Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas FuchsYou run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious...
Project proliferation? Sync your projects from Basecamp!
Here at Freckle Support HQ, I often get lots of requests for integrations. Whenever I get an integration request, I make note of who asked for the integration, and eventually how many times that integration has been requested. Soooometimes I’ll pad the numbers a bit, if I feel that this integration will help a particular set of customers. [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Do you love to pivot? Freckle supports Excel 2016!
If you love pivot tables or can’t get enough bar charts, Freckle now supports generating Excel files for Microsoft Office 2016. While it’s not out for Windows yet, Mac users can already revel in new features like real-time co-authoring and cloud-based files. Long story short—Freckle supports one-click generation of files for [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Windows Rights Activists, Unite!
…or how get Chrome to pin Freckle to your Windows Taskbar! Every group of friends, every team, every family has a token Windows Rights Activist. They’re the person who you turn to with all of your very import Windows questions. Like, “Hypothetically speaking, would Steve Jobs and Bill Gates make a good team on The Amazing Race?” [...]
Devon Kreider
Keep your coworkers in the loop and quicker project assignments with Freckle’s new permissions!
Many customers have written in to ask for more power when it comes to permissions/controls for their team’s time tracking. In the past, you could set up your entire team as the extremely strict “Freelancers” permissions setting—and they could only see their own time. Like they were working all alone. Sending their time [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Freckle is More Fun with Avatars
We love finding new ways to make tracking your time feel a little less like work, and more like fun. And really, what’s more fun than personalizing your account with an awesome avatar? Okay, in all seriousness though, using avatars can be insanely helpful for your team. Teams who use avatars in their account find that: it’s [...]
Devon Kreider
New Invoice Summaries and Breakdowns
After months of some serious training, including a sprint through the streets of south Philly and up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, Freckle invoices are ready to make their 2015 debut. Cue Rocky music. The Summary breakdown of your Freckle invoices is better than ever before. It’s even better looking than before! You can [...]
Devon Kreider
10 little things Freckle does to help you get stuff done faster
Do you like tracking your time? Chances are that you don’t—it’s a chore, necessary to keep tabs on projects and to get paid. That’s why you don’t want to spend extra time in your time tracking tool. Freckle tries to help minimize the amount of effort that you have to spend completing tasks—software should help you [...]
Thomas Fuchs
New pay-per-seat pricing launches November 28
tl;dr If you have an existing Freckle account, nothing changes for you, except if you choose to opt-in to our new pricing structure by switching to one of the new per-seat Freckle subscription plans. Later this November, to make it easier for you to choose a plan and grow your Team with Freckle, we’ll introduce an all new-pricing structure. [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Sharing is Caring
Growing up I constantly heard the phrase, “sharing is caring“. With four kids all at different ages it was probably the number one repeated phrase in our house. That and, “don’t make me come back there“, during absolutely every car ride. As I got older I really did want to share my things with everyone at the [...]
Devon Kreider
How to Land Big Fish Clients with No Cold Calling
Is there anything worse than cold-calling? Not only is it stressful — *cough* I mean… character-building — it doesn’t work for the kinds of prestigious clients you really want. Neither does sending in your résumé, no matter how awesome your cover letter. True, having contacts deep inside the organizations is great — if you’ve [...]
Thomas Fuchs