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January Update: Explaining Average Billable Rates

...yes, we skipped December. Hopefully you got to take some time off for the holidays and re-calibrated, re-focused, and are re-ally interested in what we've got cooking thus far in 2019. We've been…

September Update: Export Timers

September is coming to a close (and so is Summer, boo), and we’re looking forward to focusing on useful new features related to time tracking and project planning. But we’re here to talk about…

August Update: Archive Clients

August was a busy month, with lots of time spent on annoying updates to our payment processor. But we did find the time to work on something more fun, and a much-requested feature: Client Archives.…

June Update: Dashboard Activity Feed

This month we worked on a new design to bring back the Dashboard Activity Feed. Before we launched the redesign, Ballpark’s dashboard was mostly a stream of activity grouped loosely by the type of…

Re-Introducing Ballpark

Your business shouldn’t keep you up at night. You finally call it a day and leave the office. The moment you walk in the door at home, that feeling hits you: you forgot something at work. You’re…

Track and Invoice Your Expenses

Expense tracking has definitely been one of our most-requested features, and we’re excited to release our first pass at it today. You can now track expenses, and we’ve made it super easy. Tracking…

Beginning Again

It’s been a year since we bought Ballpark, and while we’ve fixed a lot of problems and made some solid improvements, we haven’t really announced anything huge. We already know Ballpark is a…

Taking a Monster Swing

In February, we bought Ballpark. We posted all about the process of buying it and shared our plans with you: We want to improve and add features, make some user experience updates and see Ballpark…

Stepping Up To The Plate

Hi, we’re Simple Focus, and we’re proud and excited to announce that, last week, we bought Ballpark from MetaLab. First, a little bit about us: we’re a team of product and interface designers…