SSA2012 WINNERS HR and HCM (SME) Category

SSA2012 WINNERS HR and HCM (SME) Category

The team at WhosOff are pleased to announce that we were WINNERS at the  UK Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2012 held at Harrods ,London 11th October 2012 

We won the prestigious Software Satisfaction Award  in the HR (SME) software category. Some of the big name winners on the night were Salesforce, AVG and PostcodeAnywhere amongst others.

Phil Cross (left), Co-Founder of WhosOff recieving the award with Gyles Brandreth (right)

After Dinner Speaker - Gyles Brandreth

The evening was served up with a treat as after dinner speaker Gyles Brandreth was in top form and delighted us all with his wit, charm and hilarious stories. After the awards presentations he visited the WhosOff table and chatted with the crew.  

A special thank you to you, our customers... 

As these awards are judged by the users of the software, we would like to make a personal thank you to all of our customers. You took the time to vote for our service and we can only promise to keep the level of satisfaction within WhosOff and push forward to making your working duties that little bit easier.

Looking forward 

Whilst we are looking forward to more awards evenings, with the chance of bringing home more silverware, we are always focused on maintaining our customer relationships and pushing WhosOff forward to aid those responsible for HR roles within companies.

Imagine using WhosOff.com

Imagine, you’re at home, in the evening  and the missus (or the mister)  is asking about your summer holiday. They’ve found a deal and what to know if you can take time off.

What do you do? Easy, you go online, see Who’s off and put in a request. Your approver gets notified straight away, and, if they’re connected, they can approve your holiday online or via our Whosoff  mobile App in minutes, or at the very least  you’ve got your holiday request in, and , because the Staff leave is transparent, you know it won’t be a problem.

Imagine you’re the person managing  the business staff leave and holidays. More than likely you are  in spreadsheet hell or Wall planner pain. Who’s off today ?, tomorrow ?, next week ?, next year? It’s basically a form filling , time consuming, hassle fest , very often causing distress and upset all round.

Then you find WhosOff.com – there’s a free 2 month trial so you can try the system without obligation. You upload your staff, allocate leave entitlements and bingo...everybody’s dealing with holiday themselves.They request, it gets approved or declined, it gets logged. Boom! – no hassle, no arguments. The ‘Staff Holiday’ Spreadsheet forever consigned to the lesser reaches of your directory system.

WhosOff.com is a leading online Staff leave planner – it’s a great low cost tool for business – we’re helping SME’s across the  UK (and the World) manage staff leave and holiday via the web and mobile Apps. Nearly 40,000 active users use the service from  smaller business with less than 10 employees to blue chips with over 1000 staff members.

And why do businesses use WhosOff.com ? Because it’s easy, efficient , cost effective and takes the hassle out of staff leave.

We are not like most web services. We like to think our service and support is second to none – more often than not we telephone people to help rather than exchanging emails. Whosoff.com is that sort of customer focused business.

We ‘re not from Silicon Valley, or Silicon Roundabout – we are a self financed tech company from Canterbury, England  – making a success of B2B.

New features - Dashboard and Approvers

At WhosOff we continue to use customer feedback to improve the WhosOff service and the last few weeks have seen some further updates to the system to give users even more visibility and functionality on Staff leave and absence.

On the Dashboard

In the 'Who's Off Today' area we have added the option to select any day and quickly see who's off on that day.

There is also a new tab here which list those people for whom it is a 'Non' working day.

Approvers

You can now set approvers to be able to Add/Edit leave for their own staff. Adminsitrators can set Approvers to be able to Add leave in the future ( but not the past) or Add/Edit/Delete leave in the past and future. (The default setting is not being able to add leave for anyone)

New WhosOff API - get access to your data

Today sees the launch of our beta API (Application Programming Interface)

What's it for and what can it do ?

If your are a developer/programmer you'll know all about API's and how to use them to integrate with your existing systems.

The current beta release of the API only has 'Read' functions, although we expect to add additional 'write' functions in future.

This beta release of the API has functions to retrieve data:

Who's Off by date range, by Department, by Leave type

Staff Details

Department List

Leave Type List

If you are interested in having access to the API , just let us know at support@whosoff.com

Be a WhosOff.com Agent

We are aware many of our existing users refer new companies to us, and for this we are very grateful.

So much so, that we have set up an 'Agents' area where you can, if you wish, register yourself as an 'Agent' so that we can reward you for sending new clients to us.

For full details, please email as at support@whosoff.com

Integrating Whosoff.com into your iPhone

If you want to see who's off in your company - follow these easy instructions to get your company WhosOff.com calendar into your iPhone.


1. Login to WhosOff.com

2. Click Tools

3. In Tools View > Under available feeds > RIGHT click on the feed link > Click properties

4. In the properties popup window take a note of the ‘Address(URL)’ or keep the window open . The URL should be ‘https://staff.whosoff.com/feeds/?u=’ plus a long number

On the iPhone – We strongly recommend that the device uses the WiFi facility when setting up the calendar subscription service.

5. Touch Settings

6. In the Setting view > Touch ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’

7. In the Mail, Contacts, Calendars view > Touch ‘Add Account ...’

8. In the Add Account > Touch ‘Other’

9. In the Other View > Touch ‘Add Subscribed Calendar’

10.A new view will appear requesting Server .. enter the Address URL from the WhosOff (https://staff.whosoff.com/feeds/?u= + the long number)

11.Touch Verify and the device will check that the link is valid . If it is successful the subscription view will appear.

12.At the point you may change the description to something more meaningful ie WhosOff Calendar – To do this touch the Description row and you will then be able to edit.

13.Touch ‘SAVE’ and the calendar has been added to the device.

Check your calendar subscription has been successfully uploaded. On the iPhone touch Calendar. When the Calendar has loaded , touch ‘Calendars’ in the top left hand corner and a new row should appear ‘Subscribed’ and a new calendar name. Ensure the row is ticked and touch done. The calendar will now show your companies staff leave.

Note: The calendar feeds are only available if your super user allows access to your companies calendar feeds.

WhosOff for iPhone and Android Released

Connecting to your WhosOff account is now possible 24/7.

We are pleased to announce that our mobile apps for iPhone and Android are available to download from the App Store and Android Market

Both Apps are Free to download and make managing your staff leave and out-of-office times on the move very simple and easy.

Looks like BlackBerry app is not far behind !