Product documentation

How Ascendly works today — guides for employees and managers, plus technical reference for admins and developers.

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What's in Ascendly

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Scorecard & BSC

How entries, fiscal cycles, KPI formulas, and performance bands work in Ascendly.

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For everyone

Plain-language guides for HR, managers, and employees — not just engineers.

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API & data

Collections, sync behavior, and links to interactive API docs on the staff network.

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Who this site is for

Guide

Employees, HR, managers — scorecard pages, schedules, BSC rules

Reference

Admins and developers — API, BigQuery dashboard architecture

Product

Product map and roadmap — what exists today, what is planned next

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What's in Ascendly — pages and product areas as they work today
News & highlights — BSC Passers, birthdays
Scorecard system — pages, collections, calculations, recycle bin
Weekly Kudos — recognition cards (web + desktop widget)
Learning — modules, player, author studio
Notifications — inbox, email delivery, web/desktop parity
Desktop app — Windows employee client
Platform & admin — sign-in, system status, page visibility
BSC fiscal cycles — Jul–Jun cycles, task delivery, month locks
Dashboard overview — News + BSC score pages
Bonus qualification — manager bonus gate matrix
Employee schedules — day codes and working days
API reference — interactive docs (staff network)
Roadmap — planned work not yet in the product

Convention: When behavior changes, update the relevant guide so it describes the current setup. Do not add dated changelog entries on this site — see Documentation principles.