Abra Help

Employees

Items marked Coming soon are being rolled out and will be available soon. See What's new for 2027.

The Employees section lists the group's employees, with their location, class and enrollment progress. Filter by location or class, or tick Show Terminated Employees. To export employee data or deduction files, use Reports.

Adding employees

Press Add/Edit Employee(s), then choose one of these:

  • + Add Employee for one person.
  • Upload Employee(s) for many: download the CSV template, fill it in, and upload it (up to 10 MB). Upload History shows past uploads. New for 2027 The template also takes each employee's gender, occupation, working hours, salary and date of hire.
  • Edit Employee(s) to change many at once: pick the fields, download the custom template, fill it in, then check the before-and-after preview and submit.

Each employee has personal details (name, date of birth, SSN, email, phone, address), job details (title, full or part time, hire date, salary, location, class, contribution tier) and options such as Test Employee or COBRA.

  • Coming soon An Apt / Suite line and an optional mailing address.
  • Coming soon An optional personal email beside the work email.
  • Coming soon When you edit an employee, the SSN shows as ***-**-1234. Press Show SSN to see or change it. If you don't touch it, it isn't changed. Employees see their own saved SSN, and their dependents', masked the same way on About You.

Employees with no state Coming soon

Plans and prices depend on where people live, so an employee with no state on file is flagged with a No state badge. A banner shows how many there are, and Show only employees with no state filters the list to them. Add the state to each one. Nothing is blocked while you do.

Terminating an employee or moving them to COBRA

Open the employee with Edit in the row's ⋮ menu. Set Terminated to Yes, and enter the last day worked and the reason. For COBRA, set COBRA to Yes.

Logins

  • Generate Usernames creates usernames for the employees you select and emails them.
  • Generate Password sends a password link.

Employee View

Choose Employee View from the ⋮ menu to see Abra exactly as that employee does, for example to help them enroll. Press Back to Admin when you're done. See What your employees see.

Import Elections Coming soon

Use Import Elections to load elections from a CSV file, for example when moving a group onto Abra. The dialog names the enrollment period the elections go into, for example the period effective 01/01/2027, and you tick to confirm before you proceed. Abra picks the period whose window is open today, or the period in force if none is open. While a window is open and a different period is in force, you can choose either, for example to load a new hire's 2026 election during 2027 open enrollment. Importing overwrites the employee's existing elections for that period.

Syncing to Ambient (ICHRA) Coming soon

Employees sync to Ambient automatically when you add or change them. Post Employee Add and Post Employee Update let you send them on demand.