July: Total Reward, Automation Rules, Activity Log

A big sprint for visibility and control. Employees can now see the full monetary value of their benefits, itemised and live-synced, right on the Kota home screen. Our Rules engine got a major upgrade, with country-scoped rules, group targeting, and per-benefit enrolment modes. And the new employer Activity Log gives HR admins a single timeline of every benefit change across the org.

Watch Luke and Tadhg walk through the highlights:

Total Reward: see the full value of your benefits

Up to 20% of your total compensation lives in your benefits — but almost no one sees it that way. Most people still think comp equals pay. Part of the problem is that total reward has always been badly served: a one-off PDF emailed by a broker, or a clunky web dashboard nobody ever checks.

Now employees can see a complete, itemised breakdown of their total compensation package — salary plus every employer-funded benefit, each listed individually by name and provider. When enabled, employees see exactly what their employer is contributing to their health cover, pension, and any other active benefits, in real monetary terms, live-synced from provider data.

The breakdown appears on the home screen of the Kota mobile app and in the employee web portal — your full package, in the palm of your hand, every time you open Kota.

Automation Rules: smarter, more powerful benefit assignment

Assigning the right benefits to the right people is fiddly and manual at scale. The Rules engine has had a significant upgrade so employers can set the logic once and let Kota handle the rest. Employers can now:

• Scope rules by country: a rule applies to employees in a specific region, making multi-country benefit setups cleaner and more precise.
• Target real employee groups: aim rules at named groups of employees, with an optional time window (for example, enrol someone 30 days after joining a group).
• Choose enrolment mode per benefit: each rule can auto-enrol employees immediately, or send an invitation for them to opt in themselves.
• See blocked employees at a glance: the rules list now shows a count of employees with missing information directly on each rule card, so admins can spot and fix issues without digging into individual records.

Rules also re-run automatically when a blocked employee's profile or salary is updated, rather than waiting for the next daily cycle. The result: real control over eligibility without the busywork, and far less risk of enrolling someone in the wrong plan or missing the date they became eligible.

Activity Log: a unified timeline of benefit changes

Kota does a lot under the hood, and until now it wasn't always obvious what was happening or when.

The employer portal now includes an Activity Log — a paginated, newest-first feed of meaningful events across your organisation. Custom benefit enrolments, profile changes, and other benefit activity now appear in a single view, making it easier for HR admins to audit what has happened and when.

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