Monthly Product Update - January 2026

Happy New Year folks! It's time for our first monthly product update of 2026!

Offboarding just got a whole lot easier. You can now automatically pay out accrued PTO for dismissed team members, removing the need for manual calculations and last-minute adjustments in final payrolls.

PTO payout eligibility can be configured within time off policy setup, and Miter will take care of the rest -- automatically calculating and including the payout in the employee’s final payroll, whether it’s run as a regular or off-cycle. Learn more in our guides here.

Time off planning just got a major upgrade. Projections are now smarter and more reliable, helping teams avoid surprises before requests are approved.

We automatically account for approved future time off, accrual limits, max balance caps, and yearly carryover rules, so balances are projected accurately over time and negative balances are caught early.

Employees can also click directly within a request to see exactly how their balance will change, giving them full clarity before they submit time off.

Accrued PTO amounts are now shown on employee paystubs, giving team members clear visibility into their time off each pay period.

You can now create and manage miscellaneous garnishments directly in Miter. This includes garnishments such as bankruptcy court orders, tax liens, defaulted federal student loans, and other non-standard wage garnishments.

These garnishments are calculated based on an employee’s disposable income, and Miter gives you the flexibility to:

Miscellaneous garnishments appear on ledger entries alongside other post-tax deductions. Note: these amounts are not remitted by Miter.

Learn more in our guides here.

You can now set up monthly post-tax deductions for both Miscellaneous and Child Support deduction types, bringing the same flexibility you’ve had for pre-tax benefits to post-tax deductions as well.

This update makes it easier to standardize deduction calculations in Miter, ensuring amounts are applied consistently across payrolls each month and reducing manual adjustments along the way.

You can create a monthly deduction by selecting under in the post-tax deduction setup.

We’ve improved how and when employees are notified about new withholding documents, giving them more time to complete required forms before payroll deadlines.

When an employee works in a new tax jurisdiction for the first time, Miter automatically assigns the workplace as soon as their timesheet is approved. This immediately notifies the employee and creates an action item in the Team Portal for the employee to complete any required withholding documents, eliminating last-minute scrambles and manual follow-ups from payroll admins.

You can now preview certified payroll reports directly in Miter before downloading them, so you can double-check everything with confidence.

Quickly confirm the job and date range, and instantly see how changes to CPR settings impact the report, all without repeatedly downloading files.

We’ve rolled out a revamped Certified Payroll settings experience designed to make configurations easier to understand and faster to get right.

The new layout gives you clear visibility into how each setting impacts your reports, helping you generate CPRs with more confidence and fewer back-and-forth iterations. We’ve also added new configuration options, like the ability to map reimbursements to Travel / Subsistence, to better match how your jobs are actually reported. See our guides here for more details.

Your most important updates no longer have to compete for attention. You can now pin posts to the top of the company feed, keeping key announcements, reminders, and updates front and center for your team.

Just open the three-dot menu on any post and select Pin. You can pin multiple posts at once, and unpin them anytime as priorities change, so the right messages are always the first thing your team sees.

You can now bulk upload certifications for your employees, making it easier to bring over history from other systems and get your team's certifications set up in Miter.

To get started, head to . From there, you can upload both the certification details and supporting documents in one streamlined flow. Learn more in our guides here.

Starting February 1st, 2026, Onboarding Checklists will become the single, streamlined way new hires onboard in Miter.

This change brings all new hires into one consistent flow, making onboarding clearer for employees and more configurable for admins.

After the transition date, all new hires will be onboarded using checklists, and the old onboarding experience will no longer be available.

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Some exciting usability improvements are coming to Timesheet Policies over the next couple weeks, designed to make policies easier to set up and more flexible for different crews and workflows.

Learn more in our updated Miter guides

Miter AI is here! We’ve added Facial Recognition for clock-ins and clock-outs to help reduce time theft and prevent buddy punching, while keeping the field experience fast and simple. Admins can enable it in minutes and see results directly in timesheets for better visibility.

To learn more, check out this Miter guide

You can now view and edit the individual timesheets that make up a pay period (or week) directly from the pay period view—so it’s faster to understand what’s in each row and make changes without bouncing around.

Check out Miter guide for more info

We’ve added a new App Metadata section to the Live Timesheet and Timesheet modals to make it easier to troubleshoot common mobile issues—especially around geolocation accuracy and outdated app versions. You can now see key app details and helpful warnings right where you’re already reviewing time.

View app metadata directly in the Live and Timesheet modals

New warnings for:

The same data now appears in the Live and Timesheet tables, so you can filter by app version or geolocation permission status

We will now show a banner in the mobile app if you are using an old version of the mobile app.