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Update: Since August 2024, smallinvoice does not offer this integration to new customers anymore. Existing customers can continue using the integration within smallinvoice.
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smallinvoice, a web-based invoicing and project management app made in Switzerland, now integrates with mite. You can import time entries tracked with mite, and convert them to an invoice with a few easy clicks. The integration is available in their advanced plan.

smallinvoice is the third invoicing app available in English that integrates with mite. Web-based SalesKing offers an import, and GrandTotal, a native Mac app, will be happy to convert your time entries as well.

Screencast

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Features

smallinvoice handles time entries tracked with mite pretty flexibly. Filters and/or grouping options known from »Reports => Time entries« stand at your service in smallinvoice, too. Of course, you can add other service or product items to your invoicing items imported from mite.

Setup

smallinvoice talks to your mite.account via the mite.api, our open data interface. You’ll have to allow API access for your account first, so smallinvoice will be able to import your time entries properly. Click on your user name in the upper right-hand corner of mite to allow API access, and copy your API key.

Now head over to smallinvoice. There, click on »Configuration => Integration«, and choose mite. Enter your personal login URL and your mite API key.

Done! smallinvoice and mite now work as a team.

Thank you, smallinvoice

This new import feature was developed and will be taken care of by smallinvoice. Thanks a lot for your time and effort, Graem and team!

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On Saturday, June 16th, maintenance will take place in our primary data center between 5:30am and 7:30am CEST (what time is that for me?). During this time frame, mite won’t be available for some very few minutes.

Tomorrow’s maintenance is the consequence of the last interruption. Our hoster will replace hardware (switches) with a model by a different manufacturer to ensure future stability. We ask for your understanding.

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Update: Maintenance went as planned. mite was unavailable for no more than three minutes.

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Between 2:04pm and 2:33pm CEST, mite was down for all users due to a hardware failure in our primary data center. Redundant systems did not take over as planned. We’re so sorry for this interruption!

Collaborating with our hosting partner SysEleven, we’re analyzing this problem to prevent it from happening again, this goes without saying. Of course, your data was totally safe throughout this downtime.

This said, we’d like to take a moment to thank SysEleven and their technical team for their fast response—they were hands on within minutes. Also, we’d love to say thank you to the numerous users who got in touch via Twitter, mail, and chat. Your understanding means a lot to us. Although we cannot guarantee 100% uptime, you can count on us doing everything we can to reach that number. We won’t disappoint you.

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Between 15:29 and 15:50 CEST, mite was not available for most users due to server problems on our side. We’re so sorry for this interruption!

You can bet on it: we’re not taking this lightly. We’re already investigating the root of the downtime to prevent this from happening again. mite should and will be stable again.

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Thumbs up: the busiest mite.account has created more than 100,000 time entries by now. But even if we put this spike aside, we’re seeing more and more accounts with five-digit data. Which is absolutely great—besides one fact: those huge figures brought the Excel/CSV export feature (which can be found under the tab »Reports => Time Entries«) down to their knees.

Time for a rebuild! Thanks to today’s update, even huge data sets can now be exported reliably. Furthermore, we were able to significantly accelerate the export. It is now up to three times faster. Ready, set, go, to your next 100,000 time entries!

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You answered the mail, made your customer happy, and closed the deal. Now, you could move your hand away from the keyboard over to the mouse, click the tab »Time tracking«, search for the running timer, and click to stop it. Or, you could simply type s.

Keyboard shortcuts are here! From today on, all main features can be triggered this way, too. Keyboard shortcuts can be a real time saver—we do recommend to take five minutes to memorize them.

Amongst other things, the new shortcuts support time tracking actions and navigating tabs. To see the whole package, please press ? (in mite). If your cursor is active in an input field, please press esc first to leave the field.

Hopefully, you’ll be able to speed up your time tracking considerably thanks to the brand spanking new keyboard shortcuts. Please get in touch if you happen to stumble upon a bug, or if you have any ideas on how to improve them. Merci!

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When accessing mite on the web, we offered optional HTTPS from very early on. Today, we switched to HTTPS-only. Thus, the connection between your browser and our servers will always be encrypted. Just like in online banking.

HTTPS is especially helpful when you access mite over an unsecured Internet connection like a public wi-fi network. There are no disadvantages to HTTPS for you. Therefore, HTTPS is always activated.

Besides switching to HTTPS-only, we launched some more updates to improve the security of mite. For example, if you forgot your password, mite will now e-mail you a link to change your password yourself. We introduced the same process to inviting new team members to your account. Several updates in the background accompany these changes, e.g. stronger algorithms for password encryption.

While we work hard to secure your data, you can help, too. The best point to start is to choose a secure password which you only use in mite. A secure password cannot be found in a dictionary. It consists of at least eight characters, and it mixes letters, numbers, and special characters.

API developers, listen up please!

We will switch our API to HTTPS-only, too. If you do not access the API via HTTPS yet, please update your code. Starting March 30th, the mite.api won’t accept HTTP requests anymore. Hopefully, five weeks will be more than enough time to change your code unhurriedly. Please support this update and help make mite more secure!

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Monday, January 23th, mite won’t be available between 0:15 am and ~0:45 am CET (what time is that for me?). We’ll move the service to new, more powerful servers. We ask for your understanding.

Update, January 23th: Maintenance went as planned.

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Merci. For this meanwhile five-year trip with amazing users and fellow travelers. To you, wholeheartedly.

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The bar charts on your dashboards, project reports, and shared reports just leveled up! Now, they’re not only able to display all hours or revenues, but also detailed information on services, projects, customers, or team members.

On your dashboard, hover your mouse over a section of the snake chart of services, projects, or customers. The bar chart will highlight those hours or revenues then. On project reports or shared reports, the bar chart behaves likewise: Hover your mouse over a row of a service or team member to see those hours highlighted in the bar chart.

Hopefully, this small update will help you to understand and analyze your time entries more in-depth!

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