🟢2025 Major Product Highlights

2025 was about strengthening the foundation of everyday HR operations.Across payroll, compliance, attendance, exits, expenses, budgeting, performance, and employee experience, Pocket HRMS focused on one thing: helping HR teams move faster with confidence, accuracy, and control.

Here’s what’s new and why it matters.

1. Everyday HR Tasks, Made Noticeably Easier

Small improvements create big wins in day-to-day HR operations. These updates reduce clicks, reduce confusion, and improve speed across commonly used workflows.

1.1 Bring Structure to Appraisal Conversations

HR teams can now control the order of appraisal questions so evaluations follow a clear flow. This improves the manager experience, encourages better responses, and reduces missed or inconsistent inputs.

1.2 A More Intuitive PMS Experience

Performance screens now have been refined to feel cleaner and easier to navigate. This reduces effort for managers during reviews and helps HR teams manage cycles with fewer support queries.

1.3 Create a Professional Career Page in Minutes

Organizations can now launch a fully branded, modern career page in just a click—no technical setup required. Hiring teams go live faster, while candidates enjoy a smooth, professional experience from their very first visit.

1.4 Instant Access to Tax Details

Tax details are now available instantly in a quick pop-up view, so teams can review information without navigating away from the screen. This speeds up payroll processing and enables faster, more confident responses to employee tax queries.

1.5 HR Letters, Your Way

HR teams can now design and manage custom letter formats with ease, ensuring consistent communication while still supporting organization-specific templates and dynamic data fields.

1.6 Quick In–Out Summary

In-out reports now give a clearer summary view for faster daily review. This reduces the need to open multiple screens just to confirm punch timelines.

1.7 In-App ESS Announcements

Important announcements are now delivered directly to employees through ESS pop-ups, ensuring higher visibility and reducing the chances of missing critical HR or policy updates.

1.8 Better Control Over Approval Chains

Approval workflows are now clearer and more streamlined, giving HR teams better visibility and control at every stage. This reduces approval bottlenecks and makes it easy to see exactly where requests are pending.

1.9 More Secure, User-Friendly Password Resets

Password reset emails are now clearer and easier to follow, helping employees regain access faster while reducing confusion and support requests related to login issues.

1.10 Protected Document Delivery

Sensitive documents can now be shared securely through ESS, strengthening confidentiality and minimizing the risks associated with manual or unsecured sharing methods.

1.11 CTC That Adapts to Global Teams

CTC structures now support multiple currencies, making compensation management smoother and more consistent for organizations operating across regions.

2. Learning That Goes Beyond Attendance

Training effectiveness depends on engagement and outcomes, not just completion.

2.1 Learning Programs That Listen

Now, with the built-in surveys within learning programs it is easy to capture participant feedback, helping organizations measure effectiveness and continuously improve future learning initiatives.

2.2 Smarter Trainer Identification

External trainers can now be tagged to training sessions, improving visibility, tracking, and reporting for vendor-led learning programs.

2.3 Multi-Trainer Sessions, Simplified

Training sessions can now include multiple trainers with enhanced attendance tracking, making it easier to manage larger and more complex learning programs with confidence.

2.4 Measure Engagement Beyond Courses

Track how learners engage with shared reference materials to gain deeper insights into participation and learning impact beyond attendance alone.

3. Employee Exits, Finally Under Control

Exits require structure, visibility, and coordination across teams.

3.1 Approve Early, Exit Exactly on the Last Working Day

HR teams can now approve separations in advance while ensuring the employee is officially separated only on their actual last working day. This allows smoother exit planning without triggering early payroll actions, access changes, or compliance processes.

3.2 Exit with Clarity. Re-Hire with Confidence.

HR teams can now capture re-hire eligibility directly during the exit process, creating a clear and structured outcome that supports future hiring decisions and removes reliance on informal notes or memory.

3.3 Group-Wide FnF Approvals, Streamlined

FnF approvals can now be managed centrally for employees linked to multiple legal entities, reducing duplication, speeding up approvals, and ensuring consistent exit handling across group companies.

3.4 Clear Notifications at Every Exit Stage

Automated notifications keep HR, managers, finance teams, and employees informed at every stage of the separation workflow, reducing follow-ups and ensuring no critical exit step is missed.

3.5 Smarter Resignation and LWD Management

Resignation and last working day tracking is now clearer and more structured, giving HR teams better visibility into notice periods, timelines, and status. This helps manage exits with confidence and avoids confusion during the closure process.

3.6 Dedicated HR Ownership for Exits

Each exit case can now be assigned to a dedicated HR owner, bringing clear accountability, smoother coordination, and timely completion of FnF activities.

4. More Accurate Work Hours, Even for Complex Shifts

Accurate attendance becomes critical when work patterns are not linear.

4.1 Work Hour Precision for Break-Based Shifts

Now you can define structured breaks and split shifts within a workday using Break Shift functionality. Productive hours are calculated automatically by excluding defined breaks, ensuring attendance reflects actual working time. This delivers fairer work-hour evaluation and payroll-ready attendance data without manual adjustments.

5. Expense and Travel, Without the Back-and-Forth

Expense processing becomes smoother when automation replaces manual checks.

5.1 Consistent Daily Expense Governance

you can set daily expense caps that are enforced automatically at the time of submission. This reduces rejections, minimizes manual validation, and keeps expense claims aligned with company policy from the start.

5.2 Fair Travel Distance, Every Time

Now you can track trip distances automatically using location-based kilometre calculation, eliminating manual entries and calculation errors. Claims are submitted faster, visibility improves with smart indicators for exceeded limits, and exceptions can be managed through controlled overrides.

5.3 Handle Exceptions Without Breaking Policy

You can now allow authorized users to override expense eligibility rules in justified cases, maintaining structured policies while enabling the flexibility needed to handle real-world exceptions.

6. Promotion Updates Made Simple & Quick

Promotions without paperwork chaos.

6.1 Quicker Promotions, Less Admin Effort

Designation, role, and related updates are now handled faster through structured system workflows, reducing manual effort and ensuring timely, accurate changes.

7. Payroll That Feels Safer and More Predictable

Payroll accuracy is not just about calculations. It is about governance, accountability, and trust across HR, finance, and leadership.

7.1 Payroll Approvals You Can Trust

Now you can run payroll with enterprise-grade approval and control. Once payroll is prepared, it flows through a clearly defined, multi-level approval process where authorized stakeholders review and validate details before finalization. Salaries are released only after all required approvals are completed, helping identify discrepancies, compliance risks, and calculation issues early for a more reliable payroll cycle.

7.2 Secure Attendance for Error-Free Payroll

Now you can lock attendance data as soon as payroll processing begins, preventing changes to punches, leave adjustments, or work hours. This keeps payroll figures consistent throughout the cycle and eliminates rework caused by last-minute edits.

7.3 Faster, Hassle-Free Salary Disbursement

Disburse salaries directly through bank integration once payroll is finalized. Pocket HRMS automatically generates a secure, bank-compliant pay-out file with verified employee details and accurate net pay amounts. This eliminates Excel-based salary files, reduces errors, strengthens data security, and ensures faster, more reliable salary pay-outs.

8. Performance That Directly Impacts Pay

Performance outcomes should translate clearly into compensation decisions.

8.1 Performance-Linked Increments, automated

Automatically derive increment percentages from PMS outcomes, reducing manual intervention and ensuring consistent, fair salary revisions driven by appraisal results.

8.2 PMS Feedback Process Overview

Now you can run appraisals on a structured feedback framework that brings greater clarity and consistency across cycles, making evaluations more transparent and easier to understand for both employees and managers.

9. Budgets That Tell You What’s Really Happening

Managing budgets across multiple companies should not require multiple spreadsheets.

9.1 Data-Driven Budgeting Made Simple

Now get a clear, consolidated view of turnover, budgets, and workforce data across group companies through intelligent dashboards. With simple summaries, easy data updates, and role-based access, HR teams and leadership can review group-level insights with clarity and confidence.

10. Compliance Built into Everyday HR

Compliance becomes easier when visibility and control are built into the system.

10.1 Compliance Management, Fully Centralized

Manage statutory compliance from a single, consolidated dashboard. The Compliance Dashboard brings PF, ESIC, PT, TDS, salary registers, and other statutory reports together in one secure screen, making it easy to access, download, and store filings for any selected period. This improves audit readiness while reducing operational complexity.

10.2 Trusted eKYC for Compliance-Ready Payroll

Now verify employee identity using Bank, PAN, and Aadhaar validation, improving the authenticity of master data while strengthening compliance readiness. This reduces issues during audits and statutory checks and builds greater trust in employee records.

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