Business Connect release notes
Our latest release on 9 October 2025 includes the following changes.
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Business Connect platform
Removed confusing notifications
Customers who have renewed their food business registration or alcohol licence will no longer continue to receive confusing reminders to renew. Now renewal notifications are correctly cleared after successful renewal.
Date reliability improvements
Customers who enter a date into their draft application and save and close it, will now find it correctly saved when they reopen the draft. Those customers using screen readers will also now hear their reader announce an error message should they make a mistake with the date so they can easily correct it.
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Accessibility improvements
Form creators will now see consistent success notifications and clearer confirmations for actions like reordering pages/components and managing sections. This will give you more confidence as you build your form.
Jump to any page in preview
Even if you have added show or hide logic on pages in your form, you will now be able to quickly navigate to that page in preview mode. Previously some pages weren’t accessible in preview. This update makes it easy to review your whole form and keep checking how it’s looking as you build.
New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) component
Form creators who use the NZBN component can now configure it to allow other entity types aside from companies and partnerships. They can now specify sole traders, charitable trusts, incorporated societies, trusts and limited partnerships. This allows a greater degree of flexibility to better serve different audiences for different forms.