In the first quarter of 2025, our focus is making Projectworks even more flexible to serve your unique business needs. With constant instability in the global political, economic, and environmental climates, it’s more important than ever to be able to manage your projects the way you want, to steer away from risk and optimize your margins.

We increased flexibility last year by adding custom fields to invoices and expenses, and adding the ability to filter, group, and show custom fields for project, project budget, and timecode on additional screens.

In February, we’ve built on this by adding custom fields to contacts, and adding a new revenue calculation option to people margin reporting.

Customize your contacts

You can now add custom fields to contacts. Add a new custom field via Settings > Custom Fields. These custom fields can be shown as columns, filters, and groups to make it easier to view your contacts as required - saving you time when you’re looking for important information in the system!

Once you create a new custom field for a contact, you can choose whether the field displays on the Contacts and/or Company > Contacts list screens.

Additionally, MergeFields can be created for your contact custom fields, so that they can be added to your invoice, invoice breakdown, and quote templates.

Learn more about contact custom fields.

Updated revenue calculation in people margin reporting

Based on your feedback, we’ve also added a new revenue calculation for people margin reporting, so that you can choose to include or exclude non-billable hours x rate.

Previously, there was no option to exclude the burn rate of non-billable time worked on billable projects, which inflates a person’s margin. Take a deep dive into revenue calculations in Projectworks.

Keeping your data secure and accessible

To ensure Projectworks remains modern, performant, stable, and secure, we have implemented a .NET Core upgrade to the product.

Don't worry, this “under the hood” upgrade supports platform function and will not noticeably impact your user experience. However, if you do notice any issues, please contact us at support@projectworks.com.

💡Projectworks tip: Consolidate line items on your invoice

Sometimes, clients might want a single line item on the invoice - they don’t particularly care about the individual line items that contribute to the total. There is an easy way to do this in Projectworks - simply create a new invoice, select “More options”, and check the box that reads “Consolidate line items with the same description and rate on the invoice PDF“.

Once this is checked, simply update the description of each line item to match, then download your PDF.

Looking ahead

If you’re a current Projectworks user, you can’t miss this upcoming webinar on planned upgrades to project budgets and pricing, including:

• How to build a project budget flexibly at the budget line/timecode level
• How the new budgeting functionality lets you budget for projects involving a combination of fixed fee and T&M work
• How “shadow resources” will be renamed “placeholders”, which can be allocated timecodes.

Join myself and Vijay Raghuraman, Product Manager, for an exclusive preview on March 3 (US) | March 4 (ANZ).

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