Five ways to streamline your Oyster workflows: April 2025 product updates

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Oyster Product Updates: April 2025

For many organizations, April marks the beginning of a new quarter—and what better way to start than by improving your Oyster workflows? This month, we’re rolling out several new integrations and feature enhancements to make it even easier to manage employee data, timesheets, payslips, invoicing, and more. Check out our latest updates to simplify your processes and keep your distributed team running smoothly.

Here’s our roundup for the month:

  • 🔁 ADP Workforce Now® integration to seamlessly sync data
  • ⏲️ Timesheet enhancements for simplified hours tracking
  • 🔐 New single sign-on (SSO) methods to suit your team’s needs
  • ✅ Payslips available via Oyster’s API for easy viewing
  • ⚡️ Batch contractor invoicing available in CAD for faster payments

Manage and update employee data easily

Say goodbye to manually transferring employee data between Oyster and ADP Workforce Now®. With our new integration, all your data updates in ADP® will sync automatically with Oyster, making back-and-forths a thing of the past.

To get started, purchase the Oyster data connector from the ADP Marketplace or learn more about the integration here.

Simplify time tracking and reduce payroll errors

Tracking hours can get complicated when team members log overtime, on-call shifts, breaks, and other non-standard work hours. To make things easier and reduce payroll errors, we’re introducing powerful timesheet enhancements for all full-time team members and contractors. 

The updated interface now supports overnight shifts, auto-deducts break times, and allows team members to add notes for extra clarity. These improvements will help you avoid payroll miscalculations and manual corrections.

And stay tuned—there’s more to come! Soon, you’ll have access to an automated approval flow and self-managed timesheet adjustments.

What else is new?

Sign into Oyster securely—your way: We’ve expanded our SSO options to include OpenID Connect (OIDC), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Google, and Okta. You now have more ways to access the Oyster platform, making your login experience even smoother. Learn more.

Streamline Payslip Access with Oyster’s API: You can now integrate your team members’ payslips directly with your HR or payroll system through Oyster’s payslip API. With this API, you can avoid manual downloads and distribution while ensuring employees have secure access to their payslips. Access API.

Pay CAD invoices with one batch payment: For customers paying invoices in Canadian Dollars (CAD) via wire transfers, we’ve added the ability to batch your contractor invoices. Keep your payment process simple and square up invoices with a single bank transfer to Oyster. Learn more.

That’s it for this month’s product updates! Stay tuned for even more exciting features coming soon.

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