It's important to be able to maintain all of the information about an employee in one place, and this can sometimes include their Right to Work status, and occasionally an expiry date.

We've introduced a simple solution to logging employees' Right to Work status. In an employee profile, you can now use a checkbox to log that an employee's Right to Work status has been confirmed. Once confirmed, you can also log the expiry date if it has one.

It's completely optional, and is included in all your Employee Export if you ever need to review all employees' statuses and expiry dates.

When used alongside RotaCloud Pro's Document Storage feature, it's the perfect way to keep track of employee's eligibility to work.

If your employees have an hourly holiday balance, then keeping track of the hours spent for each holiday can be time-consuming. Instead of sifting through reports to find the correct figures, it's beneficial to collaborate with employees who are most familiar with their schedules while maintaining control over the final figures by using employee input as a suggestion.

To enable this feature, go to your settings page and activate the 'Allow employees to suggest hours when submitting leave requests' option. Employees with hourly allowances can now include daily or total hours in their leave requests. You can review and edit these hours before approving the request.

Once this feature is enabled, employees can include hours in their requests both on desktop and in the latest version of the RotaCloud app.

You can update to the latest version of the app by heading to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

Being short staffed can be a strain on you and your employees, especially when it’s a result of too many people being away on leave. Adding leave or approving leave requests can be tricky when you’re not sure who else is away, and whether you have the right staff that you need for your business.

RotaCloud can now show you instantly who else is on leave, whether you’re adding Leave to the system directly or responding to an employee’s holiday request, to help you process leave more quickly by letting you see the information you need, when you need it.

The ‘Who’s on leave’ list is now available on the web, and in the latest version of the RotaCloud app. You can update to the latest version of the app by heading to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, and learn more about managing leave in our Help Article.

If your business has a Time Off in Lieu (TOIL) policy, then you can benefit from having extra staffing when you need it, and your staff can benefit from having a more flexible schedule.

It's essential to have tools that provide clear visibility into the accrual and usage of TOIL. With these tools, you and your team can enjoy a flexible but structured work arrangement, while keeping all the necessary information in one place.

We're excited to introduce a highly-anticipated and frequently requested feature that is now in beta in RotaCloud: the ability to manage your employees' accrued TOIL balances separately from their holiday allowances. TOIL Leave can now be added by Admins and Managers or requested by employees, and everyone will have access to a TOIL summary to easily track their own TOIL balances.

We're thrilled to announce that Time Off in Lieu is now available on both the web and mobile versions of RotaCloud in beta as of today. You can enable this feature in your account's Settings page. For more information on how TOIL works in RotaCloud, please refer to our Help Articles here.

It’s important for adding Leave to be a quick, easy process that isn’t intrusive, where you can see the info you need at the point that you need it.

We’ve made some big changes to the process of adding leave, making it quicker and more informative than ever before. The Add Leave window now opens right there in the Leave page, allowing you to add leave or respond to a request without moving away to another page.

Holiday & TOIL allowances are now shown for the relevant employee so you don’t need to go anywhere to check if someone has enough leave left for the current year.

In addition to this, it’s now quicker to add the most common types of leave, and easier than ever to add leave to multiple employees, and you can now search for specific employees by typing.

The new calendar makes it easier to add Leave into the past and future with fewer clicks, and we’re pleased to say that all of these improvements are available for employees and managers, in addition to administrators.

The new and improved Leave process is available right now in the RotaCloud web app. For more information on adding and managing leave, please visit our Help Articles.

When you need to know when you or a colleague is in this week, it's important to see only the relevant information at a glance, without being distracted by holidays or unclaimed shifts if it’s not necessary.

In the RotaCloud app, you can now use the filter menu on the Shifts page to show only assigned shifts, whether you're viewing your own schedule or browsing a colleague's. Simply tap the 'Sort & filter' icon in the upper right corner of the Shifts page and enable 'View shifts only' to remove all other information.

The 'View shifts only' filter is now available in the latest version of the RotaCloud app. To access this feature, please update to the latest version by visiting the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. You can learn more about the Shifts page by checking out our Help Article.

We understand the importance of having instant access to the information you need about RotaCloud, even when you're on the move, and not having to wait until you're in front of a desktop computer to receive the support you require.

Over the past year, we have introduced numerous updates to our mobile app, making it easier than ever to manage your business on the go. And now, we've taken it a step further by enabling you to get help with RotaCloud anywhere.

Open the menu of the RotaCloud app, and tap ‘Chat with us’ to send us a message, or access any previous conversations you’ve had with us — even if you started them on a desktop!

Our Live Chat is now available in the latest version of the RotaCloud app. You can update to the latest version by heading to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

When employees forget to clock out, it can be a pain to put right if you’ve come to the end of your Pay Period without realising that your staff’s timesheets have missing information.

To help with this, RotaCloud can now keep you informed as soon as employees have forgotten to clock out, allowing you to get any issues sorted fast, and without having to spend time at the end of the month chasing up your staff for info about what happened.

Missed Clock Out notifications are now available in RotaCloud. You can enable them in your Settings page. For more information on notifications, please take a look at our Help Article.

Clocking in and out is part of the Time & Attendance package for RotaCloud. For more information, click here.