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PrismHR March 2026 Release

Focus Areas: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality & Employee Experience

Get the full scoop on all the March enhancements!

The March 2026 Release is scheduled to be deployed on the following days: 3/26, 3/27. 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 December 2025, January 2026 and February 2026 releases.

March Release Highlights

Report Center: Operational Efficiency

Multi-Tenant Sharing: Share workbooks and bookmarks across tenants, allowing users to create content in one environment and securely share it with others. This permission based enhancement streamlines reporting for organizations with multiple environments and reduces duplicate setup.

Payroll & HR: Operational Efficiency, UI/UX

PTO Form Update: Enjoy a more consistent experience across the platform with the update from PTO Forms to the new “Time Off” terminology, creating clearer navigation and alignment with the updated workflow. Users can still search using the previous “PTO” term during the transition.

Benefits Administration & Enrollment: Operational Efficiency

New Offer Type: Group similar medical plans under a new single Additional Medical (MDA) offer type, making benefits enrollment easier to configure and manage with a prebuilt enrollment form available in the Workflow Library that supports single-plan selection and Primary Care Physician choice, streamlines workflows for service providers and keeps existing HSA integrations unchanged.

Communication Hub: Operational Efficiency, Employee Experience, UI/UX

Targeting Enhancement: Deliver more precise outreach by including client contacts—expanding campaigns beyond employees and segmenting recipients by Service Type (e.g., ASO vs. PEO) for more relevant, targeted communications.

API: Data Access

Payroll PDF Report Download: Enable users to download payroll reports as PDFs directly from Payroll History or from reports generated during payroll approval, providing quick access to payroll documentation when needed.

ClientSpace: Self-Service Functionality, Integrations, Data Access, Compliance, UI/UX

AI Email Templates: Create AI-powered email template content instantly using built-in generative tools that craft polished messages, support Replace Fields and enhanced formatting for dynamic personalization and help teams reduce drafting time while delivering consistent, ready-to-send communications.

PrismONE Mobile: Self-Service Functionality, Data Access

Push Notification History: View recent push notifications directly in PrismONE Mobile, giving employees quick access to alerts they previously missed on their lock screen.

New Performance Management: Employee Experience, Performance and Stability

Form Completion Milestone Component: Track form progress in a single snapshot, giving users clear visibility into which steps are complete, which remain outstanding and who completed each milestone—delivering greater transparency and confidence throughout the review process.

Applicant Tracking: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality, Employee Experience UI/UX

Unified Hiring Teams: Deliver a streamlined hiring experience with a single unified hiring team per requisition, clear role definitions for easier accountability and smarter candidate routing that helps the right team members receive assignments without overload.

COMPLIANCE & TAX

March Focus: Operational Efficiency, Compliance

Highlights

Garnishment Limits for Daily Pay Periods: Improve garnishment accuracy for daily pay cycles with enhanced withholding logic that prorates minimum net pay. The new “Number of Pay Periods” field adjusts limits based on actual daily periods. It also provides flexibility to define expected pay periods per week, helping to ensure accurate and compliant withholding across all pay frequencies.

State Minimum Salary Validation: Strengthen compliance and reduce payroll risk with automated validation that flags exempt employees falling below state salary thresholds, providing early soft‑warning alerts and simplifying review of varying requirements to support consistent, compliant pay practices.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

REPORT CENTER

March Focus: Operational Efficiency

Highlights

Multi-Tenant Sharing: Share workbooks and bookmarks across tenants, allowing users to create content in one environment and securely share it with others. This permission‑based enhancement streamlines reporting for organizations with multiple environments and reduces duplicate setup.

Pixel Perfect Reporting (Beta): Create presentation‑ready reports with precise layout control including dimensions, pagination and grouping directly from Report Center. Editors can now select Pixel Perfect when creating a new report for consistently polished up‑to‑date outputs now expanded to export PDFs up to 220 pages.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

PAYROLL & HR

March Focus: Operational Efficiency, UI/UX

Highlights

PTO Form Update: Enjoy a more consistent experience across the platform with the update from PTO Forms to the new “Time Off” terminology, creating clearer navigation and alignment with the updated workflow. Users can still search using the previous “PTO” term during the transition.

Scheduled Payment Warning: Get proactive alerts when terminating an employee with an active scheduled payment, helping ensure accurate final pay.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

PORTAL

March Focus: Operational Efficiency, Compliance

Highlights

Emergency Contact Updates for California Senate Bill 294: Enable California employees to designate an emergency contact to be notified if they are arrested or detained at work through a new toggle in Emergency Contacts. This selection is also visible to managers in Employee Details to support compliance.

Enhanced Dashboard Configuration: Provide greater flexibility with a drag‑and‑drop dashboard configuration now generally available in PrismHR Core on the Dashboard tab within Configuration Templates. This update allows deeper customization of the widgets that employees and managers see.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION & ENROLLMENT

March Focus: Operational Efficiency

Highlights

New Offer Type: Group similar medical plans under a new single Additional Medical (MDA) offer type, making benefits enrollment easier to configure and manage with a prebuilt enrollment form available in the Workflow Library that supports single-plan selection and Primary Care Physician choice, streamlines workflows for service providers and keeps existing HSA integrations unchanged.

Client Benefits Overview Enhancement: Improve usability with new columns including Section 125 Eligible, Deduction Code, Rebate Bill Code and Bill Code, along with updated row sorting. New filter options provide more precise control, including the ability to view retirement‑only benefit groups. A new reporting option also allows clients to run and export data directly from the form.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

CLIENTSPACE

March Focus: Self-Service Functionality, Integrations, Data Access, Compliance, UI/UX

Highlights

AI Email Templates: Create AI-powered email template content instantly using built-in generative tools that craft polished messages, support Replace Fields and enhanced formatting for dynamic personalization and help teams reduce drafting time while delivering consistent, ready-to-send communications.

Watch Items: Add notes to watched items to give teams clear context behind monitoring decisions, improve visibility directly within the Watch Widget and support smoother internal workflows by allowing users to view, add and edit notes whenever a watch item is updated.

Import Template: Generate Excel import templates automatically with a single click to ensure all required headers, field mappings and expected values are captured correctly from the start. This enhancement reduces errors, speeds up data preparation and improves accuracy across import workflows.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

ONBOARDING

March Focus: Compliance

Highlights

Emergency Contact Update for California Senate Bill 294: Enable California employees to designate an emergency contact to be notified if they are arrested or detained at work through a new toggle in Emergency Contacts. This selection is also visible to managers in Employee Details to support compliance.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

NEW PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

March Focus: Employee Experience, Performance and Stability

Highlights

Form Status Permissions: Strengthen form oversight by enhancing Form Status Permissions to clearly define and lock what users can do at each stage, helping ensure consistent workflows, reducing errors and maintaining compliance as forms move through their lifecycle

Form Completion Milestone Component: Track form progress in a single snapshot, giving users clear visibility into which steps are complete, which remain outstanding and who completed each milestone—delivering greater transparency and confidence throughout the review process.

Performance Optimization Improvements: Boost form performance with behind‑the‑scenes optimizations that significantly improve load times on the Overview and Final steps of forms, delivering a faster, smoother experience, especially for larger or more complex forms—so users stay focused and productive without unnecessary delays.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT

March Focus: Operational Efficiency, UI/UX

Highlights

Unified Employee Experience (UEX) Release for CRM Portal: Deliver a more consistent, intuitive experience in Workforce management CRM Portal with a new unified UX and UEX design. The updated interface makes it easier to create and manage Workforce Management accounts and add new time clocks and will be available in future releases.

Dynamic IP Address Support for Kiosk: Ensure reliable clock‑in access on networks with changing IP addresses. A wildcard character now authorizes a range of IPs, preventing unauthorized devices from clocking in and keeping Kiosk access consistent on devices that use dynamic IP ranges.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

API

March Focus: Integrations, Data Access

Highlights

Payroll Notes Enhancements: Enhance payroll workflows with new note‑taking options, including multi‑line notes and the ability to mark items as urgent. Prioritized notes and improved filtering provide faster access to the information teams need.

Payroll PDF Report Download: Enable users to download payroll reports as PDFs directly from Payroll History or from reports generated during payroll approval, providing quick access to payroll documentation when needed.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

PRISMONE MOBILE

March Focus: Self-Service Functionality, Data Access

Highlights

Push Notification History: View recent push notifications directly in PrismONE Mobile, giving employees quick access to alerts they previously missed on their lock screen.

Downloadable W-2s and Pay Stubs: Provide employees convenient access to their tax and payroll documents with the ability to download, print or share W‑2 and Pay Stub PDFs directly from their mobile device.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

COMMUNICATION HUB

March Focus: Operational Efficiency, Employee Experience

Highlights

Targeting Enhancement: Deliver more precise outreach by including client contacts—expanding campaigns beyond employees and segmenting recipients by Service Type (e.g., ASO vs. PEO) for more relevant, targeted communications.

Updated Campaign Dashboard: Improve visibility and management of active campaigns with updates to the main Campaign Dashboard, making it easier for users to review, track and manage campaigns at a glance.

Variable Support and Personalization: Add dynamic variables like ‘Employee Name’ to personalize messages in Communication Hub which helps you create more tailored, engaging communications with automated, individual‑specific details.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

APPLICANT TRACKING

March Focus: Operational Efficiency, Self-Service Functionality, Employee Experience

Highlights

Unified Hiring Teams: Streamline hiring with a single unified team per requisition, eliminating duplicate setup and confusion. Clear role designations help ensure everyone knows their responsibilities throughout the workflow. Enhanced routing lets clients choose who receives candidate assignments, balancing workloads and keeping steps moving.

 
For more information about these enhancements, check out the release notes.

Final release notes will be available at the time of the release in the Customer Resource Center.

The PrismHR Customer Support Team