Halftime 2024 at timr
In the first few months of 2024, we have once again worked intensively on expanding our functions and optimizing existing features. Our main goal is to improve and simplify your work processes and save time in administration and time recording. We would like to present the most exciting new features to you today.
Some Highlights
- Automatic validations 2.0
- Faster working time configuration in the time and vacation account
- Action widget for Android
- and much more!
SNEAK PEAK: New Timeline view!
Table of Contents
1. Automatic validations 2.0
We are excited to introduce a brand-new feature in timr that makes controlling and managing your employees’ recorded working hours even easier and more efficient: the new automatic validations!
With timr, you have already benefited from the automatic checking of working times. Based on your defined working time rules, timr recognizes deviations and provides corresponding notifications.
The new automatic validations feature now offers numerous advantages that simplify your time management and make your work processes even more efficient.
Faster availability of validations
The validations are no longer dynamically calculated but are stored and thus available much faster. This means you have immediate access to the review results without having to put up with long loading times.
Confirm and approve notifications
Employees now have the option of confirming notifications themselves. Team leaders and administrators can approve these alerts, ensuring a clear overview of all open issues. This allows you to maintain an overview at all times and ensure that all necessary measures are taken.
Improved visibility in the menu
A badge in the menu now shows which validations are still open. This visual notification makes the checks more visible and helps you to deal with them promptly. This ensures no warning goes unnoticed.
Consistent display in the tables
All validations are now displayed in the tables, previously this was only the case in the time account. Each record with a warning is clearly labelled with a warning icon so that you can immediately see where action is required.
Printing and exporting validations
Another practical innovation is the option to print and export validations. This also applies to validations that have already been completed. For example, you can analyse how many times the maximum daily working hours were exceeded in the first quarter of 2024, export this data and send this report to the works council, for example.
TIP!
Use timr’s option to send an automatic email notification to your employees about open validations!
This reminds employees and team leaders to check their own times and saves you even more time when checking and managing working times.
2. Further new features
2.1 More efficient time tracking thanks to intelligent task selection
And another great new feature! timr now offers a function that makes it easier for you to select your tasks. This feature was previously only available in the apps, but is now also available in the web application.
With the help of intelligent algorithms, the most suitable tasks are suggested to you based on your previous activities. Have you already tried this feature?
2.2 Automatic e-mail notifications when the status of leave requests changes
You now have the option of receiving dedicated e-mail notifications when the status of absence requests changes.
This function is particularly useful if you need to keep track of all planned absences – for example, to keep the notice board in your company up to date. With the automatic notifications, you are always kept up to date and can react immediately to changes.
2.3 New task filter in the task management
There is now a new filter in the task management that allows you to quickly and easily check:
- Which tasks are assigned to a user
- Which tasks are assigned to an organisation (Enterprise plan)
- The tasks for which an employee is the project manager (Enterprise plan)
2.4 New functions in the timr apps
2.4.1 Click directly on e-mail addresses and telephone numbers
You can now click directly on e-mail addresses, links and telephone numbers in the timr apps for iOS and Android. This new feature makes work much easier, especially for your field staff.
Imagine this: You enter the e-mail address or telephone number of your customers in the description of a task for project time tracking. If your employees have any queries about a customer order, they can now simply call the customer directly by clicking on the telephone number in the task description in timr. They can also send emails or access relevant links without having to leave the app.
Your benefits at a glance:
- Faster communication: Direct access to contact information and links saves time and simplifies the workflow.
- Efficient way of working: Particularly useful for sales representatives who are frequently in contact with customers.
- Easier handling: No more tedious copying of e-mail addresses, telephone numbers or links.
2.4.2 Standby widgets for your home screen (iOS and Android)
With the new standby widgets, you can display the current working time and project time directly on your home screen.
So you always directly see:
- The current working time: See at a glance when you have clocked in.
- Project time: Check quickly and easily whether you are tracking project time for the right task.
These widgets offer you a convenient way to monitor your times efficiently without having to open the app.
2.4.3 Action widget for Android
With the action widget, your employees can now start, change or stop times directly from the home screen without having to navigate to the timr app. This means that you can record working times and project times at lightning speed and with just one click.
This improvement is ideal for anyone who frequently changes their tasks and doesn’t want to lose any time. The widget offers time-saving handling and user-friendly operation that significantly increases the efficiency of your time recording.
3. Helpful optimisations of existing functions
3.1 Working time configuration directly in the time and vacation account
With the new editing function directly in the time & vacation account, you can now adjust working time settings quickly and easily. Whether you want to change the working time model or adjust the monthly overtime allowance – all this is now possible directly in the time account without having to switch to the user administration.
3.2 Improved management of working time models
From now on, you can see directly in the overview of working time models how many users are assigned to each model. This function helps you to maintain an overview and quickly recognise which models are used most frequently.
In addition, you can now easily duplicate working time models. This means that you don’t have to manually create a new working time model for new employees every time. With just a few clicks, you can create a copy of an existing model and adapt it as required – saving time and reducing administrative effort.
Another practical new feature: you can now archive working time models that are no longer assigned to an active user. This keeps the list of your working time models clear so that it only contains the models that are relevant to you.
3.3 Edit tasks more quickly
To edit a task (for example, to set it to inactive), you no longer have to switch to task management and search for the task. You can now call up the task details of an already registered project time directly and, if authorised, edit them straight away.
3.4 Team leader now visible in the attendance board & absence calendar (Enterprise Plan)
Team leaders are now visible in the attendance board and in the absence calendar, even if they are not entered as a team member.
Previously, it was necessary to enter team leaders as team members in order to see their attendance and absence in the corresponding overviews. With this optimization, this step is no longer necessary and team leaders are automatically visible in both areas.
This improvement facilitates the overview and coordination within your team. Team members can now see the availability of their team leaders at a glance.
4. Sneak Peak: New Timeline view
At timr, we are currently focussing on the seamless integration of working and project time tracking. In addition to a better time tracking experience, we also want to offer you a joint visualisation of these times so that you always have a complete overview.
An important milestone on this path is our new “Timeline” view. This function displays all tracked working and project times clearly on a timeline on a daily basis and can be found under the “Timeline” menu item. But that’s not all – absences, absence requests and public holidays are also displayed in this timeline.
The “Timeline” view not only gives you an improved overview of your recorded times, but also allows you to enter forgotten times at any time if there is a gap in your timeline.
Advantages of the new “Timeline” view
For employees
The new “Timeline” view makes it much easier to check, correct and add times. By displaying working and project times together per day, gaps in time recording can be quickly recognised and working and project times can be easily reconciled.
For team leaders and admins
Team leaders and admins benefit in particular from the “Timeline” view in the reports. This allows you to quickly and easily check the times per employee on a daily basis. You can also correct or add times if necessary, which makes administration even more efficient.
Activate it now!
We are pleased to announce that the “Timeline” view is now available as a public beta. You can easily activate this view as a beta function in the settings of your timr account.
Activate the timeline right away in your account and benefit from a better overview. We are looking forward to your feedback on this new feature!
TIP!
Employees now also have the new timeline available with their own times in the timr apps for iOS and Android as a beta function.
