January 2020

Employee central:

1. ‘Gender’ and ‘Ethnicity’ fields were added to the ‘Personal’ info tab.
2. Employees can be marked as ‘Floater’ by checking a box in the ‘Pay Config’ tab.

Reports:

1. The new ‘EEO Report’ provides a demographic breakdown of the employer’s workforce by race and gender.
2. Approver (Project Time Approval Report): You can now narrow down the ‘Project Time Approval’ list entries by Project- simply select the desired project from the dropdown after selecting the time period and generating the report.
3. Added the balance PTO field in the HR vacation report.

SMS messaging functionality was added to the application.

1. In Reports-> Payroll, select employees and click the ‘Send SMS Reminder’ button to send a text message to selected employees reminding them to submit their timesheets.
2. You can also use this functionality to send your own custom messages.
3. In the resource allocation module, you can select employees and send a text message to check on their availability for a project by clicking the ‘SMS Employees’ button.
4. You can view their responses in the ‘View Responses’ tab.

Invoicing:

1. Payment integration with Quickbooks was added.

Enhancement

1. Resource allocation module:
2. Employee projects can be extended using the module, however, the project end date must be within 15 days of the present date.
3. After the grace period of 15 days for the extension period, you can add an employee again to the project by using the ‘Add Employees’ button.
4. ‘Floater’ type employees are distinguished in the add employee dropdown by showing the floater word in parenthesis next to their name in the list.