Tanda Blog: Product Updates

Team Tanda

4 December 2019    |   

There is a pattern consistent in most industries. Companies that succeed are ones where frontline managers have influence in improving the execution of business strategy. Former Schering-Plough (now Merck & Co.) CEO Fred Hassan says frontline managers ‘represent an all-important feedback loop that allows the CEO to stay abreast of the latest developments in the business.’ At Tanda, we believe frontline managers need to be in the frontline — enabling their team to be their best selves. In the past 6 months, our product team has been working on making each task you do on Tanda quicker and easier. So you can use our software less and grow your business more. Here are 50+ features that do exactly that. 1. Tailor Tanda to your business needs with The Platform The Platform lets you customise your Tanda workflow. Using custom objects and custom fields, you can create new ways of storing and communicating information. No matter how big or small your team is, they are always informed. Learn more about The Platform > 2. Demystify part-time compliance by rostering from Regular Hours of Work Having a permanent part-time (PPT) staff is more cost-effective than a casual team. However, the administrative requirements of having PPT staff may be a discouraging factor for employing them. One of the most labour intensive requirements for managing PPT staff is rostering. Keeping track and manually implementing regular hours of work (or contract hours) in rosters can be exhausting — especially if it’s for an entire team. Rostering from Regular Hours of Work removes these administrative hurdles. Learn how to roster from Regular Hours of Work > 3. Brand-new, more powerful, more customisable rosters Our new, more powerful rosters have the same features you’re used to, but with more functionality on top. See what’s new > 4. Approve and edit timesheets from anywhere No need to stay behind a computer to go through your team’s timesheet. With the Tanda app (version 0.34.3 or newer), you can edit and approve timesheets from anywhere. See what else you can do on the mobile app >   5. Onboarding: Multiple contract uploads and welcome messages In the first days of your newest hire, a smooth onboarding is one of the best ways to ensure early success. One of the core parts of this process is signing a contract. The easiest way to do that is with Tanda’s onboarding offering. Learn more > 6. Customise leave by hiding leave balances and leave types This is helpful for leave staff cannot apply for (e.g. public holiday paid/not worked); less common leave types, such as long service leave; and types that are not commonly taken by your team, such as maternity leave for a majority-male staff. Learn more > 7. Pay overtime for work outside contract hours Learn more > 8. Key Alert: Maximum qualification hours reached A key alert can now notify managers if an employee will go over their qualification max hours. Learn more > 9. Roster edit history filters Filter roster edit history by staff and action. Learn more > 10. New Employee Navigation: See unavailability, leave, clock-ins, and other employee information in one place Everything about your employees is now all in the employee profile. Learn more >

Team Tanda

15 November 2019    |   

Introducing Tanda’s New Employee Onboarding feature! Tanda’s Employee Onboarding Feature is the paperless way to collect all those necessary staff details such as Tax file Numbers and Super Choice forms, without the hassle of scanning and signing forms, or chasing new staff for paperwork. Through Tanda, managers will now be able to onboard new staff and their details directly into Tanda. How does it work? Talk to the Tanda Onboarding team to have the onboarding tool enabled in your account. From here, managers can send out an email with the onboarding link to new staff, prompting them to complete the necessary forms. Using this link, the onus is put on staff to fill in all their details, which are then submitted securely to Tanda. Once all the details have been submitted, Tanda will then automatically create a staff profile for the new team member in Tanda. If your payroll software has an onboarding integration, Tanda will export the newly created staff profile to your payroll software where it will create a new staff profile in payroll as well. What forms can my new team member fill out? Through Tanda’s Employee Onboarding feature your team member will be able to fill out all the core paperwork, that is required for them to be paid, and rostered. Personal Details Emergency Contact Details Bank Account Details Tax File Declaration Form Super Choice Form What are the benefits of Employee Onboarding for Employers? Cuts out paperwork by replacing the forms new staff have to sign, with digital versions. No chasing up paperwork, as staff can enter their details themselves. Reduces errors by validating BSBs, Addresses, Tax File Numbers, and Super details. No problems trying to decipher staff members’ messy handwriting. Cuts out double entries for payroll by automatically syncing with certain cloud based software. Improves engagement with your new staff.  What are the benefits for Employees? Simple easy to follow process for staff – they no longer have to enter their name, date of birth or address multiple times. Can be easily completed from home or from your mobile phone, wherever you are. No need to print, scan, email or post hard copy forms. Get started with Tanda’s Employee Onboarding today! Tanda’s Employee Onboarding feature is already live! For more information contact one of our friendly Tanda Consultants today, on 1300 859 117 or via email at support@tanda.co to get started with Tanda Employee Onboarding.

Team Tanda

4 September 2019    |   

Communication leads to perfection. SMS, calls, FaceTime, face-to-face, WhatsApp, and time and attendance (T&A) all have one thing in common. They are used to send and receive messages. The communication gets especially more complex with T&A. Whenever you log in, you build and publish rosters. You ask for staff details during onboarding. You receive leave requests from the team. There are a multitude of moving parts in any given shift. That’s why your T&A needs to act like a communication service. According to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, poor communication drastically impacts morale, sales, and goals. Some losses have even been in the hundreds of thousands. And, just as managers need to adapt to each employee’s communication style, they also need to know which tool to use in each situation. Key Points: Three major releases this month Bespoke information workflows with The Platform A record of contract hours with Regular Hours of Work Complete staff inductions with employment contracts in onboarding More often than not, T&A software is a 2-step information exchange. Step 1: Tell staff their start and end times. Step 2: Staff prove they followed those times by clocking in and out. But it can also be a complex process. To run the perfect shift, some teams need extensive information such as addresses, vehicle numbers, access codes, preferred hours, staff on leave. And don’t forget onboarding contracts, managing leave requests, performance review dates. The list goes on. Every feature we release is working towards one goal: empowering you to run the perfect shift. And correct, comprehensive communication is a massive part of this. So this month, we released 3 major features to help strengthen those lines of communication. 1. Communicate bespoke information with The Platform Custom fields on rosters (L) and the Tanda App (R) If you’ve ever needed to send information to your team before a shift starts, there’s a high chance it’s done outside of Tanda. Things like alarm codes, reminders, or client details. Anything your team needs to be able to complete the perfect shift. But what if you could do it all inside Tanda? Store client addresses. Send unique reminders. Keep track of performance review dates. Even create an entire database of your customers. Welcome to The Platform. It’s a brand-new way of workforce management. The Platform is made up of Custom Fields and Custom Objects. Between these two, you can create your own fields and forms, and turn Tanda into a bespoke, powerful data management tool.  We believe it’s the future of workforce management. See how it works. 2. Keep a record of contract hours with Regular Hours of Work Set Regular Hours of Work for your staff. Choose break lengths, teams, and how shifts are split. The fact is, as your business grows, so do the administrative requirements. The brute force solution for this is to hire more and more staff to handle the paperwork — but that might blow your bottom line wide open. For permanent staff (especially part-time), contract hours are a staple. Using Regular Hours of Work, you can keep track of it all in Tanda. This cuts on back and forth between different systems because, hey, rostering and leave is just on the next tab over. Recording Regular Hours of Work is just the beginning. In the next few months, you can create both rosters and leave requests from Regular Hours of Work. Whether you’re building out your rosters or processing massive amounts of leave, Regular Working Hours automates the most time-consuming part of that process. If you have Admin, General Manager, and Payroll Officer permissions, start recording your team’s Regular Hours of Work now. For team managers, ask your supervisor to do this for you. 3. Better onboarding with contract uploads and welcome messages In the first days of your newest hire, a smooth onboarding is one of the best ways to ensure early success. One of the core parts of this process is signing a contract. The easiest way to do that is with Tanda’s onboarding offering. You can now upload their contracts when you send onboarding invitations (and include a nice welcome message, too). This means they can sign it with a click of a button. Note: Please double-check if this is sufficient to count as a signature.

Team Tanda

31 May 2019    |   

Have you ever changed numbers on Excel, and everything else changed too? How long did that take? I’m guessing less than the time it took to read this sentence. What takes seconds now took an entire day for an accountant or bookkeeper in the ‘60s. They had paper spreadsheets back then. So a small adjustment meant recalculating, erasing, and filling out all boxes affected by that number. Manually. So if businesses wanted to know how something affects the bottom line, they need to plan ahead. And pay a day’s wage for someone to work it out. This is just for one change. Accounting tools of the 60s. Groovy. Just because something is used a lot doesn’t mean it works. We’re living in the manual spreadsheets era of workforce management Even with current solutions, workforce management is still mostly manual. Checking timesheets, calling up staff to cover, staying on top of qualifications. What should take a couple of minutes can take hours. In short, more time spent in the back office. Less time spent leading staff, tackling business issues, hitting business goals. Less admin, more ambition You buy software to do everything faster. All Tanda research and development comes down to this: we want you to use us less. Less means the job gets done faster. Less timesheet reviews, less calling around, less communication blocks. More working on the frontline, more business goals, more rest and relaxation. Here are 5 new ways to use Tanda less. 1. Less time behind the desk with Live Feed Wherever you are, see who’s at work — and who’s not. Combined with key alerts and live insights, you can make snap decisions to keep your store, warehouse, or centre well-staffed throughout the day and night. Live Feed on the mobile app Previously, you’d have to get on My Tanda to see who’s clocked-in—which takes some time. Even then, it may not be possible, especially if you’re managing a remote workforce, or travel frequently. How it Works. Live feed lets you keep an eye on staff status on the mobile app. This works across teams and locations, depending on manager permissions. Read more: How key alerts and live insights lead to better customer service. 2. Less time figuring things out with the Training Centre Everything you need to get started with Tanda—from basics to breakthroughs—we’ve put it all in one place. Whether you’re just getting started or refreshing your knowledge, our video tutorials will guide you through in record speed. Tanda Training Centre How it Works. A series of videos that teach you everything from basic set-up to advanced rostering. Learn at your own pace. And if you ever get stuck, the chat button is always there. Access it on my.tanda.co/learn. 3. Less work approving timesheets with Associated Tags No need to assign higher duties tags manually on timesheets — which can be time consuming, especially if you have a large team. Associated tags automatically assigns this when certain staff work in different teams.  The associated tags field, located in the team profile. How it Works. Assign the higher duties tag in the team profile. If an employee with that higher duties tag works in that particular team, they’ll immediately receive the higher duties allowance. For more information, visit our help page. 4. Less uncertainty with new Rosters Overview validations Identify unsustainable patterns across time more easily, including overworked or underworked staff; how many staff are going on leave; and staffing levels across multiple weeks. Seeing these inefficient patterns early means you’re likely to avoid them on your next roster (e.g. over-rostering, concurrent leave). Validations on rosters overview. See the full list. How it Works. View as much as a month’s worth of rosters on Rosters Overview‘s easy-to-use interface. Now with all validations of the old weekly roster view. 5. Less clicking around with Qualification Expiry Emails Only see which qualifications need action, when they need to be actioned. You won’t need to go to each staff profile page to review this, which means time saved. This becomes more important as your business grows. An employee qualification email alert How it works. You’ll receive email alerts when staff qualifications are 1) expiring in one month; and 2) have expired. They’ll also be alerted and asked to update their qualifications, if necessary.   Tell us what features make you use Tanda less. The only thing we love more than helping you succeed is hearing success stories. We love your feedback. We listen to it all. Send me a direct email at emerson@tanda.co. Keep up to date with our latest updates on our full changelog.

Team Tanda

3 May 2019    |   

What’s new in Tanda: April 2019 Every organisation needs to adapt and evolve alongside rapid changes in technology, customer attitudes, and the competition. It’s easier to do that if staff have buy-in to your business goals. And we know from plenty of case studies that treating employees like your best customer turns staff into your greatest brand advocates.   ‘Treating your employees like your best customers turns them into your greatest brand advocates’   This month, we released 7 brand-new features to help you build partnership with your staff, and be on your way to lower turnover rate, increased revenue, and higher profitability. 1. Protect your employees’ privacy by choosing which managers can see costs Cost is a sensitive topic in a lot of workplaces. Some managers are averse to others seeing their pay information, especially if it’s not relevant to their jobs. You can now restrict costs information to managers of your choice, ensuring privacy and avoiding potential conflict. This feature only works if ‘Allow managers to see staff costs’ is turned off. After doing this, you can go to the staff profiles to give individual permission. 2. It’s now easier to ensure leave requests have accurate hours On opening an existing leave request, you can now edit hours so they match part-time staff work hours. This means it’s quicker to achieve accurate leave hours in rosters and timesheets, and correctly pay staff in the process. If you need more help, here’s a detailed doc on how it works. This is phase one of building fully automatic leave. 3. Custom Permissions: Have more control on who’s in control Decide which roles can approve leave requests, add time clocks, or add or remove employees. For example, staff with team manager permissions can typically create rosters and add employees. But for some organisations, hiring is left to a general manager. Custom permissions allows you to customise Tanda and reflect how your organisation works. Where to find it. Head to general settings. Choose who can add/remove employees on the general tab, who can approve leave requests on the time off tab, and who can add time clocks under the clock-in/out tab. 4. Stay on top of rostering issues as they happen with Key Alerts Make sure employees are following rostered times without getting stuck on the back office computer. Key Alerts lets you know through the mobile app if an employee is late to clock-in or clock-out; did not clock their break; or is at risk of overtime. It gives you information only when there’s something to be done. We won’t alert you of staff who are following rostered times and breaks. Key alerts is only sent to the mobile app (not desktop/web). Download the app on your iOS or Android smartphone. Read more about key alerts, including how to set up, on our help docs. 5. Create up to a month’s worth of rosters on one page   When we launched Roster Overview a month ago, you were able to view shifts up to a month in advance. Now, you can view, create and edit shifts like you would in the typical weekly roster view. This is useful to those who manage big teams, multiple teams, or prefer to look ahead in terms of scheduling. See how to find it in your rosters page. 6. Find out why some staff are working outside their roster If you want to know why staff have clocked-in early (or late), clocked-out late, or why they clocked-in at all, you’d have to go to the individual to clarify. But now, you can create your own questions and set it to show up during the above situations. Learn more about how to use it on our help page. 7. In a rush? Clock them in now, onboard later. If you need staff starting ASAP, you can add them straight through Time Clock. All you need is their name and email. They’ll receive their unique 4-digit passcode and can clock-in straight away. Read more. Keep up to date with our latest updates on our full changelog.

Team Tanda

11 April 2019    |   

From today, every payroll system you can think of, as long as it has an import function, can now work with Tanda. And it won’t cost thousands of dollars in custom integration costs. In fact, it won’t cost anything at all. Introducing Custom Export Builder With this feature, you can export all your timesheet data into a CSV file. It’s fully-customisable, and can work with the format any payroll software in the world requires. Change data terms, date formats, or eliminate information you don’t need to export. It’s all up to you and your requirements. Get started by watching the video below, or go straight into the deep end and create your own integration now. Why release this feature? Because at Tanda, our highest goal is empowering our customers to succeed. Higher than sales targets. Higher than revenue. And we’re true to our word. To see what else we do, check out our features overview, or book a free 20-minute product tour with one of our Workforce Success Executives.

Team Tanda

4 March 2019    |   

WHAT’S NEW IN TANDA – FEBRUARY 2019 Choosing Tanda means choosing to get your time back. Time you can put into great things. Like expanding your business. Creating new products. Getting an hour of r & r. Anything but manually organising your team. That’s why we say ‘automated’ a lot in these posts. So this February, we’ve got time-giving updates we think you’ll love. SMART TEMPLATES One click: every vacant shift filled Pop up window with Smart Templates option (see arrow) You’ve applied your template for the next fortnight’s roster. But Matt’s on leave starting next week, and Hannah is now unavailable on Fridays instead of Thursdays. And you’ve deleted their shifts–but they need filling. Which leads to the (extremely reasonable) question, ‘What’s the point of templates if I’ve got to do all this?’ Smart Templates is the newest step we’re making towards not having to do all that. Use this feature when you’re applying a roster template. When you use Smart Templates, Tanda’s algorithm decides on the best person to fill a vacant shift. Sounds interesting? Learn how it works. TIME-OFF CALENDAR With their powers combined… The new combined leave and unavailability calendar. Leave and unavailability are now in one Time-Off Calendar! Need to know when staff can’t come to work? No need to flick between two calendars. It’s all in one place, and you can see what type of time off they are taking. ROSTERS, DEMAND PREDICTION, NEW INTEGRATION From little things: more time-giving updates These smaller updates can create huge improvements to the way you run the team. A screenshot of raw downloaded roster data. A printed roster after your own heart Customise and print your roster exactly the way you want it. Tanda now lets you download raw roster data into Excel. Whether you want to fit the whole thing into one page, or would rather not show the hours each employee gets, the power is all yours. Go to the roster tab on Tanda and click the print icon. The new Demand Prediction Modal The Public Holiday Surge: unusual sales data skewing demand prediction? Christmas Day shutdown or the Boxing Day surge are not representative of typical sales. Our new Demand Prediction Modal highlights potential outliers like these. Now, you can see the culprits more clearly, and remove them from skewing your demand prediction. Try it out by going into your current roster on Tanda and click on any day.  Three new Tanda integrations: Clover POS (US and EU) Live Insights on Retail Express Timesheets export to Paypac UPCOMING FEATURES We’re working on more, so you spend less time Remote clock-ins: Clock-in anywhere through the mobile app. With GPS tracking. Tanda Chat: Stay connected to your staff — all within Tanda. Shift Replacements on Desktop: Request and approve shift replacements on the desktop version.

Team Tanda

18 February 2019    |   

Tanda is excited to announce an integration with innovative API integration company, Doshii. Doshii’s API, which connects apps with POS in real-time, allows Tanda customers to harness their data through a single integration and gain immediate insights so they can manage their businesses better. Tanda’s cloud-based workforce success software offers strong employee onboarding, payroll, and rostering features. It also gives powerful real-time insights that help businesses track the correlation between sales and labour. Through their extensive partnerships and experience in the hospitality and retail industries, Doshii helps Tanda clients predict exactly how many staff they need at any time. Doshii collates all workplace data in one place and eliminate human error in rostering. The Tanda-Doshii partnership automates admin tasks so owners and managers have time to focus on their business instead of spending countless frustrating hours dealing with rosters and payroll. This is particularly valuable in the retail and hospitality industries, as business managers can compare expected to actual figures as the day progresses – allowing them to make on-the-spot scheduling adjustments as needed. In the future, reservation data could be used to monitor staffing levels and notify a venue manager of dates with low staff allocation and high bookings. Dan Etiel, Tanda CMO, says, “Tanda’s integration with Doshii offers customers a wide range of integrations that allow them to utilise their data to grow their business. “By connecting Tanda and Doshii, customers get real-time sales data which allows them to optimise their business operations live throughout the day by making data-driven decisions. This level of insight has not been available before and is a significant step forward for real-time business intelligence.” Doshii GM, Greg Williams, explains that “having live data allows customers to control their business and fine-tune their operation as the day unfolds, instead of having to try and correct events after the fact when it’s too late to remedy.” Tanda’s platform allows business managers to build a detailed roster based on locations and teams in minutes using its simple online rostering tool. This is then shared with staff via email or SMS, who clock in and out of shifts on the fly using Tanda’s Time Clock App. Automated timesheets are then updated in Tanda and its seamless integration with payroll ensures staff are paid correctly, in half the usual time. Tanda’s full platform for Workforce Success includes: Customisable employee onboarding One-touch intelligent rostering with 5-point compliance check Time and attendance with facial detection Leave management Compliant Award interpretation for over 35 industry awards and the ability to build in EBA’s on request Payroll integrations with all top payroll solutions A mobile solution for employees to view rosters, apply for leave and offer to fill vacant shifts. Simplify your staff management and make more informed business decisions based on demand data with Tanda. To find out more, email info@tanda.co, ring 1 300 859 117, or send us a message. Have you streamlined the process for onboarding new employees? We’ve added an online paperless employee onboarding feature which is completely automated to our platform. This new feature is completely customisable, and integrates with your existing software. Check out the online demo here, where you can test drive this onboarding feature online – no sign up required!

Team Tanda

31 January 2019    |   

Creating rosters using templates is great because in one click you have an entire roster worth of shifts. But even with templates, there are still a bunch of edits that you have to make after it is applied, for example: swapping out staff who are now on leave or unavailable, assigning staff to vacant shifts, etc. Today, we are introducing Smart Templates, a way to apply a template and have the best staff assigned to vacant shifts at the same time. You can start using Smart Templates today, by clicking the Apply Smart template option in your template menu on rosters. How it works: 1. Start by creating a template that has the coverage you know you need for the week, e.g. you know you need 3 people in the bar on Saturday night and 1 person to always be on the front desk. Note: Only vacant shifts will get adjusted so if you have shifts you don’t want to be altered just make sure those have staff assigned. 2. Apply your smart template. 3. When a template is applied any vacant shifts will have staff assigned automatically using the Tanda’s Cognitive algorithm. The algorithm works like this: Look at all the vacant shifts in the template across the week Avoid adding users with clashing shifts/leave/unavailability Avoid breaking roster validation rules Assign a cost-effective team Aim for fairness by spreading out shifts Read more: What’s new in Tanda — January 2019 FAQ Does it assign staff to shifts on a day by day basis (mon-sun) or does it look across the entire week? The way the algorithm works is it looks for the best combinations across the entire week at once, rather than doing it day by day and making the choices for available staff on the last day the least favourable. If I have shifts in my template that already have staff assigned i.e. full timers, part timers but those staff are on leave when I apply the template will those shifts be swapped out? At this stage no, only shifts that are left vacant will be filled – but we plan on making this part of a future version of smart templates.

Team Tanda

24 January 2019    |   

Breaks are an important part of the workday. They allow employees to take a rest, get food and drink, and gain energy for the rest of the shift so they can come back focussed and ready to work. Tracking breaks can be important for businesses too; for compliance, to ensure you’re paying your staff correctly, and to make sure staff are taking the right amount of breaks. Introducing paid breaks As we roll out a new Tanda Timeclock that helps users to clock multiple breaks, we are introducing the beginning of an exciting new feature: paid breaks. This means you’ll be able to track every break your staff takes through Tanda. Change a break in timesheets Managers can now assign a break in Tanda as either paid or unpaid in the employee’s timesheet. Tanda treats these breaks as normal working time; the employee will continue to be paid their relevant rate through the paid break time: Now you’ll have an accurate representation of exactly when your staff is taking breaks, as well as which are paid or unpaid. For employees, this means they’ll get paid accurately for the time they work. With the new Tanda Timeclock, tracking all breaks in one spot is quick and easy. Coming soon: automatic paid breaks Enabling paid breaks in timesheets is just the beginning. We are working hard to deliver you an automated solution to break in the coming months, meaning breaks will correctly appear in the timesheets as paid or unpaid. We always endeavour to build the best features possible for our clients. To do this, we find user feedback and testing invaluable. If you’re interested in being a beta tester for automated paid breaks you can sign up for early access via our Beta Program.