3 big things we’re working on at Timely
It’s time for another update on our product development plans for Timely!
Our last big update was back in July 2013 when we mapped out our roadmap for payments. As you can see, we’ve made excellent progress with most features completed.
This time around, we have a much bigger development team so we’re hoping to crank through things a lot quicker.
And we certainly have no lack of ideas for Timely, as of now there are 326 open suggestions on our feedback site. It’s awesome to have such an active community and we really appreciate all the suggestions and comments that you, our lovely customers, leave for us.
Right – so on to the roadmap. Our broad plan for the next 4-5 months is to focus on three big initiatives:
- Round off invoicing and payments (March/April)
- Give classes some love: recurring customers, invoicing etc (April/May)
- Add some big new features including stock control, packages, session tracking and gift vouchers (April-June)
We’ll also keep chipping away at smaller enhancements and features, and of course squashing those pesky bugs (have a squizz at our updates and changes page to see some of the incremental improvements we’re making to Timely on a daily basis).
Over the coming days we’ll provide more detail on those three big initiatives including links to specific features so you can vote for them (we can then update you as we complete each one).
Stay tuned to our blog and we look forward to getting some discussion going!
Hi guys.
If you guys can add on this featured to improve specially on United States Market.
1 - Option to schedule a service without paying if they show a coupon or order number for pre-payment. Then the system open up for them schedule.
One more thing.
Can I put a link on the date I have available for specific area and then open inside of my scheduled system without have to click on book now button. is that possible?
Thank you guys.
Hi Adriano, it sounds like you need discount codes? There isn't a way to pass through a fixed date at the moment, but I have added your request to some other work we are doing at the moment related to passing fields into the booking process. We may be able to work out a solution for you.
I've discussed your second request with the team. Could you please contact us as we need a bit more info from you about how this would on your site.
We love your software and thank you for continually improving and adding features.
We have voting for an API on your suggestions webpage and feel it's very important for automating our business and integrating/sharing data across our other business applications.
Thanks again, Marisa :)
Hi Marisa, we haven't scheduled a firm date for an API yet, but it's something that we hope to look at in the later half of the year. One of the options we're exploring is potentially tying this in with an iPhone app (which requires an API to work) but it's very early stages at the moment.
Very good ideas guys as we have to seek assistance from other apps for gift vouchers ideas. We will need very good ideas as instant Gift vouchers which clients can select the design like birthdays, valentine, christmas and write the message.
Thanks Salim. If you have time it would be great if you could leave those thoughts on our gift voucher feature request.
Hi
Been able to record deposits taken would be helpful as well. As we have a spa as well which we take a deposit with every booking.
Just a thought.
Thanks
Hi Katie, totally agree this would be a useful feature. Please vote here if you haven't already and we'll look at knocking this off during the invoicing and payments work.
Can you add where they can schedule bi weekly (every 2 weeks) please.
Hi Kaitlyn, you can do this currently by choosing weekly recurrence and "repeat every" 2 weeks. Hope that helps!
Thanks for this great software. Its has really helped my business.
Please, in the emails confirmation and if possible reminders, it would be great to have the prices of the services and totals. My clients have requested it. Thank you
Thanks Gege, I have added your suggestion here so it's on our radar. To be honest, this will most likely be solved by adding the email templating feature to Timely which we hope to look at in the next few months.