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Studiometry 9.1 is available now with a bunch of new updates and features. We’ve added a new report that lets you display each employees active assigned projects. We’ve also added Sparrow outgoing mail compatibility, as well as the ability to import entire iCal calendars. There’s a lot more in this version and you can find out more via the links below. Studiometry 9.1 is, as always, free for registered 9.x users.

Download Studiometry 9.1:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/download

More Information on Studiometry 9.1:
http://support.oranged.net/entries/21175171

Studiometry 9.0.3 is now available as a free update for registered Studiometry 9.x users. This update improves many aspects of the project specs tab, updates localizations, improves keyboard shortcuts, and has about 25 enhancements and fixes.

For a full list of what’s new as well as other information, please visit:
http://support.oranged.net/entries/20850458

Download Studiometry 9.0.3:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/download

Purchase Studiometry (upgrades from 8.x start at $59.95):
http://www.oranged.net/store

Knowledge Base Post: http://support.oranged.net/entries/20841017

With the release of Studiometry 9.0.3, we will begin phasing out support for older Macs with PowerPC processors, transitioning from what is called a “Universal Binary” to an “Intel-only” binary. We must make this transition for several reasons, the most important of which is to keep up with the tools and technologies used to create and run Studiometry itself.

Apple requires an Intel processor to run Mac OS 10.6 and 10.7. They also do not allow Universal Binaries on their Mac App Store. In keeping up with Apple’s transition, many of the tools we use to create Studiometry are also phasing out PowerPC support. We have no choice but to follow suit and switch Studiometry to an Intel-only build.

This transition will only affect Macs built before 2006. To see if your computer has a PowerPC processor, go to Apple Menu > About This Mac. The window that appears should show information about your processor.

• If your processor name includes “Intel”, then your computer will not be affected.
• If it includes “PowerPC”, your computer will not be capable of running the main download of Studiometry 9.0.3 or newer.

We will be building and releasing Universal Binary versions of Studiometry 9.x for any critical updates. These versions, as well as downloads of all previous versions, are available at:
http://www.oranged.net/software/download/archives

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our valued customers.

Studiometry 9 gives you many new tools to help better analyze your business’s income and profit. In previous versions of Studiometry you were able to create items with “markup”, allowing you to enter your cost for the item as well as what you charge your clients. This is a great solution for “goods”, but for “services” there wasn’t a solution in place to track cost for hourly work items. Many Studiometry users have employees or contractors that they pay a specific amount per hour for their work, and in Studiometry 9 this can now be tracked using Cost-Rates.

Flexible Cost-Rate Settings
Cost-rates are, in a nutshell, how much you pay per hour for a specific work item. If you subtract this from the billed rate, you’ll end up with your profit.

Studiometry 9 gives you many flexible ways of tracking the cost-rates for your work items. It’s really a great system because you can set up Studiometry to automatically populate cost-rates based on your exact needs. Cost-rates can be set individually for Employees or Contractors, set by default for an entire Debt/Credit type, or set manually for each item. You can even choose to have certain Employee’s or Contractor’s cost-rate override the Debt/Credit type’s default cost rate.

Powerful Profit Tracking Capabilities
Because of the new ability to track how much money you actually make for your work, Studiometry can now easily calculate and track profit for entire projects and clients. This adds a completely new metric for measuring the value of projects and employees, which could be used to help focus your business on more profitable projects and make more money.

Use Profit Data in Custom Summaries
The powerful Custom Summaries features get even better with profit integration in Studiometry 9. You can now calculate and display Profit based on client, project, employee, type, or specific date ranges within your summaries. The ability to, for example, see how much a specific employee actually made for your company in a certain time period can be a very useful analytical tool.

Buy Studiometry 9.x:
http://www.oranged.net/store

Download Studiometry 9.x:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/download

Full Version History:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/versionhistory

Studiometry 9 is available immediately. Upgrades from 8.x are $59.95 USD per license, and new licenses are $199.95.

Tons of new invoice template features have been added for Studiometry 9, giving you much more control over how Studiometry produces and delivers invoices.

PDF Export
The big new feature is the ability to send invoices as PDFs. All emailing and exporting of invoices will now automatically be done as a standard PDF file, created using your customized templates. This gives many benefits over the previous PNG exporting, including much better native text display, zooming capabilities, and the ability to copy text from the delivered invoice. It’s a much more flexible and standardized delivery method that will make reading invoices easier for your clients.

Much Better Page Control
Previous versions of Studiometry only had one option in terms of pages for invoice templates: the first page would be shown once, and the second page would repeat until all items have been displayed. This works “good enough”, but many users wanted to be able to customize this behavior. In Studiometry 9, you have complete control over the number and type of pages in an invoice template. You can create any number of unique pages, and then select whichever page you’d like to be the “repeating” page. This means you could, for example, have a cover page, several pages of items, and then a final “totals” page at the end. This was not possible in previous versions of Studiometry, but now it, and many other configurations are possible in Studiometry 9.

Add Links into your Templates
Thanks to the introduction of PDF exporting, we now have the ability to add clickable links to invoice output. This means that you can easily add a “pay now” link to your invoice that your client can click. Links can even contain dynamic variables, meaning you could include a price or email within the link to create a Paypal payment link, for example.

PDF Backdrops
A great new addition to Studiometry 9 is the ability to use a PDF as a backdrop for your invoice templates. This means you can design the background of your template in whatever program you’d like, and then drop the PDF into the background of your invoice template pages. Studiometry will simply draw the information and prices for the items on top of the existing PDF. It’s a great, quick way to easily make customized invoice templates.

Specified Categories
Studiometry already has some great features available if you like to summarize items on your invoice by category. The only problem is that many people were saying “I don’t want a specific category appearing in the category summaries”. In Studiometry 9, you can specify on a per-template basis which categories will appear in lists, giving you the power to create more customizable summaries.

Dynamic Item Visibility
Templates in Studiometry 9 now give you the ability to show or hide items based on the status of the template. You can have a “paid” watermark that will automatically appear when generating the invoice only if the invoice is actually paid. You can also add overdue notices, retainer statuses, and more based on the new “Show” setting for template items.

Many Other Additions

• You can now show percentages of variables (great for asking for “half” of the total, for example)
• You can display information about previous invoices
• We’ve added about 20 new template variables

Buy Studiometry 9.x:
http://www.oranged.net/store

Download Studiometry 9.x:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/download

Full Version History:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/versionhistory

Studiometry 9 is available immediately. Upgrades from 8.x are $59.95 USD per license, and new licenses are $199.95.