To all of those wondering why it’s been so quiet on the blog, the reason is work. We’ve been working on the invoicing module for some time now and we’re hoping to go into beta in the next two to three weeks. Anyone who is interested in beta-testing should drop us a line.
Dear users, we’d like to apologize for a newsletter that was sent out repeatedly due to a bug in the newsletter tool we use. Some of you might have received an email announcement we’ve made a month ago. We’re really sorry for any inconvenience that we might have caused.
Courtesy of our friends over at the Smashing Magazine / Jobs blog, we got more free coupons for your business. You can post your jobs using the coupons below, that have a total value of $1000 (two credits per coupon), so grab them while they’re hot (First come, first served).
Recently i’ve stumbled a interesting article that i’d like to share with you. It’s called “Good reasons to do time tracking” from a blog called Better Projects.
Here’s an excerpt (whole article here):
Staffing - Several people avoided layoffs because I could show exactly what they were working on and how long they spent doing it. We also could show that we needed more people in order to do additional projects in the time frame management required it.
Project delivery dates - Because we had good historical data on actual times vs. estimates, our estimates were given more credibility by management. Instead of management insisting on an unreasonable delivery date, they accepted ours.
Planning when new projects could be started - When management saw that staff was fully loaded for the next few months, they reprioritized their projects to fit the staffing schedule.
I could not agree more with the author, and i believe that a streamlined time tracking solution gives a project manager the edge. If you have real data you can plan and quote accordingly without risking your business and credibility.
If you’re a freelancer i believe it’s extremely important to do correct tracking of your time, because you are a person who owns his own job and is his own boss, thus all the decisions you make are reflected directly in your income.
This is unrelated to Paymo, however we wanted to let you all know about a new site that our friends at Smashing Magazine just launched called Smashing Jobs.
Since most Paymo users are creative and IT professionals, we think it might be a useful resource, so be sure to check it out, if you’re looking to get hired or wish to hire someone.
Update: courtesy of Smashing Magazine, we have a special cupon worth $400 for the first one to claim it. The Coupon Code is EBB16E. (code used)
We’re working daily on getting rid of the pesky bugs, so we’d like to thank you for your continued support and great feedback.
All your messages are read and analysed by our development guys, and we’re doing our best to minimize downtime that might be caused by bugs.
This week we’ll post a couple of new features here on the blog, that we’ll be adding in the future. They are either things we wanted to do from start, but didn’t have the time to implement or suggestions from our growing user base. Stay tuned, and feel free to post comments.
Dear Paymo users, we’ve received a couple of complaints from Avast users regarding our installer. It seems Avast generates a false Trojan alert when it scans our Windows installer.
We have checked the installer with other commercial and free antivirus software, and there’s no trace of malicious code. Avast has been notified, and we’re expecting them to fix this false alert. Avast was very quick to respond, they fixed the problem, the false alarm is gone!
If you have any questions regarding Paymo please use the contact form, and we’ll do our best to help you.
Greetings! This is my first post here on the official Paymo Blog, so i’d like to share with you a couple of things about the people behind the service.
We started back in the day as freelancers in the web world, and like many of our current users, we struggled to get some jobs and get payed.
Over the years, we managed to grow the business and created a web design studio called LightDesignWorks.
While working for clients, we noticed the same pattern over and over again: we worked for more hours than we were paid. This had to stop, and along the way we introduced all kinds of project management tools into our work flow, but one final piece was missing, an easy to use time tracking tool.
It had to fulfill the following requirements:
Thus, the search for a tool capable of doing all these things began, and after a while (this was in 2006) there were not too many options left to choose from. We were stuck with a windows desktop app, but after using it for a couple of months we decided to build Paymo.
When we finished working on Paymo, we decided to release a public version. Paymo free was born, and it was our way of thanking all the freeware and open source community for the great software that’s out there and helps small businesses grow.
In the future we’ll be releasing a commercial version that will allow larger organization to track time and manage their employees better.
Right now we’re still in BETA, so you might encounter small bugs and glitches while using Paymo, and we’d like to encourage you to report any bugs you might find.
To all our current users out there, we thank you for the great feedback. Make sure you check the blog for new announcements and important messages.
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