The Paymo Android app allows you to easily track your time while on the go. It can be used during client meetings or while you’re mobile. Whether your team members have iPhones or Android phones, everyone will be able to track time while on the go.

Paymo Android Time Tracking features:

• time entries are kept with start and end times
• add your time using a stopwatch or manually enter time
• edit and review your existing time sheets
• works offline and syncs to your online account when a connection becomes available

You can download the Paymo Android App here!

We’d like to apologize to all our Android users for the repeated delays in launching the app. We didn’t have in-house skills to build the app and had a couple of bad experiences with 3rd party developers, however the guys at Mobiversal did a good job and managed to get it done. We hope you’ll enjoy the app!

One of the greatest problems people encounter when they try and get into time tracking is the need to stop and start the timer to switch between projects. Some people find it adds too much work to their day, and others just don’t remember to maintain the timer between tasks. With PaymoPlus, we’re introducing new technology that changes that.

PaymoPlus tracks your time for you automatically. At the end of the day, you can see exactly how much time you spent doing what at a glance. PaymoPlus accomplishes this by recording not just which application you’re using, but the file or browser tab as well, ensuring detailed, incredibly granular information is recorded so that you don’t miss out on getting paid for a single minute of client time.

At the end of the day, you can simply drag and drop your tracked time into the right project baskets. Or you can automate the process even further by using the fantastic PaymoPlus rule filtering system, which allows you to tell the app which files or apps to associate with which projects. If you’re spending big chunks of time in a specific Photoshop file for that big redesign, you don’t have to worry about constantly sorting your time, for example.

Just as with our widgets, PaymoPlus allows you to use Paymo’s time tracking technology whether you’re online or offline. As long as PaymoPlus is open and recording it will save time even if you’re offline. Next time you go online you will be able to sync everything up.

We work hard to give users an option for every scenario. PaymoPlus joins a line of tools that make time tracking easy in any situation, including desktop widgets for Windows and Mac OS X, browser add-ons for Firefox, and Safari, and mobile applications. Paymo also features integration with Google Apps, Basecamp, KashFlow, Xero and QuickBooks.

PaymoPlus will work for both free and premium Paymo users, and can be downloaded here.

That’s why we’re announcing the launch of QuickBooks integration in Paymo. Starting now, you can import and export information between Paymo and QuickBooks. For many of you who use QuickBooks already, this will be insanely useful — no more manually moving data back and forth. For many businesses, this is the perfect opportunity to fire up a free account, start tracking time, and get it all into QuickBooks where your accounts already are.

“We’re here to help all QuickBooks customers who are disappointed by Intuit’s decision to drop support for their time tracking apps. Since time tracking is at the core of many businesses, we understand the necessity of a fast and smooth transition to a new system. That’s why we created a simple solution that will get you back to work in no time,” said Jan Lukacs, Paymo’s CEO.

Here’s what you can do with Paymo’s QuickBooks integration:

• Export clients, projects, task lists, tasks, users and time entries from Paymo to QuickBooks.
• Import clients, projects, task lists, tasks and invoices from QuickBooks to Paymo.

QuickBooks Time Tracking integration is available to all users, on all plans including the free tier, right now. To turn the feature on, simply log in to your control panel, go to Company Settings, and then to the Integrations section. QuickBooks integration currently has a Beta label on it and as such we encourage users to provide feedback and let us know about any problems you may encounter.

3 am – 4 am CDT (US) or
11 am – 12 am CET (Europe).

This work will require a system reboot during which your Paymo account will not function. Anyone using the Paymo widget or PaymoPlus 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.

For any questions don’t hesitate to contact us!

• Added support for checking for updates: automatically and manually from the menu
• Added sync button between projects and time entries filters
• Better network error handling.
• Support for connecting through proxy.

You can download the new release here:

• PaymoPlus 1.0.6 for Windows
• PaymoPlus 1.0.6 for Mac

• Small interface redesign
• Bug fixed which prevented the app from running on some systems (which we think fixes also the “proxy” issue)
• Ability to filter the Projects/Tasks tree which helps when there is a big list

We’ll also be releasing a Linux version in the near future, stay tuned!

If you’re already using PaymoPlus ver. 1.0.3 please follow the steps below before upgrading:

1. Stop PaymoPlus
2. Find the files paymoplus.ini and paymoplus.sqlite and copy them to a different directory. If you find files in both Program Files and here usersUSERNAMEappDataLocalPaymoPlus than copy the files from the appData folder
3. Uninstall the current version of PaymoPlus 1.0.3 (to be safe, delete the PaymoPlus directory from Program files)
4. Download and install version 1.0.5
5. Open “Help > About Paymo …” and see where the new version keeps its .ini and .sqlite files.
6. Stop PaymoPlus
7. Copy the files that you saved at step #2 to the new location where the program expects them to be (it’s ok to overwrite the existing ones)

You can download the app at the following links:

• PaymoPlus 1.0.5 for Windows
• PaymoPlus 1.0.5 for Mac

When it comes to time tracking, some of us are lucky enough to work on 2-10 tasks a day. In cases like that, the Paymo Desktop Widget is a perfect fit, you just change the task and click the start button.
What happens if you have to switch between tasks every couple of minutes? Time tracking in this case becomes a pain and however conscious you may be, you will stop tracking time.
If you find yourself in this situation we think we can help out!

For this purpose we’ve designed PaymoPlus:

PaymoPlus - Time Tracker

This is a typical usage scenario for the app:

After you start PaymoPlus, it will record the title of all windows that are in foreground. At the end of the day you will have a list of all the windows you opened during the day, grouped by application (or grouped by hour – section #2) in the section #3.
To tell PaymoPlus that the ammount of time you spent in Firefox is related to “Paymo > Development > Import/Backup” you just drag “Firefox” from section #3 over the task (Import/Backup) in section #2. Of course you can be more detailed and “expand” the Firefox node and drag over only the specific entries that relate to a particular task.
Once you do that, the entries that were show in section #2 will be uploaded to the Paymo server (backend) as entries and they will move to section #4 (Entries linked with Paymo)

While testing PaymoPlus in our daily routine we noticed that you go through a lot of unique window titles (which is the basic unit when tracking time this way) during a day, some times more then a hundred. It would be very difficult to link each window with a particular task. To solve this we added the “Filter” box in section #2.

Suppose you worked today on the Import/Backup feature for Paymo and you want to filter out the entries that were related to that activity in Notepad++. You would enter “notepad paymo import”, click “Apply” and the #3 section will show only the window titles that contain all those words. In most of the cases all i have to do is “select all” items from section #3 and drag them over to section #1
Most of the time this procedure will help you make the links between items in section #3 and tasks in section #1 for over 90% of your time in just a few minutes.

When using PaymoPlus, all you have to do to track your time is spend 5 minutes at the end of the day and match window titles to your project/task structure.
Even when you forget to do that, you can always come back to it later the next day (or week) and you’ll still be able to do it. To remind you that you missed some steps, the calendar in section #2 will underline the dates that have items in section #3 that are not linked to tasks.

• If you want to add a description to a particular entry, hold Ctrl while dragging the items, this will display a popup that will let you enter the description.
• You can also link entries by right clicking on an entry and select Link Time With Task
• To add a tasklist or task, you right click it’s parent element and select “Add Tasklist” or “Add Task”
• You can add specific Applications (like Winamp) to the ignore list, right click and select “Exclude Application”
• If the Project/Task structure has changed on the server, you can click View > Refresh Projects

We hope you find this application useful and we’d love to get your feedback!

You can Download PaymoPlus for Windows here.

You can Download PaymoPlus for Mac here.

Update: To better understand how PaymoPlus posts time to Paymo please read this thread.

* Napoleon was believed  to be brilliant at multi-tasking.  While emperor, he would often arrange a dozen secretaries around him and dictate a dozen letters simultaneously.

Here’s a list of new features that were added:

• you can now edit a time entry directly from the Reports page
• administrators are now able to edit time entries of  their employees from their account
• ID selectors were added to the invoice html to help with CSS customization
• now you can sync your Paymo milestones with Basecamp
• employees can now edit only their own tasks
• emails sent from Paymo can now be setup to come from your company email account (advanced feature)
• different formats for currencies
• you are now able to sync your Paymo invoices with Xero

We’ll start with one of the most requested features from our user community, the ability to create recurring invoices. We’ve tried to make this process straight forward and as easy as possible.

When you need to create a recurring invoice you should go to the Recurring section under Invoices and click on the Add Recurring Profile or simply add a new invoice in the system and click on the “Recurring” checkbox on the top of the invoice.
Having done this will allow you to set the following parameters:

• Start Date – the start date of your recurring profile
• Frequency – you can set the frequency to weekly, every 2 or 4 weeks, monthly, every 2 – 3 – 6 months or yearly
• Occurrences – the number of occurrences for the recurring profile. (you can leave it empty if you want them to be created forever)
• Send Automatically – you have to option to send the invoice automatically to your clients email address set up in Paymo

If you receive recurring payments this feature will make your life a lot easier and you’ll only have to worry about getting paid!

The other features we’ve recently introduced deal with collaboration and managing projects. We’ve added functionality that allows you to comment on any task in the system, you can now share your thoughts and project information with your team mates easily.
Managing tasks is now easier using the new “due date” and “assigned to” filters that will help you find and prioritize tasks. Tied to this we’ve added color coding that will highlight tasks based on their due date.

We hope you’ll enjoy the new features and we welcome your feedback on the blog, via mail or our customer support portal.

Before using this plugin, you’ll need to set your API key, username and password in plugin’s Options. The API key can be found easily in your Paymo account on the Company Settings page. This plugin adds a small statusbar icon to your browser. You can track your time using the popup menus which can be accessed by left/right clicking on it.

While the current version doesn’t give you the possibility to add or edit the projects and tasks, future versions might include these as well.

Here are some screenshots of the plugin in action:

You can download and install this plugin from the Mozilla Add-ons page. Also, you can check out the source, fork it on Github and make your own changes to it. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

About the author:

This plugin was created and released as open-source by Valentin Agachi, an experienced web developer. For the past years, Valentin has worked on both front-end and back-end development over at CodingHeads, providing services like layout conversion to XHTML/HTML5/CSS code and custom WordPress themes development.