Changelog

What’s New?

• Exchange Rate Selection at Finalisation: When finalising a foreign-currency invoice, you can now choose which exchange rate to apply.

• Project or Live Rate Options: Select either the Project Rate already saved on the project or Today’s Rate fetched live.

• Automatic Base Currency Update: Once selected, the base-currency totals are recalculated automatically during finalisation.

Why This Matters:

• More Control: Choose the exchange rate that best reflects the timing of the invoice.

• Accurate Conversions: Base-currency totals, including tax and grand totals, are recalculated using your selected rate.

• Invoice Currency Stays the Same: The original invoice currency remains unchanged - only the converted values are updated.

Have questions or want to learn more? Just get in touch - we’d love to hear from you 🚀

What’s New?

• Start & End Locations for Mileage Expenses: When submitting a mileage expense in the Fresh Projects mobile app, you can now enter the start and end locations of your journey directly within the expense form.

• Automatic Distance Calculation: Fresh Projects automatically calculates the distance travelled based on the locations entered.

• Mileage Expense from Journey Distance: The calculated distance is used to generate the mileage amount, ready for expense submission.

Why This Matters:

• Faster Expense Submissions: Simply enter your journey locations and Fresh Projects handles the mileage calculation for you.

• More Accurate Mileage Claims: Mileage expenses are calculated using actual journey distances.

• Less Manual Work: No need to estimate or calculate mileage yourself - everything is handled within the expense submission flow.

Please reach out and we’ll get this set up for you in a jiffy!🚗

What’s New?

• Planned Resources in Schedule: Planned resources from the Project Planner are now visible directly within the schedule view, giving you a clearer picture of how work is allocated.

• Side-by-Side Cost Comparison: Easily compare planned costs with actual spend and see how much budget remains - all in one place.

• Real-Time Budget Visibility: Get an instant overview of how your budget is tracking as your project progresses.

Why This Matters:

• Smarter Invoicing Planning: Plan invoices more accurately based on projected costs and remaining budget.

• Improved Financial Oversight: Monitor budget performance throughout the project lifecycle with greater confidence.

• Less Manual Tracking: Reduce the need for separate calculations or reconciliations with everything aligned in one view.

Stay in control of your project finances with clearer visibility from plan to spend - in one seamless experience. 💼

You might start to notice a few visual updates across the platform.

We’re gradually rolling out a refreshed look for Fresh Projects - something a little cleaner and more modern. You’ll see it appear over time across the platform and in our communications.

What’s not changing?
Everything that matters.

Our focus remains exactly the same: helping Professional Services firms in the Built Environment run with clarity and confidence.

There’s no change to how your projects work, just a refreshed look around the same powerful tools you use every day.

As always, if you have any questions, we’re here to help. 🚀

What's New?

• Tracking Categories in Contacts: Tracking categories are now visible directly on the Contacts page, making it easier to understand how each contact is categorised at a glance.

• Quick Categorisation View: Instantly see key tracking details without needing to open individual records.

Why This Matters:

• Faster Navigation: Identify and filter contacts more efficiently with clear category visibility upfront.

• Better Organisation: Stay on top of your client and contact structure with improved context across your database.

Keep your contacts organised, accessible, and easier to manage - all in one view. 📇

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 🚀