Roadmap & Release Notes
Discover where you're heading with ZEP! We'll show you what's currently being developed, which features will be available soon and what is already live. Our roadmap keeps you up to date in real time so you can plan with confidence and benefit from the latest features. With ZEP, you always stay one step ahead!
Planned
HR & skill management module
Improved functionalities for managing and automating HR processes
HR & skill management module
The HR module will offer a significant improvement in the management of personnel resources.
It should help to organize employee data centrally, create reports and seamlessly integrate processes such as vacation management and time recording.
This module is specifically designed for growing teams to promote efficiency and transparency.
Customizable evaluations
All ZEP evaluations combined in a powerful, flexible analysis platform
Customizable evaluations
With this update, all existing reporting options in ZEP can be combined in a single, flexible view.
Users get access to a central analytics platform that allows them to filter, sort, and visualize data based on specific requirements.
This provides unprecedented flexibility for data-based decisions.
Advanced enterprise functionalities
Multi-client capability for international teams.
Advanced enterprise functionalities
This feature enables companies with multiple national subsidiaries to share a single ZEP instance.
Thanks to improved multi-client capabilities, companies can manage cross-border projects more efficiently and utilize synergies between different locations.
Next
Dashboards 2.0
Customizable dashboards with customizable widgets depending on the company role
Dashboards 2.0
The new dashboards allow users to create individual overviews for their day-to-day work.
With customizable widgets, every role in the company can capture relevant information at a glance.
This makes the daily start of work more efficient and structured.
Messaging functionality
In-app notifications for relevant updates and events
Messaging functionality
Through the planned in-app notifications, users are informed directly in ZEP about important updates that affect them.
This could include new tasks, project milestones, or changes in working hours.
This optimizes communication within teams.
E-credits for freelancers
So that freelancers can also receive their credits in e-invoice format
E-credits for freelancers
In order to provide freelancers with seamless bookkeeping, ZEP will offer the option of creating credit notes in a standardized e-invoice format.
This saves time and ensures compatibility with existing accounting systems.
Tasks & project management
Plan, assign tasks, and achieve milestones
Tasks & project management
With the new task management, tasks can be created directly in projects, assigned to team members and set deadlines.
Milestones help to track progress and complete projects in a structured and timely manner.
Vendor module
Manage suppliers, assign receipts, and document payments
Vendor module
The new supplier module enables central management of suppliers, direct document allocation from the mailbox and seamless documentation of payments.
In this way, accounting processes are optimized and supplier relationships are organized more efficiently.
Marketplace interfaces
A central platform for seamless integrations with other business tools
Marketplace interfaces
By setting up an interface marketplace, ZEP is seamlessly linked to other common software solutions.
Users can easily select the appropriate integrations and integrate them directly into their workflows to synchronize data between systems.
Released
Dashboards 1.0
Improved user dashboards as a clear ZEP start screen
Dashboards 1.0
The first dashboard update provides personalized overviews as a starting point for the working day.
With an optimized user interface and relevant information at a glance, productivity is significantly increased.
Time recording via calendar and agenda
New types of (project) time recording via calendar and agenda
Time recording via calendar and agenda
This feature introduces new options for project time recording.
Users can visually enter and organize their working time using a calendar or agenda, which makes planning and tracking easier.
ZEP Timer
Stamp function for precise recording of project times
ZEP Timer
The new stamp functionality allows users to record their project times in real time.
With a single click, working time sessions can be started, paused, and stopped, improving the accuracy of time recording.
E-receipts
E-documents for travel expenses can now also be entered in all common formats
E-receipts
The feature for entering e-documents supports all common formats and makes travel expense reports more digital.
Users can upload, save, and insert receipts into reports directly into ZEP, significantly reducing processing time.
ZEP Version history
The development of the ZEP versions and all updates in detail.
ZEP 7.2
ZEP 7 time tracking improvements: 🕒
- Gap display: Gaps between two times are now made visible.
- Day marker: The current day is highlighted for a better overview.
- Tool tips: Small time entries in the calendar overview are supplemented with helpful tooltips.
- Keyboard shortcuts: With “+”, times can now be recorded even more easily.
- Faster date jump: A datepicker makes it easy to switch to previous weeks.
- Marking in time entries: Project names and comment texts can now be marked and copied.
HR works interface: 🔄
From now on, you can Times, absences and employee master data be synchronized between ZEP and HR WORKS. Would you like to try out the module? Feel free to contact us — we'll help you set it up!
Housekeeping: 🛠️
- REST interface: Enhancements have been made to provide more functionalities.
- Absenteeism recording: The “Save” and “Save and Request” buttons were swapped.
- Other bug fixes: Several minor bugs were fixed.
- Create a new offer: Now also under My Offers.
ZEP 7.0
⏰ Intuitive time tracking via calendar:
Time tracking has never been easier! Plan and document your working time conveniently directly in the calendar using drag and drop.
📊 New dashboard:
All important figures at a glance! The new dashboard provides greater clarity and helps you to keep track of things.
🚀 Optimized menu navigation:
Faster and easier thanks to the new, clearer navigation — so you can get straight to your destination with just a few clicks.
⏱ New start-stop stamp button:
Start and stop your working time directly from the top menu bar. In addition: If you are a ZEP customer, this is now also directly linked to a project — simply by pressing a button.
ZEP 6.13
Project approval of times
- In addition to time-based approval by employees, ZEP now also offers project-specific approval of project times by project managers, administrators or department heads. This function can be activated under Administration>Settings>Project time & documents.
- With the Invoicing module, project approval serves as an additional verification mechanism before times are billed. Project managers can approve project times, and when an invoice item is planned, ZEP checks whether all included times have been approved.
Projects, employees and customer management: Quick index expanded
- Under Projects>Administration, Employees>Administration, and Customer Management, the quick index has been extended by “0-9" next to the letters.
Invoicing module: Additional fields with language selection “Spanish”
- You can now also enter the additional customer fields and the additional project fields in Spanish.
Overtime, absenteeism, vacation module: Create absenteeism only as half a day
- You can now also create reasons for failure that only allow the selection of “50% of normal working time” and/or “time” as absenteeism. Until now, the “Full day” option was always set explicitly and could not be deactivated.
Resource planning module: Forecast based on scheduling
- Under Staff>Scheduling: Edit scheduling and under Project > Scheduling: Edit Scheduling, ZEP calculates the expected turnover within the set time frame based on the planning and the respective stored price table.
Resource Planning Module: Scheduling with Ratial Distribution
- This function enables uniform and flexible allocation of working hours or resources over a defined period of time. This feature is ideal for projects that require an even distribution of tasks or hours.
Accounting export module: DATEV online interface
- In addition to the DATEV XML interface, you now also have the option to establish a direct connection to DATEV Online.
ZEP 6.12
REST interface:
Your ZEP is now available in the latest version 6.12. With this new version, we are expanding ZEP with our new REST interface, which enables you to integrate your ZEP into your existing system landscape even more seamlessly and efficiently.
From now on, you have additional options for automation and data analysis and we are looking forward to the practical examples you have implemented. We are constantly expanding this 1st version of the REST interface.
For all customers with the previous “SOAP interface” module, the REST interface is already included and can be found under Administration>Settings>REST. In this context, the module is renamed “ZEP Interfaces” and includes both interfaces.
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