November 2023 Release Notes

We joyfully present the festive November edition of our merry release notes! Our cheerful team has been spreading holiday magic by diligently refining and enhancing Opsyte, ensuring it sparkles with the spirit of innovation. 🎄🌟

Holiday Accrual in Days 📆

Holiday Accrual Fix 🔨

Holiday Employee List 📑

Half Day Holiday View📅

Holiday Accrual Download 🔻

Password Protected P45 🔒

Contracted Hour Warning ❗

Rota Cost Preferences Improvements ✅

Sort by Payroll no. ⏬

Copy Shifts on Mac 💻

Email Preference Update 📧

Snapshot Upgrade 📩

Invoices Split Account Update 💰

Bank Holidays on Rota 🎄

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For hourly paid staff members, calculations have traditionally been conducted in hours. Our latest feature introduces a new setting, allowing you the flexibility to choose whether holiday accrual is displayed in days or hours for both you and your employees.

You can read more about the update here.

We've enhanced our holiday accrual system to aggregate accruals across all sites where an employee is active.

When you navigate to the holiday accrual page and choose an employee who works across multiple sites, you'll now have visibility into the accrual for each site, with the total displayed at the top for comprehensive tracking.

In the latest update, when entering holiday requests on behalf of an employee, we've enhanced the employee list to display all employees in alphabetical order, as opposed to sorting them by their start date.

We have changed the view of a half-day holiday on the holiday calendar to give you better visibility of your staff's holiday.

On the Holiday Accrual page, you now have the capability to download data to Excel. We've expanded this functionality to include the ability to download holiday accrual information for all sites if you have a multi-site setup, as illustrated below.

Our P45 upload functionality has been revised to prevent employees from uploading password-protected PDFs.

In the schedule, you will now be alerted if any employees exceed their contracted hours. This warning will be indicated by their name being highlighted in orange, as shown below.

On the rota, you have the option if you would like for the total pay line to contain holiday cost and/or NI and pension.

This appears as a tick box on the rota, and our recent update ensures that the tick box retains its selected state based on your preference.

Previously on the staff list, you could sort by Name, Email address, Start Date, Department, and Section(s). We have now added the Option to sort by Payroll # also.

You can now copy shifts on a Mac computer!

Read about the new development here.

We have added a new email preference option as seen below.

You can now decide if you wish to receive the "Rota Not Published" email or not.

We have also added "Select/ Unselected All" buttons to help customise your email preferences.

Snapshot is a highly used function within our financial module and we have just made it even better.

You can now see the option to set a default snapshot message. This enables you to split your snapshot into departments or subsections to keep coherency between all snapshot messages.

You can read about Sending and Customising your snapshot here.

In the case of an invoice split across multiple sites, we will now display the respective site names within the split amounts section.

We will now show all UK bank holidays on the staff rota. Helping to remind you of those busy shifts coming up!