Today we’re introducing our new Tasks functionality. Tasks offers a simple, straightforward way to manage assignable to-do items to your staff and team members. It’s perfect for companies who want to use Ronin to manage their day-to-day project progress and acts as a great companion to our existing Time-Tracking features.

Best of all, it’s available immediately for all plans, both free and paid.

Keep track of Project Tasks

Creating a new Task is easy and allows you to specify optional due dates and assignees. Every project comes with it’s own list of Tasks and every staff member has their own list of assigned tasks. Everyone can easily glance at all tasks from Ronin’s Dashboard.

Tasks are conversational

With every task you can add additional comments to provide context. Task threads can help your team stay in sync.

At-a-glance project status

Tasks will also update your project list with a small badge indicating the number of open tasks left for a project. This way, Ronin can help you manage budget, time, and progress all under one roof.

Track Time against Tasks

Ronin will automatically help pre-populate your time sheet entries with existing task items.

Needless to say, we’re very excited to be bringing this new functionality to our users. Much thanks to everyone who gave their input and helped us refine this product!

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As a team grows, it can often become more difficult to track the total hours spent in the last week or month how much much of it is left to bill. The more readily available this information, the easier it is to make sure invoices are sent at regular intervals.

For example, do you know off the top of your head how many billable hours you or your team has put in this week? How about how many of those hours are left to bill to your clients? Do you know how much money you’re leaving on the table on a monthly basis?

Ronin helps answer these questions at a glance with our new Projects dashboard numbers. The screenshot below really summarizes all you need to know about it:

What’s also neat about this dashboard is that it shows you your oldest unbilled hours. For example, if you know you have $1,000 unbilled over 15 days, that means you’ve got unbilled hours from 15 days ago that you haven’t translated into an invoice.

When it comes to getting paid, the closer the services render is to the invoice date, the less likely you’ll have invoice disputes. Factoring in any payment leeway you might offer your clients (e.g. Net 30), this gives you a good idea of how long the cycle is from doing the work to receiving the payment.

This is a new feature that’s available for all accounts, free or paid (although paid accounts will benefit a little more from it, since it becomes more useful with more staff), so make sure you take a look!