Time and Date Stamp on Printed Contracts
We’ve added time and date stamps to printed contract signatures. Previously only visible in-platform, this data is now included in downloaded or printed versions, even for historical contracts.

New Qualification UI
We’ve refreshed the Qualifications interface with a modern, streamlined design, making it faster and easier to submit and manage qualifications.

The improved layout reduces the number of clicks needed, helping you get tasks done more efficiently. Based on your feedback, we've also brought back drag and drop document uploads for a smoother, more intuitive experience.

We're continuing to collect and prioritise your feedback, so please keep them coming via Help & Support > Product Feedback.

Issued Tasks – Design Improvements
We’ve made visual enhancements to issued tasks, improving formatting consistency (spacing and indentation) and updating the top-of-page layout to better highlight subject, respondent, issue date, and due date.

Issue Onboarding – UI Enhancements
The issue onboarding screen has been updated for improved clarity and usability, making the steps and required actions easier to follow for new starters.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Job Approvals with Duplicate Approvers: Fixed an issue where approval actions displayed incorrectly when the same person appeared multiple times in the chain (e.g. when they are both a supervisor and business unit rep).
• Bulk User Account Issuing: Resolved issues where selecting users across multiple pages didn’t work as expected.
• Onboarding Address Display: Fixed a display issue where the address type was incorrectly shown as “Postal” instead of “Home”. The data was stored correctly and now shows as intended.
• SuperAPI Onboarding: Where super fund data is being processed, we now display bank and tax details immediately. A long-term UI improvement is also planned to advise users of progress and what the user can expect.