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:

We've given the sign-in and signup screens a lovely fresh new look 🎉

They had felt a little behind in terms of brand, so it's nice to see them moving forward like the rest of the app.

All the sign-in features are still there - sign in with a password, with Google, with a password-free code and there are links to help if you're having issues.

You can also now signup using Google, making signups quicker and easier.

Happy February!

We've updated the Timetastic bot and added a slash command so you can find out when your team are absent.

/timetastic next week

will give you the absences for next week. You can try individual dates or date ranges.

If you're in any doubt

/timetastic help

will give you a rundown of what you can do.

The bot has also been updated to support Slack's new Block Kit layout which should mean better readability and layouts on mobile and smaller devices.

🔒  We’ve fixed a few edge case issues around the locked dates function 🔓 

Calling all developers, tinkerers and Zapier enthusiasts...

You can now integrate your other systems directly into Timetastic: Add, Edit, Archive or Restore users from the public API and connect into your other systems.

Pro users can also update user contact details too.

Full details in the API docs along with the new Postman collection to get you started straight away at https://timetastic.co.uk/api/

While these new endpoints bed in, we're rate limiting them to 2rps.

We're introducing a much better user experience for the inbox, to align with the mobile app.

Inbox

Under the Inbox icon you can see all of the requests you need to approve. And a simple click will take you to look at a specific request in more detail.

Sent items

When you've sent a request and you're waiting for your manager to approve it. You can now see these in your sent items...