Deel Release Notes

DEEL NEWS

HR: Smarter Planning, Faster Answers!

Q1 planning is already underway. These updates give you clearer visibility into your workforce and remove manual admin from verification requests, onboarding, and follow-ups.

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Salary Budgets 2.0: Planning compensation cycles is now more flexible, and far less manual. With Salary Budgets 2.0, you can configure budgets top-down to assign fixed pots to managers, or bottom-up to calculate totals based on worker data. The system handles the math automatically, eliminating spreadsheet errors and giving you a clear, real-time view of your Q1 spend.

Integrated Learning with OpenSesame: Level up your team’s skills without the administrative headache. You can now sync your OpenSesame library directly into Deel Engage, unlocking instant access to over 50,000 curated courses. From leadership training to compliance checks, employees can access world-class learning content right within their existing workflow.

Flexible Probation: Local labor laws don't always fit into neat monthly boxes. That’s why we’ve added more precision to contract creation for EOR. You can now define probation and notice periods in specific time units, like weeks or days, instead of just months. This ensures your contracts align perfectly with local policy requirements, keeping you compliant without requiring manual workarounds.

Mandatory Onboarding Gating: Stop chasing contractors for missing ID scans or certifications after they’ve already started. You can now configure workflows that lock contract signatures until all mandatory onboarding steps are 100% complete. This automated gatekeeping ensures every new file is compliant from Day 1, saving your team hours of follow-up emails.

AI Employment Letters: Free your HR team from the repetitive task of writing proof-of-employment letters. Deel EOR employees can now self-serve compliant, personalized Verification Letters (EVLs) instantly from their dashboard. Whether they need it for a lease or a loan, they get the documents they need immediately, and you get time back in your day.

Other Notable Enhancements

• Smarter AI Experience: We’ve upgraded the Deel AI ecosystem with a refined "Build Your Own Agent" workflow, a polished Agent interface, and a new context-aware Assistant that offers prompts based on the page you are viewing.
• Customizable Org Chart Cards: You can now customize exactly which fields (like location, job title, or department) appear on employee cards in your Org Chart, keeping the view clean and relevant.
• Last Day of Work Trigger: Trigger offboarding workflows based on the actual last day of work, rather than just the contract end date.
• Automated Re-Hiring: The system now automatically triggers a re-hire event when your HRIS sends an "Active" status for a previously terminated worker.
• See Workflow Creators: Admins can now filter the Workflow Builder by "Creator" to easily audit who set up which automation.
• Redesigned Documents Tab: A cleaner, tabular interface for managing employee documents makes files easier to find and organize.

Finance & Payroll: Precision and Speed for Year-End

Closing the year requires precision. We’ve added tools to automate tax compliance and sync data to your ledger more quickly, so you don’t have to wait for the next cycle to gain clarity.

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Real-Time Invoice Sync: Speed up your month-end close and get better visibility into your cash flow. You can now sync invoices to NetSuite, Xero, or SAP the moment they are created, rather than waiting for the payment cycle to finalize. This gives your Finance team immediate insight into upcoming liabilities, allowing for faster reconciliation and smarter cash management.

Automated Talent Invoicing: We’ve removed the manual math from hiring via Deel Talent. The system now automates invoicing calculations for every new hire, ensuring your billing is accurate and timely. This minimizes the risk of human error during data entry and streamlines your accounts payable process, so you can focus on talent strategy instead of spreadsheet corrections.

Other Notable Enhancements

• Streamlined NetSuite Setup: Add new entities to your NetSuite integration without needing to re-authenticate the entire connection.
• Equity Compliance Flags: The Workers Overview now automatically flags "Compliance Risk" for externally imported equity grants so you can take timely action.
• AI Expense Compliance: AI now offers real-time feedback during expense submission to catch policy issues before they reach the approver.
• Bulk VAT Upload: Upload tax info for multiple contractors via CSV to streamline invoicing setup.
• Instant Withdrawals (Colombia): Cash flow matters to your contractors. We’ve integrated with the Bre-B payment system to offer instant withdrawals for contractors in Colombia.

IT & Platform: High-Stakes Alerts

As your security perimeter grows, you need faster signals. This month, we added real-time SMS alerts for critical events, helping you stay ahead of security risks even when you’re away from your desk.

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SMS Notifications: When security is at risk, email isn't fast enough. You can now enable SMS Notifications for high-stakes events like security alerts, payout failures, or fraud warnings. This ensures you and your employees receive critical information instantly, even when away from a desk, allowing for faster reaction times when it matters most.

SSO for Extended Leave: Improve your security hygiene without burdening your admins. You can now configure specific Single Sign-On (SSO) rules for users on long-term leave. This allows you to automatically restrict or modify access for employees who are away, ensuring your perimeter stays secure while maintaining a smooth re-entry process when they return.

Child Org Feature Management: Managing complex corporate structures just got easier. Parent organizations can now toggle feature visibility, like specific modules or tools, for their child entities independently. This gives you granular control to customize the platform experience for different subsidiaries or branches without affecting settings for the entire group.

Other Notable Enhancements

• Asset Command: We've strengthened Deel IT with comprehensive asset visibility (including items in transit), a simplified MDM activation flow, and a new flexible per-seat billing model.
• Advanced Notifications Hub: A new inbox with intelligent grouping and filtering to declutter your platform alerts.
• Group-Based API Tokens: Assign API tokens to specific groups instead of organization-wide for tighter security scopes.
• Consolidated Email Notifications: We now bundle multiple updates into a single digest to reduce inbox noise.

2025 in Review: 1,624 Ways We Evolved

December isn't just about closing the books before the holiday rush; it's about stepping back to reflect on the scale of what we built together.

This year, our engineering team released 1,624 product updates, roughly 4.4 improvements every single day. We didn't just build features in a vacuum; we built them to help you scale. Here’s what that velocity looks like in practice:

• For People Leaders: We released 206 Core HR Updates and 153 Onboarding Enhancements, helping you relocate over 17,000 people and pay 1 million workers on time.
• For Payroll/Finance Teams: We shipped 117 Fintech Innovations and processed $20 Billion in payroll, giving you the tools to pay teams in 114 local currencies and over $250 Million in crypto.
• For IT Leaders: We secured your perimeter with 157 Connectivity Updates and shipped 40,000+ devices globally through Deel IT without you ever visiting a post office.

One Last Thing: Your cheat sheet for product updates

We know that staying on top of 1,600+ updates can feel overwhelming. That’s why we introduced the Centralized Changelog in your Knowledge Hub back in October. If you haven't checked it recently, consider this your reminder. It’s your dedicated home to filter releases by product and catch up on anything you might have missed without digging through emails.

Next steps: Bookmark the changelog in your Knowledge Hub to stay ahead of the curve.

Ready for 2026? 1,624 updates is a lot. But we're just getting started. As we head into the new year, our promise remains the same: We will keep moving as fast as you do.

To our clients, partners, and the entire global workforce: Thank you for building with us in 2025.

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Deel real-time payroll processing expansion

Deel real-time payroll processing has recently expanded to Australia, India, Singapore, and Malaysia. We’ve integrated our Global Payroll solution with a single, native engine to bring you instant payroll calculations and lightning-fast payroll processing.

Since our acquisition of PaySpace in March 2024, we’ve been busy creating truly global payroll with a single, unified calculation engine—and compliance front and center.

We’re proud to expand real-time payroll processing in key markets, including the UK, Brazil, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates. Running global payroll has never been faster.

Our latest technology unlocks instant gross-to-net (G2N) calculations and automated compliance updates, setting a new benchmark for payroll efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Deel real-time payroll processing is a game-changer for multi-national organizations, bringing payroll into one system, without time-consuming third parties. This unified approach boosts efficiency and accuracy, reduces operational overhead, and creates a better experience for our customers around the world.

The future of global payroll is here—Deel real-time payroll processing is redefining what’s possible with global payroll processing. Get automated gross-to-net (G2N) calculations for faster payroll speeds, more time back during cycles, and an enhanced client experience. Deel real-time payroll processing helps support our company goal—to offer truly unified, global payroll to our customers.

Deel Payroll now supports this update across several key markets, including the UK, Brazil, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates. We’ll continue to expand real-time payroll processing to more countries each month, and plan to roll out 100+ markets in the next few years.

Deel’s native global payroll engine

As a result of our PaySpace acquisition in 2024, we launched a single, unified payroll calculation engine that configures and scales to any country. Legacy payroll providers shy away from building their own technology stack due to country-specific legislation and tax rules. With Deel, payroll runs faster and smoother using our in-house payroll technology and infrastructure.

Our rules-based configuration ensures that payroll calculations comply with local tax and labor laws while delivering instant cost visibility and more time for payroll adjustments. By localizing our offerings onto a single, universal payroll solution, we’re removing common delays with in-country partners and third-party engines.

Faster payroll speed and efficiency

Traditionally, processing payroll across countries and time zones takes days—or weeks. With our single, native payroll, you’ll see instant, real-time gross-to-net calculations for faster payroll processing.

Payroll managers can move quickly from data collection to finalization, freeing up time to address other priorities or tackle unexpected changes. No more lengthy payroll cycles or last-minute approvals. With real-time processing, input employee bonuses and see updated G2N results automatically, so your people are paid accurately, with time to spare.

Bruce van Wyk, founder of PaySpace and the visionary behind Deel’s native payroll engine, describes the improved experience:
This real-time payroll processing capability transforms HR operations. Instead of payroll processing locking HR teams out and causing downtime, Deel provides continuous, seamless operations. HR can update a compensation package and see it immediately reflected in payroll, reporting, and actionable insights—no silos, no manual rework.
— Bruce van Wyk, PaySpace Founder

More accurate payroll with earlier error detection

Real-time payroll processing automatically validates submitted data and flags issues, like missing inputs or incorrect figures. Since errors are identified and corrected before payroll’s finalized, you’ll reduce the risk of payment delays—no need to chase down payroll data at the last minute. Plus, free up more time for strategic projects, like compensation planning.

Better financial planning

Global payroll providers often leave you in the dark during the calculation period. With Deel’s real-time payroll processing, get a clear picture of G2N results after payroll inputs are done—allowing more time for financial decision-making and planning.

The transformative results of real-time payroll processing

Before Deel, managing payroll across 25 countries meant dealing with 25 different payroll systems. Our strategy to consolidate payroll and automate calculations is a game-changer for multi-national businesses—bringing you speed and time savings to global payroll.

Watch the demo below to see how fast real-time payroll processing truly is.

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Enterprise Operations

Deel’s Enterprise Operations is a cross-functional team that builds on existing enterprise resources by removing friction across onboarding, payroll, operational governance, and compliance.

Enterprise Operations benefits customers with 2,000+ employees by providing one dedicated point of contact in their time zone, guaranteed operational SLAs, decades of experience, and direct executive sponsorship—at no extra cost

Deel is a unified global HR, payroll, and compliance platform. Our robust solutions standardize complex global payroll and integrate with existing platforms to ensure operational continuity and scalability.

Enterprise rollouts have a way of exposing every crack in a global payroll operation. The challenge isn’t picking a platform; the real work is the rollout. It involves aligning stakeholders across regions, migrating messy legacy data, integrating HRIS and finance systems, and hitting country-by-country go-live dates without creating compliance risk.

That’s the reality we’ve been building for at Deel. With more than 20 years of enterprise experience gained through our payroll acquisitions, we’ve helped thousands of enterprise clients manage complex global payroll and hiring.

Paired with our in-house team of 2,000+ payroll, HR, and legal experts, enterprises get the operational depth needed to keep implementations on track and payroll running accurately at scale.

Deel is the unquestionable solution to any global payments process. Relying on their robust platform and expert team, I stress less often, work more efficiently, and deliver payroll in confidence—always with the knowledge that employees will get paid, no matter what.

—

Valerie Tazelaar,
Payroll Director, FICO

Our standard support model includes a Program Manager, Customer Success Manager, and Onboarding Manager who all ensure issues are resolved and operations run smoothly. Now, our Enterprise Operations team adds premium coverage at no extra cost for companies with 2,000+ employees, complete with guaranteed operational SLAs and direct executive accountability.

As a result, your enterprise benefits from more predictable timelines, reliably accurate payroll, and clear ownership across every Deel product you use. You’ll have a dedicated Enterprise Operations Manager in your time zone who owns your rollout plan, coordinates the right Deel specialists at each stage, and stays with you long after go-live.

Backed by our internal experts

The combined expertise of our Enterprise Operations Managers spans program management, integrations, payroll, HRIS, cross-functional coordination, and operational management. They’ve run payroll at scale, optimized legacy processes, and delivered outcomes in highly regulated, multi-country environments.

Whether you’re consolidating fragmented payroll or integrating payroll with your existing HR and accounting systems, our experts bring enterprise-tested frameworks and hands-on execution to ensure your most complex implementations land successfully.

In my role, I own the rollout from end to end, so the client doesn’t have to play project manager across five or more teams. We take what’s usually a painful, high-coordination project and turn it into a seamless, successful implementation.

—

Florent Marco,
Enterprise Operations Manager, Deel

Dedicated point of contact at every stage, in your time zone

Every enterprise customer is assigned a dedicated Enterprise Operations Manager who remains with them throughout the entire partnership. This role ensures accountability, continuity, and a white-glove experience tailored to each enterprise’s unique processes.

Additionally, clients are paired with Enterprise Operations Managers in the same time zone. This ensures quick responses and regional experience relevant to each enterprise’s compliance needs, tech stack, and payroll environment.

That means no chasing, no delays, and no repeated explanations. Just one expert who knows your entire history and keeps things running smoothly for current and future projects.

Next-level escalation points with Deel’s C-Suite

Our Enterprise Operations includes an additional layer of accountability. Every enterprise account receives an executive sponsor at the C-Suite level.

That means our leaders are personally committed to your account’s success. This provides:

• Faster support on escalations
• Alignment and visibility at the highest level
• Assurance that your enterprise’s needs will never be deprioritized

This level of executive engagement reflects our commitment to not only ensure operational continuity but to engage in strategic partnership as well.

Deel provided the ability to expand into new countries without having to establish separate payroll providers or processes. Now, we can continue to scale without increasing payroll complexity or resources.

—

Rob Starkey,
Corporate Controller and Treasurer, Hypertherm Associates

Read more about how Hypertherm standardized payroll across 20+ countries

Optimize enterprise payroll operations with Deel

Through our payroll acquisitions, we’ve significantly expanded our enterprise implementation capabilities, including successfully onboarding clients with more than 50,000 employees.

We’ve paired this expertise with AI that automatically extracts, cleans, and loads payroll data from legacy systems, removing the heaviest lift from enterprises. This enables faster, more accurate implementations and ensures a smoother, low-effort transition to solutions like Deel Payroll.

Backed by real-time calculations, compliance expertise in 130+ countries, and seamless integrations across HR and finance, Deel Payroll delivers the accuracy, integration, and visibility enterprises need, complete with dedicated operational governance to mitigate risk and ensure continuous optimization post-implementation.

Request a free, 30-minute demo today and learn more from our team of enterprise experts.

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Your team’s learning experience just expanded in a big way.

With the new Deel + OpenSesame integration, you can bring 50,000+ expertly curated courses spanning compliance, leadership, tech, business skills, and more straight into Engage. Build richer learning programs with less effort. An active OpenSesame account is required.

Why learning matters for HR and L&D teams today

Learning is one of the most powerful drivers of engagement and retention, but building standout programs takes time, resources, and the right content. For many HR and L&D teams, finding and maintaining high-quality learning content or keeping compliance training up to date can feel overwhelming.

That is why we are excited to introduce a new integration that makes learning in Engage even more powerful.

Bring a world leading course library directly into Engage

Starting today, customers with an active OpenSesame account can sync their library directly into Engage and access more than 50,000 ready-to-use courses inside their existing learning workflows.

Whether you are training managers, upskilling technical teams, rolling out essential compliance modules, or giving employees more ways to grow their careers, you can now do it all in one place.

This launch strengthens Deel’s commitment to delivering a full, unified talent management experience, where performance, career progression, and learning come together in one AI-powered system. It also adds flexibility for teams at any stage, whether you already rely on OpenSesame today or want to expand your learning options with curated, multilingual content.

With this integration, Engage becomes an even more scalable way to develop talent, support compliance requirements, and give employees the career growth they are hungry for.

A smarter way to scale learning in Engage

Until now, Engage users could build custom courses or upload their own content. With the new OpenSesame integration, you can now layer in a trusted library of 50,000+ courses, without sourcing, updating, or managing content manually. (An active OpenSesame account is required to sync courses.)

Once connected, OpenSesame courses sync directly into Engage so you can:

• Search the full OpenSesame library inside Deel
• Filter by category, format, language, or duration to find the right fit
• Add courses to training programs or your library the same way you manage any other Engage content
• Track learner progress and course statistics right inside Engage

Employees launch and complete training from Deel while OpenSesame powers the course delivery behind the scenes, giving admins and learners a seamless experience.

See the integration in action

Watch how courses sync, how to add them to programs, and what the learning experience looks like inside Engage.

Explore the workflow step by step

If you prefer an interactive view, this guided tour walks through the exact admin flow without requiring a login. You’ll see exactly how to browse, preview, and add OpenSesame courses directly into Engage programs.

Strengthening Deel’s unified talent experience

• Enhanced engagement and retention
  Employees stay longer when they can see a path to growth. OpenSesame brings 50,000+ curated courses across leadership, business skills, tech, wellness, and more. This gives teams more opportunities to develop and stay motivated.

• Faster workforce development
  Engage helps identify and close skill gaps. With ready-to-use OpenSesame content, you can speed up onboarding, reskilling, and upskilling without having to build training from scratch.

• Simplified compliance
  Engage streamlines required training and tracking. With OpenSesame’s compliance catalog, including U.S. regulatory content, you can meet more requirements with less administrative work and keep training up to date automatically.

OpenSesame courses, now only a click away

This integration adds more flexibility to how teams use Deel Engage. If you already have an OpenSesame account, simply connect it and start adding courses to your learning programs.

If you don’t have an account yet, you can create one at any time. Once your OpenSesame account is active, your library syncs directly into Engage so you can launch high-quality training programs within minutes.

With thousands of curated, multilingual courses available instantly, HR and L&D teams can deliver impactful learning at a global scale with minimal effort.

Ready to bring OpenSesame courses into Engage? Book a demo to see the integration in action, or learn more about how Deel helps teams develop and retain top talent.

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New features and updates roundup

Empower workers to request changes with approval

Product: Platform

Workers can now request updates to their personal information directly from Deel. These changes are reviewed and approved by organization admins, ensuring that only verified updates are applied. This new process streamlines data management while giving organizations full control over changes. Pending requests stay inactive until approved, ensuring accuracy and compliance across the board. Organizations can also disable this approval requirement in settings if desired.

How this helps your team:

• Efficiency: Workers can initiate updates themselves, saving HR teams valuable time.
• Control: Organization admins approve all changes, ensuring data integrity.
• Flexibility: Disable the approval process if it doesn’t align with your organization’s workflow.
  Customization coming soon: Future iterations will offer additional configuration options for enterprise needs.

Easily generate and share year-end W-2/W-3 forms

Product: US Payroll

Deel now makes it easier for US employers to meet the IRS January 31 deadline for W-2 and W-3 forms. This new feature allows employers to generate and distribute year-end tax forms directly from the Deel platform. Employees can access their W-2s via the Finance tab, while employers can view and manage all forms in the “Payroll”section under Tax Documents. Simplify tax season with a streamlined process that ensures compliance and accessibility.

Simplify scheduling with localized datepicker formats

Product: Platform

To improve user experience across regions, the datepicker now supports multiple formats: DD/MM/YYYY, YYYY/MM/DD, and MM/DD/YYYY. The default format is automatically set based on the user’s profile country, ensuring clarity and alignment with regional norms. Users can now enjoy an intuitive and localized experience when working with dates on the platform.

How to update your date format:

• Go to Profile Settings > Language and Region > Date Format.
• Select your preferred date format from the available options
• Save your changes, and the new format will be applied instantly to all datepicker components.

What’s next: Future updates will refine the feature further by introducing additional country mappings and renaming the field to "Datepicker Format" for enhanced clarity.

Gain full visibility with the new compensation profile

Product: Platform

Deel’s new compensation profile centralizes all worker compensation details in one place, giving both employers and workers a clear view of total compensation, including base salary, variable pay, and historical changes. This update eliminates fragmented views, ensuring a more transparent and intuitive way to manage compensation.

How to access the compensation profile:

• Navigate to a worker’s Person Profile in Deel.
• Click on the Compensation tab to see a detailed breakdown of their total pay, including salary insights, bonuses, and scheduled changes.
• View Compensation History to track changes over time, improving traceability and accountability.

What’s next: Future updates will introduce compensation approvals, enhanced salary insights, and expanded data visualization to provide even deeper financial visibility.

Simplify payroll provider management with external ICP support

Product: Global Payroll

Deel now enables clients to onboard, manage, and offboard external in-country providers (ICPs) directly within the platform. This update enhances Payroll Connect by giving clients full visibility and control over their payroll providers, ensuring seamless operations and compliance. Clients can now add ICPs, map them to entities, and invite ICP representatives to manage payroll tasks—centralizing everything in one place.

How to add external ICPs:

• Navigate to Organization Settings > Payroll Service Providers.
• Add an external ICP, map them to an entity, and define access permissions.
• Invite ICP employees to Deel to perform payroll-related tasks on your behalf.

What’s next: Future updates will refine the ICP onboarding experience and introduce enhanced reporting tools for even better payroll management.

Introducing the Deel Changelog — Your central hub for updates

We’re excited to introduce the first edition of the Deel Changelog. This new resource brings together everything you need to know about Deel’s latest features and improvements in one place. From workflow enhancements to new tools, the changelog ensures you never miss a feature designed to simplify and empower your global workforce.

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Why people analytics are important to HR teams

Leaders ask for clearer insights, fast. For many teams, that has meant pulling data from different systems and asking for help to stitch it together.
The new Deel analytics brings reporting and dashboards on top of your Deel data. You can explore all your Deel data across multiple dimensions, build dashboards, and share with the right people. Reports update as your data updates, so dashboards stay current without manual rework.
The more of your people ops you run on Deel—HR, payroll, EOR, benefits, expenses, workforce planning—the stronger your analytics become. Connected data means better context and better decisions.

What’s new with Deel analytics

Report builder, upgraded

Answer more questions with more data. Build tables and visuals across HR, payroll, EOR, benefits, expenses, time off, headcount, and workforce planning. Then group, sort, and filter to get exactly what you need. Filter by any field. Aggregate by any field. Create custom measures. Choose currency and date formats that fit your audience.

Custom dashboards

Create custom dashboards, or start from a template. You can add different reports, update who can see what, provide instructions, and share them with team members. You can share a payroll cost report with Finance, and it’s always up to date.

Visualize your data

X/Y axes sit at the top. Add, change, or remove fields with a click. Use the left sidebar for fields and filters. Switch chart types any time, choose between table, bar, line, area, donut, and KPI tiles. Apply cell visualizations and conditional formatting to highlight what matters.

Pivot tables for deeper breakdowns

Create multi-level summaries (e.g., Worker type → Department → Country) with subtotals. Drag to reorder. Go up to three levels with up to 100 columns for rich comparisons.
Why pivot tables? They allow you to rearrange how data is grouped, so you can compare categories side by side, spot outliers, and roll up totals. Great for questions like “How does headcount mix look by region and by team?” or “Where are costs trending by entity and month?”

Smarter data + faster performance

A central data model and pre-calculated metrics reduce manual math and improve trust. Under the hood, data pipelines now load and update reports faster.

Templates to jump-start reporting

Pick from ready-made templates similar to today’s reports or build from scratch. More templates are on the way.

Examples of how reporting works

Dimensions (X-axis): The “by what.” Examples: Country, Department, Manager, Worker type, Entity, Month/Quarter/Year.
Measures (Y-axis): The “how many/how much.” Examples: Headcount, Total payroll cost, Churn rate, Time-to-hire, Time-off days, Benefits cost.
Filters: Narrow your view by date range, employment type, entity, policy, status, and more. Use AND/OR logic to combine rules (e.g., Country is not empty AND Time-off status is Approved/Requested/Used). Field-level filters help you refine a single metric without touching the rest of the chart.
Group by: Break down a measure by any dimension to compare categories (e.g., cost by Country, headcount by Worker type).
Multiple measures: Add more than one measure to the same chart to compare side-by-side (e.g., Accrued vs. Taken vs. Remaining time off).
Chart switching: Validate your logic in a table first, then switch to a bar/line/pie/KPI. Change types at any time.

Where to find Deel analytics

Open Deel and go to Analytics. You’ll see Reporting (the builder) and Dashboards. If you already use saved reports, they’ll be there, now with the new builder, chart options, and dashboard tools.

Tips for lean HR teams

• Start with a template. Swap in your entities, teams, or dates; then customize.
• Keep labels simple. Short, plain names beat jargon.
• Build for your audience. One dashboard for Finance (cost, benefits, expenses), one for People Leaders (headcount, hiring, time off), and one for Execs (top KPIs).
• Connect more data. The more of your workflows you run on Deel, the more complete your analytics become.

What’s next

We’re building distributed analytics so insights meet people where they work: scheduled reports via email or Slack, a live Excel connection, so you can refresh without CSVs, and APIs for third-party tools. We’re also rolling out more templates and UX refinements to make building even smoother. Finally, we’re adding additional permissions and sharing functionality.

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Year-end brings a lot of moving parts, and this month’s updates are designed to take pressure off every team involved. HR gets cleaner inputs. Finance closes faster with fewer corrections. IT keeps access and security consistent as people join, move, or leave.

Because Deel connects HR, payroll, and IT in one system, improvements in one area immediately strengthen the others. Updated employee data syncs straight into payroll. Policies stay aligned across expenses and cards. Access follows the rules you’ve set, no matter the role or location. The result? Fewer surprises, smoother reconciliation, and more predictable closes.

Below, we’ll dive into HR updates, enhancements for Payroll and Finance, and IT improvements now live for year-end, plus a preview of what’s coming next. Each one focuses on clear outcomes to help your teams reduce manual work, simplify processes, and wrap up the year with confidence.

HR: Faster Onboarding, Cleaner Data, Fewer Day-1 Delays

When people join at year-end, any missing detail or misaligned record cascades downstream. These updates help you get every new hire right the first time. So payroll, compliance, and IT can stay focused on end of year priorities.

Onboarding that eliminates Day-1 blockers

We’ve refreshed onboarding across Deel so both clients and employees can get set up faster with fewer blockers. Clients now see a unified, guided activation tracker on the home screen with clear next steps and entity-level status for Global Payroll. Employees and contractors get a standard, step-by-step onboarding flow that improves visibility and completion rates.

• For clients, a Product Activation Tracker now on the home screen. Clients see clear next steps, entity-level status, and due dates for Global Payroll.
• For employees, onboarding is now part of the home screen widget, with a standard, guided experience for all worker types, to shorten time to onboard and improve completion rates.

Turn EOR quotes into polished offer letters

Create a complete, candidate-ready letter directly from the quote results. Each letter includes compensation, benefits, and a clear overview of onboarding through Deel Employer of Record, so candidates get the complete picture faster. Track offer status and rejection reasons to manage pre-hire with more control.

Schedule recurring items for contractors

For teams managing independent contractors, you can now schedule recurring items weekly, monthly, or quarterly with clear start and end dates in the worker profile. This keeps payments accurate and removes repetitive manual adjustments during busy periods.

A documents page that stops one-off requests

The employee documents page now presents everything in one organized view with clearer names, statuses, and actions. Employees can find contracts and key documents without assistance, and HR spends less time answering one-off file requests.

Offer flexible health benefits with Deel Thatch

Make US health benefits easier to manage. Deel’s integration with Thatch automates ICHRA administration, syncing employee details from Deel so your roster and eligibility stay accurate. HR teams get predictable budgets, employees get more choice, and payroll stays up to date. Without extra manual work.

Payroll & Finance: Flexible Runs, Fewer Corrections, Smoother Close

As year-end approaches, reconciliation overhead spikes. These updates give finance teams the flexibility and visibility they need to close on time.

One expense experience for every worker type

Contractors now use the same expense submission flow as employees. Finance teams review one consistent view, which reduces back-and-forth and speeds reconciliation at month end.

Reimburse outside regular cycles

For Global Payroll teams, off-cycle runs make it easier to finalize reimbursements quickly. Items can be shifted between payrolls when plans change, helping close out the period cleanly.

Control EOR card spend in real time

Set limits, monitor transactions, and prevent overspending for employees so Finance can stay ahead of policy violations and keep budgets on track. Availability can vary by country and plan.

Turn payroll into live accounting with Deel + Puzzle

For finance teams, connecting Deel to Puzzle posts detailed payroll journal entries automatically. Reconciliation happens when funds hit the bank, giving you real-time insight into peoples costs without spreadsheets.

See the correct invoices in the payment flow

Contractor Of Record clients now see the actual MSA invoices they’re responsible for paying directly in the payment flow. This removes confusion around which charges will be billed and gives finance teams clearer insight during review and approval.

IT: Quiet Automation, Predictable Access, Stronger Security

When IT policies run themselves, teams move faster and stay secure. Especially during high-volume onboarding and offboarding. These updates help automate access, tighten controls, and simplify audit prep.

Auto-assign the right IT policy at onboarding

For IT and ops teams, access rules and budgets now apply automatically based on department and country. This reduces setup time and keeps policies consistent.

Fine-tune who uses SSO

Deel IT admins can now enable or exclude specific users from single sign-on. This keeps access control precise without relying on manual workarounds and burdening HR teams with escalations.

Be audit-ready with organization-wide 2FA reporting

For security teams, a full 2FA activation report provides status, activation date, and last login. This makes it easier to verify coverage and close any gaps before audits.

Improve security with soft-force 2FA

For organizations strengthening MFA adoption, soft-force 2FA raises baseline protection without interrupting user workflows.

What’s Coming Next

Here’s a preview of enhancements currently in development. These aren’t live yet, but they’re designed to remove even more manual work and give your teams greater control as we move into the new year.

• Automated work submissions for contractors
  Soon, contractors will be able to submit completed work automatically for approval — reducing manager follow-up and speeding up payment cycles.

• No-code automation builder for HRIS
  Coming soon, you’ll be able to describe the steps you want to automate in plain language, and Deel will generate the workflow for you. Approvals, reminders, and updates will be easier to standardize without engineering help.

• Match payout schedules to local norms
  Payroll teams will soon be able to align payout timing to regional practices while staying fully compliant — giving employees a payout schedule that feels local by default.

More resources

• The Deel Drop: Fall Edition Replay
• Deel's AI Summit
• How HR and IT Teams Automate Onboarding Without Missing a Beat

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With certified integration, a dedicated delivery practice, and joint go-to-market alignment, Deel and Workday are enabling global teams to operate with more speed, visibility, and control.

As more enterprises scale internationally, they face a new layer of operational complexity. Payroll systems must integrate seamlessly. Compliance must be proactive. Data must move in real time, without introducing risk.

To meet these evolving demands, Deel and Workday are deepening their partnership to help customers simplify how they manage payroll and people across borders.

This expanded collaboration enables us to deliver:

• A certified global payroll integration through Workday’s Global Payroll Connect (GPC)
• Increased investment by Deel in a dedicated Workday practice
• A joint go-to-market motion to align around enterprise buyers expanding globally

Together, Deel and Workday are helping HR, finance, and IT teams move faster, without compromising compliance, data integrity, or employee experience.

A Trusted Integration, Certified for Scale

Deel’s integration through Workday’s GPC program ensures a seamless, secure connection between platforms. Employee data flows automatically between systems. Payroll results, payslips, and tax documents are returned to Workday, giving teams real-time visibility into execution across 130+ countries.

This certification is backed by Deel’s in-house payroll infrastructure and local expertise—delivering accurate, compliant payroll without the delays or disconnects of third-party processors.

Investing in the Workday Ecosystem

To support joint customers, Deel has established a dedicated Workday practice built in close collaboration with Workday’s leadership team. This team is focused on delivering against shared priorities. The result: faster onboarding, stronger delivery, and more value for Workday customers scaling their global operations with Deel.

Our collaboration with Deel reflects the kind of integrated, global partnership we strive for at Workday. From certified payroll connectivity to a growing joint go-to-market motion, Deel is helping Workday customers operate with more scale, compliance, and efficiency across borders.

—
Mark Woollen,
GVP Partner Innovation, Workday

Supporting Workday Customers Beyond Payroll

For many organizations, running payroll is just one part of the global execution challenge. They need trusted partners who can help them navigate hiring, compliance, and operations across borders, without adding friction or fragmentation.

That’s where Deel complements the Workday ecosystem.

With Deel, customers can:

• Hire in 130+ countries without setting up legal entities
• Pay global employees and contractors through one partner
• Manage devices and access for remote and distributed teams
• Support growth with immigration, entity setup, and expert-led compliance services

We needed a partner with strong technology and the stability to handle our global complexity. Deel’s ability to centralize support and integrate seamlessly with Workday's platform made them the clear choice.

—
Heather Ashley,
Director of HR Technology, Barings

Learn more about how Deel works with Workday

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As a growing company, you know that your payroll data is vital to making informed decisions about your business. When working with multiple payroll providers across your various regions, global payroll reporting becomes a cumbersome task.
Having one source of truth for your global payroll operations shouldn’t be this complicated. The solution—
Deel Payroll Connect.

What is Deel Payroll Connect?

Deel Payroll Connect allows you to combine all of your payroll data into one standardized Gross to Net report by consolidating your Deel payroll reports with those from your third-party payroll providers, creating a truly global view of your payroll operations.

Benefits of Deel Payroll Connect

• Standardize your reporting to get accurate insights and a better understanding of your global payroll operations through a global Gross to Net report in the currency of your choice. Plus, analyze your workforce cost report and assess HR reports to review trends (e.g., headcount, compensation, starter and leaver by country or worker type, and more).
• Rely on one centralized platform where all of your payroll reports (Deel’s or otherwise) can be consolidated for easy access.
• Improve efficiency each payroll reporting cycle by quickly generating a global Gross to Net report and creating reporting customizations to adjust for the different payroll categories coming from your various providers.

How does it work?

• Entity creation: In the “Organizations” tab, add the entities that you’d like to incorporate into your global reporting. Our onboarding team will activate these entities so they’ll be able to use Payroll Connect. Your new entities will appear on your Global Payroll dashboard within the “Processed by external provider” section.
• Adding employees: Select the “Use your own payroll provider” option. Next, add all of your direct employees to your entities that are being processed by an external provider.
• Gross to Net report mapping: Once the setup is complete, you and your onboarding manager will work to map out any required fields from your existing Gross to Net reports to the existing categories on our Deel platform. This ensures your data is reflected in the corresponding categories. It’s a one time exercise, but if there are updates to be made—like adding a new employee or a new allowance—you can update your report directly in the portal.
• Gross to Net report creation: Once the mapping is complete, go ahead and upload the Gross to Net reports for your entities processed by third-party payroll providers into our platform. Following this step, the aggregated data can be reviewed instantly in the “Analytics” tab.
• Monthly reminders: You’ll receive a monthly email reminder to upload your latest Gross to Net reports.

For more information about how to upload and review your G2N reports with Payroll Connect, please refer to our Help Center articles.
If you'd like to get started with Payroll Connect, please contact your Customer Success Manager or set up a demo with our sales team.
By centralizing your payroll reporting onto one flexible platform, Deel Payroll Connect equips your teams with complete global payroll data, helping them make the important decisions that support your continued growth.

Comparison Table:

Deel | Other Payroll Providers
Built to consolidate all payroll reports, regardless of your provider. | Only provides payroll reporting for entities that they process.
Self-serve portal with flexible customization. | Changes to your reporting often require contacting support.
View data in the currency of your choice. | Limited currency conversion options.

To get started with Deel Payroll Connect, please contact your Customer Success Manager or request a demo.

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Deel HR: Global-first HR solution

HR teams managing global workforces have long been underserved by traditional tools. Deel HR changes that—built from the ground up for global HR. Unify every worker type across 150+ countries with one intuitive platform that embeds compliance, insights, and automation at every stage.

If you manage HR at a company with workers in multiple countries, you know there’s no shortage of HR platforms. But these platforms weren’t built for the reality HR teams are up against today: global teams, mixed worker types, evolving regulations, and a mess of disconnected systems that don’t talk to each other.

Most teams are left stitching together multiple tools: one system for full-time employees, another for contractors, spreadsheets for compensation planning and performance reviews, and region-specific payroll vendors. The result? Manual work, inconsistent worker experiences, and compliance risks you can’t afford to miss.

At Deel, as we grew from a team of 100 to thousands, we've experienced it firsthand: managing EORs in the UK, contractors in the Philippines, and direct employees in the U.S. Each requires different contracts, workflows, payroll systems, benefits providers, and compliance oversight. When we looked around, no platform could do it all. So we built our own.

Solving the disconnect with a global-first HR solution

We started with the essentials: a global HRIS designed to simplify the basics—onboarding, time off, document management, org structure, and global reporting—all on a single platform and built to support every worker type. From there, we added a full talent management suite for performance, learning, and growth.

Today, Deel HR is a global-first platform that unifies every worker type and region into one system. From workforce planning and immigration support to benefits and compensation, Deel HR brings the entire worker lifecycle into a single platform, with compliance embedded at every step. Think localized contracts, real-time alerts, and workflows tailored by country.

"Before Deel HR, we juggled spreadsheets and tools; now everything is in one place, giving us full visibility and saving significant time."
— Manuel Freire, Head of Legal & Finance, Nomic Foundation

What sets Deel HR apart: Purpose-built for global work

Deel HR was purpose-built to manage global complexity—from multi-country teams and mixed worker types to real-time compliance and actionable insights. It’s an HR system that evolves with your team so you can streamline work, stay compliant, and keep people at the center of every decision.

Global-first design

Unlike retrofitted, U.S.-centric systems, Deel HR is built from the ground up for global complexity, supporting 150+ countries with localized features and insights.

All worker types, one system

Employees, contractors, and EORs, all managed in one platform with consistent and compliant experiences across the board.

Integrated workflows

Performance reviews connect to comp planning. Compensation bands link to headcount plans. Deel HR ties it all together—so every workflow moves in sync, and every module works better together.

Compliance, everywhere

Deel HR embeds country-specific compliance guidance into every module, reducing legal risk without slowing you down.

Flexible data structures

Set up approval processes and assign roles for managers, directors, VPs, and more. Customize roles, workflows, job architecture, policies, and field names—by country, region, or worker type—so the system reflects how your teams actually operate.

"The platform is both extensible and general: extensible in that it can accommodate countless edge cases, but also general in that it standardizes all of my headcount in a way that's easy to view and manage on a single pane."
— Daniel Black, CoS to CEO at Treble.ai

Scalable for every stage

Whether you're onboarding your first employee or preparing for an IPO, Deel HR scales with you. Add modules, connect tools, and scale without the sprawl.

AI-powered insights, global visibility

From salary benchmarks and headcount reporting to automated job descriptions, Deel HR gives you the data to lead with confidence.

Simplicity at every touchpoint

Intuitive, self-serve tools make life easier for HR teams, managers, and employees. Teams can save 95+ hours per month on HR admin tasks alone—freeing time to focus on people, not process.

"From sponsoring visas to running payroll in multiple countries, Deel lets us manage the whole journey with total confidence."
— Leanne Schoefield, Head of People, Form3

Deel HR in action: One platform for the entire lifecycle

Manage your global workforce from planning to offboarding—do it all here.

• Global HRIS
• Workforce Planning
• Talent Sourcing
• Immigration Support
• Background Checks
• Benefits Administration
• Talent Management
• Compensation Management

And because it connects seamlessly with Deel Payroll and Deel IT, HR, finance, and IT teams work together in one platform, with zero data gaps or tool switching.

"Deel saves me 3-4 days every month on expenses alone, it's a full day back. But here's the real test: if we stopped using Deel tomorrow, we'd need to hire at least three people just to handle what it does today."
— Izacco Scattolin Neto, Senior Recruitment & HR Administrator, Amilon

Deel HR has become the go-to for global teams.
Book a demo or learn more to streamline HR with confidence—from planning to offboarding.

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