Looking Back at 2024

Here are some of our favorite highlights from a sizzling year at Plane.

Looking Back at 2024

Here are some of our favorite highlights from a sizzling year at Plane.

Looking Back at 2024

Here are some of our favorite highlights from a sizzling year at Plane.

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From rolling out 1035 updates to our platform (that’s an average of 2.8 per day!) to sending payments to your team members in 162 countries, we had a sizzling year at Plane! We’ve been busy perfecting your payroll and HR experience, while having fun as a team along the way. Here are some of our favorite highlights.

Home Sweet Home

llustration of the new Home dashboard interface featuring task cards, notifications, calendar events, new hires, and celebrations displayed on a sleek green background, representing the redesigned platform experience

We gave our platform a makeover, with the release of the new Home experience. Admins now enjoy quicker access to key account and team details with a sleek new dashboard, alongside Tasks, Notifications, and Calendar tabs. Contractors, employees, and vendors also got dedicated pages for Tasks and Notifications, a new Personal page, and a shiny new dashboard. Welcome to your new home!

Accounting Made Easy

Screenshot of Plane’s Accounting Automation dashboard showing payroll and contractor payment items with dates, names, locations, and amounts. The top bar highlights 8 items to prepare, 23 items ready for export, and 0 items exported.

In June, we delivered a major item on your wish list: Accounting Automation. This powerful feature streamlines your month-end close by letting you prepare and approve accounting items in Plane and export them as journal entries to QuickBooks Online. Save days of manual work each month for you and your team.

Unified Payroll for Everyone

Screenshot of Plane’s Unified Payroll dashboard showing payroll tasks by country: UK payroll processing on March 27, US payroll pending on April 15, contractor payroll draft in Canada on April 10, and Brazil payroll processing on March 29. Background in bright blue with country flags next to each item.

This year, we fully migrated all customers to Unified Payroll. Now everyone can run payroll for US (W-2) employees, international employees, and contractors worldwide, all from one screen in the platform.

Other Launches

Screenshot of Plane’s Payroll Preview Report showing payroll period dates, worker names, payroll item status, and net pay amounts in USD. The example lists three employees with statuses pending or blocked. The section highlights additional platform improvements such as vendor-to-contractor conversion, faster batch payments, complex payroll support, off-cycle payrolls, compensation changes, improved filters, and more.

Besides our big launches, we also made several smaller yet mighty improvements to the platform. Among them:

You can now convert vendors to contractors
Batch payments to contractors are noticeably faster
More complex payroll calculations are now supported with our new under-the-hood system
Add terminated team members to off-cycle payrolls to process their final paychecks after termination
A new Payroll Preview report lets you preview current and future pay periods to understand the effects of onboarding, offboarding, and compensation changes
Request compensation changes for international employees directly in Plane
Improved filters for reports
And much more!

Plane Out and About

Collage of Plane team members at events in 2024.

Our CEO Matt and lead engineer Kamil got to rep Plane at a happy hour we co-hosted with Stripe, kicking off the Y Combinator Alumni Reunion in San Francisco.

We also had team meetups in Las Vegas, Miami, and Colorado (with more destinations in sight for next year!). Meanwhile, Kamil shared his Ruby expertise at GitHub, and our Business Operations Manager Filip was a panelist at a conference in London.