Build Notes 1.3.2996

Posted Friday March 18th 2022

Additions:

  •  A new setting has been added for photo and file management. You can now give a basic user permission to access photos, files, and comments on a Project Level and not just the task level. This can improve communications between ALL of your team members on a job and make more information available to selected employees.

Remodeled:

  • Account admins will not be able to be removed as users in Projul. This will ensure your company’s data is even more secured and kept in your hands as an owner.

  • Tasks for Days Off are no longer displayed on the project timeline. This will make the project schedule cleaner and easier to understand.

Repaired:

  • Estimates syncing to Quickbooks as expected.
  • Improvements to the speed of syncing items to Quickbooks.
  • Multi Day and multi user tasks are now consistent across different browser types.
  • Improved display on the mobile app’s lead pipeline, removing overlaps. 
  • All change order signatures are now displayed and stored as expected.
  • When an estimate has received over 100% payment, it now displays in the “paid” estimate and invoice filter.

Build Notes 1.3.2906

Posted Friday March 11th 2022

Additions:

  •  When creating an invoice, the customer will see a subtotal as well as the total once tax has been applied. This will help you and your customers understand what you are charging them versus the taxes that need to be paid.

Remodeled:

  • A new setting allows you to determine if materials are being synced to Quickbooks online. This gives you more control over your syncing functionality!

Repaired:

  • Improved experience when using the safari browser for scheduling.
  • When in the scheduling month view, unassigned user and other task updates function as expected. 
  • Improved experience when using the “next action button of the lead pipeline.
  • Time off tasks in the calendar view are displaying the correct hours schedule for your employees.
  • When you remove an estimate section, it removes all associated fields, as expected.
  • Downloading a photo or file with a “#” in the name, works as expected.


Build Notes 1.3.2820

Posted on Friday, March 4th 2022

Remodeled:

  • In the lead pipeline, as a user viewing a lead’s task list, the information in the list has been remodeled so you can read and interpret the information quickly and accurately.

  • An update to the overdue invoices report has been created! If an invoice is not connected to a project, it will still display in this report. Now all of your invoice data can be accessed from one location! 

Repaired:

  • Repeating tasks are being scheduled as expected and no longer booking as “next day tasks”.
  • Improved performance when adding notes to a time log.
  • Functionality of pay rates being displayed on the time log report has been improved.

Build Notes 1.3.2207

Posted on Friday, February 25th 2022

Additions:

  •  Update to photo and file storage! You can now choose to manage photos and files on the project level. This setting can give access to all the photos and files on a job to your employees instead of just the tasks they are assigned to.

Remodeled:

  • The project WIP report has added descriptions and tool tips! This will give you a better understanding of what information is being displayed and fed into this report, and further display the progress of a job’s finances.

  • On the project budgeting page, you will now be able to see “hours estimated” “hours scheduled” and “hours recorded” on the labor items you are estimating for. This will give you a clear understanding of your labor budgets in real time at any stage of the project!

Repaired:

  • Improvements to invoice and estimates sending permissions, when you change parent settings, dependent settings will be updated as well.
  • Multiple photos can be added to invoices, estimates, and change orders with the expected performance.
  • When a change order has been created, lead cards will display this information properly.

Build Notes 1.3.1526

Posted on Friday February 18th 2022

Additions:

  •  A new report has been created! The project WIP report is now live. This report shows you a to-date list of financial information for a project in progress. This will display information such as actual and estimated cost, percentage complete, and earned and actual revenue! 

Remodeled:

  • You can now assign colors to new leads! This will allow you to organize and color code your potential jobs. You can make these edits in the project editor tab.

Repaired:

  • Improved performance when hours tracked are applied to the job costing page.
  • Taxes are functioning as expected when comparing estimates and invoices.

Build Notes 1.3.1029

Posted on Friday, February 11th 2022

Additions:

  •  We are excited for our new job costing and budgeting page! This will include improvements to tracking actual expenses and updates in real time to better understand the remaining budget, and projected profits in real time. You can access this budgeting page on the 9-dot menu of your projects tab, or within the estimate editor. 

Remodeled:

  • A new update to dragging and dropping estimated cost lines on mobile devices has been released. This will improve performance and functionality when moving cost lines via drag and drop.

Repaired:

  • Previous payments are now displayed on the print preview of an Invoice.
  • When payroll settings are set to the 1st and 15th of the month, time is added as expected and includes all days for the pay period.
  • Multi day tasks can be marked as completed and now visually updates each of the previous days tasks. 
  • Improved display of the print preview on an estimate.
  • When you remove a user after adding them multiple times, they only need to perform this action once.
  • Improved performance when marking a task as complete. 
  • Live map views load quickly and as expected.

 

Build Notes 1.3.0833

Posted on Friday, February 4th 2022

Remodeled:

  •  When creating a new account, the default setting for pay rates will show regular, sick, and vacation time. This will allow you to easily add additional pay rates or select from the pre-created options above. You can set and add new pay rates from the employee and company settings.

  • When you change the name of a file in one location, it will now update automatically across other locations within the system. This will eliminate the need to enter changes into two places!

Repaired:

  • Customers based in the USA can now accept payments from Canadian based customers. 
  • Hours tracked and dollar amounts applied are functioning as expected within the budgeting and job costing page.
  • Line item prices on an estimate that display “price for customer” are now displayed properly.
  • Improved experience when adding decimal points to a line item.
  • Enhanced performance for Android mobile app, remembering the page you left, faster loading of data, and location settings all have been updated.
  • Dragging a lead from “on hold” to “to revise” works as expected.
  • Filtering and searching functionality has been enhanced and works as expected throughout the estimate section and lead pipeline.

Build Notes 1.3.0800

Posted on Friday, January 28th 2022

Remodeled:

  • Time log settings and displays have been enhanced.
    •  Now a Basic user must have permission to edit time logs to update pay rates. 
    • A field for the wage value of a pay rate  has been added and can be edited per time log.
    • The time log rollup shows regular and overtime hours as well as pay rates.
    • If you are a payroll user, you can set overtime rate modifiers for your pay items.

Repaired:

  • Clock in functionality performance has been improved and prevents clocking into multiple tasks at the same time. 
  • When a WePay payment is recorded, the invoice is marked as paid.
  • Exporting performance has been improved when exporting customers, leads and projects.

Build Notes 1.2.9982

Posted on Friday, January 21st 2022

Additions:

  •  We are excited to announce new functionality with pay rates! You can now set custom pay rate names, types and default rates on a company level, and specify on the user level as well. We have also added additional options with overtime rules that give you the ability to specify overtime multipliers per pay rate. When managing time logs and pay rates, you now have much more flexibility, and now Projul’s pay rates will match the pay rate format of Quickbooks, improving the syncing capabilities between the two systems.

Remodeled:

  • When adding a photo to an estimate or invoice, the format has been remodeled. This will display the photos in a way that is easier for customers to see, and adds an extra level or professionalism to the photo’s appearance.

  • A remodel of the invoice “overall estimate progress” section has been enhanced! This section at the bottom of your invoice is now titled “project financials to date”. This is a company setting that can be turned on or off, and will provide more clarity to what the financial information that your invoice is displaying.

Repaired:

  • Consistent display for date headers in the schedule views.
  • When a user edits someone else’s time log, and that user is clocked in, they will stay clocked in.
  • When a lead is deleted, it is no longer included in the lead export page.

Build Notes 1.2.9982

Posted on Friday, January 14th 2022

Remodeled:

  • When you change a pay rate on a time log that has been converted into overtime, you will now receive a prompt warning you about the change.

  • A redesign of invoices now makes it more clear that you can edit the customer and company info in the header of an invoice. You can now make easy adjustments to any invoice you create.

Repaired:

  • Improved performance when converting time to overtime on the time logs page.
  • Searching and applying pay rates functions as expected. Selecting a payroll item populates the “pay item” field with the name of the item.

Build Notes 1.2.9905

Posted on Friday, January 7th 2022

Remodeled:

  • A redesign of invoices now makes it more clear that you can edit the customer and company info in the header of an invoice. You can now make easy adjustments to any invoice you create.
  • When viewing a document through the portal link, you can now see the project name and address. This allows you to see more information at a quick glance when working in the documents section.

Repaired:

  • Improved the performance of the estimate editor on google chrome, drag and drop has been improved.
  • When a task is associated with the project after time has been tracked, the information on the time logs displays properly.

Build Notes 1.2.9890

Posted on Thursday, December 30th 2021

Additions:

  • Added the ability to create negative line items in estimates and change orders on iOS devices.

Remodeled:

  • Added the ability to filter by ‘teams’ or ‘groups’ on the daily time log page.

Repaired:

  • Headers for print previews will display as expected.
  • Total number of comments on a project lead or project will calculate and display as expected.
  • Time logs recorded within the ‘Project Budget – Job Costing’ page will display as expected.
  • Adding a project to a time log for a task after time has been recorded will display as expected.
  • Cost breakdown PDF (found within an estimate) will now include associated change orders.
  • Exporting labor items to tasks (from an estimate) will work as expected after changing a labor item’s name.
  • Specific scenarios would cause a file to not upload to an estimate or change order. This has been fixed.

Build Notes 1.2.9548

Posted on Wednesday, December 22nd 2021

Remodeled:

  • Project Number will be added as an additional column to Project Export and Project Lead Export sheets.

Repaired:

  • Switching between text fields on mobile will display as expected.
  • Entering decimals into line item fields will work as expected.

Build Notes 1.2.9366

Posted on Wednesday, December 15th 2021

New Additions:

  • The ability to archive tasks is now live! Archive tasks will continue to appear in the ‘search’ page and on project schedules, but will be out of site and out of mind for task pages and filters.
  • Customers synced with Quickbooks Desktop can now sync customers as Last Name, First Name, rather than only being able to sync as First Name, Last Name.
  • The contact form integration now has the option of adding images as well!

Remodeled:

  • Style changed to clocking in / clocking out that communicates when the time has successfully been logged.
  • Downloading an image will no longer open a second tab in your browser, and will simply download the image instead.

Repaired:

  • Project Lead cards found within the lead pipeline will now be formatted properly (certain device sizes were cutting off buttons previously).
  • Taking a photo in the comment channel on mobile will now upload as expected.
  • Line items that display a quantity to customers will display as expected in the customer’s portal view.
  • Attached photos and files on invoices can be scrolled through while on a mobile device.
  • Filtering for customers and projects on the schedule view (on mobile) will show corresponding tasks, as expected.
  • Large document numbers will no longer prevent the creation of new projects and leads.
  • When adding a contractor, the required fields will now display, as expected.
  • All photos will now display in the main ’photos & files” area, no longer being limited to the most recent 1,000.
  • Fixed a rare rounding error with estimate line item markups.

Build Notes 1.2.8553

Posted on Friday, December 3rd 2021

We’ve been hard at work! Take a look at what we’ve been up to:

New Additions:

  • It’s time to simplify Absent and Time-Off tasks! Within the settings, you can now specify whether or not you’d like these type of tasks to require being marked as complete or not.
  • One size does not fit all: You can now create custom rejected reasons for both leads and projects.
  • A printable PDF is now available for the “Project Budget – Job Costing” document.
  • Invoices now have a net-45 option.

Remodeled:

  • Basic users can now clock into projects that they have tasks associated with.
  • Users who need estimate approval from an administrator prior to sending will still have access to the portal link after the estimate has been sent.
  • Adding a new cost line will put the cursor inside the text box so you can begin typing immediately.

Repaired:

  • Total file counts on projects and tasks will calculate and display as expected.
  • When a task is associated to a project, any photos uploaded to that task will be associated as expected.
  • Fixed a crash that could be experienced in a specific scenario when uploading photos to the comment channel.
  • User icons on tasks and projects should remain static as expected.