Calamari What's New

How can you help employees see how their daily work contributes to company goals? With the latest update to Performance module, you can connect company, team, and individual goals in one clear hierarchy.

For example, your company aims to increase revenue by 15%. The Sales team sets a goal to generate more orders from existing customers, while an individual sales rep targets 50 repeat orders in Q4. Everyone can see what they're working toward and how their efforts support the bigger picture.

What's new?

• Four goal types – company, group, individual, and development goals. Development goals focus on employee growth and sit outside the business goal hierarchy.
• Goals structure – link goals to higher-level objectives and build a hierarchy of up to five levels. Managers and employees can see how their work supports company priorities.
• The full picture in one view – switch to cascade view to explore the goal hierarchy, or open any goal to see how it connects to others.

👉 Learn how to build a goal hierarchy

Keep employee requests moving, even when your team is away from their desks. Employee Requests are now available in the Calamari mobile app for iOS and Android, making it easier to submit, track, and process requests without switching to a computer.

What's new?

• Submit requests on the go – employees can request equipment, expense reimbursements, or other HR services directly from their phones.
• Keep everyone up to date – request statuses, comments, and history are available in one place, reducing the need for follow-up messages.
• Process requests wherever you are – designated team members can see pending requests, mark them as completed, or undo completion.
• Stay on top of all requests – administrators can access an overview of every request submitted across the organization.

Learn more about our mobile apps.

You can now upload historical time-off requests and allowance adjustments directly from XLSX files, giving you more flexibility when setting up or updating employee records.

Fill in the template in your spreadsheet editor and upload it to Calamari.

CSV imports are still supported, so you can continue using your existing workflow if you prefer.

👉 Download the template: Configuration → Import

Every company has its own rules for managing absences, remote work, and other types of employee requests. Now you can enforce limits over longer periods, including months and quarters, giving you more flexibility to configure policies that match how your organization works.

What's new?

• More flexible time periods – set the maximum number of days allowed for any time-off type per week, month, or quarter.
• Combine multiple rules – apply weekly and monthly limits to the same request type.
• Choose how limits are enforced – display a warning when a limit is exceeded or block the request entirely.

For example, you can warn employees when they request a second remote work day in a week, while blocking requests that exceed the monthly allowance.

Find the new settings under Time-off type → Restrictions.

👉 Explore automated time-off policies

Smart Table already lets you edit employee records directly, without opening each profile one by one. We're adding a few capabilities that help when you're working with larger data sets:

• Take back a mistake – Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z undoes edits on every field type, including bulk changes made by dragging a value down several rows.
• Fewer profiles to open – yes/no fields can now be changed in the table itself, one at a time or in bulk.
• Find people who have since left – the new "Active during period" filter shows everyone active in a chosen date range, even if they are archived today. It works across every People view and report.

👉 Explore Smart Table →

Sometimes you can't afford an absence on a specific day, or two absences in the same team. In the Time Off module you can now set both:

• Keep a day covered – block leave or remote work requests on chosen weekdays, for example when you need the whole team in the office on Wednesdays.
• Avoid two people out at once – limit overlapping absences inside a group, so only one person from a "Managers" or "Customer Service" team is away at the same time.

You pair each restriction with a specific leave type and decide whether it blocks the request or shows a warning suggesting another date.

👉 Read about leave restrictions →

Goals in the Performance module let you set tasks for employees and follow how they're coming along. With a longer list, it's easy to miss the ones that need attention. Now you can filter and sort goals exactly the way you need.

• Find the goals that need attention – filter by status (completed, in progress, not started) or by a progress range, then sort by progress, due date, last update or status.
• Ask about progress – add a comment from the update history tab. Everyone with access to that goal sees it.
• Draft a goal before the employee sees it – a goal stays visible only to its author while it is a draft. The owner gets it once it is activated.

👉 Learn more about Goals →

Last month we launched the watch app for Apple Watch. Wear OS watches now have it too:

• Clock in without taking out your phone – start and end work, take breaks and switch projects, all from the watch.
• See your status at a glance – a timer with a progress ring. On a fixed schedule the ring fills as your shift goes on, on a flexible one it works like a clock face.
• Color tells you what's happening – the icon takes the color of the project you picked, and the ring turns yellow during a break.
• Check your day – start and end times, breaks and your schedule, all on the watch.

The watch app appears once you update Calamari on your phone.

👉 Update on the App Store or Google Play

Want your team to start and end their shift at the door or on-site, without a dedicated device? One NFC tag placed in the office is enough.

How it works:

• Tap at the door – place the tag at the entrance or in a specific room. Employees log their time by tapping their phone against it.
• One tag for everyone – the Calamari app identifies each person by the account signed in on their phone, so you don't need a tag per employee.
• One tap does more than clock in – the first tap starts the clock. Tapping again during work lets you clock out, start a break or switch project.

Admins set up NFC tags from the mobile app: in the clock-in methods view, choose "Office NFC," scan the tag, give it a name (for example "shop" or "warehouse"), and optionally assign a default project. A tag can be open to the whole company or to selected people.

The only cost is the tag itself, a few dollars for a sticker, with no dedicated device to buy.

👉 Explore Time & Attendance methods →

Employee Requests are digital forms in Core HR: an expense reimbursement, night-shift consent, a personal data change. This release turns a request into a document that holds up in payroll and personnel files.

• Every request gets a number – the system assigns it automatically, as PREFIX/YEAR-NUMBER or PREFIX/MONTH/YEAR-NUMBER. It suggests the prefix from the request name, and in the configuration you can preview the numbering and change the format.
• Download a request as a PDF – the person who submitted it, the assignee and admins can all download the file, so a request can go into personnel files or on to payment. Saving it straight to a chosen folder in the employee's Documents is coming soon.
• Check who sees what – the definitions list shows how many people a request applies to, and you can preview the form while you're still configuring it.
• Status counts above the table – counters show how many requests sit at each stage, and they recalculate with your filters and search. Your filters and sorting stay in place between visits.

👉 Read about Employee Requests