Over the past 6 months you have been one of over 1100 companies in 83 different countries who signed up our 1time beta testing programme. During that time we have received lots of feedback from our users and we are pleased to announce a significant upgrade which reflects your input. We note that most of you feel that this service is the best and easiest to use on the net. The purpose of this upgrade is to keep us ahead of the game, and we’ll continue to drive our R&D forward based on your input.

This new release (1.5) will be rolled out on Friday March 2nd and will include these new features:

• Easier to use timesheet entry pages.
• Editable Time off options (e.g. Jury Duty, Absent without pay, etc)
• Project Estimate reporting on Real vs Estimated costs
• Percentage complete with projected cost analysis
• Task is now known as Activity Type for clarity through out the system
• Employee utilization reporting (how productive is each employee)
• Improved management reporting
• Some template Excel documents you can use to import CSV files from 1time to generate a new reports (free to share with the community)
• Integration with Basecamp project management software (import clients, sent time report messages)

We are taking this opportunity to also introduce a new dot-com brand-name: 1timetracking.com. We will be using this name in our communications henceforth, but you don’t need to change any of your bookmarks, as 1time.ie will continue to bring you to the latest 1time service.

Your existing data will not be disturbed by the new release, you’ll just notice on the web-site the various additional functions.

Up until now we’ve been happy to provide the 1time service free of charge, but unfortunately even we have to pay bills… Therefore once this new release has itself bedded down successfully we will be migrating to a commercial basis. However we have come up with a very competitive pricing model with our subscribers having a choice of monthly or annual payment plans which will apply from 2nd March 2007. We will continue to offer free usage of 1time’s basic services to single users. All plans will be free for a month to existing customers before any payment is required so you can test out the new system.

—Price Plans—:
1 User : Free
2-5 : €14 per month
6-10 : €30
11-20 : €55
21-30 : €80
31-50 : €120
51-100 : €210

As a way of thanking you for your participation we are offering each of our existing users an incentive to sign up as a full subscriber. If you take out an annual subscription to 1timetracking.com during the month of March you will receive 18 months’ subscription for the price of 12.

We have even more great ideas from you that didn’t make it into this release, and we will continue to work on them. We really want your feedback to keep coming, so please tell us what you think of the changes we have made and what other features you would like to see in the future.

If you have any questions on the new upgrade, please do not hesitate to contact me or my team at support [at] 1time.ie

Remember the site and the application will upgrade this day week so come back then for more info. (Friday, 2nd of March)

Best regards,
Derek Organ
CEO
Timewarden Ltd.

*subject to terms and conditions

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