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A constantly updated overview of the app’s news and improvements

12 Mar 2026 Share

🚧 Coming to your construction site...

We are working to make the management of your projects even smoother and more automated.

• Work progress certificates in one click 📑

Say goodbye to manual calculations. Soon you will be able to generate your Work Progress Reports directly from Mela data, ready to be sent and approved. 🚀

• Real-time notifications on the web portal 🔔

When a colleague adds photos, work logs or documents to one of your tasks, you'll receive an instant alert — even with the browser running in the background.

✅ March 2026

• Custom attendance rules for your company ⏰

Set the rules once — automatic lunch break, minute rounding, automatic clock-out for forgotten shifts — and Mela applies them to the whole team, every day. Attendance data is ready to export in Excel.

• Artificial Intelligence for your accounting 🤖

We are training our AI to read your invoices and automatically reconcile them with construction site costs. Less data entry, zero errors, and more time for field work.

• Your construction sites, your way (web portal) 🌐

We are redesigning the project view on the web portal. You will be able to customize columns, filters, and views to keep only the information that truly matters to you in sight.

✅ February 2026

• Invoice and supplier management 🧾
  By importing invoices into Mela, you will always have an up-to-date supplier list.

• Invoice and daily report/accounting reconciliation 💰
  Thanks to the “invoice reconciliation” feature, you can import your invoices and automatically reconcile costs with those recorded in daily reports.

• Dashboard to view “Attendance Management” 👤

✅ January 2026

• Ability to view time entries for an activity from a smartphone ⏰

Time entry report viewable from a smartphone as well as from the web portal

• Management of extras in measurement books and bills of quantities 📋

• Improvement of dashboards and business intelligence to provide our customers with more insights into the status of their construction sites 📊

Enhanced cost analysis charts to deliver more information on site status

✅ December 2025

• Greater customization of time punches with company-level options ✅
• Activity status filter in the map view 🟢 🟡 🔴
• Option to disable the creation of new accounting items when users create a daily report, forcing them to use the predefined list items 📋
• Insertion of a bill of quantities with AI 🤖

You can insert a bill of quantities into Mela simply by uploading an Excel/PDF file.

• Simplification of cost allocation in daily reports 📈

✅ November 2025

• Whatsapp integration 📲

A worker who doesn’t have Mela can send photos, notes, and all updates through a dedicated WhatsApp chat. This information will automatically be added to your task in Mela.

• Uploading the bill of quantities 📊 

Option to import or create a bill of quantities

• Filling in measurement books 📄

Measurement books to record the quantities of work performed

• Kanban view of the activity list from the portal ✔️

For those who have purchased the “calendar” add-on, it’s possible to view the task list in Kanban mode

✅ October 2025

• Automations in the "task statuses" that can be selected by users 🟢 🟡 🔴
  

For example, when a new task is created, the correct status is automatically set (e.g. Quote request), or as soon as you add information (photo, note, report), the task automatically moves to the next status (e.g. In progress).

• Map view of the photos for each activity, accessible from the "task contents" 📸

✅ September 2025

• Creation of custom minutes/checklist templates with AI 🤖

You can create a custom minutes or checklist template simply by uploading the document or a photo of the paper minutes, or by dictating to the AI assistant which template you want to create.

• Possibility to assign a "status" to activities 🟢 🟡 🔴

In the details of each activity, it is possible to assign the status of the work: "Site inspection carried out", "Quote accepted", "Quote rejected", "In progress", "Completed".

• Improved information search by date 🔎

In every task, it is now possible to easily and intuitively see the days when information was entered and filter by a specific day.

✅ August 2025

• App performance improvements 📲

• Ability to enhance text fields in checklists/reports using AI 

• Artificial Intelligence will suggest text to make filling out checklists or reports easier and more accurate

✅ July 2025

• Artificial Intelligence to dictate site reports 🤖

From today, you can fill out a report or a checklist simply by speaking or typing what happened; Mela’s AI will automatically complete the fields.

• Ability to add images to an already created image item 🌆
• Improved interface for entering information into daily reports and checklists 📝

✅ June 2025

• You can now upload up to 30 photos at a time from the web app instead of 10 🌆

• Ability to add new accounting sections when editing a work report 📝

Example: you can edit an existing work report that only includes hours worked by staff, and add materials used or any other accounting section.

• Ability to add captions when editing a work report generated by clock-in ⏰

Add a caption to specify the type of work carried out after the clock-in report has already been generated.

• Improved Artificial Intelligence for work report filling 🤖

Bug fixes and various improvements in AI-assisted work report completion.

• Task content grouped by date 📆

Task content (photos, reports, checklists, documents) is now grouped by date to make browsing and information retrieval easier.

✅ May 2025

• AI-powered report dictation 🤖

The update that revolutionizes life on-site is here: to fill in a work report (with people, materials, equipment, etc.), just speak to our virtual assistant and describe what happened on-site… and the report will be generated automatically!

• Improved delivery note auto-reading and receipt scanning 🧾

The automatic reading of delivery notes and invoices has been improved—data transcription accuracy (including invoice discounts and additional items) is now close to 100%. You can also generate a report from a photo of a receipt.

• Centralized tag management 🏷️

Admins can centrally manage which tags can be used by all company users.

✅ April 2025

• Bug fixes and improvements to Clock-In 🔔

Improved reliability of automatic report generation and resolution of various bugs.

• Centralized checklist management 📋

Admins can centrally manage checklist/report templates to ensure users follow company-aligned formats.

✅ March 2025

• Option to add checklists to reports 📝

When compiling a report, it’s now possible to attach a checklist—for example, to include weather conditions.

• Option to add photos inside checklist fields 📸

In addition to attaching photos to a checklist, you can now insert them into specific fields.

✅ February 2025

• Clock-in geolocation 📍

Clock-ins via the app can now be viewed in the web app with filtering options and map view.

• More image editing options 🌆

Choose line color, thickness, and geometric shapes.

✅ January 2025

• Clock-In ⏰

With the new Clock-In feature, workers can clock in/out from the site directly through the app and automatically generate a work report.

• Option to approve checklists and reports while keeping them editable ✔️

Once approved by a supervisor, checklists or reports remain editable for further corrections.