🚀 BridgeVMS Release Notes

A new release has landed, and this one is big! Lots of new functionality, plenty of refinements, and a few behind-the-scenes upgrades to keep everything running smoothly. Let’s take a look 👇

💬 What’s new?

• Smarter Rounding Logic: We’ve upgraded how rounding works across the platform with a new deterministic rounding method.
  
  Why it matters:
  More consistent, accurate calculations for hours and costs, especially when overtime rules come into play.

• Billing Addresses - now more flexible: You can now add multiple billing addresses to an Employer and assign them to:
• Level 1 Hierarchies
• Work Locations

👉 For more information on how this works check out our guide here How to use Billing Addresses

• Notifications Refresh: You may see a prompt to review your notification preferences next time you log in. Nothing to worry about - this is part of a wider improvement to make notifications more relevant and useful.
• Vocabulary Improvements: We’ve made a terminology update across the platform:
• "Supplier" is now "Agency"
• Added Agency and Employer to vocabulary settings so you can rename them if needed.

• Auto break deductions with flexibility: There’s now an option to let timesheet submitters override automatic break deduction rules when needed. Perfect for those real-world exceptions to standard policy.
  👉 For more information on how this works check out our guide here How to set up and use Auto Break Deductions
• Itemised Supplier Invoices: You can now choose to generate itemised supplier invoices (one invoice per timesheet). So now you've got flexibility between Consolidated invoices and Itemised invoices.

• Clearer Framework Fees: Framework fees now appear more clearly. You'll now see these on the main summary table on the timesheet, and they're now shown as a deduction for agency users.
  
• WBS codes and Timesheet PDF exports: Timesheet PDF exports now include WBS code intervals.
  
• Timesheet data loader improvements: We've made some changes to the timesheet data loader template file to accommodate the recent changes to the expenses. You can now claim expenses via the timesheet data loader - saving time on bulk actions.
  
• Job import data loader improvements: A few handy upgrades here:
• Override compliance requirements during upload
• Choose whether you're uploading a shift or assignment job
• Select days of the week for assignment jobs
• Add start and end times directly in the upload

• Global rate change improvements: We’ve made rate changes easier to track and manage:
• More detailed processed data summaries
• Visibility of which rule condition changed
• New pause and resume functionality
  
• Category filter update - Client users will now only see categories linked to their Employer when filtering by category. Cleaner, more relevant filtering.

🐞 Fixes & Optimisations:

Our clean-up crew's been busy behind the scenes 🧹. Here’s a snapshot:

• Compliance validation - updated documents now correctly reset to “not yet validated”.
• PO numbers - now display correctly on approved and invoiced timesheets after updates.
• Placement stuck in pending validation status - pending validation issues (after candidate withdrawal) resolved.
• Additional bug fixes - a general tidy-up of smaller bugs to keep things running smoothly.

That’s it for this release! A big one, with plenty of new functionality to explore.

📬 Got feedback? Need support? Or just want to say hello? Drop us a note via BridgeVMS Support.

As always, thanks for being part of the journey 🙌