Demonstrations
On various pages throughout the ExponentHR website are short tutorial videos that serve as a quick introduction to the respective utility and its functionality. When displayed next to a utility's title, click the video iconvideo icon to watch the available videos.
Tutorial Videos:
Click on any of the links below to watch a short introductory video and learn more about the specific ExponentHR utility.
Tutorial Video: EAN Overview and Workflow
Tutorial Video: Payroll Batch Management
Did You Know? Sessions:
The "Did You Know?" sessions are scheduled to be hosted by ExponentHR on the last Thursday of each month and cover any variety of topics, including new employer requirements, legislation changes, and enhancements to the ExponentHR service offering.
Click any of the links below to watch the desired recorded "Did You Know?" session covering the listed topics.
Note: Recorded sessions are available for 180 days.
Date/Link |
Covered Topics |
September 25, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Employee options to customize their own personal view dashboard.
- Option to have an employee's performance review overall score be systematically calculated or be manually calculated/entered by the reveiwer.
- The automatic rule enforcement by ExponentHR of garnishment rules and limits.
- Viewing a manager's employment information (ex. job title) when viewing their grant access rights.
- Communication tools and options to inform/remind employees regarding open enrollment.
ExponentHR Open Enrollment & EDI Feature:
- General walkthrough of the open enrollment process
- Consultation with ExponentHR benefit specialist
- Review plan/rate changes and associated timelines
- Review and approval of updated benefit grid
- Period to test/mitigate changes via an available test website
- Notify employees of open enrollment period
- Employees submit their benefit elections
- Management review of open enrollment progress via dashboard widget and available reports
- Submitted elections approved by benefit administrators
- ExponentHR EDI Team works directly with benefit carriers to confirm file feed setup and any changes
- Elections for the new year communicated to respecive benefit carriers
Compliance Items:
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
- SECURE Act 2.0 (effective 2026)
- One Big Beautify Bill Act (OBBBA)
- Oregon Wage Statement - Employer requirement to discuss payroll codes and pay rate information to all new hires and re-communicate to all annually (effective 1/1/2026)
Recent Enhancements:
- Optional "Late Entry" leave approval workflow (choosing whether leave entries that are entered retroactively should follow standard review process or bypass review process).
- Option to reinstate a former employee's paid leave balance upon their rehire or reset their balance zero hours upon rehire.
- Option to retrieve a specific EAN by entering the EAN number on the EAN Summary page.
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August 28, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Employee ability to generate an employee directory report from their personal view of website (if desired, feature may be inactivated by employer).
- Option to access/enter performance journals for an employee via the "My Employees" widget on your manager dashboard.
- Capability to start previewing W-2/1099 form information prior to the conclusion of the payroll year.
- Designating individuals as variable hour employees (for PPACA monitoring) to systematically calculate their full-time equivalency and the ability to have their supervisor notified when the hours worked exceeds the set monitoring threshold.
- Option to make any field on the EAN required via the EAN System Administration feature.
ExponentHR Customer Feedback via Canny Feature:
- ExponentHR Canny:
- View road map of current enhancements queued for development
- Review ideas and feedback submitted by other ExponentHR users
- Vote/comment on ideas submitted by other users
- Submit your own ideas/feedback for ExponentHR development consideration
- Receive notification when there is an update on your submitted/voted items
- Review recaps of previously released enhancements
Compliance Items:
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
- SECURE Act 2.0 (effective 2026)
- One Big Beautify Bill Act (OBBBA)
Recent Enhancements:
- New Abbreviated EAN View: Option to streamline EAN creation/review process by only having the EAN fields applicable to your company's operations displayed (all fields designated as non-applicable to be hidden by default).
- New EAN Field Requirement Option: Administrator configuration option to designated which fields in an EAN are required to be filled. This may be controlled on an EAN-by-EAN basis or applied across all applicable EANs.
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July 31, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Viewing the PDF version of an employee’s W4
- Available resources to assist with opening or closing tax accounts
- Incident Tracking notes section expanded
- Performance Management Review settings saved
- Scheduling a report to identify impending expiration dates for licenses and certifications
ExponentHR Custom Fields and Table Feature:
- Custom Fields
- Ability to create custom drop-down lists to ensure uniformity in data
- Option to display on EANs with ability to selectively include on Pay Rate EANs and Misc HR/Payroll Notification EANs
- Configurable to selection restrict usage of field based on designated companies within your organization
- Custom Tables
- Ability to specify who can view the table and who can add, edit, or delete rows
- Viewable in Employee Personnel Record
- Reporting Options
- Grant access configurable on manager-by-manager, table-by-table basis
Compliance Items:
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
- Form 5500 filing deadline is 7/31/2025 for employers with plan offering that is subject to ERISA regulations
- SECURE Act 2.0 (effective 2026)
- One Big Beautify Bill Act (OBBBA)
Recent Enhancements:
- ExponentHR Canny: New enhancement suggestion tool
- Employee Personnel Record: Customizable Employee Info Section
- Performance Management: Configuration and Usability Enhancements
- New WA State Meal Break Penalty Options
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June 25, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Breaking out funding for payrolls by classification codes (ex. locations, departments, etc.)
- Configuring 1095-C to use the lowest plan cost to determine box 15 value (ex. when medical plan offering has a tobacco surcharge)
- Reporting options to view the last paycheck date of employees
- Manager and employee view of arrearage amounts that accrued while while in an on-leave status
- Utilizing onboarding utility for new or existing employees based on template configurations
ExponentHR Background Screening Feature:
- Offered via our onboarding utility and one of our preferred partners
- Multiple package offerings available to choose from and have systematically applied in the onboarding process (per the selected settings in the template's configuration)
- Automatically assign task to initiate background screening for an employee/new hire
- Steps shown that new hire will use to initiate the background screening process
- Accessing online portal
- Entering their demographic information
- Providing authorization to process via e-signature
- Management review of the screening results and designating if new hire is cleared or not cleared to proceed with onboarding process
Compliance Items:
- Alaska - New paid sick leave law (effective 7/1/2025)
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
- Form 5500 filing deadline is 7/31/2025 for employers with plan offering that is subject to ERISA regulations
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May 29, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Bulk uploading hours from an Excel worksheet to an employee(s) time clock page
- Adding to the onboarding EAN and offer letter an additional pay rate field (ex. variable rates or piece rates)
- Creating bulk EAN/record changes for contractors
- Reporting to Support any ExponentHR website speed issues
- Administering Workers' Compensation rates annually within ExponentHR
ExponentHR Workers Compensation Feature:
- Overview of Workers Compensation functionality
- Administering Workers Compensation Codes
- Create/edit new W/C codes
- Assigning W/C code to the respective job codes
- Define W/C rate(s) associated with the W/C code. This can be a default rate or an alternate rate that is dynamically assigned based on the employee's work state
- Workers' Compensation Audit report that auto-summarizes the earnings based on the defined W/C codes and rates
- Workers' Compensation Census summarizes prior 12-month eligible wages for W/C
Compliance Items:
- Alaska - New paid sick leave law (effective 7/1/2025)
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
- EEO reporting portal is now open with a deadline for applicable employers to file 2024 data by 6/24/2025
- Form 5500 filing deadline is 7/31/2025 for employers with plan offering that is subject to ERISA regulations
Recent Enhancements:
- New automated employment and income verification via integration with The Work Number by Equifax
- Employee personal view to see any deduction arrearage balance they still owe and the associated transaction history
- Option to either maintain or remove a manager's existing approval of an employee's time clock when importing new items to that employee's time clock
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April 24, 2025 |
ExponentHR Features:
- Establishing a recurring deduction for employee(s) with option to have any missed deductions go into arrears and applied on a future payroll voucher
- Employee self-service access to their own onboarding documents during and after the onboarding process
- Create an anonymous survey through ExponentHR's survey management utility
- Automatic systematic updates to the state level rules/limits for garnishment orders
- Reporting options to see which tax deposits have been processed vs still pending
ExponentHR Tax Management Utility Feature:
- Centralized portal to view all items related to your tax transactional activity and notifications
- Direct access to the various tax-related reports located throughout the ExponentHR website in addition to specific company summary reports, such as:
- Deposit History
- Deposit Analysis
- Liability Analysis
- Ability to communicate directly with ExponentHR tax specialist by creating a ticket (with option to attached notices/documents to each ticket)
- Access to Company Package, with summary of quarterly activity/filings
- Notification options to opt in/out of selected notification types from the utility
Coming Soon: ExponentHR Verification of Employment and Income Feature:
- To be released in the coming months: Automated Verification of Employment
- ExponentHR is partnering with Equifax's The Work Number
- Free service offering that will be automatically activated for your organization (unless you choose to opt-out)
- Verification made available 24/7 to credentialed verifiers with employee consent
- Removes HR personnel from the verification process
Compliance Items:
- Missouri - New paid sick and safe time (effective 5/1/2025)
- Alaska - New paid sick leave law (effective 7/1/2025)
- Nebraska - New paid sick leave law (effective 10/1/2025)
Recent Enhancements:
- ExponentHR Canny: New enhancement suggestion tool
- New IP Address Restriction Options: Expanded ability to now additionally create a list of pre-authorized IP addresses based on a range of IP addresses or range based on CIDR
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