Vangera Field is live, and this site now counts visits without cookies

Three days ago I wrote about reports and overtime in Vangera HR. Since then, a third app joined LohnCC: Vangera Field, at field.vangera.systems. And this site changed how it counts its visitors. The screenshots use example data.

Vangera Field: crews on their phones, the office on a computer

Vangera Field is for organizations whose work happens at their clients’ places: cleaning, pest control, maintenance, installations. The office plans the work on a computer, and the crews do it from their phones.

In the office:

• Clients and their places, with addresses and a point on the map.
• The service catalog: what the organization does, how long it takes, its price and its checklist.
• Crews: a crew is a team in LohnCC, so nobody is set up twice. Each crew has its vehicle.
• Vehicles and their papers, with reminders before a document expires.
• Jobs and the board: drag a job onto a crew and a time. The board warns when a job overlaps another one or is outside the crew’s area, and suggests crews. The warnings don’t stop a plan: the dispatcher decides.

On the crew’s phone:

• The run sheet: today’s jobs in order, with directions, the office’s notes and how to get in. On my way, Check in and Done tell the office where the job stands. Checking in keeps only how far the crew was from the place, not where they were.
• The job’s report: the checklist, materials used, photos, and the client’s signature on the screen. An item that can’t be done is marked with a reason.
• No signal? Steps and photos wait on the phone and are sent when the signal is back. Copies on the phone go 14 days after they were last opened; the records stay on the server.

For the client: when a job is done, the crew or the office can share a private link to its service report, with the organization’s logo, in a chat or by QR code. The client opens it without an account and can print it or save it as a PDF. The link works for 90 days and the office can withdraw it.

Our own map. Field’s map of Laos comes from our own server, made from OpenStreetMap. No outside map service sees where the crews go.

Positions. Field can also show where crews are while they are on duty, on a live map for the office. It is off unless I allow it for an organization and the organization’s admin turns it on. Every look at a person’s day is recorded. It stays off for real organizations until a Lao legal check.

Like Vangera Flow and Vangera HR, Field signs in with LohnCC. An organization’s owner or admin asks for it on the organization’s Apps page in LohnCC, and I approve each one while it is in private testing. It went through two security reviews: one before it went live, and one after its last parts were added.

This site now counts visits without cookies

Until now, this site could count visits with Google Analytics, only if you allowed it. Since yesterday it also counts them with Vangera Stats, our own, on our own server, without cookies:

• For each page view it keeps the page, the site you came from (its name only, like google.com), phone, tablet or computer, the browser’s family, your country and the time.
• It never keeps your IP address or your browser’s full details. To tell one day’s visitors apart, it uses a code made with a secret that changes every day and lives only in the server’s memory. After the day, nobody can work the code out again.
• You aren’t counted if your browser sends Global Privacy Control, or if you switch it off with Visit counting at the bottom of every page.

The details are in the privacy policy. I’ll run both side by side for about two weeks to compare the numbers, then remove Google Analytics and the consent bar that goes with it.