If you love running reports but wish you could see an even better breakdown of your time, then we’ve got a treat for you!  With the new report filters you can easily separate and aggregate your time entries, as well as see exactly where your team has been logging hours.

Now you can break your reports down by:

• Time (by day, week, month or year)
• Project (per project or aggregated)
• Person (per person or aggregated)
• By role (team members, freelancers or everyone)
• By billing status (billable or invoice/payment)

Are you starting to feel like you hold all the power in the time tracking kingdom? You do now! Here are some awesome ways you can use the new report filters to understand your time better—

• See how much time each person on your team is working daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.
• See how much time is being spent on each project within a set time period.
• See how much time is being spent per person, per project within a set time period.
• See how much time you’ve yet to invoice AND how much time has been invoiced but not paid.

Want to put your logo on your invoice? Change the fonts? Add some color to it? Now you can! We just launched a small yet powerful new feature in Freckle that allows you to add custom HTML to any invoice.

For example, here’s what the default styling of an invoice looks like:

And here’s the same invoice with a tiny amount of custom HTML!

Here’s the HTML snippet that makes this work:

<style>
#invoice, #invoice_report {
  font-family: Georgia;
}
#invoice div.custom-header {
  padding: 0 0 20px 0;
  margin: 0 0 20px 0;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #9dd64b;
}
</style>
<img src="https://asset0.letsfreckle.com/
  images/sites/logo_bigger.png">

You’ll find the custom HTML header field when you create or edit any invoice—just put some HTML in, done!

Pretty simple! Now, you might not be a web designer, but if you have one handy or hire one, it’s really easy to add some personality to your invoices! You can add any arbitrary HTML you want, including custom CSS styling, images, text or anything really.

Tip: If you do include images or other external assets, be sure to serve them from a SSL-enabled web server, that is URLs starting with “https”. This makes sure that when your clients view your invoice, they won’t get warning messages about “mixed secure and non-secure content” in some browsers (like Internet Explorer).

Let’s not mince words here: It takes about 15 seconds to set a project budget the quick way, or 30 seconds to set a project budget the long way.

Here’s how:

If I (your narrator, Amy) sound like I’m on crack, forgive me.

Got a team? We’ve got a shiny new feature just for you!

We call it The Freelancer! While we may be getting swept up in summer blockbuster fever, the freelance feature is an incredibly useful tool for teams who may need to bring on a sub-contractor, freelancer, or junior team member for just one or more projects.

You wouldn’t want this person accidentally messing with your other projects, fiddling with invoices, or other people’s time, right? We didn’t think so! Enter The Freelancer role!

Here’s how you can set up these permissions of a new or existing freelancer (or subcontractor, or junior team member) in your Freckle account:

1. Log into Freckle as the account owner
2. Click on the People tab
3. Hover over the team member you want to “restrict” & click Settings

Here you can change the permission role, and under the “Project Access” tab, choose which projects the new freelancer can access. (You can also create new projects here, too! Just type in the new name, like you do when logging time.)

We hope you enjoy this new feature, and if you have any questions or comments please don’t hesitate to drop us a line!