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eTime 3.0

From an organically grown application to a maintainable enterprise platform: new architecture, new business features and a consistently modern, multilingual experience.

9Languages
50DB migrations
36AJAX endpoints
12Services
40+Pages/screens

★ Highlights

AI assistant

Configurable per company, keys encrypted in the database, one active provider per company.

Internal chat

Ephemeral 1:1 chat with a “Who’s online?“ list for admins, managers and employees.

Performance dashboard

Dedicated, pre-computed data model with its own cron for fast analytics.

Account carry-over

Remaining leave (all account types) and overtime into the next year – with approval.

Requests & workflows

Special leave, time correction and end time with two-step manager/HR approval.

9 languages

New: Bulgarian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese – including emails & docs.

New UI

“Shell“ design system, new landing page and interactive docs with a live tour.

Mobile app

Android app with offline tracking & sync, SSO and iCal calendar subscription.

Operational safety

Maintenance mode, edit lock, change log, DB clone and migration system.

＋ New features

Time tracking & accounts

  • Second-precise start/end times with tooltip; night-shift logic with a next-day prompt.
  • Time-correction and end-time requests with approval; breaks per daily grid.
  • Unified overtime balance (actual/target + absences + bookings), rounded per day.

Leave

  • Multiple leave-account types per company; carry-over to the next year (double-transfer safe).
  • Special leave with mandatory documents and manager/HR approval; cover & annual planner.

Reporting & export

  • Payroll data (times + holidays/absences as continued pay + target + weekend).
  • Time sheet (XLSX + fixed CSV payroll format), Credit360 and working-hours-act check.

Platform & self-service

  • AI assistant, chat, iCal subscription, security self-service (password/2FA).
  • Partner program/lead acquisition, company network (switch company without logging in again).

↑ Improvements

  • Date/time centralised via DateService (personal > company > language).
  • Prices centralised via PriceService – no more hard-coded prices.
  • Tables with automatic, content-based column width.
  • Mobile: scrollable menu, usable input fields, edge-to-edge insets, pull-to-refresh.

▢ User interface

  • New Shell design system incl. per-user UI colour theme and personal date format.
  • New marketing landing page as the home page for logged-out visitors.
  • Interactive documentation with an animated live tour.
  • Many new screens: account carry-over, activity mapping, type management, prices, dashboard, migration and more.

⚙ Administration

  • Migration page, DB clone (main → demo/docs) and data integrity check.
  • Maintenance mode, edit lock, change log per role.
  • Company AI, HR fields, working-hours-act limits, billing exemption; reminder crons.

⇄ API

  • Central AjaxRouter: uniform CSRF/auth/error handling, responses as {ok,data}/{ok,error}.
  • 22 new endpoint groups, mobile sync API, OpenID/SSO and signed URLs.

▤ Database

  • New migration system (50 migrations, DB_VERSION).
  • Central config table replaces various columns; new tables for chat, leave, edit lock, carry, AI and more.
  • Collation set to utf8mb4_unicode_ci; extensions for network, iCal, HR, working-hours act, date format.

🔒 Security

  • Custom Crypt encryption, central Auth class with role/kiosk logic & cross-tenant protection.
  • Central CSRF check, output escaping, CSV/formula-injection protection.
  • SSO (Google/Microsoft/Apple), Turnstile, brute-force protection, MD5→bcrypt upgrade.

✓ Bug fixes

  • Regional company holiday is recognised company-wide again.
  • Overtime grand total = sum of the per-day rounded values.
  • SAP order import: correct UTF-8 special characters; various mobile fixes.

{ } Technical changes

  • Architecture: monolith (inc/*.inc + singletons) → MVC with controllers, templates and services.
  • Email: Symfony Mailer with 9-language templates; languages from .inc to .js.
  • Legal texts consolidated in legal.json; new test suite for calculation/security cores.

⚠ Breaking changes

  • Old inc/*.inc pages and singleton classes have been removed.
  • DB migrations are mandatory; configuration via etime.env + config table.
  • Email via Symfony Mailer; AJAX contract changed ({ok,data}/{ok,error}, param f).
  • Language files .inc → .js; marketing/legal pages renamed/merged.