We’re super excited to introduce to you the newest friend of Freckle, PayPal! Now, when you create a invoice in Freckle, you have the option to allow your client to pay via PayPal.

And since you only need to enter what you need, when you need it, it’s still just as easy to invoice your client as it was before.  All you need to do is choose the currency that’s right for you, and enter your PayPal email address in the ‘RECIPIENT EMAIL’ field.

Freckle has even generated a long list of potential currencies for you to choose from that match those supported by PayPal (not all of Freckle’s currencies are supported by PayPal, so double-check before you save the invoice!).

Just like before, you’ll get a link to share with your client.  Only now, Freckle will show you when your invoice is awaiting payment from your client, when the payment is pending and when your invoice is paid!  

You can even view a real time detailed payment log of your PayPal account during and after the transaction. And Freckle will do all the work for you, immediately changing the status of your invoice without you needing to lift a finger!

When your client receives the invoice, they’ll be able to pay you in a few simple steps!  When PayPal payments are enabled by you, the invoice has a ‘PAY WITH PAYPAL’ button for your client to click on.  

By clicking on the shiny new PayPal button your client will be immediately directed to their own PayPal account.  Then all they need to do is choose their method of payment, click ‘PAY’ and be on their merry way!  Note that if your client does business in another country or chooses to pay you via bank transfer or eCheck, the payment may take a few days to be completed (as usual with PayPal).

Just check the list of invoices in Freckle for the current status. If your client pays you with a credit card or via a PayPal balance, the transaction will appear almost immediately.

Of course, PayPal will always send you emails about the status of any payments.

Once the transaction is complete, you and your client will both see a fancy ‘PAID’stamp in the right hand corner of your invoice.  Go ahead, get all warm and fuzzy inside when you see that stamp, that’s what it’s there for!  

And don’t forget to download your invoice as a PDF or print it out for your records.  Cause when you create an invoice in Freckle, you’ve got options, baby!

Let us know your thoughts on what you’d like to see Freckle invoicing do–we’re constantly working on improving and tweaking what Freckle has to offer you!

Nerd alert! This article is about our new developer documentation.

Want to integrate Freckle with an app of yours? You’re probably aware of our API, and now we’ve a shiny new developer website available as a guide to you!

Next to listing all the API functions and showing examples with JSON and XML (your choice!), we’ve also whipped up a fully interactive site where you can test various API calls to our API test account as well as real Freckle accounts (thanks to Hurl, here’s our fork).

The new developer site is open source and on GitHub—in case you find an issue we welcome any fixes and clarifications and additions (for example, if you have a new Freckle client library, feel free to add it via a pull request!).

We’re also working on a V2 of our API that will introduce a lot more functionality as well often-requested features (like access to the Freckle Timers). If you’ve feedback, questions or requests, please head over to the API documentation site and use the feedback & support form (or write to [email protected]!). We’d love to hear your thoughts!

You probably love the mini-pulse on your Freckle dashboard, which shows you which days you’ve worked on (and how much and on what) for the current week.

We’ve added a new feature to “look back” on the last 7 days of work—so you can quickly see if you have some more time tracking left to do for last week as well:

In true Freckle spirit, the mini-pulse automatically remembers your preference when you go back to the dashboard later, all without configuring anything. We’re looking forward to you looking back!

Ever wanted to scribble down somes notes about what you’re working on while a timer is running? Now you can, directly in the Timer window!

Once you start a timer, this convenient notes area will automatically open—just click it and take all the notes you want. Each project has its own scratchpad!

No need to click save—notes are automatically saved on the Freckle servers, so you never need to worry about losing what you wrote down. You can close the timer window, or your browser, and reopen it later (even on a different computer!)—your timers and notes will still be there!

Now when you decide it’s time to log time—the notes you took are automatically used as a suggestion for the tags and description for the entry you’re logging.

And once the entry was successfully logged, Freckle clears out the notes field and you’re ready to log more time! Easy as that!

Ever wanted to run a report for a handful of projects? Or a report for all projects of a specific client? Now it’s easy to do that, with our new project selector in the green quick report box. The Quick Report Box is available on any Freckle page. Just click the green tab and you’re in business, or rather, in reports.

Just click the “CLIENTS OR PROJECTS” field and the shiny new multiple project autocompleting box will pop up. For your convenience, you can add all projects of a client by just clicking a client name (you can set the client or group name of a project in a project’s settings!). You can also select more than one client—combine as you wish! Of course, you can also combine this with a tag filter and people filters, as well as our new feature for grouping and aggregating report results.

If you are a power freckler, just start typing a client or project name, and use the up and down cursor keys and hit <tab> to select a project. The backspace key deletes the last project selected. Pressing ⏎ will instantly run the report for you!

And, once you’ve run your report, don’t forget you can save them for later, just hit the “save permanently” button and the report will always be a quick link away from the reports page.

Let us know your thoughts on what you’d like to see in your Freckle reports—we’re constantly working on more improvements and tweaks!

Tired of scrolling through months and months to find the right date?  Now you don’t have to!  With the Quick Select Calendar you can easily choose the dates you need by typing them in the calendar.

The Quick Select Calendar is auto-focused when you open any calendar in Freckle, so all you need to do is start typing.  Just press enter and PRESTO you’re ready to go in seconds!

Use the new calendar widget here, there, and everywhere.

• When logging time in the past
• When running a report
• When editing an entry
• When marking hours invoiced outside of Freckle
• When creating an invoice

Here’s how the savvy Quick Select Calendar can save you time:

• Enter “Friday”, and it selects last Friday
• Enter “Dec 25″, and it selects last Christmas
• Enter “9/12″, and it selects September 12th
• Enter “September 8″ or “Sept 8″ and it selects September 8th
• Enter “3/11/11″, and it selects March 3rd, 2011
• Enter “10.9″, and it selects September 10th for European folks

Time trackers, meet your new best friend! Play around with the calendar and see how easy it is to find your time!