90-Day Trial, Time Tracking Enhancements, Uptime

By ActiveCollab Team 2 min read
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 as follows:

  • ActiveCollab is now free for 90 days for all new users
  • We’ll split the cost for every new user added to an existing account
  • All our Self-Hosted users got an update including the latest features
  • Preparations for a new Projects form, and new budgeting types
  • Personal Timesheet and in-line edit
  • Preparations for a new time record adding form
  • Short downtime issues

90 days free

The key points are: we’ve extended the trial period from 14 to 90 days, trying to help out teams that suddenly need to work from home. Hopefully, three months will be enough for everyone to adjust and adapt to the new circumstances. Also, we sincerely do hope the storm will blow over by then.


Our existing customers have not been forgotten. For every new member, we’ll split the cost! This offer is valid while we’re all affected by the pandemic.

Spring cleaning

Spring has officially started in the Northern Hemisphere, and so in ActiveCollab. We’ve been preparing the field for some changes.
Modifications have been made to the Projects form, and this will give us more options later on, as we’re getting ready for some new budgeting types. 

This means we’ll also be adjusting our invoices. No worries, though. These modifications won’t impact your system without permission! Notifications will also be enabled, alerting you if the budget is about to be spent.

Time tracking enhancements

Time tracking has been improved significantly. In-line editing of time records, job types, and billable/non-billable status has been enabled, and we’re eager to hear your thoughts on it.

We’re working on implementing the option to set time records by default as billable or not, on a project level. One worry less for Members! And less space for potential errors. Let the Owners take care of the default options, and enter your time records without thinking about their billable-ness.

Downtime

This will be a new section in our monthly recaps from now on, as it’s something we’d like to be very open about. Our uptime record has been mostly impeccable so far this year. In fact, January was at 99.93% uptime, and there was no interruption of service in February.


March, on the other hand, was not so good - only 99.69% uptime. An incident with our database cluster caused the reason for this drop. Due to network issues, half of the cluster became instantly unavailable. Upon losing quorum, the cluster became unavailable to the application. The team reverted to a single server operation to restore operability and started seeding a new cluster from there.

This incident resulted in no data loss. We’re rebuilding the cluster and working on distributing nodes to more networks, so the issues in one network wouldn’t cause multiple nodes to become unavailable and the cluster to lose quorum again.

Coming up

Our Self-Hosted users recently got an update, which includes Profitability, Internal hourly rates, and Timesheet. Soon they will receive another update, so stay tuned!

As you can see, March has been a month of preparations and sprucing up the system for some important changes. It will all make sense in April when we set up new budgeting types and enable default billable statuses. Till then, stay safe! 

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  2. Default Billable Status, New Project Budgeting Types, Duplicate Task Lists
  3. New Time Reports, Sidebar Collapse, Timesheet, Internal Hourly Rates
  4. Refurbished My Work, Notification Bell EAP, Invoice QR Code
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  6. Personal Timesheet, Time Report Custom Date Range
  7. In-app Chat Introduction, Default Client Visibility, Stopwatch Project Name
  8. My Work EAP, Storage Add-on, Self-hosted ActiveCollab 7.0
  9. Default Budget Alert Percentage, Task Improvements
  10. Column View Improvements, Budget Alerts, Availability-based Date Picker
  11. Refreshed Column View, Project Stopwatch, Get Paid Free Tryout
  12. 90-Day Trial, Time Tracking Enhancements, Uptime
  13. ActiveCollab Monthly Updates: December 2019
  14. Timeline View Improvements, Future Workload Planning, Project to Template
  15. Project Timesheet and Stopwatch
  16. New Comment Options and Time Estimates’ Visibility
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  18. Upgraded Editor, Activity Grouping
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  22. ActiveCollab 8.0: My Work and Estimates
  23. ActiveCollab 8.0: People Page and Subtasks
  24. ActiveCollab 8.0: Subtask Due Date and Batch Edit
  25. Improved Invitations and Expense Tab
  26. Subtask’s Due Date, People Page Improvements, Comment to Task, and Duplicate Notes
  27. Default Tax Rates, Invoice Taxes, Comment Time&Date
  28. List View and Task Filtering
  29. Group Tasks by Start Date, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View
  30. Improved Search Bar, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View
  31. Storage Info, ActiveCollab 8.0: Time Indicators
  32. ActiveCollab 8.0: Upcoming Early Access Program
  33. ActiveCollab 8.0: Improved Search and Task Navigation
  34. Self-Hosted Upgrade, ActiveCollab 8.0: Enhanced Search Page and Subscribers List
  35. ActiveCollab 8.0: User Card, Pin Discussions
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  38. Recurring Tasks on Workload and Custom Availability
  39. Custom Availability and Time Tracking Limits
  40. Two-factor Authentication and Time Tab Improvements
  41. Intuitive Task List Reorder, New Task Filters, Magic Link Login
  42. Task Filters, Batch Editing, Project Progress Bar, Overview of Completed Tasks
  43. Template Start Date, New Project Header, Mobile App Stopwatch, Notification Scheduling
  44. Apply Template, G-drive & Dropbox Attachments Previews, Quick Chat Reactions
  45. New Project Icons, Increased Mobile App Speed
  46. ActiveCollab Annual Updates: 2021
  47. Completed Projects Tab, Clickable Timesheet, Mobile App Reminders
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  49. New Projects Page Header, Chat Reactions, Company Days Off
  50. In-app Chat Launched, Mobile App People Page
  51. Past Workload, Attachment UI Improvements, In-app Chat EAP
  52. New Mobile App Launched, In-app Chat Custom Groups
  53. In-app Chat Improvements, In-app Reminder Notification, Mobile App Beta Testing
  54. Browser Notifications, Task Dependencies Improvements, In-app Chat EAP
  55. ActiveCollab Annual Updates: 2020
  56. New Mention Types, New Task Menu

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