Hello!

Today we have released a new feature we've wanted to do for a while: Expiring Carry Forward 🎉 

If you allow users to carry forward some of their unused allowance into the next year, you can now set a time limit for when that carried forward allowance should be used by:

The default value is 12 months, so the user has the whole leave year to use the carry forward in, but you can amend this to be any value from 1-12 months.

We've also given the allowances tab a nice new cleaner look:

Today we have updated our privacy policy.
The changes are purely to make it clearer that we are part of the Citation Group and as such they also have access to data that we hold.

https://timetastic.co.uk/legal/privacy-policy

We've just pushed an update to our reporting to make things easier for you.

Now we've got better work schedules we can report on the actual working time off your users took, so from now on you'll see more columns in the reports: 

So instead of you trying to figure out exactly when someone wasn't at work, we now show the time off according to the user's work schedule ⏲️

These appear in annual summary reports and the backup report's leave tab.  

Sorry if we've broken anyone's macros or formulas but hopefully this helps you out.

Department settings is getting some love today - we've updated it to show you how many people are in each department and made saving changes to departments more obvious. 

API customers will know this also removes some older no longer used fields for departments - if you've not updated your integration you'll start seeing errors now.

Rolled into this release we've also fixed some issues with Insights not showing days or hours correctly and some behind the scenes improvements.

Hi all,

Happy Monday!

Today we have a new user access level for you, "Director" 🎉 

Where a department manager can see all employees win their own department, a Director is one level above that and can see a read-only view of all the departments and bookings on the Wallchart and view all users' calendars️.

For those of you with Timetastic Pro accounts, your Directors can see the Insights page too.

You can set someone to be a Director in their user profile page:

Fresh out today we've got an improvement to the user uploader.

Instead of uploading everyone with an allowance in days and then converting them to an hourly allowance one by one, you can just put a H in the last column of your upload and we'll create your users with hourly allowances now. 

A small improvement that'll hopefully save some of you some time.

In our recent privacy push we've got another change coming to Leave Types. This is probably one of our most requested features and we've been working on it for a bit in the background.

From today, everyone with Timetastic (Business and Pro) will get the ability to set leave types as "public" or "private"

This replaces the existing privacy mode toggle in Settings > General

All your leave types will be set according to that setting but now you can make individual leave types visible to everyone. Working from home is a good example of where we've had this requested.

Head to Settings > Leave Types and set the visibility to "Public" or "Private":

Public: 

Sets the leave type to be visible to everyone in your organisation regardless of whether they're a user, manager, approver or Admin user. 

Private:

Hides leave type details from everyone who isn't a user's approver, manager or admin users.

This affects Timetastic, external calendar integrations, Slack, Teams and API requests. You'll also be able to set it in the mobile app once the latest app update is out.

We've had some really valuable feedback over the last few months about this one and as a result, there are some changes to birthday visibility from today.

 Birthdays are now only visible on the Wallchart and Calendar to the user who has the birthday and their approver or manager.  As always in Timetastic, Admins can see everything including birthdays.

Apologies if this reduces the amount of cake anyone gets on their birthday 🥳, but hopefully you'll appreciate the tighter privacy around personal information.

We've got more privacy-focused updates coming, stay tuned!

Happy Friday everyone

Good news for all the admins.. 

💥 We've just updated the user listing page 💥

It's simpler and cleaner, with a brand-new filter to boot.

Go take a look, we hope you like it :)

Good news! We've redesigned the leave type settings page. While we were in there we added this: 

Each and every leave type can now be set to show as "Busy" or "Available" in external calendars. Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook - anywhere you can send an iCal feed.

This will only affect external calendars and won't change anything in Timetastic for that leave type. A few (thousand) of you requested it so we hope this helps you organise your leave types better. Calendars can take a few minutes to update after changing availability while we sync up all the bookings in the background

API consumers will also see this in new fields, check the API docs for more info.

Stay tuned for more updates.