What's New in webWorkshop 2.6
Scheduled Release Date: November, 2025.
Hero Features
TechConnect Enhancements: Daily Hours, Job List and Continuous Timeclocking
TechConnect now makes time tracking and job management easier and more transparent for technicians, with new features for daily hours review, job allocation, and continuous timeclocking.
What’s new:
- Technician Daily Hours Review: View clocked hours per day, including job breakdowns and totals, in a read-only view. Sites can enable or disable this feature.
- View All Jobs Allocated: See all jobs assigned—past, current, and upcoming—with filters for status and quick access to upcoming work.
- Continuous Timeclocking: Enforces continuous time tracking, prevents early clock-off, and streamlines job selection for faster clock-in and out.
Key benefits:
- Improved time accuracy and workload transparency for technicians.
- Enhanced planning and reduced idle time with a full view of all assigned jobs.
- Consistent, reliable time tracking across TechConnect, WebWorkshop, and ORION.
User Security Management Changes - Centralised User Access & Roles
Managing user access is now simpler and more consistent. webWorkshop user roles and permissions are now controlled through ORION Desktop Security Settings, giving you one central place to manage staff access across your business.
What this means for you:
- No more separate web security roles — everything is aligned with ORION Desktop.
- A single source of truth for user permissions ensures consistency and reduces errors.
- It’s a great time to review your team’s access and confirm everyone has the right permissions.
Tip: If you notice any changes in what users can or can’t access, this is expected as part of the alignment process. Please review your ORION Security Settings and adjust as needed. For more details see Orion User Setup
Detailed Release Notes
Enhancements
Issue Key | Module | Description |
WEB-2089 | Correspondence | Manual bookings created via walk-in or phone call can now trigger SMS or Email booking confirmations, using the same template and branding as online bookings. |
WEB-1377 | Estimates | A user without Parts access cannot see the parts option when posting estimate postings. |
WEB-2059 | Estimates | Estimate phone numbers are now dynamic based on the workshop. |
WEB-2060 | Estimates | The estimate approval screen will now display a note stating "All prices are exclusive of GST" |
WEB-1924 | General | A new report for Recommendations has been added, allowing users to view all recommendations, including those actioned. |
WEB-2043 | General | Modified the way the Labour Description bookmark is saved in the systemsettings table for consistent behaviour between desktop and web. |
WEB-1678 | Items/Vehicles | To enable better management of reminders for specific branches, we have added a dptname bookmark to templates and a department filter to the job booking reminder report. |
WEB-2093 | Jobs | When a single-day job is assigned to one technician, the system will now automatically allocate the job’s estimated hours to the technician’s schedule. |
WEB-2106 | Jobs | Columns made wider to allow all characters to be seen during Customer/Item selection for Job Booking. |
WEB-1925 | Jobs | Added a new job status filter for the Workshop Job Booking reminder report. |
WEB-2051 | Jobs | The Job Lock feature has been enhanced to align with ORION’s behaviour. When a job status is set to LOCKED, users can no longer add parts, labour, or other postings. Only managers can lock/unlock. |
WEB-1579 | Diary | Users can now drag and drop jobs in the Weekly View to reorder them. |
WEB-1920 | Diary / Jobs | Added a new Loan Car definition setup to ORION Desktop, which is viewable in WebWorkshop. |
WEB-1930 | Diary | Users can now click on jobs within the Loan Car Diary, directly navigating to the job. |
WEB-1931 | Security / User | WebORION user access and roles are now managed through ORION Desktop Security Settings, providing centralised, consistent security management. |
WEB-2096 | Users & Logins | Concurrent login is now supported for WebWorkshop and ORION using the same user account. |
WEB-2114 | Sales / Users & Logins | A new User Log page has been added for the Sales Workboard. It allows the Marketing Team to track active companies and users, view login and activity details, and identify high-usage (power) users. Access is restricted to Admin and Marketing roles. |
WEB-2074 | Invoice | Originally done in desktop, new DLLs added to save this setting to the systemsettings table to allow web to do the same. |
WEB-2079 | Invoice | Users can now print and email each split invoice separately from WebWorkshop, matching the functionality available in ORION Desktop. |
WEB-2112 | Invoice | The Automatic Fee feature now functions in WebWorkshop. All fee setup and configuration must still be completed in ORION. |
WEB-1983 | Parts | Centralised Kits are now accessible in WebWorkshop, providing consistency with the ORION Desktop experience. |
WEB-2099 | Sales | Users can now filter leads by Location on the Sales Workboard. Leads are associated with the correct branch, improving follow-up prioritisation, reporting, and management across multiple dealership locations. |
WEB-2113 | Sales | The Sales Workboard now allows users to mark leads as Completed, in addition to the existing Lost status. |
WEB-2115 | Sales | Tasks on the Task Listing page can now be filtered by Location, improving visibility for Sales Managers. Tasks inherit the Lead Location by default. |
WEB-2108 | Sales | Sales Workboard users can now add notes and comments directly to the Activity Log from within a Lead. Each note includes a timestamp and user name, displayed in chronological order. |
WEB-2109 | Sales | Users can now send emails with file attachments and predefined templates directly from a Sales Workboard lead. |
WEB-1981 | System | Added support for two-way tracking between transactions and their corresponding General Ledger (GL) records. |
WEB-2044 | System | 0 licences now blocks TechConnect users. |
WEB-1986 | Mobile(Tech)App / TimeClock | Continuous timeclocking behaviour has been synchronised with TechConnect. |
WEB-1923 | Mobile(Tech)App | Added a new window called ‘posting history’ where a technician can view their posted hours retrospectively. |
WEB-1933 | Mobile(Tech)App | New gear icon added to filter by departments and today’s jobs in TechConnect. |
WEB-1917 | Mobile(Tech)App | System notifications can now be used to set up banners for the TechConnect app. |
WEB-2056 | Online Booking | The Online Booking Request page now displays the Workshop Name, Location, and Address. |
Bug Fixes
Issue Key | Module | Description (Issue Resolved) |
WEB-2103 | Diary | Blocking time for a technician in one department caused them to appear in all other departments’ daily view. |
WEB-2101 | Diary | Users were unable to open jobs without vehicles from the diary. |
WEB-2084 | Mobile(Tech)App | Incorrect library text was being added when searching for section notes. |
WEB-1984 | Mobile(Tech)App | TechConnect was displaying jobs for technicians who had not been allocated hours. |
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