You'll have probably noticed we've updated our UI colours and leave type colours recently. These align better with WCAG standards and make life easier for people with vision impairments.

Also you'll now get a notification if someone's changed a reason or changed an attachment after a booking has been made (Anyone using the API will note this raises a new webhook event type)

We've just released a big new feature that we've wanted to do for a while: Accrued Leave 🎉

This is a pro feature and means a user can only book some time off if they have accrued enough leave.

It's a user level setting, so you can have a mixture of users that accrue and others that don't 

There's a lot to this and a great help article that goes into it all in more depth: Accrual Leave

Hope you like it.

After many years our old datepicker has been retired 🫡 in favour of a more accessible and easier to use picker with better screen reader support.

This resolves the long standing issue we had for Firefox users where the dropdowns for years wouldn't work. 🥳

 We've also fixed some edge case bugs in and around attachments.

You can now see who has a public holiday in your daily and weekly email digests.

Head to "My preferences" and flick the "Public holidays on digest" switch to "On":

Then in your digest, as well as the usual summary of absences, you'll also see who is off due to a public holiday:

Booked a sickness day and need to add a doctor's note afterwards? Need to change a typo in your booking reason? No more cancelling the entire booking, you can edit the reason and add an attachment after the booking is made now.

Go into a booking and hit the "edit" icon: 

You can now add an attachment or change the reason without cancelling and re-booking the entire thing 🥳

This applies to everyone, not just Pro users 

On the users page in the multi select menu we've got a new option: 

You can now update multiple user's allowance at once for this or the next leave year: 

We've got more things on the way, so keep an eye out for updates.

We've got a new filter on the Wallchart. It looks and works in much the same way as the one on the users page: 

You can set your default filter to multiple departments, just one department or keep it just as it was.

Happy Filtering!

A small but significant update for anyone using our API today.

We've added some more endpoints to the API surface to support adding/editing/deleting departments.

Full docs are, as always, on the API docs page: https://timetastic.co.uk/api/

📨 We've made changing email addresses more secure 📨

Now when you change a user's email, you'll see this:

We'll send the user an email that includes a verification link for them to follow. Or they can verify by logging into Timetastic using their new email.

Until they verify, you'll see this on their profile:

It's exactly the same when you change your own email.

One of our lesser requested, but still valuable features sees the light of day today.

Great news for everyone that uses Outlook: You can now set calendar events to appear as "Out of Office" in iCal feeds and Calendar Integrations.

Set it in your Leave Type Settings where you'd usually set Busy or Available.

For those of you using Google Calendar or any of the 600+ other calendar apps that consume our feeds, you'll see Out Of Office items appear as "Busy" in your calendar.

iCal feeds and calendar feeds can take from 30 minutes to 24hours to update once you change the status so bear with us while we process the updates.