Address changes now have a timeline: schedule moves and record past moves
You can now schedule a team member’s upcoming move ahead of time, or record a move that already happened. Each change is dated, so it applies on the right date, improving payroll accuracy.
- Schedule an upcoming move: Enter a known move with its effective date, and it takes effect automatically on that date.
- Record a past move: Add a move that already happened, dated to when it actually took effect.
- See the full history: A history view shows a team member’s scheduled, current, and past addresses at a glance.
For builders and developers
Worker addresses are now available through the API, MCP server, and CLI, with list, get, create, and update endpoints. Updates use correction-only semantics to keep the effective-dated history intact.Keep your workforce plans current: revise, edit, and share them anytime
Workforce Planning, the feature for modeling your next hires and their fully-loaded cost inside Plane, got a significant update. Plans are no longer locked once approved, and they’re easier to shape and share:
- Revise approved plans: Reopen an approved plan to draft, make changes, and approve it again.
- Edit plan details: Rename a draft plan and adjust its date window at any time. When you change dates, we’ll let you know if any positions fall outside the planning window.
- Download as PDF: Download a plan as a PDF to share with leadership, finance, or your board.
- Smarter defaults: New plans now start with a rolling 12-month window beginning in the current month.
Other improvements and fixes
- Future off-cycle payrolls stay visible: Future-dated off-cycle payrolls now remain listed in Run Payroll, so you always see what’s scheduled and nothing drops out of view before payday.
- Clearer EOR offboarding: When you request a termination for an EOR employee, you can now see whether the requested last day is under review or has been scheduled by Plane’s Operations team. Nothing is committed to the worker’s record until the review is complete, which allows the team to handle compliance and notice periods.
- Emergency contacts: Employees can now add and manage their emergency contacts directly from their profile.
- Bank account fix: We fixed an issue where adding a bank account could silently fail after changing the account currency, such as switching a Brazilian account from BRL to USD.
Plane Agent got a lot smarter
Plane Agent, your AI teammate for back-office work, has been rebuilt from the ground up for capability. It’s available today for Slack:
- New tool capabilities: The agent now has access to a full set of tools, so it can write and run code in a secure, isolated workspace, take on multi-step tasks, and produce real deliverables: spreadsheets, presentations, documents, and more.
- File attachments, both ways: Send the agent files in Slack, and get its work back. Reports, exports, and other output land right in the conversation as attachments.
- Direct messages: The agent’s messages reach team members as Slack DMs when they’re on your workspace’s Slack, matched by work email.
- A better Slack home: The agent moved to Slack’s new Messages tab, so your conversation works like any other DM, with live status updates while it works.
Other improvements and fixes
- Notes in payroll reports: Internal and team member notes have been added to the payroll journal and payroll preview reports and in CSV and XLSX exports. For skipped payrolls, the internal note includes the reason the payroll was skipped.
- Government IDs: When you add or edit a team member’s government ID, such as a Social Security number, national ID, or passport, Plane now applies more precise validation against the rules for their country.
- For builders and developers: The workers API and MCP tools now support looking up workers by email, and read-only Calendar and Calendar Event endpoints are available across the API, MCP server, and CLI.
Easily access beta features & customize your workspace
The Features catalog is a central place to explore everything available in Plane, so you can stay up to date on what’s available.
Beta features you can turn on in the catalog today include:
- Plane Agent for Slack: Your AI-powered teammate that does your back-office work for you, right in Slack.
- Offers: Create, send, and track offer letters directly in Plane.
- Workforce Planning: Model future headcount and see the fully-loaded employer cost.
To use this feature:
Go to Features in the sidebar. Open any feature to see what it does, then turn it on or off.A few core features, like Payroll, Payments, and HR, are always on. Read more about how the Features catalog works in the blog post.Other improvements and fixes
- HR Coordinator role: A new organization-level role for people who manage worker profiles but shouldn’t see pay. HR Coordinators can view and maintain worker profiles across your organization, including adding and inviting workers, editing personal and employment details, and checking setup status. Compensation, payments, and payroll stay hidden.
- Calendar now excludes events for people who’ve left: Birthdays and work anniversaries for terminated or archived team members no longer appear in your calendar.
Ask your AI assistant about more of your Plane data
We expanded Plane’s MCP server so that more of your workforce data is reachable from your AI assistant. If you’ve connected Plane to Claude, ChatGPT, or another MCP-compatible assistant, you can now ask about:- Time tracking
- Employment history
- Workforce Planning (in beta)
Other MCP improvements and fixes
- We updated our MCP documentation with an expanded introduction, step-by-step setup for Claude and ChatGPT, and an API-key fallback. See it at docs.plane.com/guides/mcp.
- We made the MCP tool descriptions clearer and improved error handling, so your assistant returns better results.
Sign in faster and more securely with passkeys
You can now conveniently sign in to Plane with a passkey instead of typing a password. Your device or password manager keeps the passkey safe and unlocks it at sign-in, so there is nothing to remember or type.
Other improvements and fixes
- Review and sign out active sessions: From your user settings page, you can now see every device signed in to your account and sign any of them out, so a shared or lost device can be ended remotely.
- Bank account changes are now verified by email: Because passkeys let team members use Plane without a password, changing a personal bank account no longer prompts the user for a password. Verification now requires providing a one-time code sent by email.
More flexibility in how you pay contractors and view balances
When paying contractors, you can now change your funding source before scheduling the payments.Choose your funding source
Contractors across multiple entities
When you’re paying contractors who belong to different entities, Plane automatically groups them on the review page so each entity uses its own funding source.A refreshed Balances page
We rebuilt the Balances page with a cleaner look that matches the rest of Plane. You can now download statements as PDFs, and workspaces with multiple entities see one balance per entity.Other improvements and fixes
- Accounting automation captures all invoices, not just subscriptions: Previously, only subscription invoices flowed into the accounting. Other invoices, like EOR deposits, now appear as accounting items so finance teams can see and reconcile them. These items require manual account mappings for now — pre-built mappings for the new invoice types will come in a follow-up release.
- Archive team members with a cancelled onboarding: Workers whose onboarding was cancelled used to remain in a pending state, and can now be archived.
- Employee title changes save reliably: Edits to an employee’s title were sometimes silently dropped on Save, and now take effect.
New time entries reports: one for admins, one for team members
You can now easily review and export your time entries in a structured format. We’ve added two Time entries reports: a workspace-wide view for admins, and a personal view for team members.
Other improvements and fixes
- Optional W-8/W-9 collection for contractors: W-8/W-9 collection is now optional in the new contractor onboarding flow, for customers who prefer to collect these forms outside of Plane.
- COBRA and termination reminders for U.S. employees: Terminating a U.S. employee now shows a reminder that Plane doesn’t notify the employee on your behalf. When the employee has active health benefits, a second callout flags the employer’s COBRA continuation-coverage obligation.
- New expense reimbursement categories: Healthcare, Wellness, Coworking, Software, and Hardware are available as reimbursement categories.
- Easier accounting reconciliation for Plane subscriptions: Subscription journal entries for monthly plans continue to post to the end of the period; annual subscriptions now post to the invoice date. Both memos reference the invoice number.
- Benefit changes sync to payroll preview again: We fixed a bug that delayed the sync of benefit changes to the payroll preview. Syncing is back to near real-time.