What's new ✨

Deputy is bringing two new Reports to help you understand and manage your team's attendance and punctuality. These Reports, named "Employee Attendance by Employee" and "Employee Attendance by Schedule", will be available in the Reports Dashboard for both Premium and Enterprise customers.

"Employee Attendance by Employee" will give you insight into the attendance of each team member, for a specific location and time period.

"Employee Attendance by Schedule" will give you the detailed breakdown of attendance for each scheduled shift, for any employee within a given time period.

Why 🤔

We've been listening to your needs and have heard how important understanding employee attendance is to managing employee engagement, retention, and performance, as well as the value this information provides for running your business. We're committed to surfacing your business' scheduling and timesheet data in ways that make managing your business and team that much simpler.

How to use it 🤓

These Reports can be found by navigating to the Reports Dashboard. You can learn how to use these Reports, as well as Deputy's other handy Reports, by clicking this link. For more advanced users, you can also learn about our Reports Builder tool here.

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How to get it 🧪

This feature will be progressively rolling out to all customers from this week onwards. If you're interested in getting this feature activated immediately for your Deputy account, please register your information by hitting 'Get me in'.

What's new ✨ 

In early 2020, Deputy introduced the business goal metric Labor percentage to help manage your labor cost with the Sales to get more profit.

We know however that for businesses to run optimally and smart 😎, it’s also crucial for managers to improve the efficiency of their business by gaining insight into employee productivity.

So we are excited to introduce a new business goal metric - Sales Per Hour (SPH).

This can be accessed within Business Insights Summary and viewable as:

• Forecast/Budgeted SPH :  Deputy Forecast Sales / Budgeted Hours
• Scheduled SPH :  Forecast Sales / Scheduled Shifts’ Hours
• Actual SPH:  Actual Sales / Actual Timesheets’ Hours

Business Insights with “Sales per hour” in place will help you:

• Understand how your business is performing by observing key metrics day by day , week by week,  or month by month
  
  
• Share the budgeted Sales per hour as a business goal with your team for increased productivity and planning out schedules accordingly.
• Make scheduling adjustments during the day by comparing Scheduled vs. Actual vs. Budgeted SPH to either reduce or increase the labor demand.
  
  
• Last thing, you can choose either one or both of Labor % and SPH to monitor and optimize your business performance in BI Summary.
  
  

How to use it 🤓

Read more about how to use Business Insights here

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback or simply book a 30 mins meeting with us

Want to quickly see who you’ve sent an onboarding invitation to? Or who’s completed their onboarding and awaiting approval? You can now easily filter based on your team member’s onboarding status.

What's new ✨

In the People tab, use the filter to see all employees who are at a specific stage of the onboarding! With the new filter, you can select Awaiting onboarding approval and see who’s onboarding details are ready to be reviewed and added to payroll!

Click here to read more about it.

What's new ✨

System Administrators will now have the ability to set custom permissions for News Feed commenting and posting for different employee access levels. This feature will be available for both Premium and Enterprise users, giving you the control you need to create a thriving workplace communication hub.

Why 🤔

Communication is critical to a thriving workplace, and we want to equip you with the tools to foster a healthy and useful communication hub in our News Feed. 

How to use it 🤓

System Administrators of Deputy accounts on Premium, Scheduling and Time and Attendance plan can learn how to configure News Feed posting and commenting permissions in Customise your Deputy account with Business Settings.

For Deputy accounts on the Enterprise plan, you can learn how to configure News Feed posting and commenting permissions in Roles, Access Levels & Permissions - Enterprise

To learn more about the News Feed feature in general, head here to read more.

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

How to get it 🧪

This feature is now available to our BETA customers, and will soon be available for all Deputy customers.

Want to be the first to try this feature? Hit 'Get me in'!

What's new ✨

Our MYOB AccountRight Live integration is now labeled MYOB Business! This change has been made everywhere you might use a MYOB integration, such as the integrations directory, payroll export and people import screens. 

Why 🤔

MYOB have recently changed the name of their popular AccountRight Live payroll software to MYOB Business. Learn more about this change on MYOB’s website here!

Things to note ☝️

• Nothing has changed with any of our exports. If you were exporting to MYOB AccountRight Live before, there will be no change to your integration (besides needing to click MYOB Business instead of MYOB AccountRight Live!) 

What's new ✨

Deputy is introducing the ability to assign a default cost to your open and empty shifts, either across the entire business or separately for each individual location. 

Why 🤔

We know that having accurate wage costing of your schedule is important. In order to get an accurate costing, open and empty shifts need to reflect the value that they'll potentially cost your business in the future. By assigning a default cost to these shifts, Deputy's Business Insights stats panels will provide a smarter and more indicative view of your business' scheduling decisions.

How to use it 🤓

This new feature is rolling out progressively to all Deputy customers on our web app. Click here to read more about how to use it.

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

What's new

In early 2020, Deputy refreshed the stats panel graph view to show you key business metrics like Sales, Wages, Hours and Labor percentage.  

We know however that for businesses to run optimally and smart, it’s crucial to deeply understand the key data-points and to keep an eye on what you planned against what actually happened on the day.

So we are excited to announce that Deputy has introduced a new table view into the stats panel , to help you easily understand and digest key metrics when making your scheduling decisions. This view will be launching on the Area-Weekly view & slowly rolling out to the rest in the future.

Now managers can leverage with the new table view for the following benefits:

• One click to set up your Sales data and Budgets
  
  
  
  
• Compare Forecast vs. Actual sales data to better estimate your sales trend
  
  
  
  
  
• Quick view of your Budget vs. Schedule vs. Actual Wages to optimise your labor costs
  
  
  
  
• Monitor Budget hours vs. Filled shift hours vs. Required staff hours to schedule enough people to cover your labor needs
  
  
  
  
• Understand Scheduled vs. Actual labor % to make informed scheduling decisions.
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  The original graph view is still available & will be the default experience when you initially land on Schedule. You can easily switch between graph view and table view
  
  
  
  
• One last thing :) we have also made it easier to enter ‘Business Insights’ by tapping on the “Insights” button.
  
  

How to use it

Read more about how the stats panel works here

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What's new ✨

Why 🤔

It will also allow us to release the Shift Pulse (team engagement) feature to the Kiosk app 🙂😐☹️

Things to note ☝️

• Existing businesses with a device on iOS 12 will still be able to use the current version of the Kiosk app installed & there will be no downtime on the older versions as we go through this transition. However, it will no longer be supported via our help channels. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to iOS 13+ if supported by your device.
• Users on iOS 13+ will continue to receive new versions of the iOS Kiosk app as we make updates.
• This does not affect the Android Time Clock app.

What’s New ✨

• The ‘Me’ and ‘Dashboard’ tabs have merged to become the new ‘Home’ for both managers and employees, with information about shifts and business all under one roof.

• Surfacing the right information at the right time and streamlining the experience to get to what matters:

  • Your next shift and available shifts
  • Items that require your action or approval
• A brand new clock-in experience helps speed up the process of clocking in and clocking out

• The new head-burger, designed as an avatar on the top left corner of the Home screen can be used to edit your profile, switch businesses, get help, and do much more.

Why? 🤔

The ‘Dashboard’ and ‘Me’ tab used to house similar information – items that require action or attention. Previously, users had to shuttle between the two to understand the business needs fully, and this merge will help streamline the overall mobile app experience for both managers and employees whilst introducing a brand-new ‘Timesheets’ tab.

How to use it

This improvement is now progressively rolling out on both the Deputy iOS and Android apps. Make sure you're always updating your Deputy app to the latest version.

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

What’s New ✨

• Timesheets now have their own tab on the mobile app, making it easier for managers to approve and for your team to view and submit timesheets!
• Managers can now view all key information needed for approval, including warnings for time and break variances from what was scheduled, when clock in was too far from locations and shift photos not matching your team’s profile, to name a few.
• Tapping the date or profile photos means you can also approve timesheets in bulk
• For team members, the Timesheets tab will show their own timesheets.
  
  
  

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Why? 🤔

Timesheet approval is one of the most used features by managers on the mobile app, yet it wasn’t easy to find. By merging the Dashboard & Me tabs and introducing a dedicated Timesheets tab, you’re in for an easy, on-the-go timesheet approval experience.

How to use it

This improvement is now rolling out progressively on both the Deputy iOS and Android apps. Make sure you're always updating your Deputy app to the latest version.

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback