This time we have a lot to share, hence the exclamation points. You’re getting this email because you’re an admin in Operating.app.

Timeline improvements

The Timeline – both for Projects and People – now has new display options: you can easily set the zoom level, adjust the length up to 3 years and set the start date to your liking.

We also added the week numbers to the top bar.

Here’s a really nice new way to look at the People Timeline: show projects already in the collapsed view. Test it with your own data:

Project phases

This is what projects looked like until today.

After you hit the + Phase button and click around a little bit, you can create this:

We’re still adding more functionality around this basic Phase implementation, so the screenshots will soon be outdated, but it’s already quite handy!

We’d love to hear your feedback on the Timeline. We know there are many “paper cut” style glitches, and we plan to fix a huge number of them in the coming weeks. Let us know if you have something in mind – repetitive use of something slightly frustrating is a real pain.

Task-based and project-specific rates

As we now have more and more companies tracking time with Operating Hours, it’s become even more crucial to be able to set the rates for all work effectively and accurately.

We keep writing and revising the rate cards support page as more features are added. Here’s the executive summary for you:

• Set task-based rates – go to project details, tasks for time tracking, click on the task to set the rate

• Create a project-specific rate card directly from the project financials part, if none of the Shared rate cards match your project-specific terms → this way your unique pricing will not clutter the rate card lists for others

Time tracking and invoicing well under way

This is still in beta for Operating Hours users – but very exciting, so sharing here as well!

Don’t hesitate to drop us a line at support@operating.app if you’d like to hear more about the Hours + Invoicing combo. We’re hard at work migrating companies from old school tooling over to our platform.