Your company's public holidays are set in stone. And they are relevant for all your employees. Are they though? What if an employee works in a different state or a different country? What about them? What if contractually, they are not entitled to any of these holidays? Then you are setting separate calendars! One with holidays, another without them, another for Texan and another for Spanish bank holidays. You can do it! This is how: https://support.kompassbms.com/article/118-add-public-bank-holidays

Do you want to know how much you're utilizing your equipment? Are they stuck in your storage for days in and out? Or are they allocated to employees who are not even heading to billable projects? Here's the equipment utilization spreadsheet for you. It provides genius information about the utilization of your equipment by category, department, date, or more. Poke the Kompass team so that we'll send it straight to your mailbox.

Here is a post for all the Kompass tech-savvy out there.

Your employees worked 8 hours today, 2 of them are non-billable and so you marked them as such on the timesheet entries. Now, the new and upgraded status update window will only sum up the billable hours ignoring these that should not be billable. Your rated projects, managed like never before.

Another integration lands in Kompass BMS! If you’re using QuickBooks Online for your accounting, chances are you might also be using TSheets (now known as QBO Time). Well, good news, starting today, any timesheets booked and approved in Kompass will automatically sync with TSheets. No more faffing about with manual exports and imports. Just a smooth, behind-the-scenes handshake between the two platforms.

For those of you who are not still using the Project Performance Report (PPR), well, you are missing the best! There's a new change in place. You can now find all expenses and show them at your PPR. Separated by "billable" and "non-billable". Please contact the Kompass BMS team to tailor your PPR. Also, please contact us if you don't know what a PPR is, one of the greatest value generators or Kompass BMS!

If you are continuously using a file that your entire organization need to access, why not linking it with your Kompass account? Isn't it easier like that, rather than having to search and share the link with each employee again and again and over again? Add it at the bottom of your modules and you're sorted.

Schedules (a.k.a. working hours) for field employees that are different from those for office-based employees. And it doesn’t stop there—schedules can vary by department, by office, and by day. Yes, even by day! Think 10 hours Monday to Thursday, then 6 hours on Friday. So. Many. Schedules. Up until now, Kompass could only manage one universal set of start and end times. But not anymore! You can now define your own schedules—and make them as complex as you like. Want to set a unique schedule for each employee? Go for it. The choice (and chaos) is yours!

Festivities are approaching for most of us, and so are the days to relax and celebrate! Wondering which days are holidays? Just check the top of your schedule, you can now see the holiday names. Whether you're celebrating, resting, or simply enjoying some time off, we hope you make the most of these days!

What is the utilization rate, you might ask? Simply sum up all the worked hours of your organization (or even just your department, if you prefer). Then, divide that by the theoretical number of billable hours, which is the sum of all 'scheduled days' hours. And voilà! This shows the capacity of your team, helping you determine whether you need to take on more projects or hire additional staff. It enables strategic decision-making with just a mouse hover.

Some projects have a decent amount of proposal items while some others are greedily count hundreds of them. And then, when raising an invoice and allocating the amount under a single proposal item, you'll have to scroll through these hundreds of items. Sounds fun . Now, with this tick box next to your allocations, you can only view those that have actually an amount next to them. The scroll wheel of your mouse should already be a tad happier.