Assignar Pay Product Release – August 31, 2026

TL;DR

• Payroll checks you can trust at a finer grain — bucket-level reconciliation helps teams spot and resolve differences with more precision, so missed or mis-allocated amounts are easier to catch before the pay run.
• Large pay-rate trees you can actually navigate — Expand all and Collapse all open or reset hierarchical pay structures in one click, with authoring tools that make setup and maintenance faster.
• Payroll rules that match how the site actually works — role-based filters, activity include/exclude options, and role-level cost codes give payroll admins tighter control over classification and pay.
• Crews and purchase orders with less duplicate setup — crews reuse the roles already on an order, and purchase orders handle project requirements, quantities, and units more consistently.
• A clearer record of what changed — quote revision snapshots, activity history, journal audit trails, and clearer PDF details make it easier to see what changed, when, and why.

Context

This release reflects work from August 23 – August 30, 2026 — a week focused on more precise payroll reconciliation, faster pay-rate setup, tighter project controls, and stronger records of change so site and office teams process timesheets, apply awards, and close commercial paperwork with fewer surprises.

Themes from the week

• Payroll accuracy: More precise reconciliation, cost coding, allowances, overtime, and activity filtering so pay outcomes stay closer to the award and the timesheet.
• Easier pay-rate setup: Faster navigation of large hierarchical pay-rate structures, plus more powerful authoring tools for creating and maintaining pay rules.
• Better project controls: Improved purchase orders, crew roles that reuse the order, progress filters, and workpack documents.
• Greater visibility: Stronger audit history, quote snapshots, and clearer records of changes across quotes, activities, journals, and PDFs.
• Reliability & everyday polish: Fixes for payroll calculations, calendar gaps, overtime allocation, pay-item overrides, order table loading, document imports, progress filtering, and supplier credit notes.
• Guided configuration: Continued improvements to Assignar’s guided Pay tools for creating and managing pay-rate structures and overtime rules with less manual effort.
• Trust and service quality: Stronger auditability, protected configuration flows, and improved system resilience so payroll and project data stay dependable and explainable.

These weekly summaries are indexed for the Assignar Pay Support Agent so guidance stays aligned with what actually shipped.

What's new

More confident payroll reconciliation

Bucket-level reconciliation helps payroll teams identify and resolve differences with greater precision — making payroll checks easier to review and reducing the risk of missed or incorrectly allocated amounts.

What it does:

• Bucket-level reconciliation — compare pay categories against the lines that make up the day, not only the overall total
• Easier payroll checks — differences surface with more precision so reviewers can see where a day is out, not just that it is
• Fewer missed or mis-allocated amounts — catch classification and allocation issues before they leave in the export

Where you'll find it: Payroll / Timesheets when reviewing calculated pay. Differences surface there when a day’s pay categories do not line up with the lines that were paid.

Who benefits: Payroll admins running award-heavy crews, finance exporting pay, and anyone who has had to chase a day that “added up” but still looked wrong in the breakdown.

Manage pay-rate trees at scale

Large award trees are much easier to review. New Expand all and Collapse all controls open or reset the full structure, and additional authoring tools support faster setup and maintenance of hierarchical pay rules.

What it does:

• Expand all — open every node, including rates and cost-code sections, without clicking through the tree one branch at a time
• Collapse all — return to the top-level view in one action
• Per-node toggles still work — expand or collapse a single branch between the all-in / all-out actions
• Authoring tools for hierarchical pay rules — faster create, rename, and restructure of pay-rate trees so complex awards stay maintainable
• Guided Pay tools for overtime and structure — continued improvements that make it easier to create and manage pay-rate structures and overtime rules with less manual effort

Where you'll find it: Pay Rates → open a document → Rate Tree Structure on the review page. Use Expand all / Collapse all in the panel header. See Pay Rates and Pay Rate Documents.

Who benefits: Payroll admins maintaining multi-level EBA and award trees, commercial leads reviewing classification structures, and anyone who has been expanding a large tree one chevron at a time.

More flexible payroll rules — roles, activities, and cost codes

Role-based filters, activity include/exclude options, and role-level cost codes give payroll teams more control over how work is classified and paid — without duplicating whole documents or rule groups.

What it does:

• Role filters on shift rules — include or exclude selected roles so a premium (for example a night loading) applies only to the roles that should get it
• Activity include/exclude on allowances — pick registered activities instead of free-text name fragments, so “Night Work” does not silently match “Night Work Setup”
• Role-level cost codes and rates — override the base rate and Pay Item cost codes for a specific role on a leaf rate bucket, when the tree itself has no Role level
• One document for the whole week — role-level overrides keep weekly overtime and RDO rules aggregating once per worker, instead of splitting the week across two documents

Where you'll find it:

• Shift rules: Pay Rates → a rule group → Shift Rules → Role filter. See Shift Rules.
• Allowance activity filters: Pay Rates → a rule group → Allowance Rules → Activity Filter (include or exclude). See Allowance Rules.
• Role-level cost codes: Pay Rates → Rate Tree → expand a leaf classification → Rate overrides → scope Role. Available when the tree has no Role level. See Rate Overrides.

Who benefits: Payroll admins applying awards and EBAs by role and activity, cost controllers coding Pay Items to the right job, and finance teams who need weekly overtime and RDO to fire once — not once per duplicated document.

Smoother crew and purchase order workflows

Crews can reuse the roles already defined on an order, and purchase orders better support project requirements, quantities, and units — reducing duplicate setup and keeping site and procurement records consistent.

What it does:

• Crews reuse the order’s own roles — deploying a crew uses the roles already defined on the order instead of creating duplicates
• Purchase orders: project requirements — better support for how the job is structured when you raise a PO
• Quantities and units of measure — quantities and units are handled more consistently on purchase-order lines

Where you'll find it: Scheduler → Crews when deploying a crew onto an order×day cell. See Crews. Purchase Orders → New Purchase Order / edit. See Purchase Orders.

Who benefits: Ops leads and dispatchers staffing crews without multiplying role lines on the board, and procurement / finance raising POs that match how the job is actually structured.

Stronger records and accountability

Quote revision snapshots, activity history, journal audit trails, and clearer PDF details make it easier to understand what changed, when it changed, and why.

What it does:

• Quote revision snapshots — keep a record of quote versions as commercial numbers move
• Activity history — see how activities changed over the life of the work
• Journal audit trails — a clearer trail of configuration and pay-rule changes
• Clearer PDF details — exported documents carry the context reviewers need without a follow-up call

Where you'll find it: Quotes for revision snapshots. Activity history on the relevant activity / workpack surfaces. Journal history on pay-rate and configuration changes. PDFs from the same print / export actions your team already uses.

Who benefits: Commercial leads defending a quote revision, project managers explaining what changed on site, and payroll / finance answering “who changed that rate, and when?”

Reliability and everyday usability

Fixes this week help everyday workflows run more smoothly and predictably — from the timesheet through to supplier paperwork.

What it does:

• Payroll calculations — more reliable pay outcomes on the paths teams already use
• Calendar gaps — fewer holes when reviewing the week
• Overtime allocation — overtime lands on the right hours more consistently
• Pay-item overrides — override behaviour is more predictable when you correct a line
• Order table loading — order lists open more reliably
• Document imports — fewer stalled imports when bringing files in
• Progress filtering — progress views filter more accurately
• Supplier credit notes — credit-note handling is more dependable in payables

Where you'll find it: Across Timesheets / Payroll, Scheduler / Orders, Documents, progress views, and Supplier credit notes — no extra setup for these reliability updates.

Who benefits: Anyone running a busy pay week, updating the board, importing documents, filtering progress, or issuing a supplier credit note.

Why it matters for construction teams

• Fewer “the total looks right but the breakdown is wrong” moments: Bucket-level reconciliation gives payroll a finer check before export, so mis-allocated ordinary, overtime, or allowance amounts are caught in the review — not after the file has left.
• Awards you can maintain without the click-tax: Expand/collapse on large trees, plus faster authoring of hierarchical rules, cut the time to review an EBA or award when a classification or overtime rule changes mid-job.
• Pay that follows the role and the activity: Role filters, activity include/exclude, and role-level cost codes mean a night loading can apply to crane operators only, a travel allowance can exclude setup activities, and a hired class can be coded differently by role — without splitting a worker’s week across two documents (and double-counting weekly overtime or RDO).
• Crews and POs that match the order, not a copy of it: Reusing the order’s roles stops a week of deploys from multiplying near-identical requirements on the board. Purchase orders with clearer project requirements, quantities, and units keep procurement aligned with how the job is actually bought.
• A paper trail you can take into the meeting: Quote snapshots, activity history, journal trails, and clearer PDFs shorten the path from “what changed on this claim / timesheet / workpack?” to an answer — useful when an SOV line, invoice, or award interpretation is challenged.

Getting started

• Payroll reconciliation: Open a timesheet with calculated pay and review processing warnings. Confirm category totals and pay lines tell the same story on a day that includes overtime or allowances.
• Pay-rate tree navigation: Open Pay Rates → a document → Rate Tree Structure. Use Expand all, then Collapse all, and confirm a single-node chevron still works in between. See Pay Rate Documents.
• Shift-rule role filters: In a rule group, edit a Shift Rule. Set Role filter to include or exclude selected roles, save, then process a timesheet in and out of that role. See Shift Rules.
• Allowance activity filters: In a rule group, edit an Allowance Rule. Open Activity Filter, choose include or exclude, and pick registered activities. Process a timesheet that includes a similarly named activity you did not select. See Allowance Rules.
• Role-level cost codes: On a document whose tree has no Role level, expand a leaf classification → Rate overrides → Role. Set a base rate and/or cost codes, then process a timesheet in that role. See Rate Overrides.
• Crew deploy: Open Scheduler → Crews. Deploy a crew onto an order that already has matching roles and confirm those roles are reused instead of duplicated. See Crews.
• Purchase orders: Open Purchase Orders → New Purchase Order. Confirm project requirements, quantities, and units of measure on the lines you add. See Purchase Orders.
• Quotes and records: Open a Quote and confirm revision snapshots are available as you save versions. Review activity history and journal / audit trails on the records you changed this week, and export a PDF to confirm the clearer details.
• Reliability checks: Re-run a familiar path that previously failed — a timesheet with overtime or pay-item overrides, an order list, a document import, a progress filter, or a supplier credit note.

Permissions: Scheduling and crew deploy use the same access already required for Scheduler (see Setup & Access). Pay Rates, Purchase Orders, Quotes, and supplier credit notes use the same access already required for those modules.

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Release details

Rollout: Updates in this note are rolling out on the standard Assignar Pay release cadence across accounts. Bucket-level payroll reconciliation, pay-rate tree expand/collapse and authoring tools, role filters, activity include/exclude, role-level cost codes, crew role reuse, purchase-order project/quantity/unit improvements, quote snapshots and audit/PDF clarity, guided Pay configuration improvements, and the reliability fixes listed here apply on the normal release path. Role-level cost codes are available on pay-rate documents whose tree has no Role level. Timesheets already processed keep their stored pay until they are re-processed.

Changelog

Added:

• Bucket-level payroll reconciliation for finer-grained pay checks
• Expand all and Collapse all on the Pay Rates tree review panel
• Authoring tools for hierarchical pay-rate structures
• Include/exclude role filter on shift rules
• Include/exclude activity filter on allowance rules
• Role-level rate and Pay Item cost-code overrides (when the tree has no Role level)

Improved:

• Payroll checks that surface category-level differences, not only a day total
• Navigation and maintenance of large hierarchical pay-rate trees
• Guided Pay tools for creating and managing pay-rate structures and overtime rules
• Crew deploy reuses roles already defined on the order
• Purchase-order support for project requirements, quantities, and units
• Quote revision snapshots
• Activity history
• Journal audit trails
• PDF detail clarity
• Progress filters
• Workpack documents
• Auditability, protected configuration flows, and system resilience

Fixed:

• Payroll calculations
• Calendar gaps
• Overtime allocation
• Pay-item overrides
• Order table loading
• Document imports
• Progress filtering
• Supplier credit notes