On The Way
First an announcement: On The Job 3 will be released in January 2009.
This project has taken much longer to get out than anticipated, for a variety of reasons. It was certainly not intentional, and has been a learning experience for us as a young company.
On The Job 3 is what I spend every day working on. We want it out more than anybody. The continued success of our company depends on it.
We have understandably been getting a lot of questions from people anticipating the release. First and foremost, beyond a release date, the questions are regarding new features. While we’re not ready to spill all of the beans yet, here are some details.
- Invoices will be more flexible, in both layout & design options, as well as what items are visible on the invoice.
- There will be functionality for tracking payments on invoices.
- Items in a Job will be able to have their own custom hourly rates.
- New support for multiple currencies.
- Full undo support.
- Automatic invoice number generation will be possible.
- Billing in quantities, and billing for mileage will now be possible.
- Individual timing sessions, including start and end times will be viewable and editable.
- Much more that I can’t wait to talk about.
A lot of these are smaller changes, but ones that have been asked for a lot. The actual engineering effort going into version 3 is actually much larger. Internally, it is nearly a complete rewrite.
I want to thank everyone for their enthusiasm and patience. The supportive emails we have been getting are great.
One last note – we will be looking for a few additional beta testers in the coming weeks. If you are interested, please send an email to onthejob-beta@stuntsoftware.com.
Update: We have enough beta testers at the moment – thank you for all of the offers!