Cinderblock Updates - Web app

April 11, 2024

New!

  • Appointments: we reintroduced ‘Linked items’ so that you can link forms, estimates, and invoices to an appointment.

Improvements:

  • Estimate and invoice templates: the UI has been updated to reflect recent updates.
  • Calendar: UI improvements to the appointment pop up.

Bug fixes:

  • Appointments: the date field bug which appeared when making a copy of an appointment has been crushed.

April 5, 2024

Bug fixes:

  • Appointments: the notifications setting bug has been fixed.
  • Appointment Tasks: the bug preventing the options menu from opening has been smashed.
  • Estimates and Invoices: the bug preventing the emailed link from sometimes working (when there’s no job attached) has been resolved.

March 28, 2024

New!

  • Job status notifications: it’s now possible to send a customized email to your customer when a specific job status has been updated.

Improvements:

  • We made updates the the general layouts.

Bug fixes:

  • Appointments: the bug prevent the date dropdown from being in sync with the interactive calendar (during appointment creation) has been fixed.

March 20, 2024

Improvements:

  • Appointments: UI updates to the assigned user time breakdown.

Bug fixes:

  • File upload: we solve the bug causing the drag and drop overlay to appear when interacting within the browser window.

March 12, 2024

New!

  • A global create button was added to the navigation bar, so that you can create new assets from anywhere in the app.

Improvements:

  • A new more practical UI for appointments.
  • Reminders sidebar: it’s now easier to save and manage customer reminders.

Bug fixes:

  • Date picker: the broken date presets have been fixed.
  • QuickBooks: the bug creating a conflict when you have multiple customers with the same primary email address has been zapped.

February 27, 2024

Bug fixes:

  • Estimates & Invoices: the bug preventing the magic link from working properly when an estimate or invoices isn’t attached to a job has been crushed.

February 13, 2024

Improvements:

  • Estimates & Invoices: we improved the design for filtering.
  • Estimates & Invoices: you can now update the value of the `amount` field.
  • Appointments: the ’notify users’ pop-up no longer apears when you just assign yourself.

Bug fixes:

  • Appointments: the bug causing a job to sometimes not be generated during appointment creation has been smashed.

January 31, 2024

Improvements:

  • Invoices: you can now receive email notifications when a Cinderpay payment or refund has been initiated.
  • Estimates & Invoices table: you can now sort columns by ID and expiration/due dates.
  • QuickBooks Online: customer notes are now kept in sync.
  • Task: the ‘due date’ field is has been moved higher up, so it’s easier to set a due date.

January 10, 2024

New!

  • Introducing Cinderpay! You can now accept payments directly on your invoices. (Only available for companies based in the United States).

Improvements:

  • New UI for the Estimates and Invoices pages.

January 3, 2024

Improvements:

  • Estimates & Invoices: various UI improvements.​​​​​​
  • Reminders: improvements to the reminder creation workflow.

Bug fixes:

  • Estimates: the bug causing the “Accepted” block to always appears has been resolved.

December 19, 2023

Improvements:

  • QuickBooks Online: the new mapping table allows you to review the Services and Material relationships between Cinderblock and QuickBooks.
  • Job selection: it’s now possible to edit existing job details while creating an appointment, estimate, or invoice.
  • Estimates & Invoices: you can now attach files before creating the document.

Bug fixes:

  • Estimates & Invoices: the issue preventing files to move into a job after attaching the document to a job has been fixed.
  • Estimates & Invoices: the bug causing a document’s status be copied while making a copy has been smashed.

December 6, 2023

New!

  • New UI for Estimates and Invoices 🎉

November 15, 2023

Improvements:

  • Job insights: your profit is now calculated based on pre-tax totals
  • QuickBooks Online: Using our new mapping table, you can now manage the relationship between QuickBooks and Cinderblock customers.

Bug fixes:

  • Estimate/Invoice magic link: the issue with the link not working properly when there isn’t a job attached to the estimate or invoice has been fixed.

October 12, 2023

New!

  • File labels: you can now add labels to files, making it possible to organize files within your jobs.

Improvements:

  • Fixed sales tax rate: it’s now possible to set a fixed tax rate, perfect for non-US regions.
  • Email templates: you now customize the email which is sent together with files.

September 21, 2023

Improvements:

  • Dashboard: you can now view future appointments.
  • Dashboard: can now be viewed by regular users.
  • Currencies: international currencies are now fully supported throughout the app.

September 5, 2023

Improvements:

  • Estimates & Invoices: we now support international currencies. The currency will be set based on your company’s address. For example, if your company’s address is in the UK, the currency will be set to £.

August 30, 2023

New!

  • Introducing the long awaited dashboard! You can now view appointments, job tasks, and estimate & invoice stats all on one page.

Improvements:

  • Estimates & Invoices: you can now filter estimates and invoices by expiration and due date.

Bug fixes:

  • The bug preventing reminders from being sent for Estimates and Invoices that don’t have a job has been fixed.

August 17, 2023

Improvements:

  • You can now create estimates and invoices without attaching them to a job.

August 9, 2023

Improvements:

  • Email: when sending a copy of an email, it will be sent to you using BCC instead of CC.

August 1, 2023

Bug fixes:

  • The bug affecting appointment filters has been crushed.
  • The bug causing Appointment statuses to sometimes not update to ‘Missed’ has been fixed.
  • The bug impacting reminders on Forms has been smashed.

July 18, 2023

Improvements:

  • Invoice: it’s now easier to apply appointment hours to an invoice.
  • Company Settings > Services and Material: you can now perform bulk updates.
  • Company Settings: you can now manage whether you’d like the ‘Job name’ or ‘Job type’ field to appear when creating a new job.
  • Calendar: the job name is now visible on the day view.

July 5, 2023

New!

  • Estimates and Invoices: you can now send a web link for Estimates and Invoices, making it possible for your customers to view them in their browser.
  • Estimates and Invoices: History Log has been introduced, allowing you to view when changes and updates were made.
  • Estimates and Invoices: you can now save an existing document as a template, so that they can be reused.

Improvements:

  • Jobs: a job name is no longer required (it’s now an optional field).
  • Estimates and Invoices: various improvements to the PDF layout.

June 7, 2023

New!

  • Document settings: this is a new section in Company Settings, where you can manage the default setting for Estimates, Invoices, and Work Orders.
  • Templates: you can now create template for Estimates, Invoices, and Work Orders.
  • Job types: you can now assign a job type to your jobs.

Improvements:

  • Appointments: you can now add billable hours to an invoice directly from the appointment screen.
  • Work Orders: in Company Settings you can now assign default cost-category to be applied to work order costs.
  • Customer Profile: more bulk action options have been added.

May 22, 2023

New!

  • Vendors: you can now create vendors and assign them to work orders and job costs.

Improvements:

  • Labels for contacts: you can create customizable labels for addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
  • Job costs: work order cost can be now be synced with a job’s costs.
  • Reminders: you can now configure work order reminders to trigger based on the start date.

May 8, 2023

Improvements:

  • Estimates, Invoices, and Work Orders: you can now manage more PDF display options.
  • Reminders: you can now create different reminders for different users.

Bug fixes:

  • Job costs: the bug which can cause invoiced hours to be duplicated on a job’s costs has been fixed.

April 18, 2023

New!

  • Estimates, Invoices, and Work Orders PDFs have a new cleaner look!
  • Customers: you can now merge customer profiles.
  • Email Templates: you can now customize the content of emails.

Improvements:

  • Company Settings: you can now make a copy of a form.
  • Invoices: when appointment hours have been applied to an invoice, it won’t be possible to apply the same hurs to a different invoice, preventing double billing.

March 28, 2023

New!

  • Email template management: in Company Settings you can now manage the content of the emails you send to your customers and users.
  • Tasks: you can assign a priority level to tasks.

Bug fixes:

  • Notifications: the bug with the default notification settings has been fixed.

March 22, 2023

New!

  • Job summary is now here!

Improvements:

  • Appointments: you can now add files to an appointment.

Bug fixes:

  • Files & Docs: The issue with the missing file location for files uploaded from Forms has been resolved.
  • Invoices: the bug causing the reminders presets to be ignored when generating an invoice from an estimate has been crushed.
  • Estimates & Invoices: the bug preventing the custom sales tax from being saved has been fixed.

March 1, 2023

New!

  • Appointments: you can now keep track of travel time with the “On my way” feature. You can also pause appointments, allowing for more accurate time logging.

Improvements:

  • Customer tags: you can now add more than 5 tags to a customer’s profile.

Bug fixes:

  • Reminders: the bug preventing reminder presets from displaying during asset creation has been crushed.
  • Estimates and Invoices: the bug causing item validation errors on old estimates and invoices hs been smashed.

February 21, 2023

Improvements:

  • Customer profile: there is now a summary of how much each customer has been invoiced, as well as a record of payments due and last payment received.
  • Phone numbers: we now recognize your company’s location so that when creating new phone records, your locale will be selected by default.

Bug fixes:

  • Estimates and Invoices: the bug which caused the “hide Terms & Conditions” rule to be ignored has been crushed.

February 7, 2023

New!

  • Reminder presets: it’s now possible to create and manage reminder presets in Company Settings.
  • Commenting: in addition to job notes, we have added a commenting feature, so that you can leave a comment without it appearing on the job’s notes. At the moment this is available on Work Orders, but will be included to more areas in the future.

Improvements:

  • Files: when viewing a job’s files, it’s now possible to identify the exact area the file resides (e.g. the estimate, task, form, etc. the file is associated with).
  • Estimates and invoices: it’s now possible to bulk approve or decline.

Bug fixes:

  • Files: when emailing files to a customer, the customer’s email addresses on file are now selectable.
  • Estimates and invoices: the bug which made it difficult to remove a salesperson has been crushed.

January 24, 2023

Improvements:

  • User permissions: permission rules for Job Insights have been added.
  • Job costs: when turning on cost syncing, historical costs on that job will now be added.
  • Job costs: when a cost is auto synced we now display the associated appointment or invoice it is associated with.
  • Forms: a date selector response type has been added.
  • Job profile: a quick create button has been added to the job assets table so you can create items quicker.
  • Appointment linking: you can now create estimates, invoices, forms, etc. at the same time as linking them to an appointment.
  • Files: you can now user bulk select to email multiple files to your customers at once.

January 16, 2023

New!

  • Work orders.
  • Notification settings: in your company settings you can now manage the default settings for user and customer notifications.

Improvements:

  • Customers: bulk update options have been added to jobs, appointments, estimates, and invoices.
  • Security improvement: an admin password requirement has been added to access and update user accounts.
  • Tasks and Forms: when hovering over a Completed status you can see the name of the user who completed it.
  • Various UI and UX improvements.


December 29, 2022

New!

  • Appointment linking: it’s now possible to link estimates and invoices to an appointment.
  • Company Settings > Estimates and Invoices: you can now set the default value for the “valid until date” and “due date”.
  • Invoices: it’s now possible to apply appointment hours to an invoice with a single click.

Improvements:

  • Estimates and Invoices: you can now hide the Terms & Conditions.

Bug fixes:

  • Invoices: the bug which prevented the use of decimals has been crushed.
  • Quickbooks Online: the bug causing customer information to sometimes not be in sync between QBO and Cinderblock has been smashed.

December 20, 2022

New!

  • Job costs: it’s now possible to automatically add appointment and invoice costs to a job’s costs. Nice!

Improvements:

  • Calendar page: a mini calendar was added to the page in order to make navigation easier.
  • Customer page: more filters have been added. Finally!
  • Various UI and UX improvements.

Bug fixes:

  • My Tasks: the sorting bug has been zapped.
  • Invoices: the bug which prevented newly created invoices from being in a ‘Draft’ state has been pulverized.

December 13, 2022

Improvements:

  • Invoices: payment method is added to the pop-up when updating an invoice’s status to partially paid or paid.
  • Inventory items: it’s now possible to filter based on inventory type and category.

Bug fixes:

  • Reminders: the bug which sometimes prevented the saving of reminders has been crushed.

December 6, 2022

New!

  • Actual costs: you can now manually add costs to a job. Coming soon! Automatic appointment, invoice, and work order syncing.
  • Billing: a billing page has been added to Company Settings. Making it easy to manage your Cinderblock subscription.

Improvements:

  • Job profile: bulk select options added to the asset table.
  • The responsiveness has been improved on several pages.
  • Timesheets: UX improvement to time editing.

December 1, 2022

Improvements:

  • Job profile: more details added to the job asset table.

Bug fixes:

  • My tasks: a bug related to the item order has been squashed.

November 23, 2022

New!

  • Snooze a reminder: we added the option to snooze a reminder so that it appears again later on. Just click on “Remind me later” on the notification pop up.

Improvements:

  • Company Settings: Task templates and Forms now have their own sections.
  • My profile > Notification preferences: Estimates & Invoices notification settings have been added. These notifications are sent to users when they’ve been assigned as a saleseperson.
  • User account: a ‘Burden rate’ field has been added. This is the amount you pay the user per hour. This value will be used for timesheets and for calculating job costs (both coming soon).
  • User account: an ‘Inventory item for hourly billing’ field has been added. This is the inventory type that will be used when applying this user’s appointment hours to an invoice (coming soon).
  • Inventory: Items now have an inventory type. Choose between ‘Product’ and ‘Service’.
  • 404 page updated.
  • When you access the app on a mobile browser, we now display a pop up advising you to use the mobile app. After dismissing the pop up, it won’t appear again on that day.
  • Estimates and Invoices: some UX improvements.
  • My tasks: some UX improvements.
  • Assigned users: the toggle for notifying newly assigned users now maintains its position until the asset is saved or updated.

Bug fixes:

  • Invoices: a bug causing an invoice’s remaining balance to be incorrectly calculated when editing an existing payment has been resolved.
  • Notifications: the bug causing the “go to” button on notifications to sometimes fail has been fixed.
  • Inventory: the bug causing copied inventory to be immediately saved to inventory has been crushed.

November 15, 2022

New!

  • Inventory categories: we added the ability to assign a category to your inventory items. You can manage categories from the Inventory page found in Company Settings.

Improvements:

  • Calendar layout improvements.
  • Estimates & Invoices: manage the text in the PDF header/footer on the individual level.
  • Estimates/Invoices: a “notify salesperson” toggle was added to the ‘Assign salesperson’ modal.
  • Estimates/Invoices: we added an item number so you can better keep track of an item’s position on the estimate or invoice.
  • Estimates/Invoices: it’s now possible to collapse long item descriptions, making it easier to review and organize an estimate or invoice.
  • Estimates/Invoices: we added a preview option, so you can preview how the PDF looks.
  • My Tasks: when you hover over the Job ID you can now see the job’s name.
  • Assigned users: your user now displays “Me” on it, so it’s easily identifable.
  • Assigned user selection: your user now appears at the top of the list, making it easier to select yourself.
  • Job profile: you can now sort job assets (on the assets table) by date.
  • Files & Docs: you can now upload video files.

Bug fixes:

  • Personal tasks: the bug allowing pinned tasks to be drag and dropped below unpinned tasks has been smashed.
  • Estimates/Invoices : the bug causing some navigations problems with inventory items has been resolved.
  • Permissions: the bug causing an access error when trying to submit forms has been crushed.
  • History log button: the button is now hidden from users who don’t have access to the logs.

November 8, 2022

New!

  • Appointments: a history log has been added, so you can see exactly what happened on each appointment.
  • Company Settings > Inventory Items: an Item type field has been added, so you can now categorize items as a “Service” or “Product”.

Improvements:

  • Tasks & Forms: we added a preview option on the form and list template list.
  • Assign user modal: we added a shortcut so you can quickly assign yourself.
  • Reminder modal: we added a shortcut so you can quickly select yourself as the reminder recipient.
  • Invoices: when all payments are removed the invoice’s status will now be updated to Unpaid.

Bug fixes:

  • Company Settings > Estimates & Invoices: the bug causing a false positive “unsaved changes when you attempting to leave the page has been crushed.
  • Invoices: the issue causing an estimate’s terms and conditions to be transfered to an invoice when generating an invoice from an estimate has been resolved.
  • Job history: the bug causing a blank “Description” to be logged each time the job’s details are updated has been smashed.

November 3, 2022

New!

  • Reminders: you can now schedule reminders for your users and for your customers. Noice!
  • Notification preferences: from your user profile you can manage how you would like to receive notifications.

Improvements:

  • Invoices: when updating the status to Paid or Partially paid you will now be prompted to provide a payment amount.
  • Files & Docs: you can sort files by newest/oldest.
  • Estimates: when you email yourself a copy of an estimate, the status will no longer be updated to Sent.

Bug fixes:

  • Estimates & Invoices: the bug causing causing the items to be displayed out of order has been crushed.
  • Files & Docs: the bug causing files to be displayed in the wrong order has been smashed.
  • Deleted asset modal: the issue causing you to stay on an invalid screen after closing a pop up which informed you the asset has been deleted has been resolved.

October 25, 2022

Improvements:

  • Jobs: job address is now optional - to create a job you now need just a customer name and job name (and the job name can be auto-populated! So potentially you’ll need to input just one field).
  • Customer import: an error report has been added. To correct errors you can update the error report, save it (as a CSV), and then upload it.
  • Company Settings > Estimates & Invoices: you can now select the default setting for whether you’d like to display the line item pricing and/or the quantity field.
  • Appointment datepicker: UI improvements.
  • Form creation: workflow improvements.

Bug fixes:

  • Invoice: the bug preventing newly created invoices from initially being in a ‘Draft’ state has been fixed.
  • Estimates / Invoices: the layout issue causing Terms and Conditions to sometimes overlap items has been corrected.
  • Customer profile: the issue causing an error message to appear when deleting customers has been resolved.
  • Appointment: the bug causing a deleted appointment’s modal to remain open after deletion has been smashed.
  • Calendar: the time zone issue which sometimes caused the incorrect date in the datepicker to be shown has been told to sod off.

October 19, 2022

Improvements:

  • Forms: UX workflow improvements.
  • Assign users: we added a ‘Notify newly assigned users’ option, so that you can notify assigned users in real time.

Bug fixes:

  • Appointments: a bug that prevented the “all day” button from working on copied appointments has been smashed into oblivion.

October 12, 2022

Improvements:

  • Appointments: the “All day” time range is now inherited from the working hours time range set in your company settings.
  • Calendar: you can can now trigger appointment creation by clicking on a calendar cell.

Bug fixes:

  • Files & Docs: the issue with an inconsistent URL has been resolved.
  • Job Notes: a bug causing mentioned assets from not being saved to edited notes has been crushed.

October 4, 2022

New!

  • Customers import: we finally added a DIY customers import feature. Noice! Check out the tutorial here.
  • Estimate and Invoice headers and footers: in Company Settings you can now add a header or footer to your estimates and invoices. This is perfect for adding things like license numbers, slogans, etc.

September 28, 2022

Improvements:

  • Customer search: improved search parameters.
  • Invoice payments: the Apply balance button is no longer hidden when balance is 0.

Bug fixes:

  • Invoices: the totals for Amount paid and Remaining balance now reflect saved payments only.
  • Form PDF: long names will now wrap.
  • Notifications menu: the notification menu will now stay open after you click “Load more”.
  • Calendar filter: renamed “Job status” → “Appointment Status”.
  • Appointment validation: validation message corrected.

September 20, 2022

Improvements:

  • Address auto-population: improved handling of address auto-population for non-USA/Canada addresses.
  • Customer profile: a clickable Job ID was added to the Appointments, Estimates, and Invoices tables.
  • ‘Send email’ option: it’s now easier to send a copy of an email to yourself.
  • Inventory items: we improved inventory suggestions that appear on the dropdown list that appears while typing.

Bug fixes:

  • Task templates: the bug causing field numbers to always be enabled has been fixed.

September 13, 2022

Improvements:

  • Tasks: files are now associated with the primary task, and not the list of subtasks.

Bug fixes:

  • Appointments: sum of hours is displayed are now displayed when only some of the assigned users have checked out.
  • Forms: the bug allowing user to submit form without entering a value for required field has been crushed.
  • Forms: the bug which caused the status of the form not to change to “In Progress” has been fixed.

September 6, 2022

Improvements:

  • Nav bar: a counter was added to the My Tasks and Notifications icons.
  • Tasks: you can now drag’n’drop to sort priority.
  • Forms: you can now include helper text to an item.
  • Forms: updates made to the PDF.
  • Customer profile: you can now sort jobs by date created.

Bug fixes:

  • Appointments: an error which can occur when creating multiple appointments has been fixed.
  • Job profile & Job Filters: the UI bug which allowed you to populate more than one radio button has been crushed.

August 30, 2022

Improvements:

  • File upload: the individual file size limit was increased to 60MB.
  • Company Settings: UI updates.
  • Inventory Items: improved dropdown suggestions.

Bug fixes:

  • Job history log: estimates & invoices are now clickable.
  • Tasks: the bug causing list items to be saved even after a list was removed has been fixed.
  • Tasks & Forms: the bug causing all words to start with an uppercase character has been crushed.
  • Estimates/Invoices attachments: we squashed the bug which caused a file top open after it was deleted.

August 25, 2022

New!

  • Introducing Tasks! Now you can create both personal tasks and job tasks. Each task can have a list of subtasks added to it.

Improvements:

  • Company Settings: a permission for History Log has been added to User Roles. Now it’s possible to control which users have access to a job’s history.
  • Job History Log: assets are now clickable.
  • Job History Log: now displaying history of created and deleted assets (appointments, estimates, invoices, etc.).
  • When hovering over a “completed” badge for appointments, tasks, and forms - the timestamp is displayed.
  • Appointments: improved handling of “all day” appointments.
  • Customer Profile: ‘Job name’ has been added to the Appointments, Estimates, and Invoices tables.

Bug fixes:

  • Job profile: the bug resulting with a user being assigned to the same job twice has been crushed.
  • Appointments: the bug which was updated the “end time” whenever the “start time” was updated, has been fixed.
  • Estimates & Invoices: we removed the possibility for a user to initiate creation of estimates/invoices without proper permissions.

August 2, 2022

Improvements:

  • Company Settings: there are now separate Terms & Conditions for Invoices & Estimates.
  • Company Settings: now you can choose to autopopulate a job’s name with the customer name or job address.

July 27, 2022

Improvements:

  • Estimates, Invoices, Lists, Forms: a timestamp has been added to the date created block.
  • Company Settings: UI updates.
  • Filters: major UI update, including better handling of responsive.
  • Inventory items: a ‘Cost’ field has been added.

Bug fixes:

  • Emails: a bug that caused emails with heavy attachments to get stuck has been fixed.
  • Appointments: the bug resulting with an inconsistency between the web and mobile app when “all day” was selected has been crushed.

July 19, 2022

Improvements:

  • Job notes: you can now see when a note has been edited.
  • Filters: a new look and behavior was introduced.
  • Private notes: minor UI improvements.

Bug fixes:

  • Private notes: we removed the possibility to make other users’ notes private.
  • Address: the occasional problems with Google autocomplete have been addressed.
  • Assigned Users to Job Profile: the bug related to users who were assigned to lists or forms has been obliterated.

July 5, 2022

New features!

  • History Log: now you can see a log of job updates.
  • Private notes: now you can post internal notes which will be visible just to you

Improvements:

  • Company Settings: we introduced a new look! We hope you like it.
  • Company Settings → Users: a notes field was added.
  • Lists/Forms PDFs: attached files appear as clickable links.

Bug fixes:

  • Form Templates: the bug that sometimes disabled the “Create template” button has been fixed.
  • Job: the bug which sometimes prevented you from editing a ‘one-time job address’ has been squashed.
  • Phone numbers: the bug which caused problems for the Extension field has been crushed.

June 22, 2022

Improvements:

  • Lists & Forms: minor improvements to the PDF layouts.

Bug fixes:

  • Timesheets: we fixed the bug which didn’t allow you to click on the minutes field.
  • Forms: we squashed the bug which sometimes prevented you from adding another item for Single or Multiple choice responses.
  • Job profile: the bug which prevented the Invoice counter from updating has been blasted.

June 14, 2022

Improvements:

  • Appointments: when an appointment has a Completed status, the “check-in” button will no longer be displayed. (Tip: if you need to record a check-in time on an already completed appointment, assign yourself to the appointment and update the check-in/out times.)
  • Appointments: improved appointment creating/editing process.
  • Calendar: UI improvements to filters.
  • Customer profile: we made it easier to clear selected tag.
  • Improved warning when a file larger than 20MB is uploaded.
  • Update to scrollbar for Windows users.

Bug fixes:

  • List/Form: we squashed the bug which sometimes caused an assignee to not display as assigned.
  • Estimate/Invoice: we fixed the bug which made it impossible to remove an assigned Salesperson.