July 16th, 2026
New
Improved
Recognition, celebrations, and incentive program posts now live together on a single Home page — one scrollable feed for everything happening in your workspace.
Employees land on Home after sign-in and can filter the feed by type (All, Recognitions, Celebrations, Programs) or narrow to posts relevant to them. Deep links, share URLs, and email CTAs all open the right post on Home. Old bookmarks to separate recognition and celebration pages redirect automatically.
A dedicated Incentives page lists programs employees can participate in, plus a My Programs view for anyone managing or supporting a program.
Unified activity feed combining recognitions, celebrations, and program completions
Feed-type filters plus a "Relevant to me" toggle
Infinite scroll with cursor-based pagination
Deep-link support via post ID and post type query parameters
New Incentives section with eligible and managed program views
Admins can now delegate incentive program management without handing out full workspace admin access.
Assign colleagues as Managers (full program control) or Finance members (read-only access to Claims and Budget). Grant the new Create Programs permission to let trusted admins create and run programs while seeing only the Programs section in the admin sidebar. Program creators are automatically added as the first manager.
New Create Programs workspace permission for scoped program creation
Program-level roles: Manager and Finance
Members tab on program detail — add, list, and remove members (with last-manager protection)
My Programs view on the Incentives page for program members
Manage Program button on eligible program detail for managers and finance members
Finance members get read-only Claims and Budget tabs; managers retain full write access
📖 How Program Roles and Delegated Access Work
A new Analytics tab on the Programs → Celebrations page gives admins real-time visibility into birthday and work-anniversary activity — the same pattern as Recognition Analytics, without exporting data.
Three KPI cards summarise celebrations given, unique recipients, and points distributed for the selected period. Below, a celebration activity table supports date-range, person, and team filters, with CSV export and quarter/year presets.
Three at-a-glance KPI summary cards
Date-range filter (defaults to current calendar month)
Filter by person or team
Export filtered celebration data to CSV
Quarter and year date-range presets on analytics exports
📖 How to Use Celebration Analytics
Workspaces on Google Chat can now receive recognition and program announcements directly in a Space — alongside existing Slack and MS Teams integrations.
Connect an incoming webhook from your Google Chat Space under Settings → Integrations. Public recognitions and one-off program completions (when Program visibility is on) post as rich cards with giver details, recipients, points, and a link back to PraisePal. Private recognitions are never broadcast.
Card notifications for public recognitions and one-off program completions
Respects program visibility — completions only broadcast when published to the feed
Private recognitions excluded, same as Slack broadcast channels
Configured per workspace via incoming webhook URL
📖 How to Set Up Google Chat Notifications
Team managers are now notified when someone on their team receives a public recognition — so leads can celebrate wins they might otherwise miss.
Managers receive an email and Slack DM (when Slack is connected) with a summary of who was recognised and a View Recognition link. The giver, recipients, and deactivated managers are excluded. Private recognitions do not trigger manager alerts.
Email and Slack DM notifications to team managers of recipients
Fires on public recognition only
Deduplicated per manager when multiple direct reports are recognised together
The Home feed gains a My Teams filter so employees can focus on activity from teams they belong to — useful in larger workspaces where the full feed moves fast.
The filter is reflected in the page URL and works alongside existing feed-type and relevance filters. Deep-link views to a single post are unaffected.
My Teams toggle on the Home feed
Shows posts linked to the viewer's team memberships
URL-persisted filter state
📖 How to Organize Users Into Teams
Default program visibility — New one-off and claim programs default to visible (publish to feed) unless an admin turns it off
Email previews — Improved inbox preview text for invitations, claim updates, and changelog notifications
Analytics export presets — This/last quarter and this/last year options on analytics date-range exports