Product updates, news & miscellanea from your fellow Apollo developers.
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We have recently introduced two exciting integrations: Harvest and Freshbooks. The reception from our users was overwhelming, and made us realise the importance of communicating/integrating with other online software.
Apollo doesn't send invoices; this is a conscious decision on our side: invoicing is not "Just send invoices out", just like "Project management" is not just "A bunch of task lists".
Your workspace's image is what appears in your workspace's login screen. This is a step towards the kind of personalization that makes your customers feel at ease and feel that they are using a tool tightly connected to your company. (Yes, we do plan on strengthening these features!).
One of the problems we had was that sometimes the logo included the company's name.
Interactive timers are a great tool: you can start a timer, get on with your work, and let Apollo do the time-counting for you.
However, while timers are perfect, humans are not as several things can (and do) happen:
For these cases, you need to be able to edit interactive timers once they have already started.
This is exactly what we implemented in Apollo &mdash
When you deal with a lot of information, searching is indispensable. We have recently improved searching within projects, and decided to improve the search in the CRM side of Apollo.
This led to a considerable rewrite of the search abilities of Apollo's CRM, which now allows you to select which fields you will search into:
Three minor features landed on Apollo in the last few weeks: they are not game changers by any means, but they do improve our beloved program.
The first one, is the possibility to order your tasks by project + task name, and by project + task due date in the My Tasks section:
This kind of grouping is crucial for people who work on several projects and want to be able to divide (by project) and conquer their task list.
An unrelated improvement is that Gravatars (which can be as
The projects' dashboard is the first screen you see when you click on Projects on the left hand side. It's a very important screen, which lists all the projects you have access to.
The first real improvement for the projects dashboard was the introduction of categories and paging (which were triggered by important requests from customers who were dealing with more than 200 active projects using Apollo!).
It is no secret that Apollo is internet-based software: Apollo's users can access their data either by using Apollo's great UI, or by "connecting" to Apollo's API (you can see the API as a means to access Apollo taking the UI out of the equation). The API can be invoked by your own scripts (if you are a developer), or by other online programs, in order to access your information.
While this means that potentially every SaaS out there can integrate to Apollo, we realise that it's important for us to make this as painless as possible, and decided to actively work on integrations.
Our users often ask us to add possible settings so that Apollo fits their workflow.
On one hand, we don't want to add a million settings which, in the long run, become unmanageable (or even conflicting!). On the other hand, requests often do make sense.
We have recently added two personal settings:
Set default due time of tasks. When you create a task, you often don't bother setting the exact time you want your tasks to be done by. However, you might not like Apollo's default due time (9:00AM).
We are consistently improving Apollo's reporting abilities. Time entries was a specific feature that we wanted to get out of the door as soon as possible, promising improvements to the reporting side of things. Right now, if you click on a contact for example, you are able to see all time logged against it:
We improved cases and deals, by adding the same tab for them.
When it comes to regional settings, Apollo needs to deal with several issues: timezone, date format (DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY), language, and so on. There is another detail, in terms of localization, that escaped in the first version of Apollo: the ability to set, in the CRM side of things, how to display people's names: "name, last name" or "last name, name". Apollo, by default, would display them as "name, last name" and would order contacts by last name.
