Cake is the main only reason to celebrate a birthday at work.

Now, if your users have a birthday coming up we’ll send a quick reminder by email three days before the big day.

So you can buy a Colin the Caterpillar cake and furtively run around getting a card signed 🤣

You can turn the emails on or off in Preferences.

Our timeouts were perhaps a little harsh for those of you using serverless infrastructure and code that took time to spin up. We’re gathering more data and analysing usage but we’ve increased the webhook timeouts for everyone. 👍

We had a few instances of fonts clashing into eachother on some of our dialogs for Locked Dates and Public Holidays. We’ve fixed that now.

If you spot anything that looks strange, let us know!

This one has been requested on and off since we launched the API so we’re happy to unleash it.

Webhooks are here 🎣. Now you can receive HTTP calls when leave events happen in Timetastic with the details. In near real time. Directly to your servers.

Developers if you’re polling us for updates, this one’s for you 😊

All the juicy detail is in the API docs: https://timetastic.co.uk/api/#webhooks

Built something cool with our API? Let us know on Twitter

Just a small one. We’ve improved some of the backend monitoring for the app.
Email addresses are also validated better now too. Enjoy :)

We’ve completely overhauled our entire billing system, moving everything to Stripe Subscriptions. Hopefully nobody noticed.

New features:

• You can now enter your billing address and we’ll put it on your invoices. Head to Settings > Billing and add it there.
• You can now set a different company name on the bills to your Wallchart.

We improved Vat number validation too.

Fixed an issue where Slack posts would still show absences for users on Public Holidays if you’d removed those dates from your Public Holiday listing in Settings.

That’s right, this is part two of our never ending series on “make Timetastic better”. Nothing public facing for this, it’s all backend changes.

Performance

• Modified our caching layer to more or less double the effectiveness of it - speeding up everything for everyone.

Misc

• Tightened up an edge case around incomplete signups so their data is completely sandboxed.
• Improved the experience for returning users who didn’t complete their signup.
• Backend libraries updated.
• Cache invalidation is now improved so the very rare case of “I updated this and it’s not changed” should be gone.
• Fixed some small layout issues on the G Suite import.

We’ve rounded up various improvements and tweaks and done a bit of a maintenance update today. Here’s the details:

Security

• It was technically possible to update some of your own profile data that you shouldn’t have been able to as a non Admin/Department Boss. Now it’s not.

Performance

• iCal Feeds are now more effectively cached - reducing our overall server load. 🙌
• The Wallchart is now more efficiently loaded so should load quicker. 🚅

Feature Changes

• Organisations that are “Billing Locked” no longer get Email Summaries.
• Email Summaries now include the word “Pending” on pending absences:

We now support over 250 countries and over 3000 different geographical regions for Public Holidays.

Your existing custom locations remain if you had any. Both newly selected and existing regions will be updated and maintained automatically.

Oh and we updated the flags too.

Select a Public Holiday region from the Allowances tab in a user’s profile and we’ll take care of the rest.