Happy New Year from the YouRecruit Team 2026

As we step into 2026, we want to share our thanks with every YouRecruit client. Your support, feedback, and patience helped us improve the platform throughout the year. Each update, big or small, came from real conversations with teams who use our platform daily. We appreciate every message, call, and suggestion.

2025 was a year of steady progress. Our focus stayed on reliability, support, and stronger tools for staffing agencies. Many clients told us they saw smoother planning, clearer employee compliance checks, and easier timesheet management. This feedback kept our team motivated all year. 

Here are some of our accomplishments over the last year:

Assignments & Scheduling

• Created long-term Assignments in the mobile iOS and Android timesheet app, including the ability to upload PDF timesheets.

   

• Added manual timesheet entry with support for additional expenses and complex calculations, including override rates.

   

• Extended compliance for Assignments to apply to a single specific organisation only.

   

• Added secondary and tertiary Assignment approval for Organisation users, including full approval and rejection workflows.

   

• Added individual Assignment rates.

   

• Added on-call selection for Assignments.

   

• Added the ability to calculate and display profit for shifts.

   

• Added the ability to suggest the most suitable Employee for a shift based on favourite locations, availability, previous work, weekly hours, and other parameters.

   

• Added the option to use different rounding rules for 5-minute intervals.

   

• Added on-call selection for Assignments. 

Compliance Administration & Regulation

• Mapped compliance requirements to roles using tags.

   

• Created a new Compliance Officer role with limited permissions to manage compliance for selected Employees.

   

• Enabled importing of historic compliances from Healthier Business to simplify initial setup.

   

• Added compliance integration with NestForms, allowing Employees to complete forms that are automatically saved as Compliance records.

   

• Added the ability to run NMC checks on a weekly basis, with the option to ignore certain qualifications.

   

• Updated Word export options to simplify IR35 exports.

   

• Updated AWR processing. 

Users, Roles & Security

• Split Organisation users into Standard and Admin roles for improved permission handling.

   

• Created more detailed Consultant ACL permissions.

   

• Extended Consultant access log retention to support late-stage investigations.

   

• Added support for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to improve account security.

   

• Displayed whether another Consultant is assigned on the edit page.

   

• Created a list of all features available to Executive users to simplify future feature enablement. 

Integrations & APIs

• Updated communication with the Evertime API, adding support for Assignments, organisation creation, and timetable sections.

   

• Updated Evertime response messages to include action buttons to help resolve issues.

   

• Updated Umbrella company settings and enabled sending bank details to Evertime.

   

• Enabled Allocate Connect integration via API.

   

• Improved HealthRoster imports by mapping roles based on skills and adding clearer warnings when an Employee is already booked. 

Reporting, Finance & Invoicing

• Updated reports and statistics to provide better insights, including:

   

  • Employees approaching work-hour limits

     

  • Invoice summaries

     

  • History views displaying names instead of IDs

     

• Added an optional warning when the charge rate versus pay rate falls below the standard LTE percentage.

   

• Added the ability to resend invoices. 

Data, Configuration & System Improvements

• Added multiple custom fields to allow greater customisation of list pages.

   

• Added custom fields to the Employee profile page.

   

• Updated validation for Rate Timetables to prevent incorrect settings from being saved.

   

• Renamed STE Rates to Rates, as they are now used for Assignments as well.

   

• Standardised all stored dates to UTC (previously Irish local time).

   

• Created a daily off-site file backup, primarily covering timesheet signatures and compliance documents. 

Notifications & Recruitment

• Enabled sending ad-hoc push notifications to Employees, including links to specific pages.

   

• Improved handling of app and timesheet push notifications.

   

• Improved handling of Indeed job posting errors by hiding resolved errors until the next scan.

   

• Added an automated warning when CVs are not received within a defined timeframe.

We look forward to supporting you throughout 2026 with further updates, steady improvements, and the same focused support from our team. Here are some of our plans for the coming year:

• Enabling the new Allocate Connect integration via API. 

• Adding on-call selection for Assignments. 

• Providing a centralised view of all features available to Executives, making it easier to manage and introduce new functionality. 

• Updating AWR functionality and rules.

Your work never slows down, and we know your systems shouldn’t slow down either. That is why our team continues to refine each module and feature. We are expanding support for Temp Manager and the WorkTracker employee time tracking app as more agencies rely on these healthcare software tools for daily scheduling, compliance management and time tracking.

We value strong communication, quick ticket responses, and reliable technical support. These parts of the service matter as much as features. Our support team will continue to provide the same level of care in 2026.

The coming year brings new goals, new updates, and new ways to support your staffing operations. We want the YouRecruit recruitment agency software to stay flexible, simple to use, and ready for the needs of agency teams. Your feedback shapes this plan. Every feature request helps us build a stronger system for everyone.

We wish you and your teams a healthy and successful New Year. Here’s to smoother planning, fewer surprises, and a strong year for every client who places their trust in YouRecruit.

If you are just starting out and have any questions or would like to schedule a free demo, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’d be happy to set up a screen sharing call and help you to get up and running!

You can Contact Us at any time using our online form.

Best wishes from all of the YouRecruit team! We look forward to another exciting year ahead!