What's new in HollyHR
Every change you can use in HollyHR today, in plain words: new things, improvements and fixes. If it's listed here, it's live. We don't list plans.
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Week of 9 November 2026
Time off
- Improved
Approve time off at a glance
When you approve or decline a request, you now see what the person has left and who else in the team is away, all in one place.
See how it works - Improved
Clearer time off balances
Leave cards now show taken, booked and waiting for approval separately. The information button shows the full sum, including why a part-time allowance is smaller.
See how it works - Improved
Book time off from your phone
Book time off from the top of My time off on any phone. Before you send it, you see who will approve it and what you will have left. Cancelling a booking now tells your manager.
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Sickness
- Improved
Long sickness absences are checked weekly, not daily
When you say someone is still off sick, HollyHR now asks how long for, so a long absence gets a weekly check-in instead of a daily one. A fit note can set the expected last day.
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People
- New
See and correct your own National Insurance number
Your NI number now shows on the Banking tab of your own profile, hidden until you choose to show it. You can correct it yourself, with the same identity check as your bank details.
See how it works - Improved
See current staff, former staff or everyone
The People directory now starts with the people who work for you today. Choose Former people or Everyone to see people who have left, and open a former employee's record to read it.
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Documents
- Improved
See who still needs to read a document
Each company document now has its own page, with the people who are overdue listed first. From there you can remind them, excuse someone, stop asking or upload a new version.
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Equipment
- New
See the equipment you hold
If your organisation uses Equipment, your own profile now lists what you hold and what you have handed back, with the forms you signed.
Reports
- Fixed
Report PDFs download again
Report PDFs download again, and now show your organisation's name and the dates they cover. CSV downloads open cleanly in Excel.
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Notifications
- Fixed
Approvers always get the email asking them to approve
Managers now always get the email asking them to approve time off, even if they have switched time off emails off. That switch now covers only updates.
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Getting around
- Improved
The sidebar remembers what you open
Open or close a section of the sidebar and it stays that way next time. HR and System Admins now find Training, Equipment and Benefits next to Documents.
Settings
- New
Let people fill in their own custom fields
In Settings, choose for each custom field whether it is for HR only or for the person and HR. People then fill in their own on their profile. Every field starts as HR only, so nothing changes until you choose.
See how it works - Improved
Download all data now includes training and equipment
Your organisation's data download now has four more spreadsheets: training completions, certificates with their expiry dates and references, equipment, and who has had each item.
Your account
- Fixed
Adding a passkey works first time
Adding a passkey in Your account now works straight after you confirm it is you, however long you have been signed in.
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Help
- New
Step-by-step help for Training, Equipment and Benefits
Three new help articles show how to record training and certificates, track equipment through to leavers, and record benefits. Ask Holly can walk you through them too.
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