Feature Focus - April 2024
As spring blooms, we're sprucing up to enhance your experience and equip you with tools to embrace this lively season.
Schedule availabilities enhancements
The schedule enhancements are here to empower administrators with more flexibility when managing employee availability.
Effortlessly add and edit both current and future availability for team members.
Set additional positions and allocations (jobs, cost centers, and tasks) for each employee's availability so they show up as available for specific jobs, cost centers, or tasks that aren't assigned in their main profile.
Decide whether to allow employees to set additional positions and allocations when setting their own availability or if admins will handle this only.
To learn more, check out How to Set and Assign Schedule Availability
Inactive Jobs: No longer view inactive jobs when scheduling
Schedule
Admins will no longer see inactive jobs when adding or editing shifts.
Time card
Inactive jobs will no longer be visible to admins and supervisors when editing an employee’s time card for punches and hours paid.
To learn more, check out How to Create Jobs
User Security: Enhanced lockout notification on login page
We've listened to your feedback and made improvements to the login experience.
The error message has been updated when a user tries to log in with incorrect credentials:
We updated the message a user sees when they are locked out of their account after several incorrect login attempts:
Additionally, users who have been locked out of their account after several unsuccessful attempts, will receive an email notification informing them that their account has been locked and what next steps they can take to regain access.
Signing up just got easier!
We've made it easier than ever for you to sign up for a new business within your Fingercheck account. Simply click on your company code and select "Need to sign up for a new account." You'll be whisked away to a new browser tab, loading the Fingercheck signup page automatically.
Just a heads up: When you return to the original Fingercheck tab, you may receive a pop-up alert for an invalid session. No worries, just a friendly reminder to keep things running smoothly.
Payroll Dashboard: The pay schedule is now visible!
This update provides admins with a quick view of your pay schedule for both upcoming and previous pay periods. Stay informed and keep track of your pay schedule effortlessly.
Check out your payroll dashboard by clicking the Payroll tab.
Pay Schedule: Block employee notifications
Admins now have the ability to block employees from receiving their paycheck notifications when generating a pay schedule. This handy option streamlines the process by updating all payrolls at once, saving you valuable time and effort.
For more details on how to create pay schedules and disable employee payroll notifications, check out How to Create Pay Schedules and How to Disable Employee Payroll Notifications.
Policy enhancements
Rounding rule ensures employees are paid for breaks
Admins can now select the "Round Total Day Hours Including Break" option, ensuring that paid breaks are included when rounding work hours for the day. This guarantees accurate calculation of total worked hours for employees.
For more details, check out How to Set Up Rounding Rules
Schedule policy override with Earning Configuration
Admins now have the ability to set up an Earning Configuration that will override any rate code, job, task, or cost center for specific days assigned in the schedule policy rule.
Here's how it works: Admins can create a schedule policy where a certain day(s) utilizes an Earning Configuration. When a schedule is generated using that schedule policy and the “Generate shifts” feature, the Earning Configuration will then apply those allocations to the specified shifts, giving admins more control over schedules with varying rates and allocations.
To learn more, check out How to Set Up a Schedule Policy Override with an Earning Configuration
Custom Reports: Employee Rates has more data source selections
Our EMPLMAST1 custom report data source now includes EmployeeClockInfo, AllowMobilePunch, AllowWebPunch, and BioConsentIPAddress. This enhancement opens up a world of possibilities for tailoring your reports to suit your specific needs.
For more details, check out Custom Reports: Index of Different Data Sources
Audit Trail: Improved transparency when onboarding employees
Admins now have access to the audit trail, allowing them to see exactly when and who changed a new hire's status during onboarding. Accessing the employee's onboarding audit trail is a breeze. Simply navigate to the employee profile or one of the custom reports, such as Audit2 or Audit3.
Forms & Notices
Admins needing to share a notice with Fingercheck will see the “Submit Notice” button immediately upon navigating to Forms & Notices.
Account settings: Bank details require account name
Admins adding a bank account using the ACH modal, you'll be prompted to enter an 'Account name'.
Workflows: new employee field category for employee rate
Workflow events can now be triggered when a pay rate has been changed. This new workflow trigger is initiated when a user changes or adds a new pay rate.
System Fixes
Human Interest file not sending 401k Roth Amounts
Logo overlapping the company’s name on checks
The counter value not updating when adding shifts from a shift template using the ‘+’ icon on an employee block
Changes to upcoming payrolls will no longer change the text from a previous payroll already processed
Rounding policy was deducting paid breaks for the TotalDayHoursIncludePaidBreaks policy
Users not able to update their password when including symbols '{' or '}'
Your Ideas, Our Innovations: Shape the Future of Fingercheck!
Is there something you would like to see in Fingercheck? Submit your Feature Request today directly from Fingercheck’s Service Desk.
