Admin - How to Update Team Member Start Dates on Excel?

Last updated: April 17, 2026

Dates must be in DD-MM-YYYY format for bulk updates to work

TLDR 🍿

How Do I Bulk Update Start Dates?

Refer to this article to understand how bulk updates work

📄 Bulk actions - How do I bulk update user information?

Once we have team member work emails on the spreadsheet, we can now focus on updating their contract start dates.

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Find the "CONTRACT START DATE" column on the bulk update template and paste the new contract start dates you would like to update the team members

with.

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Once that is complete, we have to format the date to DD-MM-YYYY

Select the date cells, right click (or click with two fingers on a Mac) and select

"Format Cells".

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On the left navigation bar find "Date" and change the "Type" to the date that follows the DD-MM-YYYY format.

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We have now correctly formatted the dates.

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We can proceed with the bulk update in Cercli.

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