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.

We've just rolled out a lovely new feature for capping leave types.

With this, you can set a limit on how many days or hours of a leave type your users can take in a year:

You can apply this to any type of leave, whether it affects allowances or not. 

And if you want to keep it flexible, just set the limit to "Unlimited" and a user can book as much of that leave as their allowance allows.

There's more info on this on our help site: Leave types

For all Timetastic approvers, managers and Admins (on Pro or Business) there's a new toggle in your email preferences which we've turned on: 

Negative balance alerts!

Once a month you'll get a summary of who has a negative balance giving you the opportunity to check or amend a user's allowance or bookings.

That's it, super simple but hopefully useful for seeing when one of your users balances has gone awry.