The story and features of Fresh QR

There are many types of absences, and no one uses them all. Therefore, we are preparing an option for you to configure exactly which ones you want, including naming them. We also want to graphically adjust QR codes, add the option to change their size and graphic style. The mobile app will undergo a technological change. Visually or functionally, nothing will change, but it will give us better options to work with it in the future.

In the summer, we completed 3 major functionalities. Refining company settings means that you can set flexible working hours, e.g., shorten working hours on Fridays or distinguish between even and odd weeks. Notifications about absences are useful not only during the vacation season. A graphical monthly PDF report, a branch-based report, and extended employee statistics details on their mobiles were introduced.

We added the feature of automatic attendance generation, e.g., during holidays, and significantly expanded the scan reports on projects.

From the start, Fresh QR had the ability to track the time of specific projects, not just attendance from morning till evening. The first customers are beginning to tell me they would like to use it. For us, this means another pile of work. In addition to greater emphasis on projects, we also added a notes feature. Employees can make any note about each day, such as what they did then.

Added the ability to generate automatic breaks and deduct them from worked time.

We translated the entire app into Czech, added a branch feature, and changed the GPS counting for branches.

We did a lot of work over the year. We simplified the registration process and adding employees, added a calendar of events, improved absence management, implemented a credit system, and unified the font style.

I was at a skid school with my car, and there were only 2 of us with winter tires still on. It turned out that the other guy had a great marketing agency, and we immediately agreed on cooperation. And no, I did not make up this story either.

I made a simple landing page in WordPress and on Monday, April 24, I launched an ad on Google. The first registration came on April 26, and the first customer on May 6. I found another programmer to join me, and together we continued to develop the system and implement feedback. For example, a GPS map of scans was created.

This may sound like I made it up, but it’s true. In March 2023, I was skiing in the French Alps. The weather was fantastic, visibility was great, and on the descent from Mont du Vallon, I decided to take Fresh QR to the next level. I called a friend who helped me with registration, generalizing settings, improving reports, and other necessary tasks.

Not much happened this year, a few minor program tweaks aren’t worth mentioning. The system ran smoothly, major issues were resolved, and attendance worked.

We expanded the reports, added basic graphs, introduced a form for forgotten password recovery, modified the left and top menus in the app, and translated the website into English.

The first version of Fresh QR was developed specifically for my partner’s father's company and was launched just before the first COVID lockdown. The requirement was to have accurate work records, ideally without hardware and easy to use. The first version included QR scanning, the most basic monthly report, and absence reporting.