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Business mileage insurance confirmation

When users submit mileage claims, there is currently no mechanism to confirm that their vehicle is insured for business use. In the UK, claiming mileage for work requires the claimant has appropriate business-use motor insurance. From a duty-of-care perspective, it would be good if we had a clear, auditable way to ensure staff are correctly insured before undertaking business travel. this could be achieved with the below: Annual insurance confirmation Require users who claim mileage to confirm (or upload evidence of) business-use motor insurance once every 12 months. Mileage claims are permitted while the confirmation is valid. Users are prompted to reconfirm once the 12-month period expires. This would in turn: Support employer duty of care and compliance. Support end users with ensuring they are properly ensured for business millage Provide a clear audit trail if necessary Requirement Update: To ensure employees agree to our policies before submitting mileage claims, we would like to implement a mandatory disclaimer tick box. This would require users to confirm they have the correct business travel insurance and have read the terms and conditions prior to submission.

💡 Feature Requests

4 months ago

Overtime recording and reporting

At present, the only way for us to record overtime in Fresh Projects is to create a separate overtime sub-project line within each project OR to have a separate Non Project time or dedicated project which end users can record their time against. This is not practical at scale and places the responsibility on the end user to manually separate standard hours from overtime hours when completing their timesheets. It also affects project profitability reporting, as additional hours spent on individual sub-projects may instead be recorded against a separate overtime Project/sub-project, rather than the part of the project where the work was actually carried out. A more useful approach would be for Fresh Projects to identify and flag hours worked over and above an individual’s standard contracted hours. For example, if a user’s standard working week is 37.5 hours and they record 40 hours, the additional 2.5 hours could be flagged as overtime or additional hours to their Line Manager. Ideally, this information should then be available to line managers either through reporting or notifications. A line manager should be able to run a report showing overtime or additional hours across their team, or receive an alert when someone records hours above their standard working pattern. This would allow managers to review workloads, identify pressure points, and have the appropriate follow-up conversations with staff. This would remove the need for project-level workarounds, reduce the risk of inconsistent recording, improve the accuracy of project profitability reporting, and provide better visibility of additional hours being worked across the practice.

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2 days ago

Sub-Project Default Classification Information on Creation

When creating a new sub-project on the Project Structure page, if there is already a sub-project above it, the new sub project takes the above classification information as its own, which in all cases, is not required. Can we create sub-projects that don’t automatically replicate the above sub-project classification information? Instead can it default to blank fields so that they can be added at a later date? Sub-projects are created in the Project Structure page so the administrator has to go back to the Classification to change the Detailed Classification information, which they never remember to do. It is a dangerous default action that has caused problems in invoicing and data analysis.

💡 Feature Requests

22 days ago

Tracking Category "View Own Only" – Restrict PM Visibility to Users in assigned category

When a Project Manager is assigned to a specific Tracking Category and their permissions are set to "View Own Only" for that category, their visibility in the Time & Expense Explorer and Individual Time Explorer should be automatically scoped to only display staff who fall under that same Tracking Category. Current Behaviour : Project Managers with "View Own Only" permissions on a Tracking Category can still see time and expense entries for all staff, regardless of whether those staff members belong to their assigned Tracking Category. Desired Behaviour : When a PM is: Assigned to a specific Tracking Category, and Set to "View Own Only" for that Tracking Category Then, in the Time & Expense Explorer and Individual Time Explorer, they should only see staff members who belong to that same Tracking Category - not all staff across the organisation. Business Use Case : Regional Project Managers should only have visibility into the time and expenses of staff within their own region (Tracking Category). This ensures proper data segregation, and prevents Project Managers from accessing data outside their scope.

💡 Feature Requests

22 days ago