From the comfort of pumpkin spice and rain-soaked evenings, we transition into the next magical season. While the weather shifted, Planday's focus remained constant: making shift work more human and continuously enriching your workspace so you and your teams can thrive.

Here is what's been cooking this autumn in Planday (and what's yet to come) – let's dive straight into it.

Your feedback is at the heart of everything we build, and this time is no exception. Today we’re excited to show you the result of one of your most popular suggestions, Payroll Targets.

With the new addition to the Payroll Target feature, it’s easier for you and your team to keep payroll costs under control. While you can still choose to work with labour costs as a percentage of revenue, now you can also set fixed monetary payroll targets.

This adds more predictability on how you keep track of your budget. It means fewer unexpected expenses and no more last-minute rota changes, giving you confident control over your spending.

With Payroll Target, you’ll always know where your labour costs stand, no matter how revenue changes.

Getting started with Payroll Target:

Next stop: Scheduling.

We’ve been revamping the scheduling interface in the Planday App to make everything feel more intuitive, especially when decisions need to be made in the moment – without missing a single detail, across Employees, Groups or Positions schedule views.

And we’re not stopping here – even more improvements in the App are coming soon to take your scheduling experience to the next level 👀

Because life doesn’t always stick to the plan – but your schedule still can. With these improvements, you can stay on top of your team, your shifts and your business, wherever work takes you 📲

The interface improvements extend to your web version, so you have a unified experience across all your devices. We've been refining your scheduling view to be more intuitive and customisable across all schedule views – Employees, Employee groups, and coming soon Positions.

In the upcoming update, you will get instant clarity with personalised colour choices for your Positions view, alongside other improvements designed to make your schedule flow perfectly.

We've improved the labels in payroll reports for easier navigation and understanding, while leaving the core reporting process unchanged.

Seamlessly customise your reports with the updated Report format set-up (formerly known as Payroll Prints).

All of this is complemented by general improvements across the platform – with a faster and more stable interface that sets you going through everyday tasks with maximum ease and confidence, across Web and App.

As we continue building on these enhancements, we’d love your help in shaping what comes next. Your feedback already plays an important part in how we improve Planday, but what if you could have an even closer seat at the table?

Join the Planday panel to help steer selected initiatives, be the first to test our prototypes and share your feedback directly with our product teams.

As a Planday Panel member, you will receive exclusive invitations to research activities, like prototype testing interviews and surveys, so you can get a first look at the upcoming features and a direct input into their development.