What's New 🧚

Our latest releases are all here.

Out of box.

November 24, 2022

Staff time clock with geofencing and more

Right now staff members can use their own devices(tablets or phones) to clock in and out of their shifts.

Two steps to get it started

  1. Go to Settings → Time Clock App, and switch Enable member time clock on(default is off), so staff can download and log in to use it.
  2. Download the Time Clock App from App Store(iOS) or Play Store(Android).

Geofencing time clock

With the geofencing feature, the staff will only be allowed to clock in and out of their shifts at the required places. To turn this on, go to Settings → Time Clock App and then switch Enable geofencing on.

You will need to set up the address and distance to make it work. Drag and drop the pin when you need to adjust the clock-in point, and then drag the slider to adjust the radius. For example, if you want your staff to clock in at the building, not the car park, just make sure the clock-in area covers the whole place.

Managers can set up on-site time clock

Before only the admin account could set up the time clock app for team members, now the managers or duty managers have the ability to use their own credentials to log in time clock app to set it up for team members. To allow managers to set up the time clock, the managers will need to have can manage timesheets permission. This can be a very useful feature for multiple sites businesses, their managers can set the time clock app up for their sites, so the admin person doesn’t need to go to that site to set it up or share credentials with managers.

The default hourly rate changed to $21.20

This might save a few types for the businesses that hired staff on New Zealand minimum wage.

Bug fix & Enhancement

  • Fixed manager/duty manager export timesheets 500 error
  • Fixed not showing deactivated members’ shifts on the roster
  • Fixed not calculating the shift costing of deactivated members

October 28, 2022

New wages & salary and more

Salaried staff support has been asked for so many times by a lot of kiwi businesses, which hire both salaried and waged staff. The mixture of the different pay makes it difficult to do labour forecasting. Let’s check this out how it works and other new stuff.

Waged staff

Before

The system only provided hourly pay rates, the historical data would be messed up when staff pay rates changed since the system couldn't figure out which period used which pay.

After

Right now each pay rate has an effective date, which perfectly handles staff pay rate changes. The rostered shift costs within that period will use the corresponding pay rates which makes the historical data more accountable.

Salaried staff

Before

Not supported 😬.

After

Now the system supports two ways to allocate weekly salaries for salaried staff

  • Shift-based, depending on the number of rostered shifts within a week, regardless of shift length, e.g. Amy, weekly salary is $1,000/week and rostered 5 shifts, so each shift costs $200.
  • Hour-based, depending on the number of rostered hours within a week, e.g. Amy, weekly salary is $1,000/week and rostered 45 hours, so the hourly cost will be $1000 / 45 hrs = $22.22, so based on each shift length, you can easily figure out the hourly costs for salaried staff.

MYOB IMS Payroll export salaried staff timesheets

If your business uses MYOB IMS Payroll, the salaried staff worked hours can be exported too.

Print only rostered members 🖨️

If you manage a large team, maybe some of the members don’t have any shifts within a week, with this option you can only print rostered members to save ink and paper. ♻️

Enhancements & bug fixes 🐞

  • Fixed manager log-in system occasionally crashed
  • Fixed manager cannot see members in Settings → Members when the business has no department
  • Fixed the login button in the loading state issue on the login page
  • Fixed 500 internal errors when selecting roles in reports
  • Fixed displaying timesheet history icon issue on Safari
  • Fixed MYOB IMS Payroll updating ordinary time payment code issue
  • Fixed shift chronic sorting issues when printing roster

October 10, 2022

User Permissions 🔑 and more

Finally, accountants, managers, duty managers and members within a restaurant business all can have one place for work, regardless of how many venues the business operates. Based on the restaurant people's roles and responsibilities, we have introduced new account types and permissions for different account types.

Account types

  • Admin, the person who created the Timble account with all the powers, including, company settings, payroll settings and time clock settings
  • Manager, who manage venue(s) or department(s) members/rosters/timesheets
  • Duty manager, who does some management work for their department, e.g. preparing rosters or approving timesheets
  • Member, who works within the venue(s) or department(s)

Learn about account types →

Learn about adding managers →

Learn about adding duty managers →

Permissions granularity fits the workflow

The permission granularity is designed specifically for the restaurant teams, it’s not too detailed or too OTT, so you can have better control of what managers or duty managers can do within the app. The permission groups are divided by different modules, rosters, members, timesheets and reports, so you can be based on the needs to assign permissions.

Learn about all permissions →

Detailed timesheet changing history

By fully recording the timesheet changes, you will get to know who made changes, when and what changed. The common use case is that when the timesheet error occurs the accountant can easily find which person they need to talk to.

Hide staff pay rate from junior managers

Duty managers may need to prepare rosters or approve timesheets for their department(s), but the sensitive data shouldn’t be seen, so uncheck the Can manage wage & salary option when you assign permission to them, the pay rates related information will be hidden across the whole system.

Allow managing own timesheets for managers

Depending on the position level of a manager, you can choose to allow them to manage their own timesheets. If not allowed, their timesheets will be managed by higher level account type.

Team members’ roster & timesheets access

Invite the team members to join the team on Timble, so staff can have their own account to log in to the system to check rosters or their own timesheets. You have full control of this.

Learn about how to enable full roster access →

Learn about how to enable timesheet access →

Bug fixes & enhancements 🐞

  • Fixed staff name overflow issue in Settings → Members
  • Fixed cannot search staff name with caps when in the timesheet editor
  • Fixed timesheet sum overflow issue
  • Fixed the Xero integration issue
  • Fixed the Smartly exporting issue
  • Fixed 500 error message when the user logged in after a long period
  • Added alternative public holiday option in leave types
  • Removed wage column from timesheets

September 14, 2022

Alternative public holidays

We have added alternative public holidays leave type, you can add this leave type for staff if they work on public holiday, also can be exported to CSV for payroll process.

September 13, 2022

Invite team members 🙌

Previously, the workspace only got a person(admin), now you can invite other team members to join in, it means members can have their own accounts to log in to the system to check their own shifts. This is just the beginning of the collaboration, we will build more features to connect the whole team.

August 16, 2022

Tag shifts as late/no-show/sick/covering 🏷

A lot of things can happen during a week, so we've introduced shift tagging feature to help you keep tracking what happened to a shift.

Following tag types are supported

  • Late
  • Sick
  • No-show
  • Shift covering

July 28, 2022

Assigning role to unplanned shifts

We've provided an new option for linking roles to the unplanned shifts entry and selecting roles when clock in if the staff is assigned multiple roles in a restaurant, so when you are approving timesheets you know which role the staff worked.

Bug fix & Enhancement

  • Add search members in add existing member model and settings
  • Fixed settings modal overflow issue
  • Fixed 500 error when publishing shift to a member with no email
  • Fixed timesheet history incorrect sequence when actions happens in same minute
  • Fixed assigning existing member bug
  • Fixed deactivating all members in a location & location disappear

July 17, 2022

Tracking all the changes for each entry

Entry history recorded all the changes of each entry, from the staff clocked in to approved, you can drill in the details if needed.

Bug fix & Enhancement 🐞

  • Fixed shift calendar subscription issue

July 10, 2022

MYOB IMS Payroll integration

MYOB IMS Payroll Integration is here.

Just to go Settings -> Integration, to add.

Bug fix & Enhancements 🐞

  • Added showing the number of employees in the members list
  • Added scroll to the closest time for the date picker in timesheet entry editor
  • Added department & location details to calendar event

June 26, 2022

Displaying shift length after clocking out

Display shift length & hours worked for the week

If you would like staff to see how long they have worked for current week, go to Settings -> Time Clock App to turn it on.

Share full roster PDF with your team members

After roster is completed, click Print button and share with your team members.

Got good ideas?

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