Ce qui a changé dans 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.

Ask the assistant for a financial, payroll, operations or client report and it answers with a chart. Download any report as a CSV or a PDF with your logo, or have it emailed on a schedule. The assistant can also message the crew of an event, look up who has worked with a client before and give you a short briefing of what needs your attention.

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.

Save several locations for each client and pick one when you create an event. Build uniforms from reusable pieces, group them into presets and choose a preset per event.

The events calendar has Month, Week and Day views, and events that run over several days show as one bar. The Staff page has its own calendar, so you can see who is working when.

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.

Pick the fields that go into the payroll CSV, including the current status of each payment. You can also have the report emailed weekly or monthly to the addresses you choose.