Changelog
What shipped, when
A running record of recent capability releases. No press releases, no marketing fanfare — just what changed and the date it changed.
September 2026
Per-tenant SUI/SIT account numbers, wired straight into filing
Each client's own state unemployment and state income tax account numbers now flow directly into filing output — no shared placeholder numbers, no manual re-entry per client.
State unemployment wage-file formats completed for every high-volume state
Real ICESA/EFW2-scale wage-file formats verified for New York, Washington, Ohio, New Mexico, and Nevada, alongside dozens of other states' formats built out this cycle.
SOC 2-aligned audit logging extended platform-wide
Immutable, append-only audit logging now runs across every major service, ahead of a formal SOC 2 certification engagement.
Company Zero — Stratum running its own HR, live
We put our own internal team on the platform and made it browsable in the demo environment — the same system, running our own payroll and HR, not a staged sandbox.
Seven interactive, narrated product tours
Onboarding, Time Off, Benefits, Payroll, Offboarding, Presales, and Implementation — each a real run through real data. Press play, no meeting required.
Watch the tours →Missing-timesheet hold & catch-up
An opt-in payroll guardrail: if an hourly employee's timesheet is missing when payroll runs, Stratum holds their pay instead of guessing, then catches it up automatically once the timesheet lands.
August 2026
Quote-to-signature, without a login
A prospect can review and e-sign a proposal directly — no account required — carrying straight through from a sourced lead to a signed contract.
NCCI experience-mod estimate on every sales quote
Workers' comp pricing on a new quote now shows the real, computed NCCI experience mod — and what getting to a 1.00 mod would save the prospect per year.
ADA/PWFA interactive-process workflow
Accommodation requests now run through a structured, deadline-tracked process instead of a free-text note — a full compliance paper trail, start to finish.
Self-hosted SMB deployment path
The full self-hosted deployment path — licensing, bundling, and onboarding — now runs end to end for a direct-to-SMB rollout, not only PEO-scale deployments.
Staffing agency commercial model completed
Real client contracts and per-skill rate cards, correct OT/DT/premium-hour billing, rate changes as a propose-then-decide workflow instead of a direct edit, credit-hold enforcement at the exposure limit, and a dedicated worksite-host client portal.
Payroll admin console gains Pay Corrections, ACH Returns, and Benefit Arrears
Three workflows that used to require a manual database fix now have dedicated admin tooling — corrections, returned-ACH handling, and arrears recovery, all audit-logged.
Fixed a hydration error on every authenticated page
A React rendering mismatch was firing on every logged-in page across the platform — found and closed platform-wide, not patched page by page.
Internal SOP library completed — 34 procedures, 11 operational domains
Every domain from onboarding through support now has a written, live-verified standard operating procedure — the reference our own team (and yours) works from.
Fixed a concurrent-migration race across 6 modules
Reconciliation, the report builder, retro-pay, reversals, document tables, and benefit arrears could corrupt each other's schema setup under simultaneous requests — closed with a proper lock, verified under real concurrency.
Physical paycheck issuance and mailing, with Positive Pay
Employees who need a physical check now get one — real MICR-printed checks, mailed automatically, with Positive Pay bank-side fraud screening on every issued check.
AI-guided leave-of-absence assistant
An LLM-assisted intake for FMLA, ADA, and state paid-family-leave requests — asks the right follow-up questions and routes the case correctly the first time.
July 2026
Geofenced clock-in shipped end to end
Employees can only clock in within an approved job-site radius — punch capture, rollup, a native Clock tab with PWA fallback, and a review queue for enforcement exceptions.
Staffing agency vertical launched
The full staffing-agency employment model shipped and was live-verified — its commercial contract layer (rate cards, margin billing) followed in August as a dedicated pass.
Employee portal visual overhaul
A full motion and design-system rebuild of the employee-facing customer portal across all 29 self-service pages — real transitions, real accessible components, not a CSS reskin.
Accountant Access for CPA and accounting firms
A CPA or accounting firm running payroll for its own clients now gets a self-service, independently licensed workspace — the same model as a PEO, the Gusto/QuickBooks Online pattern buyers already expect.
Fixed a workers' comp experience-mod state-matching bug
A multi-state employer's premium could be computed against the wrong state's experience mod — corrected and verified against the employee's actual work state.
ASO productization, Phase 1 & 2
Running an administrative-services (ASO) book now keeps money movement with the client by design — a dedicated payable-register UI, filing split, and benefits/WC guard rails specific to the ASO model.
Shadow-trial intake goes register-first
Starting a shadow-run trial no longer requires a census import up front — a prospect can register and start comparing output before the full data migration is done.
Next.js 16 and React 19 across all four frontends
Upgraded the customer portal, internal portal, web app, and this site in one pass — the migration itself surfaced and fixed two real pre-existing bugs along the way.
Fixed every legacy-system migration connector rejecting every upload
ADP, Paychex, Gusto, Workday, Rippling, and BambooHR imports were all failing validation regardless of data quality — root-caused to a double-mapping step and fixed, verified with a real before/after import.
Automated supply-chain security scanning added platform-wide
Dependabot, pip-audit, npm-audit, and CodeQL now run across all 17 services and 4 frontends — the first real run caught and fixed live CVEs in production dependencies, not just scaffolding.
Multi-day adversarial money-integrity campaign
A dedicated push against every payroll, billing, and ledger money-path: double-payment race conditions closed across 9 services, dollar-accuracy defects fixed across 11 services, and a permanent regression suite added so neither class can silently come back.
June 2026
Automated compliance and operations scheduler
13 recurring sweeps — COBRA notices, escheatment checks, leave deadlines, and more — now run automatically in the background instead of waiting on a human trigger.
Six-part functional audit across major platform modules
A structured audit pass over the core operational areas of the platform, findings fixed as they were found rather than logged for later.
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