What's new ✨

A new business setting that allows you to define a custom term to replace the word “shift” in the Deputy product (similar to setting a custom term for team member & breaks).

Why 🤔

Using the right terminology for work in your business means you can accurately reflect the work to be performed and can also help you meet local labour laws.

How to use it 🤓

Check out how to set a custom term for "shift".

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We know that staying compliant with Fair Workweek law is no simple feat - it’s fundamentally changing the way that large retail and hospitality businesses schedule and pay their employees. Today, falling short of Fair Workweek law can mean millions of dollars in potential fines and lawsuits. As your partner in compliance, Deputy’s new features simplify these complex requirements and make it easy to create compliant, cost-effective schedules and manage last-minute adjustments seamlessly.

With Deputy’s new Fair Workweek features, you can now:

• Create cost-effective schedules with just a few clicks that help you stay compliant
• Create and manage team member’s Good Faith Estimates, which are now accessible in the Deputy mobile app
• Provide your staff with advance notice of schedules
• Request and record consent for schedule changes and clopenings
• Track schedule change history and predictability pay records with new FWW reports

How do I use these new features?

Deputy Premium customers now have self-service access to the new Fair Workweek features by navigating to Location Settings > Scheduling > Consent and selecting their local jurisdiction, and then applying FWW pay rates to the applicable employees in the employee profile. Enterprise customers can reach out to Deputy Support to have these features enabled.

You can learn more about Fair Workweek law and how it may impact your business at "Fair Workweek made simple with Deputy". For detailed set-up and usage instructions, please visit "Introduction to setting up Fair Workweek".

What's new ✨

We've made some changes to the integrations marketplace inside Deputy to make it easier for you to know whether an integration was built by Deputy or not. This helps you know whether you can expect to setup the integration directly in Deputy, or whether you will need to do it inside the third party application.

Integrations which have been built by Deputy now have a tag of Deputy inside their application tile.

Integrations which have been built by a third party developer now have a tag of 3rd Party inside their application tile.

Along with this we have also made a change on the search functionality. When you search for an application inside the Deputy marketplace, we now connect to Zapier to see if the application is in the Zapier marketplace. For those unaware, Zapier is a middleware application that connections thousands of different applications with each other and Deputy has had an integration with Zapier for a number of years now.

When you perform a search results from Zapier will also now be included with the tag Zapier.

Clicking on this tile will take you to Zapier to help guide you through the process of getting Deputy connected to this application. With this change, we've added thousands of applications to our marketplace overnight and will bring more visibility than ever to our Zapier integration and the wide array of options it offers you when trying to solve business and integration problems.

Why 🤔

We've found sometimes users are confused with where an integration with Deputy needs to be setup, either in Deputy itself, or from a third party application. By directly labelling whether Deputy built the integration or not, it gives a clear indication as to where you will need to set the integration up. Along with this, including Zapier apps when searches are performed, gives visibility that there may be an alternate way to achieve what integration you are looking to setup.

How to use it 🤓

This change is live in the Deputy marketplace now so the next time you visit the integrations marketplace in your Deputy install, you will see these changes present.

What's new ✨

We have introduced a new business setting enabling you to hide regular working hours from the schedule! 

You may also know regular working hours as agreed hours or working hours - this is set to change in the product soon, with regular working hours being the unified term to describe agreements with team members on which regular days or hours they work. 

Why 🤔

We know that some businesses on Deputy do not use regular working hours for scheduling purposes. For these businesses, hiding regular working hours from the schedule can help reduce visual noise when scheduling. 

How to use it 🤓

As a system administrator, click on your name on the top right of the Deputy web app. Click on Business settings > Schedule and turn off the setting Show regular working hours on schedule

Once the setting is turned off, managers across the business should no longer see information related to regular working hours on the schedule. You can continue to use regular working hours for other purposes such as when setting up leave policies.

It is quite often that multiple managers could be scheduled in the same location during a week.  Consequently they will know each other’s even their boss’s wage details from Scheduling, Reports, People Tab that caused a few unnecessary drama.

What’s New?

A new role permission has been introduced for System Administrators to setup whether managers can view peers/above managers’ wage costs.

Premium accounts:  Administrators can set the new permission via Business Settings - People tab - Profile - “Managers can see costs for all roles"

When this permission is turned on, default Location Managers will be able to check/manage any employees' wage costs (including their peers/above managers, regardless of Salary or Hourly wages) in People/Schedule/Report tabs.

If it is turned off,  default Location Managers will only be able to view wage costs from those employees who are reporting to them.

Enterprise accounts: you can customise a particular manager role with the following 3 different permissions in different combinations via Enterprise - Access level & permissions

• View cost on schedule
  • View cost of peers and above 
• Manage team members from all roles

If a manager is allowed to manage/view wage costs from all roles accross Schedule/Report/People tabs,  you will need to turn on all of the above permissions.

If a manager is only allowed to manage/view wage costs from the employees that are reporting to them,  you will only need to turn on View cost on schedule permission , but keep the other two permissions as turned off.

To read more about how to use it, check this handy help article.

When will I get it?

We are rolling out this feature now that will be shipped to all of the customers in the next 2 weeks.

Feedback 📊

Love this new feature? Think it could be better? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback 

What's new ✨

We know many of our customers assign Payroll IDs to team members for payroll and identification purposes. 

You can now do more with Payroll IDs by:

🔍 Searching for a team member by Payroll ID on the People tab

📄 Running the Timesheet Report on Report Builder

Payroll ID now automatically populates next to each team member's name. 

You can also add Payroll IDs to other reports in the Report Builder such as the Schedule Report. Simply drag and drop the Payroll ID field from All Fields > Employee.

Feedback 🤓

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