You can link your account to the following payment gateways:

• Authorize.net
• Google Checkout
• PayPal
• PayPal Website Payments Pro
• PayPal Payflow Pro

Why the redesign?

We tried to create a cleaner design and a friendlier user interface. Most of our focus was on making it simple to post new ideas, questions and bugs. You no longer need an extra username and password to post on the community. In the past due to the fact that we used a third party service for this (GetSatisfaction) the whole process was more painful for our users and we had no control over the experience.

Now, once you’re logged in to your Paymo account you can simply start posting and commenting in the community. You can also do it directly from your Paymo account without leaving it via the feedback widget.
As before, the community is structured around the concepts of new ideas, problems, questions and thank you notes. If there’s a comment or an idea that you agree with you can up-vote it, more votes mean more chances that the feature will be implemented. All previously submitted topics have been moved to the new system, however we could not retain the user associations.

We hope that with the launch of our new support tool we will be even closer to our users and we’ll be able to offer better and faster support. If you have any questions or notice any problems let us know.

To use it head to the Company Settings (settings wheel icon, top right of the screen) > Integrations > Basecamp New page. Here you will be able to proceed with the sync:

• Process all projects (this might take a while if you have a lof of projects)
• Process projects modified since last sync (this is fast and is recommended sync method)

College is a period in your life when you need to balance education with fun “time wasters”. Nowadays, even as a student you need to start managing time if you want to be successful.

Why do you need time management?

Your schedule gets more crowded, you want to enjoy college life, go to classes, study and maybe even get a job, having a grip on your time is crucial. You have a limited number of hours to accomplish everything you have to do. Here’s some advice we’ve gathered from Paymo users who used the app during their collage years to stay on top of things:

• prioritize: some classes are more important than others, choose the ones you want to attend wisely and don’t bite more than you can chew
• always have a plan: map out what you need to get done, create a list of tasks that you have to do and be realistic – Rome wasn’t built in a day
• keep track of how you’re spending time: there’s no shame in using a timer to see how long lunch or other routine activities take
• set up milestones: you need something you can report to, so you won’t have any surprises down the way. That means have expectations, before the semester starts decide on the lowest point average you’re willing to have and even improve it along the way
• persistence is the key: these things take time and practice, if you set your mind to it, you will get better and better, your life will seem less crowded and your grades won’t suffer
• eliminate time wasters: you might have unproductive habits that just waste your time and make you fall behind schedule. Sure, there might be all kind of parties going on all the time but don’t lose track of your goals.
• relax and enjoy your free time: there are times when it’s just better to take a breather, relax & clear your mind.

Other tips and tricks

• You might study more efficiently at 2 a.m. than you do all day. Find out when you’re most efficient and use that time to your advantage.
• Optimize your time. If you’re doing long commutes, use that time to read.
• Prepare ahead of time. if your exam or paper is due in 2 weeks, don’t start working on it a day before the deadline, you can do a little each day and the stress levels won’t be that high.
• Do homework and projects with friends. The social factor will help you maintain relationships alive and although it might take longer, it will make work more fun.
• You need to exercise. Going to the gym or playing sports will relax your mind and keep your body fit.
• PRO TIP

Up until now you were only able to share invoices with your clients via email or permalinks. Now, your clients will be able to login securely to the client portal and view all their invoice history in one place. To give access to your clients simply edit their record and click on the “Has Access” checkbox to create their user account. The login information can be emailed to your client directly from Paymo.

We also have some exciting features for reports. The reporting module has been redesigned and some new concepts were introduced:

• Private & shared reports from now on you will be able to share reports with your clients, the shared reports will show up in the client portal. You will also be able to share reports with clients via permalinks just like invoices
• Static reports offer you a snapshot of your timesheet data at a particular moment in time. This is the type of report that was generated until now by the old reporting module. All these reports can now be stored forever in Paymo for yourself or your clients.
• Live reports offer you up to date information about your timesheets, they are generated each time someone views the live report. If you share live reports with your clients they will be able to see live progress for their projects as work gets done. (if you’ve used Presets in the past please convert these to live reports, presets will be phased out in the near future).
• Redesigned reports module - we streamlined the layout of the report creation page and introduced a report page list view for easy access to your stored reports.

We hope you will enjoy these new features, if you have any questions or feedback please comment here or use the contact form on our website.

UPDATE:
We’ve introduced two new features that allows you to “Edit/Save” and “Save As” any report you create. It seems that our decision to not introduce these features was a rushed decision that made some people unhappy with the new reporting tool. After receiving a lot of constructive feedback (thank you!) we quickly took the decision to build the editing features. 

Acknowledging the problem

We see a lot of people that struggle with time management and have a tough time accepting the fact that they have a problem. It might sound silly but that’s the first important step, to acknowledge that you have a problem – that you don’t manage your time as you should. This is the first step where people tend to get stuck and refuse to accept reality.

What’s next?

After you acknowledge your problem, you need to find out where all your time gets lost. As a Paymo Plus user myself, I have to admit that keeping track of your time could be scary at first. You’re living with the impression that you work a lot and you just don’t seem to have enough time for all your tasks, but time tracking might just change that.

I’ll let you in on a little secret, you might not work as much as you think, you’re just not being as productive as you could be and you’re certainly not optimizing your time. If you diligently keep track of your time you will find out where and what you’re wasting it on.

Don’t multitask unless you really have to

Nowadays everything has multitasking built in – our computers multitask, our phones multitask, even we multitask by talking on the phone, eating and getting things done while driving. We tend to do that in every area of our life. As research shows If multitasking becomes your way of life it can be damaging in the long term, and it won’t help you get things done.

To get control over your multitasking you need to map out your to do’s, have some milestones and focus on individual tasks. Doing lots of tasks at the same time will wear you out and the quality of your work will suffer.

Keep track of improvements & optimize

To optimize your time management, you need to check how you’ve improved. The best thing is to check how you’re doing compared to last week and last month and strive to optimize your time and workflow as much as you can.

Having realistic milestones each month will help a great deal, but most importantly you need to be patient with the whole process. it’s impossible to get from no time management to being a time management guru.

Don’t burn yourself out

After a while you will notice that your system works and you’ll start to have some spare time. Enjoy it, don’t get involved in more work use the time to relax and recharge your batteries! Always remember – wise tracking pays more.

Everything on the map is 100% anonymized. The page can be reached at http://status.paymo.biz – it should help anyone having connection issues know if the problem is on their end or not

• no more messing around with CSV files if you work with Excel. You can now export any report directly into the Microsoft Office Excel format
• for all Google Apps users we’ve enabled direct exports for reports & invoices to Google Docs in PDF format
• you can now add internal notes to your invoices and all your invoice payments
• we’ve expanded the backup functionality to include task comments, discussions and invoices
• invoicing now supports Quebec tax rates

If you have any questions about the new features please let us know!

This offer is available to all Paymo users. Whether you have recently signed up for Paymo or you are a long time user, you can get the discount for 123ContactForm by signing up with the promo code below:

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

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!