- Archive and restore from People > Departments: choose Archive from a department’s menu, and Restore to bring it back.
- Existing assignments stay in place: team members already in an archived department stay in it, and accounting settings that use it keep working.
- Plane Agent can archive and restore departments: once an admin allows it, ask it to retire the ones you no longer use after a reorganization, and use it to find anyone still assigned to an archived department.
Other fixes
- Department names stay unique: a department can’t take a name another department in your organization already uses. In a team member’s job information, if you choose Create a new department from the Department field and enter the exact name of an active department, Plane assigns that department instead of creating a new one.
- Manual payroll payments are properly handled in accounting: when an employee’s net pay is paid outside Plane, such as by wire or check, the payroll journal entry records it as Net pay paid outside Plane, a payable you clear against the payment you sent. Map it in Accounting > Settings > Mappings, under Payroll payables.