If you're coming from a paper or PDF version of your handbook, you may be used to adding an effective date or revision date to the cover page of your handbook, and you may want to add that to your digital handbook in Blissbook.
We recommend not doing that! Here's why:
Avoid Confusion
Your digital handbook published in Blissbook is always the latest, most up-to-date version. You want to train employees to understand that they can reliably go to your digital handbook and it is always the latest version, there are no other versions they should look for, etc. Adding an effective date or revision date at the top only invites questions. As soon as a couple months go by, employees will wonder "wait, is this the right version?" The more time that goes by, the more likely it is for a reader to have doubts. You want to avoid that!
If someone prints their handbook, the version number and last published date is automatically added to the footer of each page of the PDF. We do this so if any printed pages are separated, you know which version is came from and when. You don't need this on the digital version.
Administrative Ease
Reduce your maintenance load! You don't want to have to remember to update a date every time you tweak a policy, and you don't want to have to make a decision about whether or not a change is big enough to warrant updating it every time you make a change. It's better to just not have it at all.
The latest published date of any policy, document, or document section is always available administratively to you and your team within the Blissbook admin portal, so you don't need to manually maintain it for auditing purposes.