Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and updates to CitoHR.

2026

Personal email addresses

Organisation admins can add an employee whose email is not on a company domain.

Highlights

  • •An admin can add an employee with a personal email address.

What's new

How to get started

Go to Admin, then Users, and add someone. A personal email address is accepted.
2026

Weekend leave

Leave can follow the organisation weekend setting, or a person's working pattern.

Highlights

  • •Leave days follow the organisation weekend setting, or the working pattern when one is assigned.

What's new

2026

Half days and the leave year

Leave can be half a day, and balances follow the organisation leave year.

Highlights

  • •A request can be a full day or a half day. A half day counts as 0.5.
  • •Balances, sickness figures, and the leave usage report follow the organisation leave year.

What's new

How to get started

Open Leave and choose a full day or a half day when you book.
2026

Admins can raise leave

An admin can create a leave request for someone else.

Highlights

  • •Leave requests can be created by an admin, not only by the person taking the leave.

What's new

2026

HMRC reports for UK organisations

HMRC compliance reporting is limited to UK organisations and to employees.

Highlights

  • •HMRC compliance is available for UK organisations and lists people in an employee role.

What's new

2026

Profile for everyone else

The profile that people see for themselves was redesigned.

Highlights

  • •A person who is not an admin gets a clearer view of their own profile.

What's new

2026

Slack and the notification inbox

Notifications can go to Slack, and read items can be cleared from the inbox.

Highlights

  • •Connect a Slack workspace and send notifications there.
  • •Read notifications can be deleted from the inbox.

What's new

How to get started

Open Admin settings, then Connectors, and connect Slack.
2026

Shifts from a working pattern

The scheduler can show shifts generated from a working pattern.

Highlights

  • •A long rota does not need a saved shift for every day. Scheduling can show shifts taken from the working pattern.

What's new

How to get started

Open Admin, then Scheduling. Enable virtual shifts in Scheduling settings and use the display toggle on the weekly grid.
2026

Clearer people records

Profile sections, masked bank details, and more columns on the people list.

Highlights

  • •Personal details and employment details are separate, and payroll has its own tab.
  • •Bank account and sort code are masked.
  • •The people list can show extra columns, such as job grade, contract end, and weekly hours.

What's new

2026

Documents for managers

A document stays hidden from managers until it is marked visible to them.

Highlights

  • •Managers see a team document only when it is marked visible to managers.

What's new

2026

Public holidays

Admins can look up public holidays by country and year.

Highlights

  • •Admin has a read-only public holidays list, filtered by country and year.

What's new

2026

Timesheets and custom profile fields

Hours can be logged for approval, and admins can add fields to a profile.

Highlights

  • •People can log working hours and submit them. Managers can review timesheets for their team.
  • •An admin can add free text, dropdown, checkbox, or date fields to a profile.

What's new

How to get started

Open Timesheets to log hours. Custom fields are under Admin, People, User profile fields.
2026

Breaks on shifts

A shift and a working pattern can record a break in minutes.

Highlights

  • •Break length can be set on a shift and on a working pattern, and it shows on the scheduler.

What's new

2026

Audit log on a person

Admins can see what changed on a person's record.

Highlights

  • •An admin can open a log of changes on a person, including payroll and related records.

What's new

2026

A location for each working day

A working pattern can assign a location to each day of the week.

Highlights

  • •Each day on a working pattern can have its own location, and shifts can be created in bulk from that pattern.

What's new

2026

Add-person wizard

Adding an employee is a step-by-step wizard.

Highlights

  • •New people are added through a wizard, including personal details and the benefits they should receive.

What's new

How to get started

Go to Admin, then Users, and add someone. Choose the wizard if you want the guided steps.
2026

Document categories and expiry

Documents can be categorised, and an expiry date can send a reminder.

Highlights

  • •A document can have a category and an expiry date. The list can be filtered by both.

What's new

2026

Address on the employee record

An employee record can store a home address.

Highlights

  • •Address line, city, county, postcode, and country can be stored on the employee record.

What's new

2026

Pro Plus and recognition

A higher plan, and the feedback area renamed to Recognition.

Highlights

  • •Pro Plus includes everything in Pro, 20GB of storage, AI usage without an API key, applicant tracking, and more than one organisation on one subscription.
  • •The old feedback area is now Recognition.

What's new

How to get started

Open Billing to compare plans, including Pro Plus.
2026

Assistant in the header

The assistant can be opened from the header and can use shift and people context.

Highlights

  • •Open the assistant from the header. It can answer using shifts and people, and a person can return to an earlier chat.

What's new

2026

More than one organisation

One login can cover more than one company.

Highlights

  • •Switch between organisations from the header. Each organisation is billed on its own.

What's new

How to get started

Use the organisation control in the header to switch, or to create another organisation.
2026

Organisation logo

An organisation can show its own logo.

Highlights

  • •Upload a logo. It appears in place of initials where the organisation is shown.

What's new

2026

Delete a leave request

A leave request can be removed after a confirmation.

Highlights

  • •Delete a leave request from the leave page. The balance refreshes after it is removed.

What's new

2026

Remove a person

An admin can delete a user after a confirmation.

Highlights

  • •An admin can delete a user from the people list, after a confirmation.

What's new

2025

Immigration records and reminders

Visa and right-to-work dates can be stored, with reminders before they expire.

Highlights

  • •A person can have an immigration status.
  • •Reminders can be sent before a visa or a right-to-work document expires.

What's new

How to get started

Open the person's record for immigration details. Reminder timing is in Admin settings, under Immigration.
2025

Public Release Notes

CitoHR — Public Release Notes (2025-12-23)

Highlights

  • •Team calendar subscriptions: subscribe to your CitoHR calendar from external calendar apps (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, Thunderbird).
  • •Improved calendar experience: redesigned calendar UI with filters, department scoping, shift & holiday visibility, and per-user event view.
  • •Sickness workflow enhancements: richer sickness dashboard, editable pending records, leave balance & trends, and quick policy access.
  • •Progressive Web App (PWA): one-click install prompt so CitoHR can be installed to desktop and mobile.
  • •UX polish: updated icons, app manifest, improved dashboards and component polish across the app.

What's new

How to get started

Team calendar: Go to the Team Calendar, open the Subscribe dialog and click Generate / Copy feed URL. Paste into your calendar app or follow the platform-specific instructions shown. Sickness: Visit the Sickness app area to see the new summary cards, report sickness button and history. Edit any pending sickness entries from the history list. Install CitoHR: Click the install icon in the app header (or use your browser/app install controls) to add CitoHR as a PWA.

If you run into problems or have feedback on the calendar subscription or sickness workflow, please create an issue or reach out to support so we can prioritize fixes and improvements.