beqom Pay Suite 16.1 - Detailed release notes

This article lists the new features that have been added to the platform, as well as the bugs that have been corrected in the intermediate 16.1 release of the beqom Pay Suite application and in the subsequent patches.

16.1

Deployment to staging environments: October 7th, 2025

Deployment to production environments: October 14th, 2025

Type	Issue key		Module	Description
	Zendesk	Jira
		AC-13809	Compensation	In Workbench > Compensation Management > Bonus Plans, a new drawer now displays, for bonus plans which are in status "Ready" or "Deactivated", the comp rounds in which they are used. This drawer is available by clicking the action button in the row corresponding to the relevant bonus plan, and then clicking Usage details in the contextual menu.
	130305	AC-15445	Performance Management	When editing a goal plan in the goal plan configuration wizard, at the Population step, it was possible to add the same organization several times. In addition, when attempting to remove an organization that was added multiple times, the system would duplicate the item. In addition, any characters entered in the search field were retained after adding an item, which obliged users to manually delete the characters in order to add new items.
	131413	AC-15920	Performance Management	In the review configuration wizard, when editing a review template, the formatting (font weight, bullet points, etc.) applied to the body of questions added in the Custom section step was not properly applied once the review was published.
	132963	AC-16386	Performance Management	The label of the search field located at the top of the application window incorrectly read Search for people when the search actually retrieved only active users. To avoid confusion, the label was changed to Search.
		AC-16613	Data Foundation	Under Workbench > Data Management > Populations, the logic between the criteria added to a single block was changed from the AND logic (restrictive, all criteria must be met) to OR (inclusive, any of the criteria must match).
		AC-16680	Data Foundation	A new endpoint was introduced to the Data Foundation API, to return schema details.
		AC-16683	Data Foundation	In the Data Foundation API, a new order was implemented in the endpoint used to retrieve schemas, to help implementation teams with the ingestion of data files.
		AC-17004	Compensation	In order to offer compensation managers a better experience when configuring payout curves, the way that thresholds are managed in payout curves was redesigned, now offering two ranges per payout curve instead of a min/max threshold.
		AC-17150	Performance Management	In performance reviews, when an additional manager was added to the list of reviewers, the name of the new manager was not added to the Additional managers section of the Details panel of the review. Users needed to manually refresh the page for the name of the new manager to be displayed in the list.
		AC-17203	Pay Transparency	When manually adding a document for a communication round in the communication round configuration wizard, if the name of the selected worker was too long, it would overflow out of the box displaying the worker name under the search field.
		AC-17300	Compensation	The list of characters allowed for the password when downloading validation report of a compensation round in the Validation step of the comp round configuration wizard was amended to allow only specific special characters.
		AC-17316	Pay Intelligence	Audit logs were implemented for user actions in the PA API for a better observability of actions performed in the system, particularly regarding sensitive information.
		AC-17363	Compensation	A "soft delete" mechanism was put into place to remove in progress compensation rounds from the list of active rounds, while retaining the proposal underlying the round.
		AC-17666	Compensation	In the comp round configuration wizard, at the Team planner view step, compensation admins now have the possibility to disable any compensation element using an individual toggle.
	136370	AC-17979	Authorization	When configuring a nudge notification in Workbench > Platform setup, after adding the population for the nudge and clicking send, the number of recipients displayed in the confirmation pop-up was incorrect because the authorization filter of the user performing the action was not applied when displaying this pop-up. It was however correctly applied when sending the nudge.
		AC-18027	Data Foundation	Multiple styles were used for clickable cells in the various tables used in Workbench, leading to inconsistency and reduced readability. To improve visual clarity and maintain a consistent UI, the styles used in the cells were unified and standardized.
		AC-18061	Compensation	Compensation admins now have the possibility to change the selected bonus plan for a given compensation round in Workbench > Compensation Management > Comp rounds for rounds in "In progress" status.
		AC-18191	Data Foundation	The data retrieval endpoint of the Data Foundation API now returns an error message if a non existing field is used in the request body.
		AC-18241	Performance Management	As part of the Planner user interface redesign, managers can now view check-ins in view or edit mode with the new design.
		AC-18242	Performance Management	As part of the Planner user interface redesign, managers can now view career discussions in view or edit mode with the new design.
		AC-18249	Compensation	The payout percentage per goal was not correctly calculated in for step payout curves (growing or falling).
		AC-18257	Compensation	The default page size of the payout curve assignment per goal page of the bonus plan configuration wizard was increased to 25 items to facilitate assignment operations for compensation admins.
		AC-18320	Performance Management	When opening a goal into the Planner from a notification (in the bell icon), the name of the goal was not indicated in the page. This issue was corrected, thus improving clarity for goal users.
		AC-18330	Compensation	Obsolete REST clients used to fetch compensation data were removed from the data foundation.
		AC-18380	Compensation	Compensation admins/Global admins now have the possibility to view and edit parameters and conditional formatting options for disabled fields in the Team planner view step of the compensation round configuration wizard.
		AC-18386	Compensation	The behavior of the field header colors in the Planner compensation grid view was realigned for more consistency and more clarity.
		AC-18396	Pay Transparency	A public API endpoint was created to import pay information requests from 3rd-party systems.
		AC-18397	Pay Transparency	Pay information requests submitted for workers in the scope of individual HRBPs can now be displayed in the user interface of the Planner, under a new Pay information tab.
		AC-18437	Performance Management	The logic to be used to select the workers visible in the Manager dashboard of the Planner was put into place, with a worker filter giving managers the possibility to filter the view on a specific worker. Once a worker filter is applied to the Manager dashboard, it is also applied to all other Performance Management pages of the Planner (Feedback, Goals, Check-ins, Reviews and Career development)
	135675	AC-18438	Performance Management	The message displayed in screen when a user edited the population of a review template in Workbench > Performance Management did not reflect correctly the functionality. The message read "Only the creator of the review can edit the population" when all primary owners could actually perform this operation. The message was changed to "Primary owners can edit the population (based on creator's access).".
	138586	AC-18474	Compensation	A number of errors 500 were displayed in the Planner due to query cancellations. Investigations revealed that the issues were caused by a slow complex SQL query with multiple OR conditions. The query was optimized to solve the issue.
		AC-18482	Compensation	Calculated fields, used in compensation management, were refactored for added quality and performance.
		AC-18486	Performance Management	Breadcrumbs, which indicate to application users the context in which they are currently working in the platform and enable them to navigate to previous steps, were implemented in the Planner module.
		AC-18507	Data Foundation	The snapshot API of the Data Foundation allowed the creation of duplicate populations and categories, which led to errors in the application interface.
	136587	AC-18539	Performance Management	The following issue was observed when creating goals as a manager: when the user clicked the button Add my direct reports, workers who were not actually direct reports were added to the goal. The problem was due to the presence of incorrect cache entries and was corrected by removing unnecessary entries.
		AC-18556	Pay Transparency	Support for special, language-specific characters was added for PDF display.
		AC-18558	Compensation	In order to make it possible to use calculated bonuses in compensation management, it is now possible to disable the Bonus amount section under the Bonus comp element in the Team planner view of the compensation round configuration wizard.
		AC-18568	Compensation	The data type for GoalName in compensation "GoalPayoutCurveAssignments" was changed.
		AC-18667	Authorization	A dedicated authorization attribute was created to grant users complete data access (all workers) across the platform without rely on inconsistent hierarchy structures.
		AC-18676	Authorization	In the outbound API, all endpoints now use IAM instead of the Data Foundation hierarchy endpoint.
		AC-18716	Data Foundation	The data ingestion was refactored because the code was duplicated (with minimal difference) for the UI data file ingestion and the SFTP data file ingestion. This refactoring improves overall code quality and reduces risks related to code duplication.
		AC-18815	Performance Management	As part of the redesign of the Planner module, managers can now view the feedback received by their direct reports, with the new module layout.
		AC-18821	Data Foundation	Data Foundation fields with an effective date were not visible at all in Data Management > Data Foundation. This has now been corrected and effective-dated fields can be viewed in the data viewer.
		AC-18825	Authorization	The Performance Management and Compensation Management domains of the platform did not return the same result when looking for workers in the same contexts.
		AC-18854	Compensation	Bonus plans created in Workbench > Compensation Management > Bonus plans can now be deleted. Compensation admins can delete bonus plans in Draft status and Global compensation admins can delete all bonus plans.
		AC-18857	Compensation	The range of bonus plan statuses and actions based on statuses was adjusted and expanded for Compensation admins.
		AC-18862	Performance Management	In the Manager dashboard, the size and appearance of the clickable links and buttons (next check-in, feedback, etc.) was aligned and harmonized.
		AC-18866	Compensation	The In use status for bonus plans was enhanced to clear the path for the delete functionality. Specifically, the In use status is now only attributed when the related compensation round is published.
		AC-18918	Pay Intelligence	As part of the bidirectional integration between beqom and the beqom PayAnalytics product, the dataset upload configuration was made optional.
	138213	AC-18924	Pay Transparency	An error 422 was displayed when users attempted to update a goal plan in Workbench. Investigation of the issue revealed the presence of a string value in the population query (CountryIds array) which could not be converted to a number.
		AC-18944	Authorization	The application back-end can now generate and store SSO certificates for customers' external identity providers.
		AC-18963	Compensation	Users with both HRBP and CompensationManager roles see incorrect options (Direct/Indirect Reports) in the Planner when a round was in "Ready" state (Published, but not started). These manager options should not have been displayed since the compensation rounds are not visible to managers when they are in Ready state.
		AC-18973	Data Foundation	In order to guarantee data access authorization consistency, the Preview grid option was removed from the data modeler user interface (under Data Management > Data Modeler).
		AC-19020	Performance Management	When a manager opened a performance review in view mode from the Planner, no Back button was displayed at the top of the page, making navigation in between reviews difficult for managers.
		AC-19060	Data Foundation	In Passport, when the tips text was customized in the banner of the Feedback, Reviews and Check-ins page, if the text was longer than the original text, the size of the tip card would expand and break the alignment of the banner. The issue was corrected and long text is now scrollable.
	138690	AC-19068	Performance Management	When providing feedback, the information indicating how long ago the feedback was provided was incorrect (example: 1 day ago) due to a date comparison bug in the library used to apply dates and times in the platform.
		AC-19078	Performance Management	When managers were viewing organizational roles from Passport or Planner, an action icon was visible which constituted a violation of the manager permission boundary regarding organizational goals if the a direct report of theirs was the goal owner and the manager was in the goal population (i.e. this action button should not have been there in this context).
		AC-19080	Performance Management	In Passport and Planner, when viewing a career development plan as a manager, the plan detail panel located on the right-hand part of the screen did not scroll vertically as the user scrolled through the career development plan. This issue was corrected, and the detail panel now scrolls vertically as expected.
	138968	AC-19101	Data Foundation	An error 500 was displayed on screen when accessing the Snapshot manager with a user with the Data foundation admin role.
	138776	AC-19114	Performance Management	In the Goal Management page, under Workbench > Performance Management > Goal Management, it was possible to enter a negative value as the goal result. This behavior was corrected; only integer values can be entered now.
	138785	AC-19120	Performance Management	In the Goal Management screen, the population section was empty for organizational goals with users assigned to them. The issue was related to unhandled null values in the population and was corrected.
		AC-19121	Compensation	The payout curve preview was enhanced so that it also displays the ranges outside of those defined in the thresholds.
		AC-19140	Data Foundation	A technical improvement to the Data Foundation was put into place to increase the number of code validation contributors.
		AC-19167	Authorization	The HostCountryCostCenter property did not return the expected results when used in the workers endpoint of the authentication API.
		AC-19169	Authorization	Issues were observed in the logic used to grant users full access to all items and to manage org items visibility.
		AC-19176	Compensation	An error that was not supported by the application front-end was thrown by the back-end and displayed as an error 500. The issue was corrected and the error is now handled.
		AC-19187	Compensation	In the comp round configuration wizard, in the Team planner view step, compensation admins/global compensation admins can now disable multiple columns in a single bulk action.
		AC-19190	Compensation	Compensation admins now have the possibility to remove custom fields and calculated fields in the Team planner view step of the compensation round configuration wizard.
		AC-19196	Performance Management	When questions were created with formatting in the Custom section step of the review template configuration wizard in Workbench > Performance Management, the formatting was not retained once workers answered the questions and the performance review PDF was generated.
		AC-19205	Authorization	Issues were found in the logic used to handle inclusion/exclusion for OrgItems and EmployeeId on authorization side. These issues are now corrected.
		AC-19209	Compensation	When configuring a calculated column in the compensation round configuration wizard, if the user had left the Currency field field blank in the Calculated column form, the system displayed no validation message, making it hard for users to figure out why the new calculated column could not be saved.
		AC-19219	Pay Transparency	An issue with role visibility permissions was observed in communication rounds. The support role could see the list of workers in a communication round in the same manner as an HRBP, whereas the list should not have been visible at all. The issue was fixed and the correct permissions are applied.
		AC-19221	Data Foundation	A loading screen to indicate that the data upload is currently in progress was added to the File upload contextual window under Workbench > Data Management > Data Upload to indicate to admin users that the data files are still being processed.
		AC-19247	Compensation	An error 500 was displayed in Workbench > Performance Management > Goal Plans when attempting to create an individual goal plan.
		AC-19260	Compensation	To avoid blocking users from navigating and using the platform in contexts where the authorization is unstable, 403 errors are now handled and a proper response is returned, instead of a 500 error that blocks the user.
		AC-19275	Pay Transparency	In Workbench > Pay Transparency > Document templates, when a user with Read-only role or Comp admin but not owner of a document template opened an item, they saw themselves as the owner of the item in the template details.
		AC-19293	Compensation	The font of the platform was changed to the beqom corporate font.
		AC-19312	Compensation	An issue where the budget could not be added for the Bonus element in the Budget step of the compensation round configuration wizard was corrected.
	137800	AC-19317	Authorization	A 401 error was displayed after users remained logged in but inactive in the system for over 20-25 minutes. Investigation revealed an issue with the counters endpoint, which was corrected.
		AC-19318	Performance Management	An issue where the ingestion of data could fail due to the precision of the numbers in the goal weight was corrected.
		AC-19319	Pay Transparency	The code related to the page Total Compensation was removed after the page was replaced with the Digital reward statement.
		AC-19333	Authorization	The font of the log in and log out screens was changed to the beqom corporate font.
		AC-19336	Authorization	Redundant caching operations for users were removed from the performance management APIs.
		AC-19341	Compensation	In Workbench > Compensation Management > Bonus Plans, users with the Compensation admin role could see the bonus plans in Draft status that were owned by other users, when they should have seen only their own.
		AC-19372	Performance Management	When enabling/disabling the setting Allow workers to proxy other workers under Data Management > Proxy Permission Setting, the system would randomly return a 500 error.
		AC-19375	Performance Management	In the user interface when creating an organizational goal, a message was added to indicate that for organizational goals, the workers are based on the population of the goal plan and not on the permissions of the user who creates the goal, which has previously led to confusion.
		AC-19419	Authorization	A productivity tool was implemented in the application back-end for unit tests.
		AC-19428	Pay Transparency	The /inbox segment was removed from the Pay Transparency API endpoints used for the digital reward statement.
		AC-19499	Pay Transparency	Null values were not supported in the Resolution date column of the Pay information requests table.
		AC-19508	Compensation	Compensation rounds could not be correctly published when conditional formatting rules were used on non-numeric fields in the Team planner view step of the compensation round configuration wizard.
		AC-19516	Data Foundation	In Data Management > Data Foundation > Data Viewer, an error 400 was displayed when attempting to order a table by an effective date field.
		AC-19701	Authorization	A 401 error was displayed in the application when the user switched tabs at the moment of the session timeout due to a cookie issue.
		AC-19811	Performance Management	An issue where it was no longer possible to enter decimal values in goal result measurement criteria was corrected.