This week we added on of our most requested features — the ability to have parents sign posts. Injury posts, medications, and office visits have often times required signatures and this can now be accomplished through Playground's custom posts.

As we continue our payroll beta, and hope to bring it into general release in the near future, we have been adding a bunch of improvements to make Playground Payroll run as close to autopilot as possible. Playground will now send out a bunch more emails and updates regarding employee status, payroll status, payroll deadlines, and more.

With payroll also comes a lot of improvements on staff hour tracking, reporting, and staff information management. This week we added the ability to add check-in and out rules based on staff schedules to help maintain higher levels of data integrity to minimize the number of changes you need to make when running payroll.

Releases

• Able to restrict staff check-ins to scheduled times

• Payroll emails got a large improvement — you will now receive far more updates on the status of your staff and payrolls

• Parents able to sign on posts, e.g. for injury posts

Improvements

• Improved the “learn more” experience on subsidies

• Mileage is now downloadable

• Student schedules got a big speedup

• Better support for viewing weeks selected for camp for parents and admins

• Able to bulk download photos on web media gallery

• Added “all at once” billing for camp

• Added activation breakdowns for enterprise reporting

• Able to filter by shared on paperwork forms

• Better error messaging when accidentally adding a duplicate staff member

• Additional filters added to student paperwork tables

• Parent applications are now sorted reverse chronologically

• Classroom table now allows you to select additional information

• Added a mapper to easily migrate staff from existing payroll systems into Playground

• Improved custom field usage on forms and paperwork

• Able to clone listing plans

• Improved pay schedule creation on payroll

• Added easier onboarding support for 2 day payroll

• Able to download activation reports

• Improved PDF printouts for meals and lesson plans

• Added discounts report

Fixes

• Fixed duplicating newsletter asking to use a template

• Invoices no longer show $0 lines

• Fixed issue with seeing deleted chats on non updated apps

• Fixed issue with staff transitions on mobile