August Product Updates
What’s new at Remote:
Payroll
Set up General Ledger mappings faster with AI
Global Payroll customers can now use AI to simplify General Ledger setup. Customers can upload their chart of accounts, and Remote’s AI helps extract GL accounts and suggest mappings between pay items and accounts, while sending uncertain items to a suspense account and preserving any manual mappings already created.
This turns a highly manual setup process into a faster, more self-serve workflow. Customers get to accurate payroll reporting sooner, while keeping control over final mappings and reducing back-and-forth during implementation.
Send payroll calendars to customers for approval
Admins can now send payroll calendars to customers for approval directly in Remote. Customers can review the calendar, leave comments, and share feedback in the platform
This makes payroll calendar approval more collaborative and easier to track. Instead of managing feedback across disconnected channels, teams can align on payroll timelines in one place before key deadlines arrive.
Upload company documents faster during legal entity onboarding
Payroll legal entity onboarding now supports a faster company document upload step. Customers can upload all required company documents at once, and Remote’s AI helps identify each document type automatically instead of requiring one-by-one sorting.
This reduces manual effort during onboarding and helps customers move through setup faster. It is especially useful for teams managing multiple documents, entities, or onboarding steps at the same time.
Contractor Management
Manage contractor work by project
Companies can now organize contractor work by project in Remote. Admins can create projects, assign leads and contractors, track project activity, and let contractors create invoices for work tied to a specific project.
This gives customers clearer billing and better visibility into contractor spend. It also helps teams understand which work belongs to which project, without relying on manual spreadsheet tracking or bundled invoice descriptions.
PEO
Update PEO tax information directly in Remote
Employees using Remote’s PEO services can now update federal and state tax information directly in the platform. They can also sign W-4 forms electronically using Remote’s built-in PDF signing flow.
This gives employees more control over keeping tax information accurate and reduces manual handling for employers and internal teams. It makes payroll-related updates faster, clearer, and easier to complete in one place.
Platform
Smarter AI mapping suggestions for HRIS integrations
Remote now supports AI-powered mapping suggestions for HRIS integrations in Global Payroll onboarding. With customer opt-in, Remote can use sample HRIS data to suggest how fields should map to Remote onboarding fields, with customers or Remote teams able to review suggestions before promoting them live.
This helps reduce the manual effort and error risk involved in integration setup, especially when mappings are complex.
Smarter tax guidance during expense submission
Remote now gives employees clearer tax guidance when they submit expenses. Upfront checks can show whether an expense is taxable at the point of submission, and for categories where tax treatment depends on context, Remote can ask a quick clarifying question before the expense is submitted.
This helps employees submit expenses more accurately from the start and reduces avoidable corrections later. Employers also get clearer expense data, with fewer surprises around tax treatment after submission.
Time and attendance improvements for global payroll
New time and attendance experience in Remote includes improvements to setting statutory and flexible custom policies, capturing leave and hours, seeing warnings and alerts before approvals, and reporting—all in Remote. Set custom leave types and carryover policies, set quarterly caps on on-call hours to block submissions, see alerts on overtime and missed breaks before approving, and more.
This update ensure your time off and time tracking data meets local compliance rules, your company policies, and is accurate for payroll processing. Available in selected countries with new countries added on a regular basis.
