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You’ve always been able to report injuries in CrewTracks, and you’ve always had a second set of eyes on each daily report to check for any reported injuries. More recently, you’ve been able to run a report on injuries by date range just to confirm all those “no” responses to the daily “were you injured” question.

But still… what if you missed one?

UPDATE: As of April 9, 2020, this feature has been fully released and we no longer need beta testers. This blog post has been edited accordingly. Enjoy!

The biggest CrewTracks update since the release of document management is here!

It’s huge, and frankly, you probably don’t need to know all that’s possible with this update. You just need to know how to make CrewTracks work for your use case. For that reason, we’ve created the video below, which contains four scenarios. Skip to the 2-minute mark to see these scenarios laid out so you can choose the one that best matches your needs. Then skip to that part of the video and you’ll find the training that is most relevant to your needs. Pretty thoughtful of us, eh? It’s just because we love you guys.

This is one of those times when A LOT is happening behind the scenes, but we can only share a little bit of it right now. Stay tuned for another blog post very soon.

For now, we have some attractive new icons (oooh, aaah) but the really exciting announcement is external document sharing. Check it out:

Great news, CrewTracks fans!  As promised, our proportional overtime export will be available in your CrewTracks app starting riiiiiight… now.  As we mentioned in the last blog post, our “User Time” export has always included overtime hours, but it did not include information about which job the overtime applied to.  For that reason, we are changing the “Manual (CSV)” job time export to include this information.  As part of this process, some columns have changed in the export, so if you rely on a consistent column order, you might need to make one-time adjustments to accommodate the new export format.

In other words:

In most cases, the changes won’t affect you at all.  But if you have some excel wizardry or processes set up on your end that we’re not aware of, we want to help you update those as swiftly and smoothly as possible.

I just committed one of my pet peeves: I used the phrase “and more.” I hate that… if there’s more, tell me what it is! But there are simply too many updates to sum up in a title, and I decided not to use the title “Holy crap we’re releasing a TON of new features today.” So take a look at the headings below and dive in to any features that pique your interest.

Hello, CrewTracks world! Are you stoked about document management? If you’re thinking to yourself, “Uh, not really,” there’s a good chance one of these describes you:

1. You haven’t used it yet. Shame on you! This is huge!
2. You have documents in Microsoft Word or PDF format, but they’re not ready for CrewTracks.

If #2 describes you, we’ve got your back. Actually, if #1 describes you, we’ve got your back there as well. We’ve got your back no matter what, okay? But right now we’re going to talk about #2.

Maybe you’ve been “in the know” for a year, or maybe you had no idea this was coming.  Either way, document management is HUGE, and it’s the result of a ton of hard work and innovation here at CrewTracks.  We’ve created five training videos for you to get up to speed, and they are at the bottom of this post.  But first, here’s a very brief, doesn’t-even-do-it-justice, three point summary:

We’ve got two new features for you that will help you get the right data on the right date.  First, if you accidentally open the schedule for the wrong date, CrewTracks will now notify you:

We’ve snuck in a couple updates you might want to make use of, and there’s another one right around the corner.  Here they are!

Add/Remove Employees Permission by Schedule

Before now, there was only one place to set the permission for employees to be added to or removed from a schedule in the app.  That feature still exists, right here in Organization Settings:

Great news!  The web app (often referred to as the back end) of CrewTracks is about to look a lot more beautiful.  The features and functionality you’re used to are still there, so you’ll be able to keep using CrewTracks without a hitch.  But just in case the new look surprises you, we thought we’d do some “old way / new way” comparisons to keep you on track.

By the way, this update is laying the groundwork for a huge new feature we’ll be announcing soon.  But I’m getting ahead of myself – here are the areas that have been updated so far.