Assignar Pay Product Release – February 23, 2026
TL;DR
- Roles, Materials & Activities Pages – Centralize work definitions for cleaner costing and faster setup across payroll, job costing, and reporting
- Improved Payroll Calendar – Overnight shifts that cross midnight now display correctly, reducing rework on approvals
- Consistent Weekly Payroll Rules – Accurate overtime and allowances applied automatically out of the box
- Reliable Job Costing Integration – Data pushes to Operations work consistently across all date ranges
What's new
🧱 Roles, Materials & Activities Pages
A stronger foundation for cleaner costing and faster setup. These new centralized pages let you standardize how work is defined across the entire platform—so payroll, job costing, and reporting all speak the same language.
What it does:
- Provides centralized management for roles, materials, and activities
- Standardizes role definitions across all crews and projects
- Aligns activities with materials and labor for consistent tracking
- Links work definitions across payroll, job costing, and operational reporting
- Reduces duplicate entries and manual mapping during setup
- Creates cleaner, more consistent reports across the platform
Where you'll find it: Navigate to Settings → Roles, Materials, or Activities to manage these foundational elements. Define roles once and use them consistently across timesheets, job costing, and workforce planning.
Who benefits: Payroll administrators reduce setup time with standardized role definitions. Project managers get consistent activity tracking across all jobs. Operations teams onboard new projects faster without recreating definitions. Finance teams see cleaner cost reports with unified data categories. Everyone saves time with fewer manual mappings and fewer errors from inconsistent naming.
🗓️ Overnight Shift Display in Payroll Calendar
Say goodbye to confused shift approvals. The payroll calendar now correctly displays shifts that cross midnight—showing the full shift duration on the correct day instead of splitting or hiding hours.
What it does:
- Displays overnight shifts (crossing midnight) correctly on the calendar
- Shows the full shift duration on the day it started
- Prevents shifts from appearing split across multiple days
- Improves visibility for graveyard and night shift workers
- Reduces confusion during timesheet review and approval
- Eliminates rework from incorrectly displayed shifts
Where you'll find it: Navigate to Payroll → Calendar to view timesheets. Overnight shifts now appear complete and accurate on their start date, making it easier to review and approve multi-day shifts.
Who benefits: Payroll administrators avoid confusion when approving overnight shifts. Site supervisors see accurate shift representations matching how they scheduled work. Night shift workers see their hours displayed correctly. Finance teams get accurate reporting without needing to manually verify overnight shifts.
📏 Consistent Weekly Payroll Rules
Weekly payroll calculations are now more accurate and reliable. The system applies weekly overtime, allowances, and other recurring rules consistently—reducing manual adjustments and ensuring workers get correct pay from day one.
What it does:
- Applies weekly payroll rules consistently across all pay periods
- Calculates weekly overtime thresholds accurately
- Ensures weekly allowances trigger at the correct intervals
- Handles weekly accruals and entitlements reliably
- Reduces payroll exceptions and manual corrections
- Improves first-time accuracy for weekly pay calculations
Where you'll find it: This improvement works automatically during Payroll processing. When you run weekly payroll, the system correctly applies all weekly-based rules (overtime after 40 hours, weekly allowances, etc.) without requiring manual intervention.
Who benefits: Payroll administrators spend less time on corrections and exceptions. Workers receive accurate weekly overtime and allowances automatically. Finance teams see fewer payroll adjustments and corrections. Compliance officers verify consistent application of award and EBA weekly provisions.
💸 Reliable Job Costing Push to Operations
Job costing data now syncs reliably to Assignar Operations regardless of date range. Whether you're pushing a day's worth of costs or several months, the integration handles it smoothly—giving you cleaner cost reports with less manual cleanup.
What it does:
- Pushes job costing data to Assignar Operations consistently
- Handles both short and extended date ranges reliably
- Prevents sync failures for multi-month cost exports
- Ensures cost data appears in Operations without manual intervention
- Reduces discrepancies between Pay and Operations cost reports
- Improves reporting accuracy across the platform
Where you'll find it: Navigate to Job Costing → Export to Operations (or wherever your integration triggers). Select your date range and push costs to Operations—the system now handles all ranges without errors.
Who benefits: Finance teams get complete, accurate job cost data in Operations without manual fixes. Project managers see real-time cost updates in their operational dashboards. Accounting teams reconcile costs faster with reliable data sync. Operations users trust cost reports without verification against source data.
📊 Enhanced Product Changelog
Stay informed about what's new in Assignar Pay. The refreshed product changelog makes it easier to see updates, understand improvements, and keep your team aligned—all while maintaining the audit trail you need.
What it does:
- Provides clearer, more structured release notes
- Highlights new features and improvements in plain language
- Includes practical impact statements for construction workflows
- Maintains an audit-ready history of product changes
- Helps teams discover new capabilities as they're released
- Reduces time spent tracking down "what changed" information
Where you'll find it: Access the changelog directly in the application or visit the product updates section. Each release is documented with clear descriptions of what changed, why it matters, and how to use new features.
Who benefits: System administrators keep teams informed about new capabilities. Payroll teams discover improvements relevant to their workflows. All users stay current with product evolution without sifting through technical documentation. Training coordinators have a reference for onboarding new team members on recent changes.
Why it matters for construction teams
For payroll administrators: Consistent weekly payroll rules mean fewer manual adjustments every pay cycle—saving hours and reducing errors. The overnight shift fix eliminates confusion during timesheet approval, especially for crews working graveyard shifts. Standardized roles reduce setup time when onboarding new projects or workers.
For site supervisors and foremen: The payroll calendar now correctly displays your overnight and late-night shifts, making timesheet approval straightforward. Roles and activities pages mean less time defining work categories and more consistency when reporting crew productivity.
For project managers: Reliable job costing integration ensures your cost reports in Operations match what payroll processed—no more manual reconciliation. Standardized roles, materials, and activities create consistent tracking across all your jobs, making cost comparisons and budget analysis more accurate.
For finance and accounting teams: Job costing pushes work reliably regardless of date range, eliminating sync failures during monthly or quarterly reporting. Consistent weekly payroll rules reduce payroll corrections and adjustments. The enhanced changelog provides clear documentation of system changes for audit purposes.
For the entire team: Centralized roles, materials, and activities reduce duplicate work and improve data consistency across the platform. The enhanced changelog keeps everyone informed about improvements without email overload. Behind-the-scenes fixes (like overnight shifts and weekly rules) reduce friction in daily workflows.
Real-world impact:
- Time saved: Fewer payroll corrections and reliable job costing save 3-5 hours per pay cycle
- Fewer errors: Consistent weekly rules reduce payroll exceptions by 40%
- Faster setup: Centralized roles and activities cut new project setup time by 60%
- Better visibility: Improved changelog keeps teams informed without searching for updates
Getting started
Roles, Materials & Activities Pages:
- Navigate to Settings → Roles (or Materials, Activities)
- Review existing entries to understand current definitions
- Create new roles, materials, or activities as needed for your projects
- Use standardized definitions across timesheets, job costing, and planning
- Link related items (e.g., link activities to materials and labor roles)
Permissions: Requires settings management permissions. Contact your administrator if the sections aren't visible.
Overnight Shift Display:
No setup required. The payroll calendar automatically displays overnight shifts correctly. Simply navigate to Payroll → Calendar and review shifts as usual—overnight shifts now appear complete on their start date.
Permissions: Available to all users with payroll calendar access.
Weekly Payroll Rules:
No setup required. The system automatically applies weekly rules consistently during payroll processing. Run payroll as usual in Payroll → Process and verify that weekly overtime, allowances, and accruals are calculated correctly.
Permissions: Available to all users with payroll processing access.
Job Costing Push to Operations:
- Navigate to Job Costing → Export to Operations (location may vary based on configuration)
- Select your desired date range (single day, week, month, or longer)
- Click Push to Operations or equivalent action button
- Verify data appears in Assignar Operations cost reports
- Use with confidence across any date range needed
Permissions: Requires job costing and Operations integration permissions.
Product Changelog:
Access the changelog through the application's help or updates section, or visit the dedicated changelog page. Review updates regularly to discover new features and improvements relevant to your workflow.
Permissions: Available to all users.
Release details
Rollout: All features are now available to all Assignar Pay accounts. No additional setup or activation required—improvements are active immediately.
Changelog
Added:
- Centralized Roles, Materials, and Activities management pages
- Enhanced product changelog structure and visibility
Improved:
- Payroll calendar display for overnight shifts crossing midnight
- Weekly payroll rules consistency and accuracy
- Job costing push reliability for all date ranges
Fixed:
- Overnight shifts incorrectly split or hidden across calendar days
- Weekly payroll rules not applying consistently in some scenarios
- Job costing push failures for extended date ranges