Reporting and Visualization

June 17th, 2008

A little over two months ago all paying customers were asked to participate in a Cashboard survey.

When we asked what was missing in the application the response was overwhelmingly biased towards search and reporting.

Today, those requests have been answered.

Dashboard Search

Right off the bat you’ll notice the Dashboard screen has changed significantly. Overdue Invoices and Projects to Invoice have moved to their own Dashboard screen, replaced with a higher level look at your Cashboard account.

Quick search for invoice, estimates, projects, timesheets

Quick search is provided to access all items within Cashboard. No more clicking around to find what you need.

Simply and effectively search for:
  • Companies & People
  • Invoices
  • Payments
  • Projects
  • Timesheets

Most of these searches can easily be downloaded to a CSV file, for exporting to MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets, or other applications.

Dashboard Quick Reports

The most stunning of the updates is sure to be our Dashboard Quick Reports.

These three reports give you a deep insight into your Cashboard account and provide you the opportunity to drill down into important information you need to operate your business.

Invoices vs Payments

Quickly see how much you’ve invoiced for and how much you’ve been paid over the course of time.

Invoices vs payments quick report graph

Clicking a bullet point on the graph will take you to a summary for invoices or payments for the time period specified in the report.

Project Time Spent in Hours

Keep an eye on what’s taking the majority of your company’s time.

Invoices vs payments quick report graph

The pie is divided into projects. Click a slice to see timesheet entries for a particular project in the date range given for the report.

Activity in Hours

See what you and your employees are up to with this report. We’ve given you the ablility to turn lines on and off for each person within Cashboard, and drill down into all of their timesheet entries for a particular day by clicking on a bullet point on the graph.

Invoices vs payments quick report graph


Estimates vs Actual Bars

For those of you who like to work with estimates, you’ll notice that your project tasks now have tiny indicator bars. These bars allow you to scan your tasks quickly and see what’s on or over budget. Customers who don’t use Cashboard’s estimate functions won’t see anything at all.

Estimate vs actuals progress bars

Clicking on the Billable number will show you all time entries logged for a particular task.

Money In Reports

Less glamorous but just as useful, we’ve moved three reports to the Money In section of Cashboard:
  • Account Balances
  • Company Cash Stats
  • Tax Summary

WIth all of these tools you should be able to slice and dice the information inside your Cashboard account with ease. We hope you enjoy them!

3 Responses to “Reporting and Visualization”

  1. Ian Soper Says:

    Thanks for making these improvements! I appreciate your tireless efforts at improving cashboard. Keep up the good work.

  2. Samantha Moscheck Says:

    This is great. The best part in my opinion is the ability to search the timesheets by project, person, etc.

    I am still really struggling with something. I need to either give my staff (or PM’s only, whichever is fine with me) a way to view actual versus estimated time.

    Or I can just send it to them every week if I really have to, but I have no easy way to get that together for them. Right now I take screenshots of the “full” view on the project summary page and send that to them.

    I need a spreadsheet CSV download of this summary data: one row per tasks with estimated versus actual time. It could be broken out by billable or unbillable time.

    Or, better yet, a way for staff/PM’s to see this data without seeing the financial part of it, just the time.

    Thanks.

  3. Matt Eaton Says:

    Fantastic! I’m loving the graph of billed vs received – great stuff! Search is essential too.

    Keep up the good work!

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