Introducing Timesheet Approval and Automatic Reminders

We have just introduced one of the most wanted features:
Timesheet approval and automatic email reminders

To enable this new feature, go to the screen of your company.
It should be something like: https://***your-account-name-here***.beebole-apps.com/#company-3

Click the top-right menu Customize.

Locate Timesheet settings in the catalog:

Timesheet Approval Settings in the Catalog

And drag it to your screen. You should see the module below:

Timesheet Approval Settings

Timesheet settings has 2 modes:

  1. No approval.
    As above. Hours remain open for change and there is no approval.
  2. Yes, there is an approval.
    Choose this option if you want to get an approval process in your company.
    You should get the screen below:

Timesheet Approval Settings

In addition to enabling the approval, you can set an email reminder option.
This will send an email reminder to all people who have not yet submitted their hours.
You can choose a day of the week, or the first or last day of the month.

In this mode hours entered by your team, will be part of the approval process below:

Approval process

The staff members record hours in their timesheets as before.
A new button appears at the top right of the timesheet: Send for approval

Timesheet - Hours ready to be submitted for approval

Click this button to submit the hours.
The hours that were submitted can’t be changed anymore and they appear in green color.

Timesheet - Submitted Hours

Admin and managers can now approve or reject the hours.
To do so, add to your home screen the modue Timesheet approval

Go to the home screen and click the top right menu Customize
Locate Timesheet approval

Timesheet Approval in the Catalog

And drag it to your screen. You should see the module below:

Timesheet Approval Module

You can view the hours for a week or for a month.
The available actions are Accept or Reject

If you click the name of the person you go to the person’s screen.
If you click the number of hours, you get the details of theses hours.

When you click Accept the hours will be approved.
And these hours remain locked in the timesheet.

When you click Reject the hours appears as rejected in the timesheet and can be corrected or changed by the person who filled her timesheet.

Hours that are approved, can still be rejected.
This is to allow you to make some modifications in case of errors.

Categorize Your Work with Tasks

People doing the exact same set of tasks for each of their customers will be delighted.
Let’s welcome the new “Tasks” module!

Tasks are categories of work you produce across all your clients or internally.
For example: an accountant will “Encode Receipts” for each client.

Tasks Module

To start using the module:

  • Drag and drop the module “Tasks” from the catalog into your own company screen,
  • Define the tasks you want to track,
  • Your employees will directly see them appearing in their timesheet.

The reporting module has been updated accordingly to let you have a nice and visual summary of your tasks.

Tasks Report

New: Track Absences

Start tracking absences (holidays, leaves, sickness, …) for you team/company with the new “Absences” module.

Absence Module

  • Add the module to your own company,
  • Define the absence types you want to track,
  • Your employees will directly see them appearing in their timesheet.

Absence Timesheet

And of course, you can get an overview and exports to Excel in the reporting module under the results of your company.

Absences Report

Retrieve the other smaller changes introduced in the latest release, on the support forum.

BeeBole beta is live, try it now!

We are very excited to announce that BeeBole beta is now live and available for all of you.
It’s time to try out!

Try BeeBole now!

The main features are:

But more than that, BeeBole is an extremely flexible Business App.
Watch out our last presentation at SF Newtech in San Francisco to learn more.

BeeBole is free during the public beta period, and we will offer a discount
for everyone who participated in the beta.

Again, thanks for your help. And please, tell your friends about us.
Tell them there is a new way for business apps.

Get started with our video tutorials

If you need help to get started with your new account, we created a few video tutorials

More videos will be added soon. Be sure to come back and discover new tips
you might have missed at first sight.

Need help?

To report issues, share ideas and missing features you would like to see, or if you find
certain part of the tool difficult to understand, feel free to contact us on our Customer Service.

BeeBole invited to Google I/O Developer Sandbox

Google IO

We are very honored to announce that we are invited by Google to present BeeBole at the Developer Sandbox during the Google I/O 2010 in San Francisco.

Google I/O is Google’s largest developer event of the year and will occur on the 19th and 20th of May.

It is an amazing opportunity for a Belgian startup to participate to the Developer Sandbox amongst other companies such as LinkedIn, eBay, … but also to meet and learn from top developers.

In the coming weeks we’ll provide more details about how we use Google technologies like Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Chart Tools, … in our web app.

Meanwhile, you can already watch this video teaser and subscribe to the beta.