Roadmap

a year ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud - Version 6.0.10

Introducing Employment type visibility in payroll alerts, improvements to Humanforce Payroll, greater Demand Planning capability, and more in our latest version of Humanforce Cloud.

Payroll

An Employment Type column is now displayed on the View Alerts screen. When exporting, the Employment Type will also be included in the spreadsheet.

Integration Central – Humanforce Payroll

There are improvements to the Employee Import and Cost Centre Mapping in Humanforce Payroll.

Employee Import

We’ve introduced a new setting so you can choose whether to import Employee Max Roster Hours.
The Employee Import will import payslips for employees, even where an employee’s profile fails to update, such as when there are invalid data values.

Cost Centre Mapping

When imported, the Cost Centre mapping file now creates new cost centres in addition to updating existing values.
The Cost Centre Mapping template for the file import has been updated with a new informative design to enable a smoother setup experience.

Template Manager for Rostering

Importing templates to Employee Rosters has been improved, with rosters now successfully importing templates of less than 7 days in length.

Demand Planning

Demand Plan Rules set the conditions for calculating required staff based on data imported to the Demand Plan Feed. Previously, each combination of location, department, role, area, event and function could only have one demand plan rule applied to it. You can now save additional Demand Plan Rules (with different feed input types) for each combination of location, department, role, area, events and function.

Reports

We've strengthened protections for confidential information in the Summary Variance by Employee report. Where someone doesn't have permission to view costs above their access level, they will not be able to view totals on reports that include only one employee on a higher access level. This prevents misuse of the report to access individual costs of an employee on a higher access level by working backwards from a total.

Timesheets

We've strengthened the loading performance of the Timesheets page, with high volumes of Timesheets now displaying successfully in search results.

Employee Management

The Rate Override field will now display the correct values when updating the pay rate field on the Employee Profile.
You can now access an employee record, even if it contains an invalid location, department and role.

Released Thursday 15th September 2023. Humanforce Cloud customers will be automatically updated overnight on Wednesday 27th September 2023. Let us know what you think of the updates below!

a year ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud - Version 6.0.9

Efficiency, elevated.

Check out the latest improvements to Humanforce Cloud!

Bid Manager

It's now easier to tell which bids would be exchanged for an existing shift, with Exchange now being highlighted in the Type column.

Shift Bidding

Notifications will now be sent to both the publisher and the offerer of a shift, where an employee has accepted or declined an offer made via Bid Manager. This change is the result of feedback that (in many cases) the shifts may have been published sometime earlier, and it's often the person who sent the shift offer that requires notification, particularly where an offer has been declined, so they can take swift action.

Roster Templates

You can now filter by Assigned shifts only in roster templates, allowing you to easily view the shifts you have assigned to your employees.
You will now see a warning when reducing the length of your template so that there are no surprises when completing this action.

Department Roster

You now have the option to disable the employee max hours alert in your rosters, which provides you with the flexibility to decide if you need these alerts to manage your roster and stay compliant. To disable the employee max hours alert:

Visit Admin > System Config > Clock In Settings > Edit.
In the Alerts tab, find the Roster Maximum Period Hours alert and click Edit.
Untick the Active option and Save.

Department & Employee Roster

Shift times now accurately reflect the correct time when creating a shift that spans across a daylight savings time zone change.

Employee Management

When adding a revision, Rate Override will be updated according to the changes made to the Rate field. The revision will be active from the effective date, and for revisions with old rates, it will still show pre-revised rates. This change can be accessed in Employee Profile under Update Profile, Rate and Grade.
Charge out rate is now available to be updated in Employee Profile via Management > Employee > Employee Management.

Login

You can now see the version number you are on from the login screen making it easier for troubleshooting if you need to contact support for assistance.

Payroll

When using the "Generic pay type" payroll export, the Consolidated Leave export now accurately populates the leave Start/End date values for the leave block.

Released Thursday 31st August 2023. Humanforce Cloud customers will be automatically updated overnight on Wednesday 13th September 2023. Let us know what you think of the updates below!

a year ago

Template Manager for Rostering is here!

🔥 What’s New

Build smarter rosters in a breeze with defined master templates that reflect employees’ actual work patterns. Create multi-week rosters over any time period with ease through our new roster import feature.

Key Features include:

Support for the creation and management of Normal templates and Master templates
New Feature - Support for multi-location, department template creation
New Feature - Support for flexible start days for templates (not limited to System setting)
New Feature - Support for Flexible template length (1 - 60 days)
New Feature - Advanced grouping and filtering options

⭐️ Why it matters

Once created, templates can be easily applied to any roster period you need, so you can create better rosters much faster.

You can also create any shifts your business needs, assign shifts to employees or not, and test different labour scenarios across multiple templates. 

Greater roster template flexibility not only delivers fast, more efficient rostering for operational managers, but also greater business outcomes such as cost, employee satisfaction, and productivity.

🏁 Getting started

To enable Template Manager:

Go to Admin > Admin Config > Nav Manager
Scroll down to Template Manager and select the ESS checkbox
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save.

If you don't have access to the Admin menu, speak to your administrator about having Template Manager added to your Management > Rostering menu.

For more guidance visit Humanforce Help and start using this handy new rostering feature.

a year ago

New payroll integration with DataPay for New Zealand customers

Kia ora everyone!

We’re excited to announce a new API integration between Humanforce Cloud and the best-of-breed Datapay payroll solution in New Zealand. Save time and stay compliant with automated updates to employee data and seamless transfer of timesheets for payroll.

Maintain accurate employee data

Reduce admin burden by automating the maintenance of accurate and consistent employee records. The API integration sends employee data from Humanforce Cloud to Datapay, including all new and updated employee profiles from Employee Management.

With scheduled data automation, choose when and how often automatic updates are made, so your data is accurate and compliant when you need it.

Seamless transfer of timesheets for payroll

When your timesheets are ready in Humanforce Cloud, upload them directly to Datapay and immediately receive details of any timesheets that failed validation and need attention, without blocking the rest of the upload, or creating bottlenecks in your payroll team.

With the option to add timesheets to an existing payroll you uploaded earlier, you can efficiently resolve errors and manage late timesheets, saving you time and stress on payroll day.

After payroll is paid, import payslips and leave balances back into Humanforce Cloud via API, ensuring compliance and accurate leave balance data.

Ready to streamline payroll processes and increase confidence in the accuracy and security of your data? Request a call with your Humanforce account manager today.

a year ago

New Release! Humanforce Cloud - Version 6.0.8

Stress-free and simplified.

Check out the following improvements we've made for you!