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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".
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.
I was really excited to hear about the Apollo API because it offered the prospect of pulling data from Apollo to suit some of the 'non-standard' reporting that we needed in our company. Here I will explain how we used Google Docs to access the API and pull time reporting information from Apollo. You can copy the example spreadsheet from here: Apollo API Example. Remember to make a copy of it in order to use it and change it.
Apollo makes your life easier, by giving everybody a simple view of the “big picture” for any project. For this to work, it's important that everything about the project is kept inside Apollo. Apollo's brand new email integration makes this much, much easier. Let's have a look:
You can reply to comments to tasks by email. When somebody comments on a task, the receiving users can now simply hit “reply” knowing that their reply will become a comment to that task. Yes, it's that easy! Our users often told us how their customers weren't keen on logging into Apollo to add comments to tasks. They would go as far as replying to that comment with a private email. This is understandable, as the most natural action to respond to a comment that came by email is to simply hit “reply”. Well, “reply button it is”, you could say! Blackberry addicts will also find this very useful.
