Changelog

Feature Update:

• Updated View: A refreshed, more intuitive dashboard that makes it easier to understand your leave at a glance.

• Smart Summaries: Instantly distinguish between your current leave period and what’s already applied for in the next cycle.

Why It Matters:

• Stay Informed: Always know exactly how much leave you can take — with clear visibility between current and future periods.

• Plan Confidently: Manage your time off with clearer visibility across leave cycles.

Plan smarter, rest easier, and take time off with confidence. ☀️

Feature Highlights:

• Always current: every time you open your file, timesheets, expenses, invoices and project data refresh automatically.

• Mix and match: combine Fresh Projects data with payroll, accounting or other spreadsheets.

• All the Excel features you know: formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting. They work exactly as you expect.

• One source of truth: one file, one version, no confusion.

Why it matters

• Less manual work: no more exporting, pasting or rebuilding reports each week.

• Smarter reporting: answer the board’s questions by linking project, finance and payroll data together.

• Familiar tools: your team already knows Excel, so there is no training curve.

• Confidence in your numbers: when someone asks if the figures are current, the answer is always yes.

👉 See the Live Sheets help guides here
👉 If Live Sheets is not yet enabled on your subscription, contact ben@freshprojects.co.uk

Feature Highlights

• Apply classifications at the group or sub-project level.

• Assign different statuses to reflect how each stage is progressing.

• Capture unique work types or teams across different stages of the project.

Why It Matters

• Accurately represents projects that move forward at different speeds across disciplines.

• Keeps pipeline and active work visible in a single project, avoiding unnecessary duplication.

• Strengthens reporting and resource planning with more precise classifications.

Start using Detailed Classifications today and bring more clarity to every stage of your project 🚀

Feature Highlights:

• Probability-Based Planning: Forecast your resources based on weighted pipeline opportunities likely to turn into work.

• Dynamic Filtering: Switch between confirmed work and probability-adjusted projections with ease.

• Sharper Insights: Spot potential resource gaps early and plan more effectively.

Why It Matters:

• Realistic Forecasting: No more over- or under-estimating workload — plan based on realistic projections of upcoming projects.

• Proactive Resourcing: Identify staffing needs before they become bottlenecks.

• Better Decisions: Balance confidence in your pipeline with practical workload planning.

Forecast smarter and act faster with weighted utilisation insights. ✨

Feature Highlights:

• Multi-Level Structure: Create multiple levels within the same project such as multiple sites, areas of work or disciplines — all under one job number.

• Break Projects Down with Precision: Map out detailed project breakdowns and capture key information to improve clarity and drive smarter decisions at every step.

• Hierarchical Reporting: Track fees, costs, and profitability at the project, group, or sub-project level.

Why It Matters:

• One Job Number, Full Scope: Keep all related work under a single job number for simplicity and consistency.

• Detailed Insights: Drill down into individual groups to see exactly where you stand.

• Smarter Management: Organise complex projects without losing clarity or control.

Stay in control of every layer of your project — from the big picture to the smallest detail. 📊✨

Feature Highlights:

• Projected vs Actuals: See both your planned financials and real-time actuals within your project.

• Live Tracking: Monitor how your budgets and fees are tracking against actual performance as the project progresses.

• Instant Clarity: Easily switch between views to understand where your project stands - and where it's headed.

Why It Matters:

• Smarter Decisions: Spot issues early and course-correct before they become bigger problems.

• Full Transparency: Give your team and stakeholders a clear view of how things are really going.

• Stay in Control: Manage projects proactively with the data you need at your fingertips.

Start seeing the full financial picture - past, present, and future! 📊🔍

Feature Highlights:

• Multi-Currency Project Setup: You can set up project budgets, fees, and track actual costs in foreign currencies and and invoice in them too!

• Flexible Currency Management: Assign different currencies per project to match where the work is happening.

• Automatic Conversion Tracking:
  Keep an eye on costs and billing without manual conversions.

Why It Matters:

• Global Projects, Local Currencies: Easily manage projects that span across countries with the right currency setup from day one.

• Accurate Financials: Track budgets and actuals without messy spreadsheets or manual currency conversions.

• Client-Friendly Invoicing: Invoice your clients in their local currency — no confusion, no back-and-forth.

Ready to simplify your global project workflows? Get in touch and find out how we can upgrade you🌍💼

Feature Highlights:

• Auto-Pull Budgeted Resources: Instantly bring budgeted resources from your project into the Project Planner.

• Dynamic Scheduling: Allocate resources across project stages with just a few drags and drops.

• Seamless Integration: No more manual data entries - use the resources you’ve already set up.

Why It Matters:

• Smarter Planning: Easily map out resources based on your project’s budget.

• Save Time: Skip the hassle of re-entering resource details.

• Better Accuracy: Ensure project stages are resourced correctly from the start.

Give it a spin and streamline your planning! 🚀