ClickTime Blog

Try Our Google Calendar Gadget

If you use Google Calendar to keep track of appointments, we've got a prototype of a Google Calendar gadget for you to try out. The ClickTime Gadget for Google Calendar allows you to create timesheet entries directly from your Google Calendar appointments.

If you're interested in trying out the gadget and willing to give us feedback on your experience with it, please contact us to become part of our test group.

ClickTime Mobile for Android - Available Now

We're proud to announce the public beta release of ClickTime Mobile for Android. With ClickTime Mobile, you can fill out your time and expense sheets, including capturing receipts and submitting expenses on your smartphone as they happen so you get reimbursed sooner.

Here's what you can do with the current beta release:

• Enter time against clients, projects and tasks
• Enter expenses with or without an internet connection
• Shoot receipts on-the-spot with your camera phone
• Track both mileage and expenses
• Submit expense sheets for approval

Anyone with an Android smartphone can download the app for free in the Android Market. Your ClickTime account must include the ClickTime Expenses module in order to enter expenses in the ClickTime Mobile app.

If you run into any issues or have any suggestions on how to improve the mobile app, please let us know. Your feedback helps make ClickTime better.

iPhone and iPad owners -- we'll have our first iOS version in Apple's App Store in the next few months. If you can't wait that long, signup and ask to join our private beta program.

Our Newest Android App - ClickTime Mobile Expenses

We're proud to announce the newest member of the family of ClickTime Mobile apps:

ClickTime Mobile Expenses for Android.

And we're admitting Android users into our beta program starting today.

With ClickTime Mobile Expenses, you'll be able to capture expenses on your smartphone as they happen. These get posted to your expense sheets on the ClickTime website so you can get reimbursed sooner.

Here's what you can do:

• Enter expenses with or without an internet connection
• Shoot receipts on-the-spot with your camera phone
• Track both mileage and expenses

Sign up for our beta here.

Our beta program is open now. Testers can download the app directly to their phone. When our beta users say it's good to go, it will become a free download in the Android and iPhone app stores.

iPhone users -- you're next. We're doing a new line of true mobile apps. In the coming months, we will release both time and expense apps for Android and iPhone. Stay tuned!

ClickTime 6.9

With the release of ClickTime version 6.9, we added the ability to use custom fields in your timesheets and introduced other enhancements as follows:

1. Timesheet Custom Fields - In addition to tracking client, project and task information, you can now easily add custom fields for your employees to fill out with each timesheet entry. The custom fields can be almost anything you want, including text, numbers, currency, pop-down lists and more.


2. Customizable Data Export and Excel Linking - Custom fields associated with timesheet entries are exportable via the Customizable Data Export report. This custom field data is also directly retrievable within your own custom Excel charts and dashboards (via the Excel Linking feature available to Corporate customers).


3. Report Builder - We've improved the Report Builder tool to support custom fields associated with timesheet entries. Now you can also include data from up to 15 different custom fields in each report that you create.


4. Timesheet View - We updated the Timesheet View to include Timesheet Custom Field information.


5. Horizontal Timesheet - We updated the Horizontal Timesheet report to include Timesheet Custom Field information.


6. Week View - You can now resize the column widths on your timesheet via the Options menu. This includes the ability to resize the client, job, task and custom field columns. You can also use custom fields in the Week View time entry screen with all supported browsers.


7. Day View (beta) - We updated this time entry interface to support custom fields and resizing of client, job, task and custom field column widths via the Options menu.


8. Extended Session Length - We added longer session length options to all accounts, including Basic & Corporate customers. All customers who were previously set to the maximum length available (4 hours for Basic and 8 hours for Corporate customers) are now automatically set to 12 hours. In your company preferences, you may change this to a duration as long as 24 hours or as short as 30 minutes.


9. Expense Sheets - We refreshed the look-and-feel of the expense tracking interfaces to match the updated aesthetics of the time-tracking portion of the application.


10. Password Strength - We added 18 symbols to the allowed list of characters that can be used in your ClickTime password. Now you can create even stronger passwords than before.


11. Omani Rial - We added the Omani Rial (OMR) as a currency option. You can now enter your expense items in this currency. You may also select the Omani Rial as your company's primary currency via Company Preferences.


12. Web Browser Compatibility - We continue to support the most current versions of the most popular web browsers. This includes the recently released Chrome 14 and Firefox 7. Check out the ClickTime system requirements for more information about supported browsers.

ClickTime 6.87

With the release of ClickTime version 6.87, we added the ability to duplicate clients and introduced other enhancements as follows:

1. Duplicate a Client - You can now easily create a new client by duplicating an existing client. When duplicating the client, you will have the option to duplicate the billing rates, custom field values, and jobs associated with the client. When you duplicate the client's jobs, you may also duplicate each job's structure (e.g. phases and sub-phases) and restriction settings.


2. Desktop Application - We improved tabbing between fields for people who prefer using keyboard-based field-to-field navigation. We also improved reliability under situations when an unreliable internet connection causes the application to flip quickly back-and-forth between an online and offline state. The next time you launch the Desktop Application it will automatically update to the latest version.


3. ClickTime Connector for use with QuickBooks® - We fixed a couple of issues reported by customers regarding specific QuickBooks settings.


4. Vertical Timesheet - We updated the Vertical Timesheet report to sort each day's entries by the start and end times as provided (for example, a timesheet entry starting for 10am to 11am appears before one that starts at 2pm and ends at 4pm).


5. Day View (beta) - We fixed some issues that could cause timesheet entries to get duplicated.


6. Ukrainian Hryvnia: We added the Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH) as a currency option. You can now enter your expense items in this currency. You may also select the Ukrainian Hryvnia as your company's primary currency via Company Preferences.

ClickTime 6.81

Following up on last week's release comes ClickTime version 6.81. The update includes improvements to our Day View beta, horizontal timesheet reports, list views, expense tracking, web services and more. The changes are as follows:

1. Day View (beta) - We implemented numerous bug fixes and interface improvements.


2. Horizontal Timesheet Reports - We refined the recently redesigned and rebuilt horizontal timesheet reports that appear in the "Reports" area under the Company tab and the "My Reports" area under the Personal tab. We changed how time off appears in the report and made some other cosmetic changes to fit more information per page. We're also working on additional enhancements based on the feedback we're getting.


3. List Views - We fixed an issue so that when reactivating a project from the Project list view, the project's associated client automatically gets reactivated if necessary. Additionally, deactivating a client from the Client list view will automatically deactivate all of its associated projects.


4. Division List Export - We added the ability to export custom fields associated with divisions when running the "Division List Export" report.


5. Web Services - We added a new method for obtaining detail information about divisions.


6. Expenses - We fixed an issue which caused the wrong name to appear when a manager or administrator prints another person's expense sheet.

ClickTime 6.8

We are happy to announce the release of ClickTime version 6.8. The update includes new functionality and performance improvements to our Timesheet View and Horizontal Timesheet reports. The changes are as follows:

1. New Horizontal Timesheet Reports - We rebuilt the horizontal timesheet reports that appear in the "Reports" area under the Company tab and the "My Reports" area under the Personal tab. You can now run these reports for any length of time (no more 16-day limit!) and all supported browsers and operating systems can access the HTML and PDF versions of this report. In addition to a new look-and-feel that matches what's seen in Timesheet View, you can now control whether it includes client, task, phase and sub-phase information in the report.


2. Timesheet View - We've made improvements to the printable (PDF) version based on customer feedback. Printing a timesheet from the Timesheet View will now produce the same result as printing the Horizontal Timesheet report.


3. Day View (beta) - We implemented numerous improvements and bug fixes to the beta time entry screen. We also added the ability to delete a time entry by entering a zero in the hours field (unless your account is configured to allow zero-hour entries). We appreciate all of the customers who are giving us feedback on this new time entry page.


4. Week View - We made various improvements to the Week View time entry interface including the ability to delete a time entry by entering a zero in the hours field (unless your account is configured to allow zero-hour entries).


5. Updated UI - We updated the look-and-feel of many of the pages under the Personal tab and made some minor enhancements to other pages.


6. Expenses - We made it easier for administrators and managers to print or download employee expense sheets and receipts while reviewing expense sheets.


7. Fluid App Support - You can now login using Fluid web apps created from Fluid 1.0.


8. Web Browser Compatibility - We continue to support the most current versions of the most popular web browsers. This includes Chrome 11 and versions 3.6 and newer of Firefox. Check out the ClickTime system requirements for more information.

ClickTime 6.74

ClickTime version 6.74 includes improvements to our Day View (beta) interface and reporting. The changes are as follows:

1. Day View (beta) - We implemented numerous bug fixes and are now happy to make the beta available to nearly all customers. If you haven't already started using it, the new Day View interface sports an updated look-and-feel, auto-saving of time entries and various user-configurable options including the use of start and end times (e.g. I worked from 9:30am to 11am on Project X).


2. Vertical Timesheet Report - Break time values will now appear in the Vertical Timesheet report.


3. Division List View - We fixed an issue affecting a couple of companies which caused some divisions to not appear in the Division list.


4. ClickTime Connector for use with QuickBooks® - After some back and forth, Intuit's QuickBooks support team confirmed that the QuickBooks Pro 2011 R6 update resolves the issue caused by the prior R4 and R5 updates which may result in the ClickTime Connector appearing to freeze while trying to communicate with your QuickBooks file. If you are experiencing this problem, please upgrade your QuickBooks 2011 application with the R6 update.

QuickBooks 2011 R6 is better but not perfect

Intuit recently released the QuickBooks 2011 R6 update for the U.S./Windows versions of QuickBooks. This fixes various issues which you can read about on the Sleeter Group's blog. You can also read about the new and updated features in Release 6 (R6) on Intuit's blog. Unfortunately, this update doesn't resolve all of the issues when using QuickBooks on a computer with IE 9.

Additionally, the R6 update doesn't resolve a bug that can cause freezing in the ClickTime Connector. Intuit did tell us, thankfully, that the freezing bug will be fixed in the R7 update. We'll let you know as soon as that's available. In the meanwhile, if you are experiencing the freezing problem, we can provide you with Intuit's patch to fix the problem.

ClickTime 6.73

Hot on the heels of our last release comes ClickTime version 6.73. The update includes improvements to our Day View beta, list views, expense tracking and more. The changes are as follows:

1. Day View (beta) - We implemented numerous bug fixes and improved the stopwatch feature. We also added the ability to sort your time entries by client, project, task, number of hours worked and the start time.


2. Expenses - When you click to add an expense, the date will now default to your current date. If you then click the "save and add another" button, the date for the next expense will default to the date from the expense that you just entered.


3. List Views - We increased the default widths of some columns and fixed various issues reported to us by customers.


4. Desktop Application - We fixed some issues related to alternate number formatting with commas and decimal points.


5. Incomplete Time Entry Evaluation - We fixed issues experienced by some customers in specific time zones.


6. ClickTime Connector for use with QuickBooks® - An updated beta version is available that fixes an issue for QuickBooks files with four or more job levels.