Assignar Pay Product Release – October 05, 2026

TL;DR

• Quotes from the latest rates — add items from the latest Schedule of Rates documents directly into quotes.
• Payroll closer to the agreement — break rules across each timesheet, plus hourly allowances, daily hour caps, public holidays, leave, and RDO rates.
• Pay rate documents you can manage — rename, re-date, activate, archive, and manage them with more control.
• Scheduling that fits the day — half-day operator bookings, easier pairing, and fatigue checks with fewer interruptions.
• Clearer cost and field records — cost-code thresholds, frozen job-costing headers, site maps, punchlist walks, and paper docket capture.

Context

This note covers September 27 – October 5, 2026. The week brought improvements across payroll, quoting, scheduling, safety, job costing, and everyday administration — so teams spend less time correcting data and more time keeping work moving.

Themes from the week

• More flexible quoting and job costing: Add items from the latest Schedule of Rates documents into quotes, improve billing for docket materials and billable units, and manage cost-code thresholds with clearer job-costing navigation and frozen headers.
• Payroll that better matches real-world rules: Break rules evaluated across each timesheet, with clearer options for when a timesheet ends. Expanded scenarios include hourly allowances, daily hour caps, public holidays, leave, and RDO rates.
• Pay rate documents under your control: Rename, re-date, activate, archive, and manage pay rate documents more easily.
• Smoother scheduling and worker updates: After checkout, workers have more focused control over which details they can change. Operator bookings include half-day booking and easier pairing. Scheduling feedback and fatigue checks are streamlined.
• Safety and compliance: HSEQ registers, maps, and setup are easier to find, with continued improvements to incident investigations, permits, and dashboards.
• Better visibility in the field: Project site maps, punchlist walks, and paper docket capture help teams record and review work with greater confidence.
• Easier administration: Admin-managed worker photos, custom fields, business units, and owning locations make records more complete.
• Find information faster: Improved search, clearer terminology, sortable response data, and more useful help content.
• Reliability and security: Safer invitation handling, improved data validation, and fixes that prevent duplicate records and misleading timesheet information.

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What's new

Add Schedule of Rates items straight into a quote

Estimators can add items from the latest Schedule of Rates documents directly into quotes. A proposal can start from the rate document you already maintain, instead of re-keying lines.

What it does:

• Add items from the latest Schedule of Rates — bring them straight into the quote
• Build the proposal from current rates — the quote follows the rate document, not a copied list
• Less re-typing between the schedule and the bid — fewer chances to carry an old item into the proposal

Who benefits: Estimators and project managers building quotes, and finance teams who need the proposal to match the Schedule of Rates.

Clearer billing for docket materials and billable units

Billing for docket materials and billable units is improved, so materials and units recorded on site are easier to bill.

What it does:

• Docket materials — billing for materials on a docket is improved
• Billable units — units recorded against the work are easier to bill
• A shorter path from the docket to the charge — office teams spend less time reconstructing what the crew recorded

Who benefits: Project administrators billing dockets, and finance teams closing materials and unit charges.

Cost-code thresholds and a job-costing view that stays readable

Cost-code thresholds are easier to manage. Job-costing views are clearer, with improved navigation and frozen headers, so headings stay in place while you move through a long job.

What it does:

• Manage cost-code thresholds more easily — review and maintain thresholds with less friction
• Clearer job-costing navigation — move through the view without losing your place
• Frozen headers — column headings stay visible as you scroll

Who benefits: Project managers and finance reviewing job cost, and anyone working a long cost-code list in a cost meeting.

Break rules that follow the whole timesheet

Break rules can be evaluated across each timesheet, with clearer options for when a timesheet ends. The rule can see the timesheet as the crew actually worked it, including how that timesheet closes.

What it does:

• Evaluate break rules across the timesheet — the rule is applied to the timesheet, not only one slice of it
• Clearer options for when a timesheet ends — the end of the timesheet is explicit when the rule runs
• A result closer to the rule you wrote — less manual correction when the break or the finish time was the mismatch

Who benefits: Payroll admins applying award and EBA break rules, and foremen whose timesheets need to close cleanly before they reach payroll.

Allowances, caps, public holidays, leave, and RDO rates

Payroll supports a wider set of site conditions: hourly allowances, daily hour caps, public holidays, leave, and RDO rates.

What it does:

• Hourly allowances — allowances that follow hours can be applied in payroll
• Daily hour caps — a cap on hours in the day is part of the calculation
• Public holidays, leave, and RDO rates — those days can use the rate the agreement expects

Who benefits: Payroll admins processing a week that includes a public holiday, leave, an RDO, or an allowance, and project managers who need the pay result to match the EBA.

Pay rate documents you can rename, re-date, and archive

Pay rate documents are easier to rename, re-date, activate, archive, and manage. Payroll can keep the live document current without working around the record.

What it does:

• Rename and re-date a document when the agreement or the effective period changes
• Activate and archive so the document in use is the one payroll should apply
• Manage the document in place — more control over the record you already have

Who benefits: Payroll admins maintaining awards, EBAs, and site agreements, and anyone who needs the active pay rate document to be obvious.

After checkout, workers change only what they should

After checkout, workers have more focused control over which details they can change. A finished shift can still be corrected where a correction belongs, without leaving every detail open.

What it does:

• Focused control after checkout — workers can change the details they are allowed to change
• A finished shift stays stable — details that should stay put are not left wide open
• A cleaner handoff to payroll — the timesheet that leaves the field is closer to the one payroll will process

Who benefits: Field workers closing out a shift, foremen reviewing what changed after checkout, and payroll admins who need a stable timesheet.

Half-day operator bookings and easier pairing

Operator bookings are more flexible, including half-day booking and easier pairing when assigning work. A coordinator can book an operator for part of the day and pair them with the job more easily.

What it does:

• Half-day operator bookings — book an operator for part of the day
• Easier pairing when assigning work — match the operator to the job with less friction
• A plan that follows how plant is used — a machine that only needs an operator until lunch can be booked that way

Who benefits: Schedulers and coordinators assigning operators and plant, and project managers planning a day that is not a full shift on every machine.

Fatigue checks without unnecessary interruptions

Scheduling feedback and fatigue checks are streamlined, so coordinators can make safer decisions without unnecessary interruptions.

What it does:

• Streamlined fatigue checks — the check is there when a safer decision needs it
• Scheduling feedback with fewer interruptions — prompts that do not change the plan get out of the way
• A safer assignment, made faster — the check supports the decision instead of stalling the board

Who benefits: Schedulers and coordinators building the next day's plan, and safety leads who need fatigue considered before a worker is assigned.

HSEQ registers, investigations, permits, and dashboards

HSEQ registers, maps, and setup are easier to find. Incident investigations, permits, and dashboards continue to improve, so safety work is easier to open and follow.

What it does:

• Registers, maps, and setup are easier to find — the HSEQ tools sit where teams look for them
• Incident investigations — continued improvements to how an investigation is worked
• Permits and dashboards — continued improvements so permits and safety dashboards are easier to use

Who benefits: Safety and HSEQ leads, project managers reviewing incidents and permits, and anyone opening a register or a safety dashboard during the week.

Site maps, punchlist walks, and paper dockets

Project site maps, punchlist walks, and paper docket capture help teams record and review work with greater confidence.

What it does:

• Project site maps — see the site while you review the work
• Punchlist walks — walk the job and capture punchlist items as you go
• Paper docket capture — bring a paper docket into Assignar Pay so the record is not left on a clipboard

Who benefits: Foremen and engineers walking a site, project managers reviewing punchlist items, and office staff who still receive paper dockets from the field.

Worker photos, custom fields, business units, and locations

Admin-managed worker photos, custom fields, business units, and owning locations make worker records more complete and easier to manage.

What it does:

• Admin-managed worker photos — an administrator can keep the photo on the worker record
• Custom fields — store the extra details your organisation needs
• Business units and owning locations — show where the worker sits in the business, and which location owns the record

Who benefits: Administrators maintaining the workforce register, payroll teams who need a complete worker record, and project managers looking up who belongs to which location.

Search, terminology, and help that get you there faster

Search is improved, terminology is clearer, response data can be sorted, and help content is more useful.

What it does:

• Improved search — find the record you need with less hunting
• Clearer terminology — labels stay consistent with the words your teams use
• Sortable response data — sort responses so the row you need is easier to reach
• More useful help content — guidance sits closer to the task you are doing

Who benefits: Project administrators, payroll, and finance — anyone searching, sorting a response list, or opening help during a busy day.

Safer invites, cleaner data, and timesheets you can trust

Assignar Pay is more dependable and more secure: safer invitation handling, improved data validation, and fixes that prevent duplicate records and misleading timesheet information. Security-focused updates keep the product current while your data stays protected.

What it does:

• Safer invitation handling — invites are handled with more care
• Improved data validation — bad data is caught earlier
• Fewer duplicate records — fixes that stop the same record appearing twice
• Timesheet information you can trust — fixes that stop timesheet details from being misleading
• Security updates — refreshed security-focused packages and dependency updates that keep the product current

Who benefits: Account owners and admins inviting people in, payroll teams reading timesheets, and every team that depends on a single, accurate record.

Why it matters for construction teams

• Quotes stay on the current Schedule of Rates. Adding items from the latest rate document shortens the path from the SOR to a proposal a client can price against.
• Dockets bill with less reconstruction. Clearer billing for docket materials and billable units means the materials and units captured on site are easier to turn into a charge.
• A long job-cost view stays readable. Thresholds that are easier to manage, plus navigation and frozen headers, help a cost review stay on the right row when the cost-code list is deep.
• Breaks, caps, holidays, leave, and RDOs can follow the agreement. Evaluating break rules across the timesheet — with a clear end to that timesheet — and support for hourly allowances, daily hour caps, public holidays, leave, and RDO rates means payroll spends less time correcting a week that did not match the EBA.
• The active pay rate document is obvious. Renaming, re-dating, activating, and archiving keeps the agreement in force separate from the one that has been superseded.
• A finished shift stays finished. Focused control after checkout lets a worker correct what they are allowed to correct without rewriting details payroll has started to trust.
• Plant can be booked for the part of the day you need. Half-day operator bookings and easier pairing match how a site uses an operator — a morning on one machine, not a full day forced onto the board.
• Fatigue is checked without stalling the plan. Streamlined fatigue checks and scheduling feedback help a coordinator make a safer assignment without an interruption on every move.
• The site walk and the paper docket can live with the job. Easier-to-find HSEQ registers, maps, and setup, plus site maps, punchlist walks, and paper docket capture, keep an investigation, a permit, or a paper docket closer to the job record.
• The worker record matches the organisation. Photos, custom fields, business units, and owning locations give payroll and the project team a more complete record when they look someone up.

Getting started

• Quotes: Open a quote and add items from the latest Schedule of Rates document. Confirm the lines match the rate document you expect to use.
• Dockets: Open billing for a docket that includes materials and billable units, and confirm those charges read correctly.
• Job costing: Open a job-costing view, review cost-code thresholds, and scroll a long view to confirm navigation is clearer and the headers stay frozen.
• Break rules: Process a timesheet that includes a break. Confirm the break rule is evaluated across the timesheet, and that the options for when the timesheet ends are clear.
• Payroll scenarios: Review a period that includes an hourly allowance, a daily hour cap, a public holiday, leave, or an RDO rate.
• Pay rate documents: Open a pay rate document and rename, re-date, activate, or archive it. Confirm the document you want in force is the active one.
• After checkout: Check out of a shift and confirm a worker can change only the details they are allowed to change.
• Operator bookings: Book an operator for half a day and pair them with the work you are assigning.
• Fatigue checks: Assign work that should raise a fatigue check, and confirm the prompt is streamlined.
• HSEQ: Open HSEQ registers, maps, and setup. Review an incident investigation, a permit, and a safety dashboard.
• Field records: Open a project site map, review a punchlist walk, and capture a paper docket.
• Worker records: As an administrator, update a worker photo, a custom field, a business unit, or an owning location.
• Search and help: Search for a record you use often, sort response data, and open the related help content.

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Release details

The updates in this note cover quoting from Schedule of Rates, docket materials and billable units, cost-code thresholds and job-costing navigation, payroll break rules and expanded rate scenarios, pay rate document management, post-checkout edits, operator bookings, fatigue checks, HSEQ, field capture, worker administration, search, and the reliability and security fixes described above.

Changelog

Added:

• Adding items from the latest Schedule of Rates documents directly into quotes

Improved:

• Billing for docket materials and billable units
• Half-day operator bookings, and pairing when assigning operator work
• Admin-managed worker photos
• Cost-code threshold management
• Job-costing navigation and frozen headers
• Break rules evaluated across each timesheet, with clearer options for when a timesheet ends
• Payroll support for hourly allowances, daily hour caps, public holidays, leave, and RDO rates
• Pay rate documents: rename, re-date, activate, archive, and manage
• Which details a worker can change after checkout
• Scheduling feedback and fatigue checks, with fewer unnecessary interruptions
• Finding HSEQ registers, maps, and setup
• Incident investigations, permits, and dashboards
• Project site maps, punchlist walks, and paper docket capture
• Custom fields, business units, and owning locations on worker records
• Search, terminology, sortable response data, and help content
• Invitation handling, data validation, and security updates

Fixed:

• Duplicate records
• Misleading timesheet information