Yesterday was the day of another release.

This is what we did in the last two weeks:

• fixed fee for projects (in addition to the hourly rate; Premium);
• we started the new FAQ/manual section (http://www.toggl.com/public/faq);
• tweaked/simplified some of the more complex forms (e.g. the project edit form);
• project deletion;
• total and estimated hours with a progress bar in the project list (Premium);
• calculation of the task duration based on start and stop times (task edit view in the timer).

Cheers,

The Toggl Team

It allows you to:

• import projects;
• import clients;
• import team members;
• export tasks.

Please read our FAQ section on Basecamp integration for more details.

Enjoy!

Today I’m writing to tell you a little bit about our Premium subscription – what it is and what benefits it offers. As you might have heard, we now have 4 different Premium plans in addition to the free plan. All the Premium plans have the same functionality. The only difference is in the team size. Check it out: Toggl subscription plans. (Hint: there is a 30-day free trial period)

Anyways, I’m going to tell you about that “something extra” that Premium provides.

Hourly billable rates

Hourly billable rates allow you to assign billable rates to your workspace, clients, projects or project team members. These hourly rates are bound to task durations and therefore allow you to see how much you earned with that particular task. That way you don’t have to take out you calculator and cruch numbers – Toggl will do it for you!

Let me show you:

On this next image you can see your workspace settings. There are two fields that define the billable rates for the whole workspace.

On this next picture you’ll see your client’s settings. You can keep the workspace default rates…

…or define client-specific hourly billable rates by clicking on “Set custom rate”. The same can be done in the list of clients – use workspace default or specify:

The next level is project level. It is possible to enter project-specific billable rate, if it differs from workspace or client rate:

You can also set different rates for team members:

The usefulness of hourly billable rates is apparent when you run reports. See it yourself (click for a larger image):

Next, a sample PDF report (again, click for a larger image; you can also see your custom logo, which I’ll tell you about below):

Download the sample PDF report here: Tasks report

Time rounding in reports

Premium subscription gives you the possibility to round task times up in your reports. For example: if your task duration is 38 minutes and you select the 15-minute rounding option, you’ll get a 45 minute task. When adding up the durations of several tasks, as in the weekly report, the duration of each task is rounded up separately. Possible rounding ranges are: 1, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 30 and 60 minutes. You can also disable this functionality. A screenshot:

Your custom logo

Thanks to the Premium subscription you will be able to personalize your workspace by uploading you own custom logo. It will replace the Toggl logo on the upper-left side of the Toggl main view. Like this:

And of course, your logo is shown in the PDF reports, like I mentioned earlier.

Priority customer service

We answer to all of our users (subscription plan doesn’t matter) feedback. In case you haven’t received an answer from us in a week, it may be due to technical issues. Please try again! Even so, like the title says, our Premium members’ feedback is read and answered first.

Conclusion

As you see, the Premium functionality can be really useful. We have a lot of new functionality in the works, both for free and Premium plans, to make it more attractive and beneficial for our users.

Well, thats it for now. Thank you for reading this post and I hope you try our 30-day FREE trial Premium subscription.

Cheers!

<iframe src=”http://www.toggl.com/timer” style=”width:275px;height:500px;border:none;”></iframe>

http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=decker.christian.googlepages.com/toggl-timer.xml

Log in with your Toggl username and password, set the first day of the week and let’s get started.

To start tracking time you have 2 options:

• Click on the task name below – Toggl continues tracking for this task.
• Click on the project name below – Toggl creates a new task for the project. You can enter the description of the task in the box as usual.

Once the task is running, you can start or stop the timer by clicking on the good old Toggl button

Now, if you want to change task details, you can click on the Edit link in the running task box. This will open up the editing view, where you can change everything about the task (similar to Toggl web).

After editing the task, click on Save.

Enjoy, and please don’t hesitate to give us feedback!

Let’s get to it then. For example, let’s close the Application design project for Small client.

To do that, you must first click on the project name. This will open up the Edit project view.

Here click on the Close project button which will pop up a confirmation question.

And you’re done! The project is closed and hidden from view.

Now if you wish to see your closed projects, click on the Show inactive projects link and there you have it.

From the Edit project view you can reopen the project, too, if necessary. And that’s all there is to it

Step one – you need an open task. It doesn’t matter if it’s running or not.

Step two, click on the time (either running or stopped). This is what you should see. Click on the Stop the time link and let’s continue.

Step three. Enter the new time for the task. Easiest is to use 23 for 23 minutes, or 1,5 for 1:30 hours. You can enter time in many ways – more formats are described in the FAQ.

Final step – Press Enter or click anywhere on the screen to save the entry. That’s it!