Invoice and receipt photos on the move

We've recently launched version 2.3.1 of Cube Time & Expense Tracker on the app store bringing the ability of capturing and attaching pictures of your invoices and receipts to your expenses directly from your IPhone or iPad.

You can use the built-in camera or choose a photo from your photo library.

You can then choose to include the invoices/receipts attached to your expenses in your PDF reports.

Your expense attachments are sync'ed to your other devices and are also available at www.cubeanywhere.com

Now you don't need to keep a pile of receipts, you can manage it all with Cube!


If you use all your attachment quota you can easily top it up in Cube->Settings just choose one of the available packs: 20, 50, 75, 100 or 200 attachments.

Connect Cube to Github and Bitbucket

If you use Cube to track software projects the odds are that you probably use Github or Bitbucket to host those projects.
Did you know you can easily connect those projects to Cube so when you commit changes, Cube also records the commit messages in the Project's Log?
This is a great way of recording events and also helps when filling in your timesheet ;)


Setting up is easy!


First go to Cube and open your Projects Details page. Select Settings.

Cube project details screen

Here you'll find all you need: the Domain, Project and Integration Token.


Now for Github.
Go to your projects Repository Administration page on Github, select Service Hooks and enable Cube from the list of available services. Then just fill in the fields with the data you got previously.

Github options

To link with Bitbucket just go to the Admin page for your project, select Services and add Cube from the list of available services. As with Github you just need to fill in the fields.

Bitbucket options

Now every time you commit and push changes to Github or Bitbucket, the commit messages will be pushed also to Cube.

Cube shows your commit messages

Connect Cube to Github and Bitbucket and improve your project tracking today!

A picture is worth a 1000 euros/dollars

When recording an expense, it is useful to also capture the invoice or receipt for that expense, and we all know that sifting through a pile of paper invoices if you need to retrieve it at a latter time is a pain, so we've added the ability to attach files to expenses reported in Cube!


You can now attach jpeg or png pictures from your invoices or receipts to the expenses and your accountant will thank you.


Just click the "Add attachment" icon

Choose the file: 

and you're set. 

If an expense has an invoice attached the "Add attachment" icon changes to a "View attachment" icon. When viewing an expense you can click on the "Download" icon to download the full size picture.


We've provisioned your account with a 20 attachment quota so you can try this new feature, right now.


Managing your account and quota


We've also simplified your account management. You can now manage your account from the Settings page (for individual accounts) or Company->Settings (for multi-user accounts) including subscribing to Cube, changing the number of subscribed users and managing your attachment quota.

News and updates

Cube Time and Expense Tracker 2.1 released
We've actually released this update some time ago but never got around to write about it. Sorry!


This update brings:

• Export financial data: including  time costs and income! Now you can also generate reports that contain your financial numbers, either for your own records or for salary processing.

• Fixes for users that could not login into Cube in Russia, Japan and China.
• Better handling of timezones in notifications for filling in your timesheet and due date reminders.
• Help manual now also in German!
• Expanded colors range in charts. Now you can have more projects in charts with different label colors.

• Keyboard now dismisses when pressing Done on iPad.

Customer feedback
We always love to get your feedback on Cube. It helps us to improve and to better tailor Cube to Your needs.


Recently Bill Hunt wrote about his top 11 business apps for freelance and mobile workers and had this to say about Cube:


"It’s very rare that I come across an app that I think is simply too good to be true (with the exception of Angry Birds). But I get a tingle of excitement every time I open up Cube. The strapline is Adding an extra dimension to your productivity, but for me, it has added an extra dimension to my happiness and emotional well-being.


Again, this was the result of a marathon search, dating back to when I first got my iPad…*stares dreamily into the middle distance*.


Keeping accurate timesheets is an essential part of my job, because if a client were ever to question how much time has been spent on a particular project, there needs to be an easy, tidy way of showing them. And if working between a PC, an iPad, a brain, and a nice Moleskine notebook is your thing, then keeping good timesheets is a *major*, *MAJOR* hassle.


But gone are the days of dreading the end of the each month when I have to sit down and plough through notepads, scraps of paper, Google calendar and discarded kebab wrappers to tot up time in readiness for invoicing.


Cube is quite simply bursting at the seams with nifty – and yet user-friendly – features.   In a nutshell, it’s a time tracking / timesheet program that, again, can be used across a range of platforms, and also syncs with the cloud. But unlike so many others, it can be used with incredible ease.


Begin by entering the names of your clients, followed by your projects and / or tasks, and you’re pretty much set. It’s then just a matter of inputting the time you spend on each project every day – or whenever you prefer – and, at the end of the month, you literally press one button, and, hey presto, an immaculate timesheet showing a detailed breakdown of exactly how you’ve been spending your time is instantly produced.


Add to that real time project costs, rich interactive charts, the ability to create project teams and assign tasks, a feature where you can tag your data and report, chart and filter based on those tags, and excitement bubbles over.


Another small point worth mentioning, but incredibly reassuring, is that when I was first getting to grips with the software, I had cause to email Cube’s technical support, and was amazed to get a response within eight minutes. All this for under 5 Euro / 7 USD."

Thanks Bill!


How about you? Wanna share how you use Cube?  Give us feedback or suggest a feature?
Write us at support@cubeanywhere.com!

Cube launches alongside the international Chrome Web Store

Google today launched the Chrome Web Store to the 160 million Chrome users across 41 languages.

Cube was already in the US Chrome Web Store since day one, and today we're pleased to announce that Cube is also available in these new countries!

Cube is localized in 7 languages: 

• English
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• German
• French
• Italian
• Brazilian Portuguese

Speakers of these languages can use Cube fully in their native language. 

And all users get local calendar and currency support and seamless login - just tap the Cube Web App and Cube opens right into your dashboard.

Cube in Chrome gets also advanced features support like css3, html5 and offline mode so you can still consult your data even if you do not have an active internet connection.

Of course you can keep using Cube from www.cubeanywhere.com with your favorite browser.

bitrzr team

New feature: Client Reports

After the redesign of cubeanywhere.com, we've been hard at work to bring you one long overdue (and often requested feature) - Client Reports!


You've without doubt used the Project details and reports to have an overview of your project status, costs and incomes.


Now we are bringing the same reports - this time at Client level.

You can get to these new reports by clicking on a Client's name either from a Project or from within the Client list.


The Overview tab gives you an overview for the Client. You have all the client's details front and center and on the left a handy chart which you can configure to show hours, hours cost, expenses or total cost by persons, projects, approval and billable.

Bellow that you have the Current Status for the Client. Here you'll find the total number of hours worked broken down by billable and non-billable hours, the total expenses and total cost. If you have incomes you'll also get them and your gross profit.


You can also view a breakdown of this by persons, projects, approval and billable on the Totals table and by hours, hours cost, expenses, total cost, income by day, week, month and quarter for persons, expenses, projects, tags and billable in the Activity Chart.


Whew! Think I just broke a record for the number of commas in a sentence!


There's a list of the Projects you have for the Client.

And also a Timeline of all activity.

You can filter the Timeline by type: expenses, time entries, log and  mileage alongside the status so i.e you can quickly the approved items only. You can also limit the results by date and by searching the Description field.


As usual all tables are exportable to CSV so you can crunch the numbers on your favorite spreadsheet.


We've added a new Pricing Plans table that hopefully is more clear than the previous. :)

We've also done a number of design tweaks based on your feedback (keep it coming!).
Hope you enjoy! See you soon!

Cube Anywhere has a brand new look!

Today we're excited to reveal our new image!
We've been working in the past months together with Mr. Gonçalo Catarino from 96hp, and now you can see the result for yourself!

Catarino created our new image concept based on tangibility of Cube; it's not only something that runs somewhere on the Cloud - you can actually touch it, on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. 


This is something that is core to Cube: your business numbers, anytime, anywhere - after all, your business is where you are.

And that access to your business numbers is key to maximizing what matters: profit!

(thanks to Bauke Schildt for the illustrations).


And Cube allows you just that: manage your business anytime, anywhere with the devices you have with you.

You will find that everything you are used to in Cube is still available, and we'll have several new features in the pipeline to be launched soon.

You can see it now live at: www.cubeanywhere.com.  


We hope you enjoy it - feel free to send comments to cube@cubeanywhere.com.


The bitrzr team