What changed in Staff Buddy

The back office, the staff app and the client portal are now available in five languages. Each person picks their language, and dates, times and amounts follow it. Staff get their notifications in their own language, whatever language the office works in.

Staff can check in and out with no signal. The app saves the time and sends it when the phone reconnects. If a check-in arrives late, for example after the event was closed, it waits for a coordinator to approve it instead of changing the timesheet on its own. You can also let staff check in within a time window around the shift instead of by location.

Every event now keeps the time zone of its venue, picked up from the address. The calendar, the staffing board, the staff app and the client portal show times in that zone, with its abbreviation, so an event in another city reads correctly for everyone.

Staff now choose how they hear about new shifts, changes and reminders: in the app, by SMS or by email. You set the defaults and which messages go out on each channel. Each staff profile and each event shows what was sent and whether it arrived.

Owners can now decide whether staff may decline assignments, whether check-in needs their location and whether the availability calendar is shown in the app. Compliance and Lookbooks can be switched off for the whole organization, and they disappear from the menu when they are.

Choose which documents your agency tracks and which are required. Licenses, alcohol and food handler certificates and work permits are checked automatically when staff upload them. Owners and admins get an email and a notification before a document expires, and staff with the right certificate come first on the staffing board.