Release 2.5.0

🌟 New Features ⏱️ Continuous Time Tracking Time tracking is now seamless and available wherever you are in the app. Global Visibility: Start tracking from anywhere within the app using the new timer widget, permanently visible in the top-right corner on both desktop and mobile. Flexible Tracking: Start a timer instantly without picking a project or job upfront - you can fill in those details, add comments, and toggle billable status later. Once stopped, entries flow directly into your timesheet. Favorite Timers: Save your most frequently used project and job combinations as favorites to launch scoped timers with a single click. Global & User Configurations: Admins can enable/disable the entire time-tracking feature and set organizational rounding rules via Settings ➔ Configuration ➔ Time Tracker Settings. Individual users can set preferences to auto-stop timers after a specified duration. 📺 Watch this short clip for a quick walk-through of the new time-tracker functionality. 📊 Advanced Project Budgets Project budgets just got a massive upgrade. You are no longer restricted to tracking budgets solely by accumulated cost. New Budget Basis: Create budgets based on Time (Hours) or Chargeable Amounts (calculated via charge-out rates). Multi-Budget Support: You can now run multiple budget types simultaneously on the same project (e.g., one cost budget and one time budget). Time-Bound Budgets & Retainers: Set budgets to recur monthly, quarterly, or annually (or keep them open-ended). Progress and notifications will calibrate perfectly to the chosen period - ideal for managing monthly retainers. Pro-Rated Recoverability: When checking your recoverability mid-period, Hidma now generates both a full-period calculation and a pro-rated "as-of-today" calculation. Project Start Dates: A new optional Start Date field has been added to projects to ensure highly accurate pro-rated calculations (e.g., aligning calculations to the start of the financial year). Control Center: Enable or disable specific budget types for your organization under Settings ➔ Configuration ➔ Projects. 📺 Watch the detailed walkthrough by Alex here. 🔔 Custom Budget Notifications Take full control over how and when your team is alerted about budget progress. Global Thresholds: Set company-wide rules, choose delivery methods, and assign specific recipients based on custom budget thresholds via Settings ➔ Notifications ➔ Projects. Project-Level Overrides: Fine-tune settings for individual projects by expanding the Budget Notifications subsection on the Edit Project page. Mute with One Click: If a specific project is generating too much noise, you can instantly silence it using the Mute Notifications button directly on that project's dashboard. 🎛️ Full Control Over User Notifications Your personal user profile now includes a dedicated Notification Settings section. Easily opt out of specific system alerts across all projects, bills, recurring charges, or timesheets to keep your focus where it matters. 📈 Improvements 👁️ Tailored Project Statistics Custom Summary Views: You can now choose exactly which metrics you see on the Projects Summary page. Click the Quick Overviews button to pin your 5 most relevant data points. Dashboard Flexibility: Swap out individual dashboard statistics on the fly simply by clicking on them. (Coming Soon: This exact dashboard flexibility will be rolling out to Client Profiles in an upcoming release!) 💼 Project Billing Types You can now assign a Billing Type (defaulting to Manual or Automatic) when creating projects. Use this field to better categorize your portfolio or to seamlessly filter out workloads in the Ready for Billing queue. Customize these options globally at Settings ➔ Configuration ➔ Projects (under the General section). Bulk Updates: To enforce a workflow, you can disable the "Allow empty value" option to make this field mandatory. If you want to apply billing types in batch to your existing projects, contact our support team and we will handle the data migration for you. 📺 Check out this short instructional video explaining how to leverage the new Billing Type field. 🔗 Enhanced XERO Client Sync Visibility Hidma clients linked to XERO accounts that have been archived externally will now dynamically reflect this status right inside the XERO status chip. 🗺️ Condensed Navigation Menu The main navigation menu has been condensed and polished for a sleeker look and improved desktop browsing efficiency. 💬 We'd Love Your Feedback! Try out the new updates and let us know how they improve your daily workflow. If you have any questions, our support team is always here to help.