Today we're releasing the first benefit of joining forces with Citation. From today, you have access to a free HR advice line if you're a Timetastic customer in the UK. This isn't just for our Pro customers, but everyone.

Click the link in the footer, organise a time and you're all set.

We've cleaned up the footer a bit and added a less distracting "what's new" section as well.

Billing emails used to come from our payment provider Stripe. We've switched it up so they now come from Timetastic so you'll see invoices coming from Timetastic email addresses from now on.

We launched booking attachments a week or so ago on the web app, so you can include attachments when you book some leave - for example if you're booking time off as a sick day, you can include a photo of a doctor's note. 🤢

Well... We now have that same functionality in the mobile app! 🎉

When you book some time off - and tap to add a reason - you'll notice some new options here - that allow you to either attach an existing image, or take a photo:

You can also view attachments from the mobile app by bringing up a holiday.

Make sure you update your mobile app to version 5.5 to see this

Enjoy!

Improvement:

We've automated our account recycling policy. There's little reason to hold onto personal data in old/dormant Timetastic accounts, both from a data protection point of view and the unnecessary use of server space and power.

Timetastic accounts that go inactive for over 18 months will be flagged for recycling and warnings sent by email.

Fix:

Fixed the display of what time your next burnout snapshot is due to be sent out

Hi there,

We've got an entirely new Timetastic mobile app in the final stages of development and need some beta testers, some people keen to see the shiny new app and feedback any issues or problems.

This isn't some minor enhancement to the existing app, this is 100% new. New design, new screens, it's even got dark mode! 👏

It's open to any existing Timetastic user:

• iPhone users can join here (from your mobile) https://testflight.apple.com/join/PpkwhMBD
• Android users from here (from your mobile) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediaburst.timetastic

I'll share a few screenshots so you get a flavour of what to expect:

Today we've dropped support for Internet Explorer. If you're using IE with Timetastic. Now is the time to use Firefox, Brave, Safari, Chrome or Edge instead.

This change will allow us to deliver better features faster and more reliably while shrinking the amount of code we have to send down to everyone. The case for IE has been made by people better than I can explain here, so I'll defer to those posts for more detail:

Microsoft's post on IE Support

CSS Tricks on Dropping Internet Explorer

Hi Everyone,

This only applies to roughly 3% of our sessions but we're giving you as much notice as we can. 

Internet Explorer support in Timetastic is coming to an end in February 2021.

This specifically applies to IE11 as that's the only version we currently support. If you're using IE11 with Timetastic this will affect you.

If you're using any version of IE you'll see a banner in Timetastic warning you about this support ending. From February 2021 (or in fact, today) we'd strongly advise using a modern browser.

Security announcement today 🔐 

We've received Certificate of Assurance that we meet the Cyber Essentials Scheme requirements 👏