What's New in Zelt - Jan 2026

We’ve added more granular controls over what employees can see about each other in Zelt.

Previously, employee profiles had an “assumed” public view, similar to a business card, which included information such as role, reporting lines, start date, work email, office location, and department.

With this update, each of these profile sections now has its own read permission. This allows companies to decide exactly which information is visible and tailor access based on their internal policies.

To prevent any unwanted details from being shown by default, we’ve taken a more restrictive approach and removed read access to:

Schedule Visibility Controls You can now grant team members view-only access to schedules without edit permissions. This is particularly valuable for operational leaders who need visibility into rotas for planning purposes but should not modify shift assignments. Users with read-only access can inspect shift details and export schedules whilst all editing capabilities remain restricted to attendance administrators.

Improved Timesheet Navigation Employees can now preview their upcoming schedule directly within the Timesheets view, eliminating the need to navigate back to the Dashboard to check their rota. This streamlines the timesheet submission process by providing immediate schedule context when reviewing hours worked.

Partner API Attendance Import Organisations using external workforce management systems can now programmatically submit attendance entries through the Partner API. This enables automated synchronisation of time tracking data from third-party platforms (for example a Clock-in Terminal), reducing manual data entry and improving payroll accuracy. You can read more about this functionality in Zelt's API Documentation.

Enhanced Number Formatting in Rota Targets Schedule targets now display with a thousands separators and decimal precision, making large hour totals easier to read at a glance.

Abandoned Shifts Employees who forgot to clock out will automatically receive and email and a mobile push-notification. The setting for clock-out window can be defined in Attendance Schedule settings, under Tracking. Read more about automatic clock-out here.

Anonymous Feedback Controls When peer feedback is set to "Author Hidden", managers and administrators can now temporarily reveal the author's identity when needed for context, whilst the system automatically returns to concealed presentation upon page reload. This preserves confidentiality during employee-present reviews whilst providing necessary administrative context. Anonymous feedback now includes a visual indicator for consistency, and terminology has been simplified throughout the interface for clarity. Read more about this functionality here.

Instant Score Display Performance scores now appear immediately when accessing results pages for all employees, making it very clear for Cycle Managers and HR teams to see how the review cycle is progressing and how the performance compares across participants.

Goal Visibility in Manager Reviews Managers gain a stronger sense of progress with Goal overview available directly in the performance review form. See co

Goals Duplication For teams that set monthly or quarterly goals, now duplication is available to speed up the process of creating identical repeating goals for your teams. To learn more about Goals, read here.

Expanded Action Items on Android Managers and Employees can now complete a wide range of approval tasks directly within the Android app, including benefit requests, invoices, attendance approvals, and document signing.

Better Overnight Shift Tracking The mobile clock-in system now validates and records shifts that span midnight, ensuring accurate logging for night-shift employees.

Rota Shift Job Names in Reports Custom reports incorporating shift data now include job names, providing essential context when analysing schedule patterns, labour costs, or attendance trends across different job types.

Custom fields for historical reports For historical changes, custom fields are now captured as well. For example if you are using custom fields for Role profile sections, disabling "Effective record only" in Report settings will show historical values for custom fields as well.

Payroll Exports Payroll exports now consistently use Employee identifiers as well as Payroll identifies ensuring alignment with internal records and simplifying cross-report analysis.

Expense Vendor Tracking A new optional "Spent at" field has been added to expense entries, allowing employees to capture vendor information for improved expense tracking and reporting.

Absence Policy Change Tracking All modifications to absence policies are now logged in the audit trail, providing complete visibility into policy changes for compliance and governance purposes.

Manager Benefits Approval Workflow Managers can successfully approve or reject benefit requests for recurring benefits and loans from their direct reports.

Displaying Notes for Benefits Payroll teams and Benefit administrators can now gain more context about benefit memberships for their staff using benefit notes. This data is visible in the benefits pages as well as reports.

Notifications for Tasks You can now adjust the frequency of overdue task reminders for the team. This is now a setting in Company Notification preferences.

Granular Scope Control Additional read-only rights have been added for employee's experience to allow to greater control and customisation, according to company policies. For example, all personal and work-related data can now be hidden from standard employees.

Order of signatories for e-contracts Add up to 5 signatories to the contract and set the order of signatures.

Balances "As of" View team's absence balances as of a particular date. This allows more elevated reporting for audits or budget planning.

Editability of Payroll-related Absences Locked absences that have been included in payroll will become editable to allow payroll managers and administrators to make changes post-payment.