What's coming to Deel in April

The best version of Deel is one that handles more so your teams handle less. Fewer manual processes, deeper integrations, more resolved without a support ticket ever being raised. Going live on April 8th, over 20 releases will move the platform closer to that.

Here’s what’s changing, and what your team needs to do before they land.

HRIS

Worker profile redesign

Deel’s HRIS Worker Profile is being rebuilt around a new Person, Work, and Compensation data model — giving admins a cleaner, faster view and workers a more accessible profile across all devices.

What this means for you: Less time navigating a cluttered profile, fewer misdirected updates, and a layout that finally matches how worker data is structured.

How you can prepare: No migration needed — brief your HR admin team on the new structure before your next onboarding cohort.

Separate worker status into person and onboarding status

The single worker status field is splitting into two: one for personal information completeness, one for onboarding progress — giving admins a more accurate and intuitive picture of exactly where each worker stands.

What this means for you: Cleaner pipeline visibility and the ability to action incomplete records independently, without conflating two very different things.

How you can prepare: Review how your team currently tracks onboarding status and plan how you'll use the split view.

Time off request for Microsoft Teams

Workers using Deel's Microsoft Teams plugin can now submit standard time off requests directly in Teams — no context-switching required. Brings feature parity with Slack, and adds analytics on request origin for HR insights.

What this means for you: Higher completion rates from workers who live in Teams, and one fewer reason to chase people to submit requests.

How you can prepare: Confirm Deel’s Microsoft Teams plugin is active and let your workforce know before go-live.

Field level permissions and manager edit permissions for custom fields

Deel’s HRIS is getting a more flexible, self-service custom field permissions model — including the ability for managers to edit custom fields for their direct reports.

What this means for you: Managers take ownership of their team's data. HR Ops spend less time acting as an intermediary for routine field updates.

How you can prepare: Decide which custom fields should be manager-editable and configure permissions before go-live.

Mass sign for HRIS contracts

Clients managing large batches of HRIS-synced contracts can now sign in bulk — with full control over when employee invitations are triggered during onboarding.

What this means for you: Bulk onboarding gets faster and more controlled. No more processing contracts one by one or managing invitation timing as a separate step.

How you can prepare: Identify your next high-volume onboarding cohort and plan to use mass signing as your default flow.

Engage

Show/hide content in Library Hub

Admins and editors can now curate Engage's Library Hub — controlling which content is visible to which workers, with audience targeting via Job Architecture. No more one-size-fits-all content feeds.

What this means for you: The right content reaches the right people. Workers stop seeing irrelevant material; engagement rates go up.

How you can prepare: Audit your Library Hub content and identify what should be scoped by role, entity, or job level before the feature goes live.

Deel IT

Enable joining support conversations

Deel IT clients can now join support conversations directly on the platform — enabling faster, more direct resolution of IT issues without routing through external channels.

What this means for you: IT teams get a seat at the table when it matters, cutting the delay that currently comes from receiving an escalation mid-conversation.

How you can prepare: Configure access for the IT team members who should be able to join conversations.

Deel Payroll

Cycle tracker redesign UX

The Deel Payroll Cycle Tracker is being rebuilt for multi-entity scale — compact, card-based, with urgency grouping, improved filters, and a flexible architecture that handles corrections and parallel runs as they emerge.

What this means for you: See exactly what needs your attention across every entity, without having to hunt for it. Built for teams managing ten or more payroll cycles simultaneously.

How you can prepare: Familiarise your payroll team with the new layout before your next cycle runs.

Leave of absence sync enabled

Deel Payroll clients using the Workday GPC integration can now fetch Leave of Absence data directly from Workday's standard path — eliminating manual and duplicate entries across both platforms.

What this means for you: Cleaner records during leave periods, and one less source of end-of-period reconciliation errors for teams running Deel Global Payroll alongside Workday.

How you can prepare: Confirm leave policies are configured in both systems and map which leave types should flow through the Workday GPC integration.

Payroll submission — grouping columns

Deel Payroll clients can now customize column grouping on the Payroll Submission page — grouping items by use case, viewing differently by role, and renaming for clarity.

What this means for you: Finance and HR Ops can each see a Payroll Submission view that's structured for how they actually work, with better data resolution for reconciliation.

How you can prepare: Plan your default column configurations per internal persona ahead of the release.

Improved review steps for bulk edit

The Review Step in Deel Platform's Bulk Edit feature is being redesigned to clearly surface all pending changes before they're applied — ensuring nothing is committed without explicit acknowledgement. The result is fewer post-edit corrections, fewer rollbacks, and a meaningful reduction in support tickets related to misapplied changes.

What this means for you: A proper control point before bulk changes become irreversible. For teams running large-scale compensation or data updates, this is a simple but significant safety net.

How you can prepare: Add the updated Review Step to your standard bulk edit sign-off process from day one.

Simplified auto submission/approval

Payroll submission and approval automation is getting a simpler setup — decoupling automation configuration from multi-level approval policies so teams can adopt it without complex prerequisites.

What this means for you: If you've been deferring payroll automation because the setup felt too tangled, that blocker is gone.

How you can prepare: Identify which payroll groups are ready candidates for auto submission before the simplified setup lands.

Employer of Record

Per diem — rate conditions and restrictions

Deel’s EOR clients can now customize expense categories, define tax-free rates, and activate automated allowance creation — with employees getting immediate feedback on applicable tax-free rates at the point of submission.

What this means for you: Reduced compliance risk across tax jurisdictions, less manual work for admins, and fewer payroll queries from employees who weren't sure what was covered.

How you can prepare: Map your EOR expense categories and identify which need tax-free rate definitions before go-live.

Contractor

Contractor withdrawal method prioritisation

All Contractors are getting a redesigned withdrawal experience that leads with high-speed, high-margin methods — simplifying the decision, highlighting instant options, and reducing the cognitive load of choosing how to access funds.

What this means for you: Fewer contractor queries about withdrawal options. The right choice gets surfaced upfront, without requiring contractors to navigate a full list.

How you can prepare: Give your contractor population a heads-up that the withdrawal experience is changing.

Deprecation of SOW

Deel’s Contractor of Record clients are moving from the Statement of Work (SOW) to the Quote Work Order Form (WOF) — streamlining the contract flow and unifying the contract experience across COR and EOR.

What this means for you: A cleaner, more consistent contract flow for contingent workforce engagements. Legal and Finance teams managing high volumes of COR contracts benefit from reduced overhead, and the unified experience across COR and EOR makes cross-product contract management more predictable.

How you can prepare: Align with your Legal team on how the WOF maps to your existing SOW templates. Identify any contract language that needs migrating before the SOW deprecation lands.

Deel Mobility

Document Intakes

Deel Mobility clients are getting a redesigned document intake experience — clearer instructions, smarter categorisation, automatic field extraction, and full visibility on when intake is complete. End-to-end processing time is set to drop by 60%.

What this means for you: More documents correct on the first upload, fewer stalled cases, and a significantly faster path from intake to filing for your Mobility team.

How you can prepare: Brief your Mobility team on the new intake flow so they're ready to guide applicants through it from day one.

Business Visa Letters automation

Deel Mobility clients can now generate Business Visa Letters automatically — cutting manual effort for Mobility Ops agents, reducing error rates, and enabling consistent delivery at scale across contractors, COR, and partners.

What this means for you: BVLs go from a days-long manual process to on-demand. A meaningful time saving for any team managing high volumes of business travel.

How you can prepare: Communicate the new self-serve timeline to your mobile workforce and travel coordinators before go-live.

Deel Platform

Fern — new API documentation platform

Deel's API documentation is moving to Fern — improving clarity, discoverability, and developer onboarding across the full API surface, with particular improvements to MCP documentation for teams building agent-based integrations.

What this means for you: Engineers onboard faster, integrations get built with fewer errors, and your team spends less time deciphering documentation.

How you can prepare: Share the updated Fern docs with your engineering team and flag them as the new reference source for any integration work in flight.

OneTrust integration

Through Deel Platform's new OneTrust integration, clients and workers can now exercise their privacy rights directly on the platform — with pre-filled forms and no support ticket required.

What this means for you: Faster privacy rights resolution, a lighter load for support and Legal teams, and a stronger audit posture with every exercise documented and actioned by the requester.

How you can prepare: Update internal guidance to direct workers to the platform for privacy requests before this goes live.

New e-signature experience and PDF editing

Deel's new internal e-signature engine lets admins upload a PDF, place signature and input fields, and send for signing — entirely within Deel. Reusable templates, a full audit trail, and dual OTP for external signers included. No more Adobe Acrobat or DocuSign.

What this means for you: Faster document turnaround with better security, built into the platform you're already using. One fewer external tool in your HR and Legal stack.

How you can prepare: Identify which workflows currently rely on external signature tools and plan the migration.

NetSuite syncing custom fields

Enterprise clients using Deel Platform's NetSuite integration can now sync custom LIST fields and parent-child hierarchies — mirroring their NetSuite financial structure in Deel with self-serve configuration for Finance teams.

What this means for you: Accurate invoice classification, support for complex entity hierarchies, and significantly less manual reconciliation work between NetSuite and Deel.

How you can prepare: Map the NetSuite custom fields and hierarchies that should sync into Deel and validate the structure before go-live.

Assignments based on new categories

Admins can now assign time off policies based on entity, payroll group, and gender — replacing the manual assignment work that currently consumes significant hours during onboarding and ongoing management.

What this means for you: Fewer hours spent on manual policy assignment, a cleaner experience for workers, and gender-specific policies that stop appearing where they don't apply.

How you can prepare: Map your current time off policies to the new entity, payroll group, and gender categories ahead of go-live.

Anytime Pay card to bank withdrawal

EOR and Deel Payroll employees can now transfer funds from their Anytime Pay Deel Card directly to their bank account — no support contact needed. A withdrawal history table gives full visibility into transfer status.

What this means for you: Workers get direct, self-serve access to their earned pay. For HR and Total Rewards teams, this makes Anytime Pay a stronger financial wellness benefit — especially in markets where card spending is less convenient.

How you can prepare: Let your EOR and Deel Payroll employees know the new transfer option is coming.

Expense overview revamp

The Expense Overview page is being redesigned with a new side navigation menu, quick-action tab, inline approval buttons, improved detail view, and more powerful filtering — reducing complexity and speeding up review times for approvers.

What this means for you: Faster expense processing and fewer review errors. Inline approvals alone cut the clicks required to clear a standard queue.

How you can prepare: Brief your Finance Ops team and approvers on the new layout before it lands.

Enhanced mass upload experience

The bulk upload experience for expenses, allowances, and bonuses is getting improved CSV templates, cleaner employee filtering, better document handling, and more specific error messaging — reducing upload errors and manual rework for Finance and Payroll teams.

What this means for you: Fewer failed uploads, faster diagnosis when something goes wrong, and a smoother process end-to-end for high-volume compensation adjustments.

How you can prepare: Download the updated CSV templates when they go live and update your internal documentation.

Reorder actions in Workflow Builder

Operations Managers, Workflow Builders, and Developers can now reorder action nodes in the Deel Platform Workflow Builder using drag-and-drop — no deleting and rebuilding required. Supports complex branching, reduces workflow edit time by 50%, and lays the foundation for AI-driven workflows.

What this means for you: Half the time spent editing workflows, with significantly less risk of introducing errors when correcting sequences. One of the most frustrating parts of building in Deel — fixed.

How you can prepare: No configuration needed. Identify the workflows your team iterates most often and start there.