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Costlocker 2021 Update: Acquisition and future plans
👋 Hello everyone, it's David here, nice to meet you. Let me briefly introduce myself and share some insights about what has been going on with Costlocker and what the future plans are.
New business perspectives for your company
When you wanted to know which of your employees earned their salary, you needed developers, our API documentation, and a few hours of work to produce a report. From now on, you can easily create the report yourself in a few clicks and have all the answers in a matter of seconds. Experimental reports will provide you with a much more detailed business overview of your company.
Major Costlocker improvements coming up
New ways of creating cost estimates in Costlocker will be available soon.
The future of digital agencies
Have you built a successful digital agency? You should be already thinking about what to do differently in order to survive in the future. The only certainty is change, and we’ve written up 4 trends about the future and the changes of the agency business.
Download Costlocker desktop time tracking on MAC
You can now download the time-tracking desktop application for Mac.
How to conduct #SaaS customers interviews
There’s a number of reasons why we NEED to build a new Costlocker:
Rules for using Costlocker at our digital agency 2FRESH
We developed Costlocker from the needs of our digital agency 2FRESH. A cloud based application for time and profitability tracking on projects. The reason was simple: we didn’t want to spend hours and hours gauging the profitability of our projects. Read our story
Retainers fee — feature update!
We have created a new function that will come in handy for all those who use recurring projects. You can now open future months manually.
What is new at Costlocker and how we got started
These years gave us a lot and cost us a lot. Some things remained though — passion and perseverance. The experience we gained cannot be bought for money, researched in books or listened to at conferences..
How to integrate Costlocker with Basecamp
You know how it is. You need to give people work attach the assignment, source files and discuss the progress of the project with them and the client. There are many great tools that can take care of all this. One of these is Basecamp.
Retainers fee — new feature is here!
Do you bill clients for your work on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis? Then you will love this new function of recurring projects. We will automatically create a new project for you at the start of each time period defined by you. This will save you lots of time.
The end of managing agencies in Excel is coming
Excel is one of the most commonly used tools in the agency business. It is used for all sorts of things, from project records to creating price calculations to tracking company cash flow.
Timesheet, Time tracking, Project budgeting and more new improvements
We have prepared several Costlocker improvements based on your suggestions, which is why we believe they will help you in your everyday work.
NEW features in Costlocker
Up ‘till now, when you selected BILLABLE and WEBSITE tags, you were presented with projects that were flagged with at least one of those. Now, you are able to find projects flagged by both tags, or even leave out projects with specific tags
NEW in Costlocker — the improvements of the Rates tab
See your total hourly costs per employee and compare it to how much you sell their hours for on particular projects.
