2025 was a foundational year for TalentDesk.
Our focus was on expanding the platform beyond individual freelancers and projects, and towards supporting more complex, real-world operating models including vendor-led delivery, richer contract customisation, deeper operational insight, and more sophisticated global payments.
Alongside a steady stream of customer-requested enhancements, we delivered several major features that significantly extend what TalentDesk can support today. This post recaps the most important developments shipped in 2025 and sets the context for what’s coming next.
One of the biggest launches of 2025 was Vendor Management - a feature designed to support organisations that work with agencies, consultancies, and vendor-led teams, not just individual freelancers.
Clients can now:
From a financial perspective, the platform automatically generates consolidated vendor invoices, linking them back to the underlying project and task work completed by each team member.
This feature unlocks entirely new delivery models for clients, while preserving the same compliance, budget control, and approval workflows that TalentDesk is built around.
Contracts are rarely “one size fits all”, especially at scale.
In 2025, we introduced Dynamic Contract Data Fields, giving clients far more flexibility when working with contract templates. Clients can now:
This allows teams to maintain a single contract template while still tailoring each agreement precisely to the recipient - reducing admin overhead and the risk of manual errors.
To give clients better visibility into how their freelance workforce operates, we launched the Insights Dashboard.
This new chart-based view provides date-range driven statistics across key operational metrics, including:
The Insights Dashboard offers a quick, visual way for managers and finance teams to understand what’s happening across their organisation without exporting data or building custom reports.
Payments remain a critical part of the TalentDesk platform, and in 2025, we expanded our global payment capabilities further.
We introduced:
The quote system ensures that freelancers are paid as optimally as possible, taking into account payment routes, fees, and currency considerations at the moment of payout. This improves transparency for freelancers and helps ensure fast, reliable payments at scale, and paves the way for full automation.
While TalentDesk has offered a comprehensive Open API for clients to create their own integrations with, including via services like Zapier.
This year, we took the step to develop the TalentDesk Zapier App. Zapier users can now use the full automation power of Zapier with our pre-configured Events and Actions to streamline their operations.
To further enhance the integration experience for clients who wish to connect TalentDesk to their other systems, we developed a Webhook framework with an initial selection of the most requested webhooks available.
This framework allows us to quickly add new webhooks on request.
One of the most requested improvements we have received is the ability to better track project spend aligned with internal accounting.
A lot of our clients run what we call “project-based accounting”, where their accounting team define a new expense Cost Code for the clients they work with or the projects they work on.
With this new feature, TalentDesk admins can upload or create their list of accounting cost codes and assign them to projects within the system.
This data can then be exported in Bill formats for Xero and QuickBooks, or made available via bespoke custom reports.
Security is extremely important to us at TalentDesk. Our clients, and their contingent workforce, entrust us with their sensitive personal data. It is our responsibility to ensure that no unauthorised access to this data is possible.
This is why we introduced free Multi-Factor Authentication, with the option for clients to make this mandatory for all users. Giving our users greater peace of mind that their data is safe.
In 2024, we deployed our new Roles & Permissions feature, which allows our clients to control feature access for their manager users.
This year, we continued adding feature permissions to extend that control even further.
Identity verification has been a core part of provider onboarding for a long time; however, the user experience has not always been the best for providers.
This year, we decided to change the service provider partner we work with for identity checks to Veriff, whose verification process is much more modern and fluid.
No one is perfect, and mistakes can be made during the onboarding of new freelancers. This is why we have added greater flexibility to the onboarding process.
Attached the wrong contract or forget to add one that is required? You can now add, change and remove contracts to a user’s onboarding at any time.
The same applies to onboarding forms: add, change, or remove them as needed.
While we have a stacked development roadmap each year, we believe that it is important to continually listen to clients for changes that will quickly improve their daily interaction with the TalentDesk platform. We review client feature requests bi-weekly and try to incorporate them into our development where possible. Below is a selection of some of the client feature requests that we delivered in 2025: