Recurring Notifications, Estimate Expiration Dates, and more!

We’ve been hard at work tuning the Ronin engines, and a few weeks ago, we announced that we’ve made a huge framework migration. What does this mean practically? Well, besides keeping the code up-to-date to the latest, it also means that future improvements are hopefully easier and more efficient to add.

Since then, we’ve been busy making small, but noticeable additions to the Ronin feature-set. While they’re small, they’re features that for which we’ve heard a lot of requests:

Fractional Billing

Ronin now supports invoice item prices at 3 decimals places. While it might not make sense for an hourly rate, we understand that there are lots of business that operate at tiny unit prices (price per word, cycles, megabyte, etc.) where it is especially useful for metered billing. It’s pretty intuitive and doesn’t need much explaining, Ronin will magically handle the math and decide where 2 decimals make sense over two decimals in currency display:

Per-project Timesheet Reports

Previously, Ronin could generate Timesheet reports for any client, any time range, and narrowed down to any staff member. While this was convenient for digging into costs and effort at a client level, it wasn’t very useful for analyzing a particular project. Well, that’s now changed. You can now even narrow Timesheet reports down to the project to give you even more flexible visibility into where you and your staff’s hours are being spent.

Estimate Expirations

One of the more effective ways to get an Estimate or Proposal accepted by a client is to give the Estimate a deadline as an incentive for a client to act. We know this because our customers have shown us examples of their Estimate templates complete with deadline terms. We’re excited to announce that this is now natively supported in Ronin.

You can even access this new Estimate attribute in our custom template system as {{ expiration_date }} and of course, it’s also accessible via our API as expiration_date.

Recurring Invoice Reminders

As much as we like to collect on our invoices, it sometimes takes a bit of nagging to get the client’s attention. Of course, at Ronin, we suggest hand crafted reminders, because they’re known to work better. But, in some cases, when dealing with lots of clients, the process requires some workflow automation.

We’ve supported a singular notification for some time now, but we’ve now also added support for 3, 5, or 7 day recurring notifications. You can easily set your preference as desired in Account Settings.