What’s New in Ceipal December 2025: Updates for ATS, Healthcare, VMS, and Workforce Management
January 13, 2026
January 13, 2026
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January 13, 2026
January 13, 2026
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At Ceipal, every release is built around one goal: helping staffing teams work faster, stay compliant, and make more confident decisions.
This month’s updates focus on improving hiring accuracy, speeding up healthcare onboarding, strengthening vendor governance, and simplifying workforce operations with any complexity.
Here’s what’s new across the platform:
🤖 Automatic Candidate Screening from Job Applications
Recruiters now automatically screen candidates based on their responses to job board and career portal questions before it hits pipeline.

🔍 Improved AI Matching based on Primary Skills
AI Matching takes into account the primary skills of a job in addition to the job description. This gives more relevant candidate ranking that better captures the recruiter intent and shortlisting becomes faster and more accurate.

🎥 Hireflix: Bulk Interview Invites & Centralized Assessment View
Recruiters can now extend interview invitations to numerous candidates via the Hireflix interview invitation, and there is a centralized view for interview assessments.
🤝 Upgraded Client Portal for Faster Hiring Decisions
The client portal is now improved with a modern UI and optimized workflow for greater engagement and faster recruitment.
🎓 Redesigned Candidate & Campus Portals
The new experience simplifies finding a job and staying engaged for candidates, applicants, and campus users.
🔗 Apollo Integration for Lead & Candidate Enrichment
Ceipal ATS has been integrated with Apollo.io, and allows teams to enrich leads, clients, or applicants within the platform.
🩺 Pre-Vetted Candidates for Faster Shortlisting
Recruiters can now configure automated rules to identify and tag pre-vetted candidates based on profession, specialties, licenses, certifications, and skills.

🧾 Automated Onboarding & Credentialing Workflows
Ceipal Healthcare ATS Credentialing workflows select requirements by role and location, and guide clinicians through tasks in the most efficient order.
📅 Improved Shift Scheduler for PRN Staffing
Enhanced calendar views and quick assignment tools help improve shift coverage and reduce scheduling back-and-forth.
🕒 Controlled Timesheet Deletion for Better Financial Accuracy
Timesheets can now be deleted only before they enter the invoicing stage. Once linked to an invoice, deletion is restricted.
📱 Skill Assessments via SMS
Send skill assessments through SMS to make completion easier for on-the-go healthcare professionals.
📊 Expanded Timesheet Approval Visibility in BI
The Timesheet Detailed BI Report now includes Internal Approver, External Approver, and Finalized Billing Approver fields.
✅ Publish Jobs with Confidence (Pre-Publish Approval)
Recruiters can now add an approval step before a job is shared with suppliers. Helping teams upfront control without slowing down hiring later.

🎯 Ensure Focused Pipelines with Controlled Submissions
Too many submissions can lead to delayed reviews and buried high-potentials. You can now limit the number of candidates that suppliers can submit making the pipeline focused on the best, not the biggest.
💼 Better Invoicing for Full Times
Full-time invoices don't always need to be raised immediately, and doing so too early often creates corrections later. Now you can define waiting period before full time invoices are raised.
🔄 Full Accuracy when VMS Invoices Sync to Workforce
Full time invoices automatically synchronize from VMS to Workforce when the assignment and workers are completely validated, so the finance team always starts with clean data.
🕒 Flexible Timesheet Approvals
Employees can log time daily while managers review and approve it weekly.
📥 Improved VMS Timesheet Tracking
Imported timesheets will now contain the activity history details and completion notification.
📊 Cleaner Billing & Margin Accuracy
Permanent placement invoices sync as AP bills, with options to exclude referral fees from net billing rates.
🔐 Stronger Admin Controls
Improved system groups, notification systems, and expense management options provide admins with added flexibility without losing governance.
📄 Simplified Compliance & Records
We have updated W-4 forms, document previews, and export controls make compliance easier to manage.
These updates are live and ready to use today.
If you’d like a walkthrough or need help enabling any of these features, please reach out to your account manager. We’re always here to help.
Check out the full release notes here