What's new in SkyTab Workforce

This article is a rolling list of SkyTab Workforce product updates, including new features and bug fixes.

Managers can now choose whether to display employee first and last name or legal name on the Scheduler.

Pay by option on Overtime page

When an employee has worked in different positions with different pay rates across an overtime period, companies can now choose to calculate the overtime in one of two ways:

Refer to this article for further help.

Minor UI change to make the days of the week abbreviations more visible on calendars across the app.

All timecards can now be manually edited directly in Workforce to add cash tips where the position worked is eligible for cash tips.

Fix rolled out to an issue where some users were seeing a 'Your app needs an update' error on the desktop app.

Employees can now edit their first name, last name, and phone number on the Workforce mobile app.

A fix has been implemented to the filters used at the top of the Timecards page.

This fix improves both the search performance, as well as improving the values being shown in the various filters.

Employee start day of time is now being synced from Lighthouse Business Manager into Workforce.

Start day of time is used in compliance calculations, such as calculating daily overtime.

Users can now select which language to view the desktop version of Workforce in! Choose between Spanish, French, and English.

Language selection is also available on the mobile app.

Managers may now update first name, last name, phone number and email address on the desktop app for employees who have not yet connected their accounts.

Once employees have activated their Workforce accounts, managers will not be able to update these fields. Employees will need to update these attributes themselves.

Changes will not be synced back to Lighthouse Business Manager.

A new timecards sub-permission has been introduced. Previously, all managers who had the Manage Timecards permission had access to all timecards, including their own.

Now, a sub-permission is available to indicate if managers may perform actions against their own timecards.

This is toggled on by default. If toggled off, managers will be able to view their own timecards, but will not be able to create, edit, or delete them.

Employee Contact Tracing report has been removed.

When employees activate their account on the mobile app, they are now able to edit all fields (e.g. first name, last name, email address) to ensure they are accurate. Previously, only blank fields were able to be edited.

Wording against each of the Attendance settings has been updated to better reflect the setting.

Emojis are now supported in the notes field when creating / editing / actioning an availability request using the mobile app.

Implemented changes to our availability solution.

Previously managers could create availability on behalf of an employee, but this required employee approval before it was considered 'live'.

Now when managers create availability for an employee, the availability set will be instantly set live, provided it does not conflict with one of the employee's existing availability or unavailability sets.

Changes to existing availability sets will continue to require approval.

Refer to our help article for more information.

New payroll export format.

Timecards can now be exported for Heartland Payroll.

Changes to permissions and access levels.

Administrators may now change manager permissions directly within Workforce.

Managers may also be upgraded to administrators, giving full access to Workforce features.

See article here

Implemented a new change log to give users better visibility of changes to the Workforce app. Simply click on the version number in the top righthand corner to view recent changes.

Fix for an app crash occurring when creating unavailability on the Workforce iOS mobile app while logged in as a worker.

Fix for bug on the Workforce mobile app (Android), relating to selecting images from gallery.

Update to default filter on Sales vs Labor report from 'Scheduled Labor' to 'Actual Labor' (mobile app).

The default value on a filter on the Sales vs Labor Cost report has been updated. Previously, the report defaulted to a "scheduled labor" filter, which caused issues and confusion for users not utilizing Workforce for scheduling. The default filter is now set to "actual labor", providing more accurate data representation for all users.

Update to default filter value on Sales vs Labor report from 'Scheduled Labor' to 'Actual Labor' (desktop app).

The default value on a filter on the Sales vs Labor Cost report has been updated. Previously, the report defaulted to a "scheduled labor" filter, which caused issues and confusion for users not utilizing Workforce for scheduling. The default filter is now set to "actual labor", providing more accurate data representation for all users.

Fix for location name disappearing on Workforce main menu.

An issue has been resolved where the location name would sporadically disappear from the top left corner of the Workforce Dashboard for users navigating from Lighthouse Business Manager. This issue sometimes affected the display of timecards and scheduling data, making it appear as though there was no data available. This fix ensures the location name consistently displays, preventing any disruption in data presentation.

Update to ensure timezone is being set correctly within Workforce based on the location's address.

Fix for iOS push notifications not being issued.

Fix for image attachments in logbook and in-app chat not able to be uploaded.

Enhancements to Coastal payroll export:

Enhancements to Coastal payroll export:

Fix to make fields editable when empty during the employee activation process on mobile.
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Enhancement to show public holidays on the Scheduler under the relevant date.

Update to the iOS mobile app to ensure syncing shifts with iOS calendar feature continues to work following iOS 17 release.

Fix to overtime bug, where changes to the daily overtime rule were also modifying the daily double overtime rule.

'Daily double overtime' name change to 'Daily overtime', reflecting the flexibility of the rule.

New feature! Paylocity CSV timecard export
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See article here.

Fix to sporadic issue where company name was sometimes missing from the mega menu and schedules were disappearing / shifts and opportunities were unable to be created.
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Updated Employee page to make employee name sorting case insensitive.