Less admin, more impact: What's new at Deel this February

The small frictions add up: a payroll request with no status, a review you can't correct before the deadline, a tax line that doesn't match local rules. This month's updates target exactly these moments across HR, payroll, and IT. Turn them on and get time back. No extra tools, no extra steps.

Here's what's new inside Deel.

HR and people teams

Performance management, learning, and onboarding all got meaningful upgrades. The common thread: less manual overhead, more signal from your data, and processes that hold up at scale.

Understand performance, deeply

• L2 analytics for Reviews: Stop working around limited reporting, Review data is now available in Engage analytics. Build custom reports using two new datasets, filter by cycle, question type, feedback type, and employee attributes, and save them as dashboards you can reuse every cycle.
• Calibration distribution chart: Make calibration decisions you can defend with Engage. Admins and managers can now see score distributions before and after calibration in a visual chart, switch between heatmap and distribution views, and filter by manager or group, so score alignment isn't guesswork.
• Snowflake integration for Goals: If your team tracks goal progress in Snowflake, now Deel's Engage tracks it too. Connect once and progress syncs daily via SQL queries, no more manual numeric updates. Goal status and comments stay with you; Snowflake handles the numbers.

Run reviews that people trust

• Weighted feedback types: Not all feedback carries equal weight, and now your review setup can reflect that in Engage. Assign different weights to self, upward, downward, and peer feedback, reconfigure whenever your setup changes, and trust that totals always sum to 100%.
• Allow resubmission until deadline: Employees caught a mistake in their review submission, they shouldn't need to raise a ticket to fix it. Now they can edit and resubmit freely until the deadline, and once it passes, resubmission locks automatically in Engage.
• Survey question categories: Asking the right questions is one thing, making sense of the answers is another. Admins can now group rating questions under meaningful categories like onboarding or manager relations, analyze results at the category level, and manage categories centrally from Engage settings. Categories are reusable across surveys and can be updated even after a survey has launched.
• Survey templates: Skip the blank canvas. Use Engage to launch surveys using Deel-certified templates for new hire surveys, engagement surveys, event feedback, and more. Apply a template, customize freely, and you're ready to go.

Scale training, hiring, and onboarding

• Training Sessions: Live training has always happened outside Deel — on spreadsheets, in email threads, with no audit trail. Now admins can schedule sessions, manage attendance, and report on completion all within Engage’s Learning module. The overhead disappears; the record doesn't.
• Talent mobile app, polished: Talent clients on mobile now get a smoother, more reliable experience. Navigation is back where it belongs, CTAs work as expected, and the layout issues that crept in have been resolved.
• Guided onboarding for new SMB clients: Getting started on a new platform shouldn't feel like navigating without a map. New SMB clients and onboarding managers now move through Deel HR setup with a structured, guided framework. Faster to value, less reliant on manual hand-holding.
• Customize worker types in white label: White Label admins can now show or hide specific worker types and contract options on the Add People page, so the experience stays clean, on-brand, and aligned with what your commercial model actually offers.

Payroll and finance teams

Speed and accuracy on the same side. This month's updates make payroll support trackable, contractor invoicing locally compliant, and the employee experience around pay more transparent, without adding steps for your team.

Track requests, not threads

• Payroll support revamp: Payroll requests used to disappear into conversations. Now, Deel Payroll and PEO clients submit and track requests through structured Workbench processes, giving every request a clear status, owner, and path to resolution. Conversations are still there when you need them; they're just no longer the default.
• Compliance newsletter, refreshed: Your legal team's inbox stays cleaner. The compliance newsletter now delivers only timely, relevant regulatory updates, filtered down to what actually matters for your organization, so important changes don't get lost in the noise.

Stay compliant across borders

• Automated equity documents for UK workers: If you have UK EOR employees with equity, S431 documents used to be a manual task. Now Deel detects and provisions them automatically, reducing compliance risk and one more thing to chase.
• VAT, GST, or HST on invoices: Tax labels on contractor invoices now match local rules. Contractor clients can choose whether to include VAT, GST, or HST on each invoice, adapting to their region and internal accounting preferences without a workaround.
• Consistent branding in Employee Agreements: Contractor admins can now configure headers and footers across all pages of Employee Agreements, including signature pages. Every document goes out looking like it came from your organization, not an off-the-shelf template.
• Clearer visa eligibility checks: Clients and workers going through visa applications now get an improved eligibility check experience, with a streamlined flow and better transparency around associated fees.

Hire fast, equip faster

• Order equipment right after hiring: EOR clients can now browse and order equipment immediately through Deel IT after accepting an EOR quote — no need to navigate to the IT tab separately. A prompt appears at exactly the right moment, making equipment ordering a natural next step in the hiring flow.

Keep workers informed

• Expense Card notifications: Employees using Expense Cards now receive automated, event-based email notifications covering card issuance, funding, RFIs, and declined transactions. No more guessing, workers always know what's happening with their card.
• Anytime Pay notifications: Employees can now receive automated notifications about Anytime Pay tailored to their status, helping more workers discover and activate a feature that puts them in control of when they get paid.
• Mobile transactions, rebuilt from the ground up: The Transactions List and Transaction Details screens in the Deel mobile app are now fully native in React Native. Workers get a fast, clean experience with transactions grouped by date. The kind of detail that makes checking your pay feel effortless.

Cleaner experience, everywhere

• "IT" is now "Equipment" in navigation: A simple rename that makes a real difference. The device procurement flow now lives under "Equipment" in the main navigation, so you can easily find it without a second guess.
• A better first look at Deel IT: The in-product landing page for Deel IT has been redesigned to be value-driven, form-free, and contextually tailored. Whether you're exploring or ready to buy, the experience now meets you where you are.

IT and operations teams

IT admins need visibility and control, not more tickets. This month's update gives both.

Always-on support, with better controls

• Enhanced 24x7 Tech Support: Deel IT and Org admins now have improved permissions to view and manage requests, plus full tracking for request creation, views, and state changes. Add in new platform-level controls, automation integrations, and demo environments, and 24x7 support scales with you, not against you.