The half-year 2014 roadmap of awesome (updated)

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We are ambitious to make Timely as awesome as possible for you and our other users. Being ambitious is all well and good but you can’t do everything — even with our very talented and hardworking techbots.

This is why we need to prioritise certain feature requests over others and put them in a plan. A roadmap!

The features that make the cut are decided using a variety of rigorous and top-secret factors. And by top-secret we mean completely transparent. We look at things like how many votes a request has, the scope of the request, feasibility, fit with existing roadmaps and other helpful stuff.

Basically – we make sure we’re listening to you.

But before we jump into the new 2014 roadmap, let’s revisit what we’ve done so far in 2014:

• Two-way sync with Google Calendar
• All-staff week-view
• Negative line items on invoices
• Showing only rostered staff on the calendar
• Invoice discounting
• Multiple bookings on invoices
• Recurring class customers
• Change appointment location
• Improved registration page

And, multiple payment gateway integration (e.g. Authorize.net, Stripe, etc.) and class invoicing (raising invoices for each customer booked into a class) are scheduled to go live in the next week or two.

Impressive eh! But hey, don’t take my word for it — check out the changelog for the full list.

Now the techbots are always busy and not just adding new enhancements like these. They do lots of other development work too such as fixing bugs, ongoing maintenance, enhancing existing features, improving efficiency and much more.

SO SO busy but that’s the way it should be — otherwise Timely wouldn’t be as awesome as it is. Right?!

Okay, I’ve delayed the roadmap announcement too long already so with great joy, here are our top 10 features for the rest of 2014:

1. Report overhaul (ongoing project to complete existing reports, particularly staff performance and commission calculations) Done, read all about it here
2. Stock control (simple stock management for products) Done, read all about it here
3. Packages and session tracking (combined requests to offer session packages and tracking customer usage of packages) Done, read all about it here
4. Resource booking (offer ability to book rooms, equipment, etc.) Done
5. Gift vouchers (sell and redeem gift vouchers through Timely) Done
6. Bulk SMS marketing (send text messages to groups of or all customers) Done
7. Follow up emails/reviews (automated followup email for rebooking, review, etc.) Done
8. Email templates (automated email templates similar to SMS templates)
9. Discount codes (issuing and redeeming discounts for customers) Done
10. Customer login accounts (customers login to make and manage bookings) Done

All of these sound amazing don’t they? They should, you asked for them!

The list above shows roughly the order in which the techbots will work on these features. And as usual — we’ll keep you updated on the roadmap’s progress using blog posts, Facebook, Twitter, our user forum, the changelog as well as a digest in our newsletter. Also, keep an eye out for alerts (top-right) inside Timely too.

The whole Timely crew are just fizzing over this roadmap and we hope you are too. If you have opinion on this roadmap or any of the features mentioned, feel free to leave a comment on this post. Also, make sure to vote on those features you love by clicking the links above.

Roll on Christmas!