Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches

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Bonding Remotely

It’s time to face the music: the world has changed. As one of our users put it: “Uncertainty ahead!!”, and it’s true. We don’t know where we’ll be by the end of the year. We don’t even know when we’ll be able to get back to our offices!But until we do, teams are still working together ...

Team Collaboration 3 min read

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New Project Budgeting Types

They’re finally here! New budgeting types have been released to everyone, and we know some of you have been eagerly expecting them. Time is money, so we won’t waste any of it, but rather get down to business right away.Three is the magic numberBefore: no budgeting types, you could only choose whether ...

Product 2 min read

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Billable or Not? Set as Default!

We’ve been keeping you updated on every step we take, month after month, in our monthly recaps. The latest features we’ve been working on required a lot of sweeping up, or as we like to call it, “spring-cleaning”. The team made many changes to the time tracking process, with a particular goal ...

Product 3 min read

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90-Day Trial, Time Tracking Enhancements, Uptime

March has been an incredible month for us and the world. The pandemic has spread rapidly and forced us to change the way we work. The office was closed up, and we all started working remotely full-time. It took us a few days to adjust, but we carried on as usual.A summary of what we’ve been up to is ...

Recaps 2 min read

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ActiveCollab, the Time Saver - Flyte Creative Media

My name is Sarah Griffin, and I’m Managing Director and Producer at Flyte Creative Media. We’re based on the South Coast in the UK, and we operate globally.My role within the business is managing the business as a whole and then also working individually on separate projects. So for me, it’s really ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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ActiveCollab Personal Timesheet

Have you heard? We’ve been working on Timesheets! In our previous posts, we’ve been talking about the (Team) Timesheet, while we’d like to get on a more Personal note now.It’s important to know where your team’s time goes, but it’s crucial to be aware of your own whereabouts in a time continuum ...

Product 2 min read

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Personal Timesheet, Time Report Custom Date Range

Our monthly recap is here! This time you’ll be reading about:Personal timesheetHistorical internal hourly ratesCustom date range in the Time reportPersonal TimesheetLet’s start with the Personal Timesheet. You’ll find it in the My Work > My Time section, the main difference is it won’t be empty ...

Recaps 2 min read

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ActiveCollab Experiments!

Experiment [noun] - “A procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.”Before you even start thinking about performing an experiment, its value must ...

Project Management 3 min read

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The F Company - A Breath of Fresh Air

I’m David Blinov from Helsinki, Finland. Three years ago I founded The F Company with the mission of bringing innovative marketing technology closer to customers. Today, we are one of the leading B2B Growth Marketing agencies, helping companies grow revenue with measurable marketing.Our approach relies ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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New Plant - From Spreadsheets to Efficiency

My name is Dragan and I'm the Team Leader of the Sales department. We’re an e-commerce company that sells goods in many EU marketplaces, such as Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and many more.Before we started using ActiveCollab, we used to organize ourselves mostly by using emails and spreadsheets.More ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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New Time Reports, Sidebar Collapse, Timesheet, Internal Hourly Rates

It's time for another monthly recap! Here's a shortlist of our January updates:New Time ReportsCollapse sidebarTimesheetInternal hourly ratesProject Profitability overviewTrial accounts in your own languagePhew, that’s quite a list. If you’re interested in more details, keep reading!New Time ReportsWe’ve ...

Recaps 3 min read

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The Future of ActiveCollab Release Notes

ActiveCollab 1.0 was released more than twelve years ago, and we have documented a detailed list of changes for almost all releases since then. Despite that heritage and experience, it has become tough to map a particular set of changes to a particular version in the past couple of months.Our development ...

Product 5 min read