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The April 2026 Release is scheduled to be deployed on 4/23 and 4/24. Each month we release new features and enhancements across the platform to help you compete, operate efficiently and expand opportunities to deliver value to your clients.
Check out recently delivered new functionality and enhancements in the January 2026, February 2026 and March 2026 releases.
Configurable Email Settings: Customize email address settings for all automated emails sent from Report Center. Built using the Communication Hub design framework, this enhancement delivers a more consistent experience across platforms while giving teams greater control and confidence in managing outbound communications.
Multiple Contact Types: Reduce contact record duplication and improve communication accuracy by allowing users to assign multiple contact types to a single contact, helping ensure the right stakeholders receive the right communications even when they hold multiple roles.
Benefit Salary in New Employee Import: Streamline new hire onboarding by helping ensure employees can proceed directly into benefit enrollment with the correct benefit salary, while reducing service provider effort by eliminating the need for multiple import steps.
Spouse Life Insurance Age Reduction: Align spouse coverage with age‑based life reductions, giving service providers greater flexibility in dependent life plan design. Configurable spouse schedules can mirror or diverge from employee reductions at milestone ages such as 65 and 70, using a coverage‑basis calculation to ensure accurate amounts while excluding Dependent Term Life and leaving child coverage unchanged.
Decision Support – Life Events: Enhance enrollment guidance and improve benefit decision making by extending Decision Support to Life Event workflows, enabling employees to receive guided recommendations when experiencing qualifying life events and helping them make informed benefit choices at key moments.
API Print Payroll: Automate end-to-end payroll processing by triggering Print Payroll directly through the PrismHR API, enabling programmatic payroll execution and reducing reliance on manual steps.
Emergency Contacts California (CA) 294: Maintain accurate “Contact if arrested or detained” information by including this field in all emergency contact update requests, helping ensure California specific data is consistently captured as omitted values will now be cleared by the API. This enhancement is supported only in the prismhr-api version and reinforces consistent handling of state specific requirements while highlighting the need to upgrade ahead of the version 1.30 sunset in June 2027.
Organization API: Increase implementation speed and reduce manual setup effort by enabling workspace creation directly in Client or Implementation status via the Organization POST API. This aligns API behavior with UI workflows and supports scalable, API-driven organization setup.
Expired Benefits – New Scheduled Process: Improve data accuracy and reduce manual cleanup by automatically inactivating expired benefit batches and plans. This helps ensure users only interact with current, valid benefit options while improving system reliability.
Feedback in Performance Forms: Streamline usability and reduce friction in performance submissions by simplifying feedback entry, removing unnecessary actions and refining validation rules to create a clearer Save and Submit experience.
Talent Dashboard – Items Due Widget: Improve performance tracking and accountability by consolidating all due and overdue items into a single dashboard widget, When Are Items Due? with enhanced visibility, filtering and export capabilities.
Form Types: Standardize performance processes and improve consistency across templates by replacing Template Categories with a default Form Type and {FormType} merge field that enable dynamic labeling and unified terminology across the system.
Custom Hiring Workflows: Define how candidates move through the hiring process from application to hire or rejection using configurable statuses and stages that reflect real world recruiting practices. Teams can control which steps appear, set the order of the process, reuse standardized workflows across jobs and adjust workflows at the requisition level when needed. This ensures hiring workflows align to job type, business rules and compliance needs while maintaining consistency and flexibility across the ATS.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, Compliance
Illinois & California Contractor Pay Data Updates: Improve submission accuracy and reduce manual compliance effort by refreshing Illinois and California pay data templates to help ensure more consistent and reliable reporting, supporting more efficient state‑specific reporting requirements.
PrismHR Tax – Client Agency Setup Enhancements: Simplify and tighten tax configuration management by enabling suppression of individual tax deduction setup records within PrismHR Tax agency setup files, reducing clutter in client agency configurations.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality
Configurable Email Settings: Customize email address settings for all automated emails sent from Report Center. Built using Communication Hub design framework, this enhancement delivers a more consistent experience across platforms while giving teams greater control and confidence in managing outbound communications.
New Formats for Scheduled Reports: Gain greater flexibility in how reports are shared, consumed and integrated across workflows and systems with support for additional output formats, including PDF, PNG and JSON.
Data Model Migration: Enable future reporting capabilities and more powerful data access by transitioning from Core PrismHR datasets to Report Center data models, supporting upcoming Q3 reporting features and unlocking outward API usage along with metadata storage required for features like Data Locator.
Core PrismHR Migration: Streamline and centralize the reporting experience by continuing to migrate Worksite Manager–facing reports from Core PrismHR into Report Center, reducing reliance on legacy systems and consolidating reporting into a modern, unified platform.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency
Multiple Contact Types: Reduce contact record duplication and improve communication accuracy by allowing users to assign multiple contact types to a single contact, helping ensure the right stakeholders receive the right communications even when they hold multiple roles.
Benefit Salary in New Employee Import: Streamline new hire onboarding by helping ensure employees can proceed directly into benefit enrollment with the correct benefit salary, while reducing service provider effort by eliminating the need for multiple import steps.
PTO to Time Off Terminology: Improve user clarity and deliver a consistent platform experience by standardizing all PTO forms to use “Time Off” terminology across the system, helping ensure terminology alignment and continuity throughout workflows.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Integrations, Security
New Hire Dashboard Data Security: Strengthen data protection and help ensure appropriate visibility by applying PrismHR security functionality to the New Hire Dashboard so managers only access new hire information aligned to their permissions while maintaining visibility where it matters most.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality, Employee Experience, Integrations
Spouse Life Insurance Age Reduction: Align spouse coverage with age‑based life reductions beginning in April, giving service providers greater flexibility in dependent life plan design. Configurable spouse schedules can mirror or diverge from employee reductions at milestone ages such as 65 and 70, using a coverage‑basis calculation to help ensure accurate amounts while excluding Dependent Term Life and leaving child coverage unchanged.
Cafeteria Plan Contribution Visibility: Improve accuracy and visibility when overriding Cafeteria Plan contributions by displaying Benefit Group defined values in a read only format within Employee Benefits Enrollment under Action Menu CAFE Contribution, allowing users to clearly reference baseline contribution values while making adjustments.
Decision Support – Life Events: Enhance enrollment guidance and improve benefit decision making by extending Decision Support to Life Event workflows, enabling employees to receive guided recommendations when experiencing qualifying life events and helping them make informed benefit choices at key moments.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, Performance and Stability, Data Access
Organization API: Increase implementation speed and reduce manual setup effort by enabling workspace creation directly in Client or Implementation status via the Organization POST API. This aligns API behavior with UI workflows and supports scalable, API-driven organization setup.
Expired Benefits – New Scheduled Process: Safeguard system reliability and data integrity by automatically inactivating expired benefit batches and plans. This helps ensure users only interact with current, valid benefit options while improving system reliability.
Backup and Restore Import Configurations: Simplify configuration management and accelerate implementations by enabling backup, cloning and restoration of import map configurations across environments. Restored maps default to inactive status for controlled activation and governance.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Employee Experience
Feedback in Performance Forms: Streamline usability and reduce friction in performance submissions by simplifying feedback entry, removing unnecessary actions and refining validation rules to create a clearer Save and Submit experience.
Talent Dashboard: Items Due Widget: Improve performance tracking and accountability by consolidating all due and overdue items into a single dashboard widget, When Are Items Due? with enhanced visibility, filtering and export capabilities.
Form Types: Standardize performance processes and improve consistency across templates by replacing Template Categories with a default Form Type and {FormType} merge field that enable dynamic labeling and unified terminology across the system.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality
Client Account Cloning for Faster Setup: Accelerate client onboarding by enabling configuration cloning from existing accounts, reducing repetitive setup steps while maintaining flexibility to exclude specific features as needed. (Available to CRM Service Provider Portal users only.)
Employee PTO Calendar View: Optimize scheduling and coverage planning through a flexible PTO calendar that offers multiple viewing options (daily, weekly, two-week and monthly) along with a list view, giving employees clearer visibility into their own past and upcoming time off. When enabled, employees can also view approved PTO for coworkers at the same location, helping support better coordination and scheduling.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Self-Service Functionality, Employee Experience
Viewing Past Push Notifications: Improve message retention and accessibility by allowing employees to view previously sent push notifications directly within the mobile app.
Download, Print and Save PDF Documents: Enhance mobile self-service capabilities by enabling employees to download, print and share important documents such as W-2s and paystubs directly from the app.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, UI/UX
Image Size Warning: Display a clear warning when uploaded images exceed the 30KB size limit, helping users identify and correct issues before submission.
Redesigned Activity Details: Navigate activity information faster with clearer structure that surfaces issues quickly and provides direct access to related documents, helping clients take action with less friction and greater confidence.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality, UI/UX
Custom Hiring Workflows: Drive hiring consistency and alignment to real-world recruiting by defining candidate progression from application through hire or rejection using configurable statuses and stages. Teams can control step order, reuse standardized workflows across jobs and make requisition-level adjustments when needed. This helps ensure hiring processes align to job type, business rules and compliance requirements while maintaining flexibility and consistency across the ATS.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
April Focus: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality
API Print Payroll: Automate end to end payroll processing by triggering Print Payroll directly through the PrismHR API, enabling programmatic payroll execution and reducing reliance on manual steps.
Emergency Contacts California (CA) 294: Maintain accurate “Contact if arrested or detained” information by including this field in all emergency contact update requests, ensuring California specific data is consistently captured as omitted values will now be cleared by the API. This enhancement is supported only in the prismhr-api version and reinforces consistent handling of state specific requirements while highlighting the need to upgrade ahead of the version 1.30 sunset in June 2027.
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.
