The view in the mobile app is a little more limited than the staff view but still gives them enough to see what’s going on, view files, add messages and have a general overview.

Have a play, try yourself with a client login and then start to tell your clients about their new project access!
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How do we use it?

To access the mobile webapp, just open Safari on your iPhone or a web browser on your Android smartphone (or any smartphone). Just type in the account URL and add ‘/m/’ to the end…
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Example:

If you account was: https://proworkflow5.net/SAMPLE/
You would add ‘/m/’ to the end. it should be:
https://proworkflow5.net/SAMPLE/m/
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What will they see?

Below are the screens that your clients and contractors will be able to see. Please note they can only see THEIR projects only. Clients will never see other clients’ work.
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There’s a quick video guide that runs through how easy it is to use and make life simple:

Copying Tasks

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Today we went over the 10 million mark for the number of hours tracked in ProWorkflow
(Live accounts only, excluding trials)!

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As more customers come on board with the ProWorkflow project management software and we see the numbers climb, we’re stoked to see the app delivering value and the infrastructure holding strong!

Many are long time customers and their feedback is vital to us in the ongoing application development. We love helping our users get their business processes streamlined and it’s great to see them put so much chargeable work through the system.

At average studio rates, this is getting around the 1 billion dollar mark for the amount of work invoiced through ProWorkflow!

Wow! Go ProWorkers!

The next milestone will be 1 million projects! We’re currently at 809,347 projects and 3,389,282 tasks!

Thanks to our awesome userbase for keeping us on our toes and giving great feedback as we continually develop! We’ll also soon be announcing the V8 release and that will take your ROI to a whole new level again!

ProWorkflow is a web based project management, time and task tracking solution perfect for virtual teams and distributed workforces.

Last week, Christchurch, New Zealand suffered a huge devastating  6.3 mag earthquake, killing hundreds and leaving about 1/3 of the city in a ruined state.

Read More Here… 
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Let us help you!

In order to support Christchurch businesses that will be required to manage their staff remotely from virtual offices after the recent earthquake,  ProActive Software is offering a special deal for their project, task and time management software ‘ProWorkflow’ – http://www.proworkflow.com.

The offer is 6 months free access to the ProWorkflow solution for any new Christchurch based customers!

We have also suspended payments for our Christchurch customers to help ease their cash flow.

Sign up today if you are finding yourself needing to manage a virtual team. Our friendly staff will help you keep your projects on track! Try a free trial account today!

Sign up for a trial today!
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Current Customers:
We are also suspending payments for 6 months for current Christchurch customers to help them out a bit with cashflow.

 http://www.proxi.com.au/blog/?p=24

Tim from Proxi talks about ‘billing by the minute’ and how the concept is proving a successful business model for their company and clients.

In the creative industry where the norm is ‘charge by the hour’, it’s refreshing to see a company looking after their customers and not overcharging.

They’re providing great service and the customer can have confidence they’ll be looked after. In the current economic climate, I think this is a very good move for Proxi and is sympathetic to customer wallets.

They use ProWorkflow for the time tracking which allows them to accurately track time by the minute and keeps the billing transparent for clients.

So have a read of their post and check them out if you need some creative work. I know Proxi will see you right!

Have a read!
http://www.proxi.com.au/blog/?p=24

It’s always good to get this type of feedback and keeps our batteries charges so we can continue to deliver value to the ProWorkflow user base.

Read from top down… 

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Hey Julian,

I just wanted to say kudos to you and your team for putting together such an amazing mobile version of your site. Richard has really outdone himself. It’s a beautiful interface with amazing CSS functionality for mobile devices.

Plus it offers all the stuff the iPhone app has been missing. We’re all very impressed and just wanted to say thanks for being the awesome company, product and team that you guys are.

We couldn’t be as successful of an agency without ProWorkflow. Say hi to the rest of the team for me. Cheers.

David P. Smith | President
www.envision-creative.com
facebook | facebook.com/envisioncreative
twitter | @envisioncreativ

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Thanks David!

Julian Stone
CEO – ProActive Software Ltd
http://www.proworkflow.com
Web Based Project Management Software

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Hi Julian,

I can’t wait. You guys always keep building the product towards excellence. It’s the same philosophy we have with our company, our products/services and the way we treat our clients. We’ve had lots of vendors not adhere to the same level of commitment to quality that we do and it’s really refreshing to have a vendor in our corner that works like we do.

Thank you for that and you may absolutely use my comment in your blog. In fact, if you ever want to do a client profile on us and how we use your product or just sing huge praises about your stuff, let me know and I’ll help in any way I can.

Take care.

David P. Smith | President
www.envision-creative.com
facebook | facebook.com/envisioncreative
twitter | @envisioncreativ

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There’s no single solution that fits everyone, but it’s great to see a company do a proper indepth evaluation of some available tools and even better to see where we sit with ours (ProWorkflow).

We did think it was a well balanced report so have a read and see what you think. Feel welcome to try a free ProWorkflow trial account!

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Project Management and Time Tracking

Article Republished from: Zenovations Blog

The world of Time Tracking and Project Management is a vast one. For small businesses like ours, there are seemingly endless time tracking solutions and a good number of project management answers.  I spent nearly two weeks evaluating options in my spare time, so hopefully this data will help save you some time.

Here are the criteria I used to narrow down the possible project management and time tracking solutions:

• Web based application
  Our dev’s use various platforms and it needs to run everywhere without install and upgrade headaches, I also considered Air and Flash apps
• Support for 5 users
  Because, yanno, we need five people to record time
• Time tracking must include timer with start/stop capabilities
  We are multi taskers and like accuracy; we considered products with timer widgets as well
• Feature list and pricing prominent
  Excluded all sites with vague details, no screenshots,  or “contact us for details and pricing” models, due to sheer volume and time needed to research
• Must have a free trial evaluation
  Yanno, so I could evaluate them
• Professional and sharp web site
  Attention to detail is critical to good software design and project management, how they run their site should reflect this

After nearly ten hours of research, I narrowed the field to fifteen products. Then I evaluated each product by importing several of our current projects into it and using the time tracking tools for one day. After which I ran reports and recorded my findings in a spreadsheet. The final ratings were on a 1-5 scale, based on usability, project management capabilities, time tracking capabilities, invoicing features, reporting capabilities, and API and integration tools. Here’s what I came up with:

Once I had some numbers to work with, I weighted each product to meet our needs, based on the following criteria:

• Usability: Ease and speed of use is very important to us, as we have little time for project management (x2)
• Time tracking capabilities: highly critical (x5)
• Project management capabilities: highly critical (x5)
• Low price:  we want to keep the price under $50 a month, so our value calculation was tweaked accordingly:  rating *3 – (price per month/10)
• Invoicing, reports, and so on are nice, of course, but we can make due with our external, existing solutions

So, using this data, here were my findings:

It should be apparent that ProWorkflow is, hands down, the best overall project management software on the market. It’s quality, well thought out, bug free, fast, and powerful.

Skylight was by far the best for our needs, according to price versus quality. The rest of the data is interesting, but several of the products listed had a time tracking or project management rating less than three, which is insufficient for our needs. So the final choices for us were as follows:

• Skylight – use this and put up with the slow, laborious interface; our preference for now
• Basecamp + MyHours/Harvest/Tick – together, these products are a complete package, but pricey
• ProWorkflow – premium pricing, but we could bite the bullet on this and get the best quality product on the market.

If you’d like to view or download the complete data, including links to all of the product sites, you can find all the gory details in the Google spreadsheet. You can also view the same data sorted by total quality instead.

Article Republished from: Zenovations Blog

“Oh My God!!!! This mobile version is so freakin awesome!!!! Dude, well done, seriously.”

I always had issues with the limited functionality of the iPhone app, (no message thread or file area) and this totally alleviates it.

I haven’t tried it on my iPad yet, but it looks amazing on the iPhone. The user interface is clean and well thought out. I’m very impressed. Please pass on my kudos to your team.

You are truly gifted Richard. I’m excited to start playing with this more on the iPad. Plus, it will make for a great presentation item on the iPad in meetings to show the sophisticated project management system we use in our agency.

We’ve actually won clients just by showing them our cool project management system!

-David

Basically, do you host the project management software remotely or install it locally? There are a lot of considerations on both sides, but the key ones are cost, implementation, support, security, speed.

Technology has come a long way in the past few years to the point that in most cases, these considerations are covered both in local installs and SAAS.

One of the common comments we’re hearing these days is that I.T. departments are slow, bureaucratic and costly. It’s pretty expensive to manage a server internally, control uptime and even get I.T. departments acceptance of unknown software.

SAAS solves all this. Just sign up, login and use it! We manage everything else (Backups, servers, support)! Below is a comment we received the other day along these lines. 

Thank you Julian,

On another note – being part of a large corporate business which has an Microsoft enterprise licence, I had to justify to management why I recommended PWF for our department.  To cover all bases, I met with a South African Microsoft representative for detailed advice on a possible MS workflow solution.  After many discussions, they came up with a proposal today.   The cost of setting something up for us is around US$ 25,000 which will take 2-3 months to implement – this excludes the monthly server/hosting costs.

This is exactly why I recommended PWF (which management approved):

• there are no start up costs
• can be up and running with minimal effort
• monthly subscription is low
• and covers all IT maintenance and infrastructure

Thank you for an amazing online solution to workflow management.!

Regards,

xxxxxx

The anonymous accounts below (one per line) were screen grabs from just a page or two of the accounts list and show some really heavy use.

We’re really happy that people are adopting the software and using it well. We’re often told about the improvement ProWorkflow makes to businesses and love to hear stories of how it’s going. Check out the testimonials!

Interesting to compare the stats anyway!