Product roadmap · updated October 2026
Where HR Manage is going
Version 7 shipped on 5 October 2026 — the largest upgrade in the product’s 25-year history. This page shows what it delivered, what is in development now, and what is planned next.
Continuously in development
HR Manage is developed and improved all year to keep up with technology, best practice and client requests. We plan releases ahead and assign specific tasks to specific versions, but some items do not yet have a version number or date; they can be pulled forward when clients order them. Priorities also change during the year as client needs take precedence — treat everything under “planned” as intent, not a promise.
Unplanned work happens too, and sometimes it is the most important: the 2025 changes to the Employment Equity report were developed and released very soon after the Department of Labour published them — a clear example of the agility that sets a local vendor apart.
Released 5 October 2026
HR Manage 7: a new foundation in our 25th year
2026 marks 25 years since the first commercial release of HR Manage. Version 7 is the largest release in the system’s history and arrives with a refreshed identity — a new foundation, not just a new look.
Version 7.0
Released on schedule and deployed as the default version for new clients, now rolling out to existing clients. The initial release rebuilds the most important areas of the system; further modules move to the new web application in later phases, and established functionality remains fully available throughout.
A new web application
Rewritten from the ground up on ASP.NET Core for .NET 10: faster, cleaner and designed to perform at scale, with a modern design, your company colours and full dark mode.
People & Compliance
The redesigned Employee File puts personal, employment and organisational information on one overview, with visual summaries for compliance, leave, training and assets. Managers get a weekly view of their team; employees can view their latest payslips from a supported payroll.
Leave, redeveloped
Faster, dynamic applications with balances recalculated as the dates change, month and timeline planners, batch approvals, blocked days and an automatic daily leave run in place of the month-end process. Managers approve or reject straight from the e-mail.
Third-generation workflows & forms
Paging for organisations running thousands of open workflows, redesigned forms with more field types and conditional logic, new Sleep, Complete Document and Internal Document Signing activities, batch approvals, grouped escalations and export of an entire workflow to PDF.
Training online
Managers see training compliance for their teams and request renewal training as expiry approaches. Practitioners share a training event by QR code so learners sign an online attendance register during the session.
AI, integrated
Our first AI-enabled release: AI in seven places, with one rule throughout — it removes the grunt work and leaves the decision with the user. Batch document upload for compliance, help designing forms, and column mapping in the Importer. Optional and metered separately.
Platform
Built-in multi-factor authentication, lazily loaded dashboards that no longer hold up sign-in, a rebuilt e-mail notification platform with richer content and quick actions, and automatically generated organisational charts.
Windows application
A new Organisational Chart builder and an upgraded Importer alongside the new web application; established functionality stays available throughout the phased rollout.
New identity, weekly releases
New logos for HR Manage and People Resolutions in our 25th year, and a maintenance release every week for the foreseeable future, fixing what clients report and adding features where ready.
Now and next
What we are working on
Version 7 is a milestone, not the finish line. Our first priority is rolling the release out to every client; this is the short- and longer-term view as it stands today.
Phase 2
2026HR Manage Recruit
Our own recruitment and applicant-tracking module, exclusive to HR Manage clients: vacancies and candidate profiles described on the same structured foundation of capabilities, experience and training, employer-branded careers portals and a talent pool that flows into onboarding. Postponed from the v7 launch so it gets a proper launch of its own. Read the announcement →
MatchMySkills
The skills-matching capability of HR Manage Recruit: because vacancies and candidates are described on the same structured foundation, matching works in both directions — employers find the candidates whose capabilities fit a position, and candidates find the opportunities that fit their skills and experience.
Weekly maintenance releases
Version 7 gets a maintenance release every week: each one fixes what clients have reported and, where ready, adds features. They are listed as they ship in the help portal.
Phase 3
Q2 2027Job Profiling & Performance Management, rebuilt
Both modules redesigned from the ground up on the new platform to cater for the scenarios that have arisen over the past 10–15 years: combine multiple styles of review in a single template while keeping it as easy as possible to use.
Incident Reporting on the new web application
The Incident Reporting module moves across to the new web application in the third phase, alongside the rebuilt Job Profiling and Performance Management modules.
Later
No date yetRemuneration & Rewards module
Starts once the new Performance Management module has shipped, and is directly integrated with it.
Remaining Windows screens on the new UI framework
We continue to work our way through the Windows application, moving the remaining screens to the new user interface framework.
External job boards
Publishing vacancies to external platforms, receiving applications from them and continuing the recruitment process inside HR Manage.
Your request here
Many features start as a client request. Items without a date can move to a specific release when they are ordered.
Items under “planned” and “exploring” are subject to change. Dates for individual items are published in the release notes as they are confirmed.
Looking back
The road to version 7
Most of the groundwork for version 7 was laid over the previous two years.
- 2026
Version 7 and 25 years Delivered
Development of the new web application began in November 2025 with the new Leave module and shipped on 5 October 2026, with AI designed in from the start — in a meaningful way, not as a gimmick. What shipped →
- 2025
Modules, integrations and a help portal
BI dashboards, the Asset Register, Microsoft Entra ID and Google sign-in, CognitoForms integration, the rewritten Industrial Relations module, and the 2025 Employment Equity report released very soon after the Department of Labour published the changes — a clear example of the agility that sets a local vendor apart. Plus a brand-new help portal, reachable with F1 from inside HR Manage. What’s new in 2025 →
- 2001 – 2024
Two decades of HR Manage
From the first commercial release in December 2001 through six major versions — and, most recently, a new Windows UI framework, a new reporting platform, partnerships with PaySpace and Sage and the Document Signing Portal — HR Manage grew into the complete HR suite used by some of South Africa’s largest employers. Current version →
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