The product team has been busy over the last few months preparing the latest release of Hectic. The Spring 22 version of Hectic brings key improvements around navigation, information architecture, visibility into the health of your freelance business, and a focus on the work to be done.
If you have 20 minutes to spare and you want to hear what Darryl has to say about the update, check out this video - otherwise, you can read below for the highlights.
Or you can just check out the Beta version now.
Updated Navigation - The left bar has been re-designed to organize information more logically and surface the most important feature (your clients) more prominently for easy access.
Homebase - Work to be done, Calendar, and Insights
Projects - Project management and project overviews
Accounting - Invoices, payments, expenses, vendors, p&l
Sales pipeline - Visualize your opportunities in kanban style layout
Client list - All of your clients are now accessible from the left nav. Use the ⭐ to favorite your most used client records to make them quickly accessible from the left nav. Use the [...] button to perform quick actions like tracking time or sending an invoice.
Homebase is a new collection of features to help you stay focused on the work that needs to be done as well as providing valuable insights into the health of your business.
Focus - surfaces the most important information allowing you to see and prioritize the most important things to get done during your day.
Add new - quick links to the most common actions you take.
Notifications - important events that require your attention.
Work to be done - a re-imagined view of the project deliverables that are due today, this week, and next week in a compact and focused format.
Schedule - pull all of your linked calendars and important Hectic based events into a consolidated view for the day.
To-dos and notes - general area to keep track of things you need to get done that aren't directly related to a client or project.
Calendar is the same great consolidated view of your freelance business with a focus on important dates and events. Use the filter to focus on the task at hand - or see everything in one place, including your Google/Apple calendar, time worked, scheduled meetings, payments, and important project and deliverable dates and timelines. Month, Two-Week, Week, Day, and Schedule views to see as much or as little information as you need.
Insights provides an interactive view into where your money is coming from and how you are spending your time. Filter, slice and dice the data, and click on your overviews to drill into the data that makes up your metrics.
Project Management - we have consolidated all of the project features under the Projects link. Previously the Project Overview was contained within the client screens. This view has been relocated under Projects allowing you to see all of your projects, overviews, and deliverables in a single part of the application.
Client Portal - per-client feature access. You can now set custom feature access rules on a per-client basis. If you have certain clients that you don't want seeing certain features such as time tracking or projects - you can now set special rules for each of your clients.
Help center - last, but certainly not least - we have added a comprehensive help center. When you click the (?) icon in the lower right corner of the app, you will see a contextual help center which will include how-to videos, links to the most popular articles about the feature you need help with, as well as links to search the knowledge base and chat with the Hectic team if you still have questions.
