What was earlier only available in acGarage Plus – our premium housekeeping, backup and auto update extension for activeCollab, is now available to everyone… And is even free!!

This was a tough call for us. A big reason for people to buy acGarage Plus was the auto update functionality.

activeCollab’s release frequency has increased, and we too have to update and release our modules accordingly.

Everyone wants to stay with the latest versions and they can easily download available updates from our My Account area.

Anyone who does not want to waste time downloading, unzipping and uploading all these modules, will certainly buy the acGarage Plus module.

So if we made it free, it would hurt our business.

We still made it free!!

We don’t want customers to waste their time. They’d better use that working on their projects!

With that ideal, we took the auto update functionality from acGarage Plus and brought it in acGarage Lite. Then we renamed the product to “Apps Magnet Auto Updater”.

The Auto Updater is a free download, and works with both activeCollab 3 and 4.

Download it, unzip and install it to your activeCollab. And that’s the only module you need to manually install.

All new products you purchase from Apps Magnet, and all future updates (assuming the support / update license is valid), can be installed with just one click after this.

Try it today and let us know your reactions!!

Do you want your WHMCS clients to use activeCollab? But don’t want to make them remember two different passwords? Enter WHMCS aC Connector!

WHMCS aC Connector module for activeCollab 3 lets your WHMCS clients login to activeCollab using their WHMCS login credentials. You can now use WHMCS for billing, hosting and support tickets, and use activeCollab for project management and collaboration. Best of both worlds!

We are happy to announce immediate availability of our new module – Quick Links.

Quick Links module for activeCollab 3 lets you add custom links to activeCollab’s main menu (the left most menu with icons). You can add external links or links to any page within activeCollab. You can even decide to open the link in a new window or embed it within activeCollab. Not only that, you can even choose from a wide range of icons to go with your links.

This is the simplest, smartest and most elegant way to achieve third party app integrations with activeCollab in the entire history.

Perfect solutions when:

• You want to integrate activeCollab with a CRM system, or WHMCS, or Xero, or Freshbooks, or JIRA, or any other system.
• You have documentation / resources for your team and clients stored on another system (CMS / Intranet / Cloud etc), and want to make them available within activeCollab.
• you want to cut down on the time it takes to navigate within activeCollab. And allow jumping to any page within activeCollab with a single click.

PS: Thanks to Bart Dabek for the original idea!

We are glad to announce updates to five products.

• acHack – Gravatar (v1.3.2)
• acHack – Incremental Backup (v2.2)
• Hide People module (v1.1)
• Tickets Plus module (v1.5.5)
• Time Reports Plus module (v1.3.3)

You can download these updates from our members area as usual!

Here’s a summary of updates in these versions.

acHack – Gravatar (v1.3.2)

• activeCollab v2.3.5 compatibility version.

acHack – Incremental Backup (v2.2)

• Takes database backup of only activeCollab tables.
• Fixed: (Backup returned these errors: Array) email notification issue.

Hide People module (v1.1)

• Removes “Who Is Online” and “People On This Project” blocks from dashboards.

Tickets Plus module (v1.5.5)

• Fixed: Send email notification twice on ticket completion
• Fixed: Attachments are not visible for tickets created using Public Submit
• Fixed: UI fix for filter drop downs in Tickets list

Time Reports Plus module (v1.3.3)

• Fixed: Time records not grouped correctly by billing status (Billable, Non Billable, Billed etc.)
• Fixed: Increased memory limits while generating time reports

Enjoy!

Confidential Items module for activeCollab v1.3 is now available.

This is a compatibility update. Confidential Items now show up correctly in File Attachments, Recent Activity, Assignments and Time Reports. We also fixed an issue with file uploads.

Our customers have been asking for these features for a while. We were waiting to see if activeCollab 3.0 was coming soon. Because then we could update according to the new structure. But since activeCollab 3.0 is taking longer than anticipated, we thought of pushing an update that provides these often requested features.

And if you haven’t yet read the post about creating confidential global documents, you can read it here.

We recommend you upgrade and look forward to hear your feedback!

As usual, customers can download the latest release from our members area.

We just released an update to Time Reports Plus. It packs even more power and I believe everyone should take advantage of it

Enhancements in 1.3:

• Added run time filtering for client companies
• Export to CSV and Create Invoice work across the board now
• Export to HTML option added
• Adjust time records to % option added. This is very flexible.
• Summarize by Milestone, Ticket / Page / Checklist, Task
• Summarize by Category of Ticket / Page / Checklist
• Revamped core logic
• The module is localization enabled now

All customers can download the latest version from our member’s area.

We are thrilled to launch our new service today!

acGarage: an annual service that takes care of all activeCollab upgrades – core, custom modules, themes and hacks! It’s like we are standardizing activeCollab customizations!

acGarage gives you:

• Latest stable / beta releases of activeCollab, set up on your server by our experts
• Verified upgrades to modules, themes and hacks we support
• Peace of mind! (imagine not worrying about latest versions or upgrades)
• And all enhancements we add to the service over the year!

acGarage takes away:

• No need to keep track of latest versions
• No need to download, unzip, upload, wait, wait, upgrade, activate
• No need to keep tracking changes between version to manage hacks (for hacks we support!)
• No need to keep tracking aC core, modules you have bought, themes you use and hacks you’ve added
• In short, acGarage takes away all the pain of upgrading and maintaining an activeCollab setup

Signup Now - only $199

It’s just $199 for as many upgrades as required, throughout the year. It’s a great bargain if you consider cost of your own time. As a matter of fact, we had one customer pre-order acGarage (even before we finalized on the name). He was so happy with the service that he rated it as “most excellent”!

Take worries and hassles out of upgrading activeCollab. Sign up for acGarage today. You’ve got much more to do in the time you’ll save!

Read more about acGarage here – including how it works and what modules / themes / hacks does it support.