April 2021 Release

Owned by Tim Lee
Last updated: Mar 28, 2023 by Kelly Collins

Release notes


The April release brings in some changes and updates.

 

Employee tabs access

You can set the visibility of the employee tabs (absence, contract, pay, etc) via Admin -> Employee Screens. This can now be done on your security access. For example, if you don’t want managers to see the pay details of their employees, select the Manager as the security level


and then simply untick the pages you do not wish them to see then Save.


Timesheet reminders

You can now send reminders to employees and their managers for unsubmitted or unapproved times sheets. This can be found in Admin under Timesheet and Expenses. When logged into the screen you will have some configurable items on the page. We recommend you do not change the email body in either boxes. Full training is available, so please call our support desk.


Timesheet starting day of the week

If your timesheets start on another day of the week other than Monday, support will now be able to change the view of the time sheets to show the first day of their working week. Please note though, this will change the day of the week for all employees.

 

Timesheet Unit rates

We’ve added a new facility to allow different types of employees to have different rates available to them.  For example, this would allow IT staff to log overtime only, whereas another group might log all their time. These can be setup as Pay elements to send to your payroll or just be used for reporting purposes. The example below shows all three rates are sent to payroll.

This can be found in Admin under Timesheet and Expenses and is called Timesheet Group.

You can also have unit-based recording now. This can be used as a Cash value or used as a number of units based on the rate its set against. As an example, below, you can see on Wednesday this employee worked 5 hours and an additional three units based on the overtime rate.


Finally, to keep you updated on some smaller changes

  • We’ve fixed an issue in the expenses module where you could not see the expense type over X amount of characters. This has now been resolved and will show longer expense types as well as longer comments now.
  • You can now double click an uploaded document on your employees’ profile under the documents tab to download this.