New features - Dashboard and Approvers
At WhosOff we continue to use customer feedback to improve the WhosOff leave management service and the last few weeks have seen some further updates to the system to give users even more visibility and functionality on Staff leave and absence.
On the Dashboard
In the 'Who's Off Today' area we have added the option to select any day and quickly see who's off on that day.
There is also a new tab here which list those people for whom it is a 'Non' working day.
Approvers
You can now set approvers to be able to Add/Edit leave for their own staff. Adminsitrators can set Approvers to be able to Add leave in the future ( but not the past) or Add/Edit/Delete leave in the past and future. (The default setting is not being able to add leave for anyone)
Posted: 16.Jan.2012
Public API (Beta) Now Available
Good news for all of you developers who have a company account on WhosOff. We now have an Public API available to enable you to integrate WhosOff into your companies existing infrastructure.
Whether you have a company intranet or you would like to customise the calendar feeds that are available in WhosOff, using the API make this possible.
If you are interested in the BETA version of the API, drop us an email at support@whosoff.com and we will get you started.
Posted: 29.Nov.2011
Single sign-on with Google or Yahoo
Logging in to WhosOff.com has just got a whole lot easier.
If you have an account with Google or Yahoo, you can easily link these accounts to your WhosOff account and, if you are already logged in to either Google or Yahoo, you can log directly into Whosoff.
Please read our knowledge Base article for full details
Posted: 29.Sep.2011
WhosOff apps for iPhone and Android released.
We are pleased to announce that our mobile apps for iPhone and Android are available to download from the Apple App Store and Android Market
Both Apps are Free to download and make managing your staff leave and out-of-office times on the move very simple and easy.
Looks like BlackBerry app and mobile web version is not far behind !
Posted: 5.May.2011
Statistics and Auto Report Scheduling
Some great new features in WhosOff (currently in BETA) to help you manage your staff leave effectively:
On the 'My Staff' link you can see an overview of the your staff members' leave balances. You can also see some useful statistic analysis including a breakdown by leave type and the number of occurences by leave type.
Click on 'Report Scheduling' and you can schedule WhosOff to automatically send you reports for yesterday,today, this week or this month.
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Posted: 14.Apr.2011
Switch off Overtime Area
If you manage your staff overtime outside of WhosOff, you now have the ability to switch off this area from your account. Simply follow these instructions to do this:
- Login to your WhosOff account
- Click on "Adminsitration", "Company Details"
- Under the heading WhosOff Setup, you can now specify whether the Overtime area/tools are available to the users on your account.
- Don't forget to save any changes you make.
Posted: 21.Mar.2011
Hours launched!
Keeping to our ethos of reacting to our customers requirements , we enhanced the system to incorporate staff whose holiday/vacation is taken in hours into the ever growing WhosOff.com system enabling staff and administors alike to have more control over the time taken from work .
Whether staff book an hour or a day , the WhosOff.com system will apply the time taken from the annual leave allowance .
Staff administrators can choose between staff who work in hours or those who work days , giving greater flexibility within the WhosOff system.
Whilst developing the hours feature to the system, we had suggestions from present users requesting minor changes to help them use their WhosOff.com system.
The development and support team working together, applied some of the changes to the hours update , the changes include....
- Calendar Feeds: Will now include the leave as a category so you can assign category colouring in Outlook (for those who wish to integrate with Outlook)
- Leave Requests: On the pending requests screen, the system will show you when the leave request has been submitted allowing the super user to prioritise leave requests. Column sorting has also been introduced into this screen.
- Staff Leave: On the administration staff leave screen , the system will show you when a leave request was approved and by who.
So , if you are looking to manage your staff in hours , WhosOff.com is ready and waiting . With the ability to add up to 20 leave types , set bank holidays by department for those companies who have overseas departments .
Managing staff leave in hours has never been easier.
Thank you to those companies who have suggested ,supported and assisted us in preparing the leave planner to incorporate vacation , staff holiday in hours , which is now clear to see in a visual wall planner type display via the web.
Posted: 1.Nov.2010
Hours are on their way...as well as a few more changes
Coming Very Soon...
For some time now, the team at WhosOff have been asked about the availability of managing time in hours instead of days (and half days), we can now say that it is coming, and fast.
We are in the final stages of testing this new feature to WhosOff, and over the next couple of weeks users will notice some subtle, and some major changes to the WhosOff system. For those team members who are assigned allowances in hours you will soon be able to set balances in hours, set the hours a staff member works per day, and even let them book the odd hour off.
This does not change the way in which leave requests are processed, you still have the opportunity to specify whether leave needs to be approved or not, and you can still accept
Historical Data: A small point to note is if you switch someone from being a "DAYS" person to an "HOURS" person, you will be asked to print off historical data for that staff member, this is because their record is wiped clean of any leave and allowances to date. A small price to pay for a big change.
Other changes on their way
We have been making some other minor changes (that will be published with the above updates), these include:
- Calendar Feeds: Will now include the leave type as a category so you can assign category colouring in Outlook.
- Leave Requests: On the pending leave requests screen, we will show you when a leave request has been put into the system, allowing you to work your way through requests in the order they were requested
- Staff Leave: On the administration staff leave screen, we will show you when a leave request was approved and who by.
Posted: 12.Oct.2010
Calendar Feeds
Outlook integration – No fuss. Since offering MS Outlook integration in December 2009 WhosOff.com has delivered of 4.5 million feeds – Does WhosOff.com Leave planner do Outlook integration? = yes many millions of times.
Posted: 13.Aug.2010
Welcome Back to WhosOff.com
Returning to the fold...
The last two weeks have seen no less than 6 companies who had decided WhosOff.com was perhaps not really what they wanted, or possibly - what they wanted to pay for... only to return to the services of WhosOff.com.
Some with stories to tell of complexity and high costs or the frustration of returning to a paper based system and finding themselves longing to return to the trusted simplicity of WhosOff.com - So… welcome back
Posted: 19.Mar.2010
WhosOff Lorry Hits the Road!
A new advertising campaign from WhosOff has hit the road on the 18th December 2009.
On it's maiden run the 40ft refrigerated lorry is on it's way to Belgium for christmas supplies to retailers.
Keep an eye out for the lorry around Europe over the next 12 months, if you spot it, take a photo and send it to us at info@whosoff.com
Posted: 18.Dec.2009
Calendar updates for MS Outlook, Google, iCal
You can now create a calendar feed from your WhosOff account and subscribe to that feed from other calendar programs such as MS Outlook and Google Calendar.
This is a great way to see whats going on in Whosoff without you having to log in each time.
You can create calendar feeds for individuals, departments or the whole company.
Posted: 1.Dec.2009
500,000th Leave request completed
WhosOff continues to help companies and organisations around the world manage their staff leave, holiday and vacations.
Passing the 1/2 million milestone is a significant achievement and proof of the enduring success of WhosOff.
Posted: 27.Aug.2009
BT Business Insight
Thanks to Ian Betteridge for his blog entry on BT's Insight blog about WhosOff
Its nice to know the word is getting out into the business community !
Read Ian's article here
Posted: 25.Feb.2009
WhosOff - Ranked 6th - Top Dates & Calendar web applications
With 9,258 votes so far WhosOff has grown to the #6 spot on CEO World Magazine poll for the Top Dates and Calendar Web Applications list. Cast your votes today at http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2008/12/22/top-dates-calendar-web-applications-list/
The websites were evaluated by majority of votes based on ten main criteria:
- Content
- Authority
- Navigation
- Design
- Accessibility
- Innovation
- Business sense and growth expectations
- Degree of competition mix in their market
- Team
- Traffic type: blog, wiki, Services using tags, Mash up based on Google / Yahoo / Live.com maps, Feeds and social networking sites etc.
Posted: 16.Feb.2009
Branding not compulsory, but those companies who are trying it – just love it.
It so easy, just give the o.k. and we will do the rest. One of our web designers will carefully match your company colours and then strategically place your company logo in the top left and your corporate image is carried through into WhosOff.com Premium. Branding is free for the first three months.
Posted: 6.Feb.2009
WhosOff Hits ¼ Million Holiday Requests
WhosOff.com, the Free online staff holiday/vacation planner, recently 'processed' its 250,000th leave request.
Since its launch, less than 2 years ago, thousands of businesses and organisations have taken the opportunity to use WhosOff.com to manage their staff holiday/vacation and out of office times. Based in the quiet city of Canterbury, England - a world away from Silicon Valley - WhosOff.com is attracting users from over 75 countries around the world – an impressive start for an online service aimed at business users.
WhosOff.com allows staff to request holiday/vacation whilst applying simple initial controls, for example, checking the number of days a staff member has remaining or staff clashes, and can pass the logged request on by email for final approval by an appointed approver.
Project manager, Philip Cross said “Many companies have difficulty tracking staff holiday and WhosOff.com delivers an answer to this enduring problem for free. We have spent the last couple of years gathering feedback from our users helping us to keep the service simple yet providing great functionality”. In development from Whosoff.com is a paid-for ‘Premium’ service which is due to be launched in November 2008 . The premium version will provide users with added features and tools including integration with some desktop applications.
Posted: 8.Oct.2008
WhosOff Today On Screen Report - Optimised for Speed!
Everyone's favourite report has been rewritten today to enable users with large staffing numbers to retrieve monthly views more quickly.
Try it for yourself, login to your account and click on the WhosOff Today? link.
Posted: 25.Jun.2008
WhosOff Facelift Underway
 | An new enhanced look and feel are being worked on at the WhosOff offices that will incorporate the new versions available to users of WhosOff. The new site will be ready and launched early February and will provide users with an insight to new features and services coming soon as well as providing a central discussion area for users to share their knowledge of WhosOff. |
Posted: 19.Jan.2008
WhosOff in Development!
 | WhosOff has entered a new major development chapter. From early January 2008 developers of WhosOff will be embarking on a new major release that will incorporate SOAP API technology as its base and will also see WhosOff located on a new hosting platform. The hosting of WhosOff will see loads balanced across its newly commissioned servers and will provide a faster and more robust service to WhosOff premium users. In future months we will be investigating the demand and possibilities of releasing the API for developers to integrate their own tools into the staff holiday management. If you would like to be notified when WhosOff Premium becomes available, visit our "Premium Edition" overview. |
Posted: 18.Jan.2008