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Another highly requested feature has been the ability to round time entries up to a specified number of minutes.

We felt this tied in well with our latest timer update and snuck it in as an additional Christmas present for you all.

Lots of people love using our dashboard widgets to accurately track time in a stopwatch like fashion, but the majority of our customers track time within Cashboard itself.

The old method inside Cashboard required you to leave your browser open while timers ran for your entries. That’s fine for people that work on the web all day long, but it can be a hassle. What’s even worse is that if your browser crashed, or you accidentally closed your Cashboard window you’d lose the time you hadn’t saved.

Not only does Cashboard track your incoming money with invoices and payments, it can now track your outgoing expenses.

Using Cashboard’s expense tracking features, you can re-bill expenses to your clients, track payroll, and keep an eye on the financial health of your business.

We’ve removed our previous Cash Stats report in favor of a much more flexible Payroll Report.

Using this tool you can report on employee costs for time entries during any date range. The Payroll Report works by pulling time entries and multiplying them by each employee’s pay rate on a per-project basis.

Markup

In the spirit of tracking expenses and giving you a more accurate way to track your profits we’ve introduced a Markup % field for Invoice and Estimate line items.

The markup field affects any price per and flat fee you’ve entered. The original prices are only shown to you, and the “marked up” prices are shown to your clients.

We’ve totally redesigned the way you manage invoice and estimate documents.

This redesign has one goal – to simplify your workflow. It comes from many hours of usability testing we’ve conducted and is a major upgrade from what we had in place.

Today I’d like to highlight our much improved Basecamp Sync.

We originally wrote the Basecamp integration with the launch of Cashboard. The API they provided back then didn’t allow us to do some things, such as importing and exporting time entries during a project sync.

To get around this, we’ve allowed you to directly import time entries to an invoice, and sync tasks on a project. This has caused many customers mass confusion and admittedly was a pretty hackish solution. Customers believed that you should be able to sync tasks and time while running a project sync. They were right.