An issue has been identified where administrators attempting to run reports with an employee dropdown were seeing latency and timeouts with the reports. Stability improvements have been added to these reports by changing the employee dropdown to a type-ahead picker.

We have updated the email reminder editor to improve speed and performance.

When sending a “General – User” email reminder to Managers, the list of available managers is now separated by 100 per page. You can simply check the managers needed by navigating between the pages.

We fixed an issue where occasionally the Unsubmitted Timesheet Report would time out when the data set was very large. We have changed the format of this report from XLS to CSV. Upon receiving the latest release this issue will be resolved and the report will export as expected.

You are now able to create tax profiles with up to four decimal places. Rounding rules will now apply to the fourth decimal, instead of the second. For example, you may set a tax profile to 3.1825.

You can now map expense notes (such as expense IDs) to group time imports. In the Control Panel, the Hours Import Profile now contains a field called “Expense Notes.” When you add Expense Notes to a group time import, the notes become available on the Payables tab when viewing the expense report for a given employee.

You can now assign tax profiles to Vendors and update tax amounts on Vendor payables. We’ve also updated the Vendor payable editor with a new look and feel, similar to the receivables invoice editor. Taxes are optional for Vendors and are defaulted to 0% for Vendor payable line items.

We fixed the issue with deleted email notifications being sent to linked users. This has been resolved and deleted email notifications no longer send a copy to linked users.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding administrators being unable to send reminder emails on a due date, instead being forced to enter a number of days before or after the due date. This issue has been resolved and administrators can now create email reminders on the due date.

We fixed the issue with employees receiving an error when trying to export commission information. Commission exports now function as expected.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding data not being exported when ‘selecting all’ on a custom export. Now, all data can be exported when using a custom export.

We fixed the issue with email variables not displaying correctly when supplemental timesheets were listed separately from standard timesheets. Variables were displaying their name, instead of the value associated with the variable. Email variables are now correctly displayed.

We fixed the issue regarding newly created departments not honoring the defaults set for supplemental timesheets appearing on invoices. Now, new departments honor the setting determining whether supplemental timesheets appearing on invoices or not.

We fixed the issue regarding access your vendor payable history. This issue has been resolved, and you are now able to access your vendor payable history. This issue did not impact the vendor payable history in the database, but rather was a user interface issue accessing the data.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding payroll effective dates that were not saving as expected. Payroll effective dates were saving to the beginning of the week, rather than the beginning of an employee’s payroll cycle. Now, payroll effective dates will save to the first day of the employee’s closest payroll cycle.

A message now appears if the application is left open during a scheduled release. The message requests the user to reload their browser to ensure full functionality of the application.

When performing a search for timesheets or invoices and using the “All Dates” option, a message is now visible indicating that any invoices or timesheets from previous weeks that have not already been viewed will not be visible with the “All Dates” option.

“Receives Notices” is now an option when creating or editing an employee type profile. Options for this are to respect the default setting in the control, or override this setting with yes and no options.

We’ve made an update to error handling with QuickBooks desktop. An email is still sent to administrators if an error occurs when using QuickBooks desktop and Bullhorn Back Office.

We fixed the issue with administrators being unable to edit managers in shared branches. Now, administrators can edit managers with the proper permissions.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding cell phone numbers beginning with a 0 having the 0 dropped from the number. This issue has been resolved and cell phone numbers can now begin with a 0.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding hours being left off of invoices if invoices were not being approved in chronological order. Hours are now added to appropriate invoices, regardless of invoice approval order.

We fixed the issue regarding administrators being unable to edit invoices when using v51 of the Chrome browser.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding supplemental timesheets appearing on invoices when the invoice was not selected. Now, supplemental timesheets now respect this setting.

We fixed the issue regarding the placement gross margin report timing out without notification, and the percentage complete not updating. Now, as this report is run, the percentage complete will actively update. Please note that very large data sets, typically greater than year’s worth of data, will continue to cause this report to time out. It is recommended to split this report by year if needed.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding when updating a placement on a shared branch override the branch and set the branch to the administrators primary branch. Now, updating placements on shared branches no longer overrides the branch.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding certain hour combinations being improperly rounded and sent to QuickBooks Desktop with an extra hour. Now, accurate hours are being exported to QuickBooks Desktop.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding the actual hours on a timesheet displaying the rounded hours, when the rounded hours setting was enabled. Now, the rounded and actual hours are displaying correctly.

We’ve fixed the issue with all employees importing with 0 hours when there was an error with one employee on a group timesheet import. Now, the group timesheet will import all correct employees successfully, and display an error for incorrect employees.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding PTO hours being included in overtime calculations on the payables tab when overtime was added to the first day of a billing period. Now, overtime does not include PTO hours.

We’ve made updates to increase speed and stability when navigating the Companies tab.

It is now easier to select from a long list of placements in the employee portal as you’re able to scroll through your list of placements if the list is unable to fit on the screen in front of you.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding checkboxes not being selected accurately on the Companies tab. Now, you are able to select the correct checkbox when needed.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding break profile changes not being captured in the audit trail. Now, break profile changes are captured in the audit trail.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding PTO accumulation doubling when both Timesheets.Send Time Back and Timesheets.Send Automatically were enabled. Now, PTO is no longer doubling with these settings enabled simultaneously.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding the PTO rate displaying incorrectly on the payable dashboard. The dashboard was displaying incorrect values when PTO hours were entered with a weekly pay type. Now, PTO rates are calculated as expected.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding negative supplemental timesheets appearing on multiple invoices; now negative supplemental timesheets will only appear on the invoice linked to the timesheet.

We’ve improved the loading speed for the Companies, Managers, and Vendors tabs. Previously, all assignment data would first load for a given tab and then filter when navigating within these tabs. Now, the application loads data on demand, thereby reducing loading times.

We’ve expanded the functionality of the Login History Report: this report now records employee and administrator logins.

We’ve made an enhancement to update timesheets stuck in a “Processing” status when exporting to QuickBooks. Previously, even when timesheets successfully exported to QuickBooks, the timesheet status would not always update in Bullhorn Back Office. Now, if the status is not immediately updated, Bullhorn Back Office continues to attempt to update the status until a successful or unsuccessful message is received from QuickBooks.

We’ve updated the Login History Report to now record employee and administrator logins.

We’ve fixed the issue regarding all administrators not being displayed in Administrator drop-downs on the Reporting tab.

We’ve fixed the issue with duplicate invoices exporting to QuickBooks; now, only single invoices are exported.

For weekly time input, doubletime rules now include overtime and normal hours to accrue towards an employee’s weekly amount.

We’ve updated the Approvers by Branch Report to reflect managers with currently active assignments (i.e., assignments starting in the past and ending in the future). Previously, extraneous managers were appearing on this report with inactive assignments.

We fixed an issue regarding Placements with a European date format (DD-MM-YYYY) not displaying correctly (though they were saved correctly in the database). Now, the dates also display correctly in the application.

Previously, when an admin gave the Assignment Week Start field mapping a value that was not an integer between 0 and 6 (corresponding to Sunday through Saturday), the placement from the integrated ATS would import with an incorrect start day. Now, if an admin does this, after an ATS refresh, an error message displays in BBO letting them know that they’ve inputted an invalid value:

Could Not Update <Mapped Record>: Assignment timesheet week start must be an integer between 0 and 6, currently set to <incorrect value>

The date in the header of the employee application now matches the date of the timesheet selected. Previously, a bug was causing the date in the header to differ from the date of the selected timesheet.

We’ve fixed an issue to correctly calculate payable hours regarding regular and overtime hours when users had multiple placements and the “Timesheet.Overtime Across Assignments” setting was set to Yes.

We’ve made a change to the Employee PTO History report to help ensure the correct execution; previously, this report would fail to run if there were extra spaces at the end of the PTO Type name (e.g., “Vacation “). Now, BBO simply removes extra spaces at the end of PTO Type names and the report runs as it should.

We’ve stabilized the connection between Bullhorn Back Office and QuickBooks Online. Connection dropping for Back Office admin users should be less frequent, and more detailed logs will be provided if they do happen in the future. These logs will help provide information on the stability of the connection moving forward.

We’ve changed the Secondary Approver field on the Timecard Approver’s tab from a drop-down to a “type ahead” selection. With this update, response time improves  as the application no longer has to load the entire list of secondary approvers when you select a value.

We’ve fixed the issue with supplemental timesheets getting stuck in processing while sending to QuickBooks; they now send normally.

To increase consistency in burden rate calculations, a new setup setting has been created to clarify burden rate conversions, Assignment.Burden Rate Conversion. Previously, burden rates between 1.01 and 1.39 were automatically converted to a percentage.

With this setting, if set to Yes, burden rates from 1.01 to 1.39 will convert to a percentage. For example, 1.2 becomes 20%. If set to No, no conversion will happen and the burden rate will save as entered. This setting does not affect Permanent Placements, as they will always save with the entered burden rate. The setting is automatically set for existing customers according to current usage of burden rates.

We’ve made additional performance and stability improvements.

We’ve made an update that now allows users to send notifications by branch. Previously, notifications were not being sent for specified branches.

We have added a new In App notification process to send messages to Administrators only. This will allow us to better communicate release notes and maintenance updates to just Administrators and not Employees and Managers.

Over the past several months, we have been significantly expanding the scope of our BBO API. These improvements provide unprecedented efficiency, flexibility, and power for anyone looking to develop custom systems or integrate with the BBO platform.

When a parent permission is made inactive, child permissions no longer remain active. This also resolves the issue with documents deleting from user records as permission are now being read correctly.

We’ve fixed an issue where the daily per diem was being calculated from the number of time entries for a given day, rather than the day as a whole. The daily per diem is now calculated from a total of all time entries, not the number of time entries.

Administrators can now save employees to shared branches correctly.

Process queues have been optimized in order to minimize latency when sending employees signup notification emails and when processing timesheets.

We are continuing to build out the BBO API, and have recently made improvements in the following areas:

• Document visibility

• Assignment visibility

• Employee records

• Onboarding records

• Payables

• Surfacing APIs

• Improved documentation

We have improved invoicing to provide greater support for invoice grouping and supplemental timesheets.

We no longer require that supplemental timesheets be on a separate invoice. This helps avoid confusion for clients receiving invoices.