Cascade Spring 2026 Update | IRIS
Spring brings brighter days, warmer weather, and exciting new features to Cascade.
Our team has worked hard to upgrade and expand the system’s functionality.
In this blog, we have covered some of the recent updates.
HR: employee engagement
Cascade users now have the ability to create personalized login messages, helping to improve communication and engagement upon accessing the platform.
With this feature, users can select:
- Message display times
- Who you want to target
- Whether you want to send text or embed a YouTube video
In the future, we will look to add additional personalization features so that you can further personalize your messages.
Note: employees have the option to close the message and come back to it later.
HR: improved user navigation
We listened to customer feedback and updated our left navigation.
Cascade users can now collapse, pin, and move the sidebar.
Minimizing the sidebar frees up a lot more screen, helping to improve visibility.
As for the pinning functionality, you can select areas such as the details menuensuring key information remains on screen.
Additionally, you can also move the location of these pinned sections, allowing you to position and customize the screen in the way that suits you best.
It’s also worth noting that Cascade remembers these changes and applies them to all browsers. So the next time you log in, everything will be in one place.
Payroll: calculation changes
Previously, Cascade only performed calculations using one method: days in the period.
We have now added two additional calculation methods:
- Daily rate totals
- Daily rate difference
The pro rata method for total daily rates allows you to specify for how many days you want the daily rate to be calculated.
When selecting total daily ratesyou can enter the number of days in the field.
Payroll: scheduled reports
Scheduled payroll reports are frequently requested.
Well, we listened and we acted.
As with scheduled HR reports in Cascade, you can select the dates and times you want to send your reports.
However, one of the new additions for Payroll is the ability to enter additional settings information into reports.
Watch the full Cascade product update!
In our recent webinar, we covered the above in more detail, in addition to showcasing what’s coming soon.
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