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The Sparkrock Ed Product Roadmap

The Sparkrock Ed suite of products for K-12 includes:

Our product team updates this roadmap on a monthly basis. Roadmap items in green have been completed and shipped to customers. Roadmap is subject to change at any time. Please bookmark this page and refer back frequently for the most up-to-date product information.

Review Sparkrock Finance Release Notes
Review Sparkrock Ed HRP Release Notes

Last Updated: September 2, 2026

Sparkrock Finance

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    Q3 2026

    • Prevent self-approval of expense claims by delegates
    • Preserve invoice line values on GL account changes
    • Configurable self-approval thresholds
    • Spanish translations
    • Longer GL descriptions so Sparkrock Finance data flows cleanly into Sparkrock EdHRP
    • Automated payroll GL account sync between Sparkrock Finance and Sparkrock EdHRP
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q4 2026

    • Business Central v29 upgrade
    • T4A updates for FY2027 (CRA)
    • Automated revenue recognition for funding and grants
    • Easy Power BI connectivity through modern APIs
    • Automated user provisioning across Sparkrock EdHRP and Sparkrock Finance
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q1 2027

    • Payroll budget-to-actual reporting (foundation)
    • Payroll employee and budget code on general journals
    • Contract management
    • Automated AP invoices for payroll liabilities
    • Maintenance Releases

     

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    Q2 2027

    • Business Central v30 upgrade
    • Commitments and encumbrances sub-ledger
    • Detailed trial balance with dimensions
    • Receipts and attachments in one place on purchase orders
    • ​Maintenance Releases
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    Q3 2027

    • Separate filtering for expense claims
    • Dynamic allocations on purchase documents
    • Receipts and attachments visible at payment approval
    • CRM and grant management connectors
    • Finance user experience enhancements
    • Payroll FTE budgeting and forecasting in Sparkrock Finance
    • ​Maintenance Releases

Sparkrock EdHRP

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    Q3 2026

    • Hour-based deduction calculations for all jurisdictions
    • Mass import of benefit and deduction overrides (BC)
    • Multiple shift premium codes on the same worked hours
    • Hour-based benefit premium calculations
    • Accurate non-statutory deductions as employee FTE changes
    • Notification documents on board letterhead
    • Shift-premium-only payments for salaried employees
    • TTOC salary increments per BC collective agreements
    • Allowance frequency, in-lieu-of-benefits and position link (BC)
    • Fair mid-month entitlement payouts
    • Streamlined pay cleanup utility
    • Absence reporting improvements (phase 1)
    • Pay period calendar import
    • Attendance support program with early, consistent intervention
    • OMERS vacation pay calculation enhancement
    • New OMERS E165 file format
    • Employee-submitted police record checks with compliance tracking
    • Modernized System module
    • Timesheet improvements with daily granularity for payroll
    • Board-letterhead notifications, refinements
    • EDAS reporting completeness (BC)
    • Higher decimal precision for seniority service
    • Withheld accumulator based on future net pay
    • Entity-type filtering in accumulators
    • New Sparkrock EdHRP APIs for integrations
    • Longer GL descriptions so Sparkrock Finance data flows cleanly into Sparkrock EdHRP
    • Automated payroll GL account sync between Sparkrock Finance and Sparkrock EdHRP
    • One-click payroll posting from Sparkrock EdHRP to Sparkrock Finance, with full history
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q4 2026

    • Opt-out for day-based TTOC incrementation
    • Bank overtime through timesheets (comp time)
    • Vacation pay banking per collective agreement
    • Automatic pay records report with every pay run
    • Self-serve GL substitution management
    • Additional reports
    • Guided payroll workflow tool
    • Case management for attendance support (continued)
    • Payroll employee spotlight with everything in one place
    • Automated union dues summary reports (OECTA)
    • French translations for Sparkrock EdHRP
    • Modernized T4 process, including multiple T4s
    • Richer letter-of-permission records
    • Modern, secure email delivery (SMTP deprecation)
    • Improved formatting for enhanced pay statements and self-serve printouts
    • OMERS scattered-day enhancement
    • Automated user provisioning across Sparkrock EdHRP and Edsembli Finance
    • Auto-create mySparkrock users on Sparkrock EdHRP onboarding
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q1 2027

    • BC enhancements
    • Leave and position FTE in approved-leave summaries
    • Vendor liability report (BC compliance)
    • PEBT enrollment and remittance via Blue Automate (BC)
    • Retroactive WCB and CPP year-to-date adjustments (BC)
    • Streamlined pension imports for BC and AB
    • At-a-glance employee view in Staff Management
    • Automated nightly SFE export files
    • Timesheet improvements, continued (seniority via timesheets, daily timesheets)
    • Reminders for ending positions and leaves
    • Absence reason definitions and employee-level filtering
    • Self-service mass import and update screens
    • Saskatchewan taxation and pensions
    • Accurate duplicate detection in timesheets
    • Non-employee users for system maintenance
    • Desjardins bank file support
    • ATRF pension report (AB)
    • Automated AP invoices for payroll liabilities
    • Maintenance Releases​
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    Q2 2027

    • Absence workflow with dispatcher tools for replacements
    • Pay exceptions parity 
    • Clearer replaced-employee identification on timesheets
    • Mass import of training and certification records
    • Timesheet process enhancements
    • Manual board shares for sporadic deductions and adjustments
    • My Timesheets UX enhancements
    • Vacation balances for time-based accounts
    • Organization chart
    • Full-featured approval management
    • Undo or delete termination
    • HR workflow automation for leave, employee changes and hiring
    • Self-serve rebillable salary report
    • Standardized change board search
    • Employee TD1 upload from the portal into Sparkrock EdHRP
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q3 2027

    • Automatic self-service access on hire
    • Employee-level language settings
    • PA import for OMERS
    • OMERS calculation changes
    • OMERS NFT report
    • Offence declaration enhancement
    • Streamlined Cowan benefits file management
    • Manitoba compliance reports (CUPE dues, TRAF)
    • Statutory holiday pay for AB and SK
    • Manitoba remittance report (HE Levy, TFAF, FPP)
    • Alberta payroll vendor files module
    • Alberta rebillable salary report
    • Saskatchewan pension and federation reports
    • BAS file enhancements
    • SFTP delivery for reports
    • Payroll FTE budgeting and forecasting in Sparkrock Finance
    • Maintenance Releases

Sparkrock SIS

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    Q3 2026

    • Performance enhancements
    • Automatic identity-mismatch resolution
    • OnSIS Gold with roughly 20x faster provincial reporting
    • Family portal account linking and contact deduplication
    • Ontario compliance (FR902 and FR908)
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q4 2026

    • Jurisdictional updates
    • Performance enhancements
    • Modern, secure email delivery (SMTP deprecation)
    • Manitoba provincial exam marks
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q1 2027

    • Jurisdictional updates
    • PASI digital documents compliance (AB)
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q2 2027

    • Jurisdictional updates
    • Structure file migration to database
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q3 2027

    • Jurisdictional updates
    • Teacher portal, phase 1
    • Historical records export and removal
    • Easier homeroom class assignments
    • Maintenance Releases

Sparkrock SchoolDay

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    Q3 2026

    • School generated funds V1
    • Worldline payment processor integration
    • Self-serve online transactions report
    • Forms that track, notify and resubmit
    • Expense accounts in school generated funds
    • Accurate, standards-based SGF accounting reports
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q4 2026

    • AODA accessibility compliance
    • Ministry of Education year-end reports
    • Year-end reconciliation
    • Microsoft single sign-on across web and API
    • Message delivery with queuing
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q1 2027

    • Self-service red-flag resolution
    • Read-only teacher access and UX enhancements
    • Automated SIS integration
    • Self-service configuration and branding
    • Private school tuition payments
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q2 2027

    • Healthy Hunger integration
    • Fortis payment processor integration
    • Maintenance Releases

mySparkrock

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    Q3 2026

    • Centralized login
    • HR enhancements
    • Finance and purchasing enhancements
    • Expense claims UX enhancements
    • Profile-based API access security
    • UI enhancement with modern, customer-driven design
    • Maintenance Releases

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    Q4 2026

    • Threaded comments on expense claims
    • Centralized configuration with Azure Key Vault
    • WCAG screen reader accessibility
    • WCAG contrast, alt text and calendar fixes
    • Performance enhancements
    • Time entry enhancements
    • Auto-create mySparkrock users on Sparkrock EdHRP onboarding
    • Maintenance Releases


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    Q1 2027

    • Manager-initiated HR requests (hire, leave, termination)
    • Real-time absence balances
    • Performance enhancements
    • Standalone self-service portal, stage 1
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q2 2027

    • HR hiring, absences and entitlements workflow enhancements
    • Mass-approve absence requests
    • API multitenancy
    • Maintenance Releases
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    Q3 2027

    • Standalone portal stage 2: unified self-service with Sparkrock EdHRP
    • Maintenance Releases
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