Gooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaalllls!

There’s a new tab in MinuteDock today - “Goals”. From now on, MinuteDock doesn’t just help you track your time - it also keeps you productive. 

Here are two ways you can use goals - we’re sure you clever cookies will come up with a few more.

Track a fixed-quote project

Set up a goal with the total budget you’ve estimated for your project. As you log time, the progress bar will fill up and show you how much time you’ve used, and how much you’ve got left - get cracking!

Watch your daily hours

Set up a goal to track 8 hours every day, and as you log time it’ll fill up. Make sure you fill it every day, and check your history to see how well you’ve done in the past.

We hope you enjoy MinuteDock goals!

• July 23, 2010, 2:09pm

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Xero tweaks

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve recently refreshed the way we sync across Contacts and Invoices from Xero.

We’ve added an icon which tells you which Contacts are from Xero. Click it to go to their to straight to their page in Xero.

We’ve also smartened up how we handle you merging Contacts in Xero - this complements the merging feature we added a couple of weeks back.

• July 01, 2010, 5:50pm

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Latest tweaks and polish…

This week we’ve had the pleasure of Jared being back on deck after finishing with his uni exams… as you can tell by this picture:

In a short few days we’ve made the following improvements…

1. Re-Docking an entry from today now just continues the entry rather than duplicating it. You can read more about redocking here.
   
    
2. Deleting tasks and hiding non-Xero contacts now gives you the option of merging any entries with the contact or task (if there are any associated):
   
   
   
   
3. We’ve added two new boxes to the reports for admin users - billable and unbillable hours, so you can get a quick overview of how profitable your week was:
   
   
   
   
4. A new graph for admin users - rates breakdown! So you can see exactly what % of your time was spent on what rate:
   
   
   
   
5. We’ve added some new filtering options to the reports - show only unbillable entries or show only billable entries (or show all of course). Again this lets admin users tailor a report to their day-to-day analysis requirements.
   
   
   
   
6. We’ve started a massive overhaul of our help system - starting with some tweaks of the FAQ page - there’s now a list of questions at the top of the page letting you quickly find what you need (as our FAQ list grows and grows!) - watch this space as we make MinuteDock easier to use and understand!
   
    

As always we hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think or give MinuteDock a go today.

• June 18, 2010, 1:44pm

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Innovative Uses of MinuteDock

We got a great email today from an innovative MinuteDock user who has to travel to the offices of his clients on a day-to-day basis. He loves tracking his time spent on MinuteDock, but for travelling he charges by the kilometer rather than by the time spent.

He managed to come up with a great solution for overcoming this hurdle; he simply logs all kilometers travelled as hours, and uses a task #travel with an hourly rate set at his $/km rate. So when travelling 12km to his client he logs @client_name travelling #travel 12hrs, and the client gets an invoice with something like (15 Jun) travelling [12 units] [$x].

Pretty cool huh? We were impressed :-)

• June 15, 2010, 5:10pm

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