From our Development Laboratory

It's a match: The new interface concerns the master data of employees and freelancers as well as absences (sick times, vacations). For the synchronization, those fields can be defined in PROAD into which data from Personio should be transferred. Linked data fields are automatically synchronized at regular intervals, so that this data only needs to be maintained in Personio and is also up-to-date in PROAD. Via the interface, employees and freelancers can be created in PROAD or existing PROAD employees/freelancers can be linked with those from Personio. If you are interested in licensing, the PROAD support team will be happy to receive your inquiry.

PROAD offers comprehensive connectivity to other systems via API. The API is constantly being expanded - now to include payment terms.

The option "Project selection" under "Agency > Settings > Options > Time recording" is now called "Time recording according to project status" and has also been adapted: Previously, the option only influenced the project selection in time recording so that projects with a certain status could not be selected for recording times. Now it is additionally prevented for projects with such a status that existing time recording entries can be adjusted, deleted or created in other ways (e.g. by the functions "Copy to" or "Move to"). This motivates employees to record their times promptly - also to avoid absenteeism.

Only for the german market: The version standard v2.2 for the creation of a digital invoice ("XRechnung") valid from 01 August 2022 has been integrated in PROAD, so that all "XRechnung" invoices created from this date correspond to the then valid version. Until 31 July 2022, an "XRechnung" will still be created according to the version standard valid until then. In order to be able to create a valid "XRechnung" from 01 August 2022, a previous update of PROAD is absolutely necessary.

In PROAD, your productive time is defined in addition to your contractually agreed working hours. This is the time you should typically spend on chargeable projects. With the new "Productivity" widget, you can now see your personal productivity score at any time. The widget determines your individual productive time from the master data, deducts sick leave and approved holidays in the period under consideration and thus represents your personal target value for productive time. This is the number of hours you should work as billable time per week or per month. Your actual value is determined from your time recording entries, i.e. the number of hours you have worked on client projects (and if desired also on projects for prospects). Your productivity is calculated from the ratio of both values and displayed as a percentage in the widget.

We have summarised the features of the last few weeks for you.

The new "Budget tracking" module with the report of the same name offers the possibility of keeping a better eye on and monitoring budget consumption in retainer projects. The analysis is carried out on a customer or project basis and is available from the consultant license onwards.

Only for the german market: The version standard v2.1.1 for the creation of a digital invoice ("XRechnung") valid from 01 February 2022 has been integrated in PROAD, so that all "XRechnung" invoices created from this date correspond to the then valid version. Until 31 January 2022, a "XRechnung" will still be created according to the version standard valid until then. In order to be able to create a valid "XRechnung" from 01 February 2022, a previous update of PROAD is absolutely necessary.

Our release target has been achieved: PROAD users benefit from improved performance and stability and can rest assured that our software not only meets the latest security standards, but is also technologically well positioned for the challenges of the digital future.

"X marks the spot": In recent months, we have been working hard to make PROAD even smarter and more digital in the area of electronic invoicing.