Revealing Alkimii's Latest Features đ - June 2025 Edition
đ New Feature: Shift Updates Notifications
This feature eliminates the need for managers to manually inform employees of shift changes, saving time and streamlining communication. Please note that this functionality only applies to published rosters.
Configurable Per Site: If youâd like to disable this feature for your site, please contact our Customer Success team at hello@alkimii.com
Product: Alkimii People
đ New Feature: Import Your Forecast into Alkimii
How it Works:
1. Export the Forecast to get the templates.
2. Update the necessary fields with your forecast data.
3. Import the updated file back into Alkimii.
This streamlined process saves you time and effort, allowing for efficient bulk updates and quick adjustments to your forecast data.
Learn more here
Product: Alkimii People
đ± Introducing Todayâs Roster on Mobile
Weâre excited to launch the Todayâs Roster on mobileâbuilt with your feature requests and day-to-day needs in mind! This new tool has been designed to make your daily review and sign-off process smoother, faster, and more efficient.
With Todayâs Roster on mobile, you can:
- Quick Shift Summary: Instantly view shift times, clock in/out times, and breaksâall at a glance.
- Quick Shift Additions: Add shifts directly from your phone whenever needed.
- Departmental Sign-Off: Review and sign off the previous day for your department, anytime, anywhere.
- Overall Daily Sign-Off: Finalise your daily sign-off with just a few taps.
- Shift Adjustments: Easily edit shifts or clock times to reflect the hours you wish to pay.
Todayâs Roster on mobile mirrors the same actions available on desktop, giving you flexibility and controlâno matter where you are.
Product: Alkimii People
đ€ Now Available: Offboarding in Alkimii
Weâre excited to announce that Offboarding is now available in Alkimii!
Just as you can onboard your employees through the app, you can now offboard them just as smoothly and professionally.
With this new feature, you can:
- Set Future Proposed leavers
- Send fully customisable and automated Leaver Packs
- Configure, manage and request an Employeeâs Leaving Reasons
- Request uploads such as resignation letters or other relevant documents
- Add and manage exit interview questions
- Track and store all offboarding information in one centralised place
Offboarding has never been easierâcreate a consistent, compliant, and respectful process from start to finish.
Learn how to build an offboarding pack
Learn how to offboard an employee with Alkimii
Product: Alkimii People
đ Introducing Productivity
Weâre excited to introduce Productivity, a powerful new feature in the Alkimii app designed to help you set, track, and manage your productivity standards with ease.
Whether you work with fixed or variable standardsâbased on revenue, accommodation levels, extras, or other metricsâProductivity gives you full visibility and control when building your roster.
Here's what you can do:
đ§ Manage Productivity
- Access a full breakdown of all standards youâve set up across your organisation. Use quick filters and the search bar to find exactly what you needâfilter by site, department, job title, basis, serving period, category, date range, and more.
đ Productivity Dashboard
- Get a clear overview of all productivity standards by job title within your site(s). Quickly see which standards are live, in testing, upcoming, expired, or deletedâall in one place.
Best of all, you can view and compare these standards in real-time while creating your roster, helping you align staffing decisions with operational goals.
Weâre continuously shaping Productivity to better support your needs for your site's standards - if youâd to get started, please reach out to our Customer Success Team to have this enabled for your site at hello@alkimii.com.
To learn how to use Productivity, dive into our Knowledge Base Article
How to create a Productivity Standard
How to Review Your Productivity Standards
Product: Alkimii People
â° Clocked and Paid Hours Now Available
Weâre excited to announce that Clocked and Paid Hours can now be viewed by employees in their Alkimii app!
When enabled, employees will be able to see their clock-in and clock-out times, as well as their paid hours.
This information is pulled directly from the week details and updates accordingly, providing employees with real-time visibility into their hours worked and paid.
If youâd like to have this feature enabled for your site, please contact our Customer Success team at hello@alkimii.com.
Product: Alkimii People
Holiday Balance Breakdown
You can now view a clear breakdown of your holiday balance, including your holiday cap, followed by whatâs been earned, taken, and whatâs upcoming.
Easily filter by quarter along the top to get a quick view of your balance within a selected time frame. Future quarters will appear greyed out to keep the focus on current and past data.
A simple, transparent way to keep track of your time offâat a glance!
To turn this feature on for your property, please reach out to our Customer Success team at hello@alkimii.com.
Learn More
Product: Alkimii People
đ Leave Calendar Visibility
The new calendar view helps you make informed decisions before requesting time off or approving leaveâwith clear colour indicators to guide you:
- Red Dot: Multiple team members are off on this dateâthere may be limited cover.
- Yellow Dot: One other team member already has leave on this date.
- Green Dot: Your leave has been approved for this day.
Learn more about requesting leave on mobile
Product: Alkimii People
đ Weâve Listened: Week Roster Updates
Thanks to your feedback, weâve made major improvements to the Week Roster, bringing more speed, control, and visibility to your rostering process. Hereâs whatâs new:
- Speed improvements
- Ability to load all departments at once
- New view for Absent, Holiday, Requested Day Off, and Bank Holiday shifts
- Updated print view and improved Excel export
- New preference options: view all balances as days, and durations as decimals instead of hours
- Coloured cross-roster icon to show which department a user is rostered in
- Budget data now included in Analytics
- Copy shifts to others with a searchable user name field
- Deactivated team member now have new colour coding and appear at the bottom of the roster
- Breaks legislation now included in both Excel export and print view
- Duplicating rosters no longer overrides future Holiday, Bank Holiday, Requested Day Off or Absent shifts
- New shift error revert option to return a shift to its original state before it was adjusted
And much more!
Weâve built these updates with your inputâthank you for helping us make rostering faster, easier, and more efficient!
Explore the Knowledge Base articles for how to navigate the week roster
Product: Alkimii People
âš AI Roster â Now in Beta
This powerful new feature takes the guesswork out of creating weekly or monthly rosters. Using machine learning, it analyses past scheduling patterns, staffing needs, and business goals to generate an ideal roster in just a few clicks.
Youâll be able to choose from three smart options:
- Best Pay % for cost-efficient schedules
- Most Efficient for optimal productivity and coverage
- Same as Last Year to replicate previously successful rosters
Once generated, you can review, fine-tune, and publish the roster to your team.
Itâs faster, smarter, and more flexible rosteringâdesigned to save you time and maximise results.
đ Want to join the beta? Email us at hello@alkimii.com to get started. Please note, there is limited spaces for Betas.
Learn more about how to use AI Roster
Product: Alkimii People
đ New in Alkimii Mobile: See Whoâs Working with You
You can now view who else is working in your department on any given day, directly within the My Schedule Roster tab on your Alkimii mobile app. This new feature makes it easy to stay informed, plan better, and collaborate with your team.
Learn more about roster on mobile
To enable this feature for your property, please contact our help desk at hello@alkimii.com!
Product: Alkimii People