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Scheduled Maintenance
August 12th, 2010

The Paymo system has scheduled maintenance on Saturday morning, August 14, 2010, for the servers that run the Paymo backend.

This maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m CET (Europe) or 5 a.m EDT (US). This work will require a system reboot which will cause a downtime of 15 to 30 minutes during which your Paymo account will not function.

Anyone using the Paymo widget will be able to track time, the entries will be saved locally and they will be synced online once the system is up and running.

If you have any questions please contact us!

Local Backup – now available
February 25th, 2010

Starting today you can backup all the data in your Paymo account to a XML file that you can download to your computer. To do this you will need to go to the Company Settings page and look for the Backups section in the right hand column of the page.

The backup file will be in XML format and will include the following data:

  • company
  • users
  • clients
  • projects
  • task lists
  • tasks
  • time entries
  • milestones
Existing backup files will be kept in the system for a period of 30 days.

Latest updates
October 26th, 2009

Some of the most requested features you’ve been asking for are now live:

  • time entry rounding is now available in the Reports and Invoicing modules, very useful for people billing in increments
  • you can now set custom billing rates per employee
  • you can now set an invoice language that is independent of the user settings
  • you can now retire user accounts and keep their data without the need to upgrade to more users
  • many of you wanted a smaller version of the widget that takes up less space on the desktop/dashboard. You can now easily switch from the big widget to a light-weight version with the click of a button.
  • if you put your computer to sleep or hibernate you’ll no longer have problems with the timer, it will stop automatically
  • you can configure the invoice numbering system even more, you can set the invoice count variable to [iiii] and it will be formatted like 0001
  • clicking your logo in the widget opens up your management interface in a new browser window.
  • when you start the widget, the last project you worked on is automatically  selected

More cool stuff is brewing in the lab, stay tuned.

Scheduled Maintenance – 26 Sept 2009
September 25th, 2009

Update: New hardware up and running – enjoy!

We’re really sorry about the service interruption yesterday!  We experienced some unexpected issues with our servers and restored the service as soon as possible.

Due to strong growth in new signups we’re upgrading our infrastructure this weekend to better cope with the load and provide the smooth service you’re used to (only two incidents since Jan 2008 which resulted in downtime).

New Features
July 31st, 2009

We’ve been getting a lot of emails in the past months regarding the invoicing module and requests for new features. As usual, we built the most requested ones. These new features will be live starting the 1st of August. Here’s what’s new: - billed/unbilled time – this new feature will automatically mark time entries as billed after you create an invoice based on them. You no longer have to keep track of which hours you have billed and not billed or re-check previous invoices to see what was already billed and how much you need to bill now. The next time when you will create an invoice for a project using the “Add From Timesheet” button, only the unbilled hours will be included (unless you override that by checking “Exclude Billed Time” in the “Select Report Parameters” popup). Please note that all time entries created before the 1st of August 00:00 GMT will be marked as billed. If you need to invoice prior to that, you will have to uncheck the “Exclude Billed Time” checkbox and select the appropriate the appropriate time interval.

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- custom pricing/hour/task -  You can now use different rates within the same project - clone Invoice – a simple way to create a new invoice based an old one. - user/project associations – On the user profile page, you can now edit the assigned projects list

Paymo Invoicing – update
June 1st, 2009

Starting the 8th of June the Paymo Invoicing module is available as a paid add-on to Paymo Free users. You will be able to create three invoices per month free of charge and an unlimited number of invoices for just $9.99/month. Paymo commercial customers will benefit from the invoicing module at no additional cost.

To add the invoicing add-on to your free account visit the Settings section of your management interface and look for the Add-ons section. Clicking the “Enable” button will take you to PayPal where you can make the payment.

New widget 3.0.5 – available for download
May 11th, 2009

The Paymo 3.0.5 widget is now available for download. Along a couple of bugfixes we added the ability to

  • group/ungroup projects by clients
  • group/ungroup tasks by tasklists

You can do this using the context menu in the Windows try app using the widget settings on Mac. (make sure you hit reload to see the change). The widgets can be downloaded from your management interface from the “Download Desktop Widget” tab.

New widget available for download
April 15th, 2009

A new version of the widget that fixes several bugs that didn’t surface during the beta test is available for download (windows & mac).The widgets can be downloaded from the management interface, full instructions on how to download and install are found on the "Download Dekstop Widget" tab page.

Paymo – the new version is live
April 13th, 2009

Over the past year, you’ve asked us to make some changes to Paymo and we’ve listened. Based on your feedback we’ve re-built our time tracking & invoicing application form the ground up making it more reliable, easier to use & open. Some of the major changes are:

  • multilingual user interface support at user level. The following languages are available:
    • German
    • Spanish
    • Portuguese
    • Dutch
    • Russian
    • Romanian
    • Polish
    • Slovakian
    • Hungarian
    • Mandarin Chinese (simplified & traditional)
  • redesigned user interface
  • employees can now log in to the management interface
  • new employee role – project manager (enables the pm to create reports for the projects they are involved in)
  • the ability to group tasks into task lists
  • new report types are available that offer more control over the information that appears in reports
  • improved invoicing module
  • API

New beta interface – now available
February 9th, 2009

Dear Paymo users,
after a short private beta period we’re releasing today our new beta management interface and time tracker to the public. We would like to thank you yet again for all the feedback you’ve sent us in the past year and we hope the changes that were made to the system will make your work with Paymo more enjoyable. There are a couple of major changes along with minor improvements that we would like you to explore:

- multi-language support (major languages will be available in the coming period).
- new UI
- employees can now log in to the management interface
- ability to assign employees as project managers (enables them to create reports for the projects they are managing)
- the ability to group tasks into task lists
- the new time tracker now groups Projects by Client, and Tasks by Task Group
- new report types are available that offer more control over the information that appears in reports

To access the beta interface please use the following link:
http://YOUR_SUBDOMAIN.beta.paymo.biz/ where you replace YOUR_SUBDOMAIN with your current Paymo subdomain.
Please note that this interface works with your live account!

If you have any questions or suggestions don’t hesitate to contact us.