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A customers view: 5pm, Basecamp.. Hold the Phone! What’s this Copper Project all about!?

Posted by Dan Hunter on July 14, 2010 in Project Management Software, Testimonials Leave a comment

Thanks for the Praise Mike:

“I considered using 5pm and Basecamp when I started looking into project management software because I had already been using both on various projects. Damn, am i glad I chose Copper – having used the alternatives, I can say I absolutely LOVE Copper and it keeps getting better and better. To top things off, the Copper team is always quick to respond and always helpful when I have questions or issues with anything.
The user interface rocks, unlimited clients and projects makes me sing, and the functionality is solid. Great work, guys!”

Enough said!

The Team at Copper Project

New version out now, 4.3.3!

Posted by admin on July 7, 2010 in Announcements, Project Management Software 1 Comment
We’ve just dropped v4.3.3, which includes a of new tweaks and a new features. In fact, since our last email, here are the things which have been added to Copper in a few short months, and more is on the way!
- Great new Budgets tab in Projects, with handy chart showing project budget progress, and timeline of invoicing. Plus! CSV export for import into Quickbooks/MYOB
- Billing is now ready for integration with Xero and Freshbooks.
- Great new task drag and drop in project breakdown view makes it super easy to reorder, and create subtasks.
- Refinements to Time and Comment Entries (via 3 ways, in stopwatch timer, in task view, and in the To Do view)
- Improved embedded URLs across Copper allowing easy linking to external assets and other web apps.
- Improvements to special character rendering for multiple languages (Copper is now available in 5 languages, and is ready for easy translation).
- Added ability to turn off Relative Dates,
- Fixed bugs that annoyed Ben and the rest of the Copper Family.
- Added our fantastic new Copper Logo and Favourite Icon.
- Added Help Links to the menu, and debug code for better diagnosis and Support
Want to see more? Great! Provide your feedback here in the community.
If you’re a customer and would like to be a beta tester for new features, please let us know via info@copperproject.com

We’ve just dropped v4.3.3, which includes a of new tweaks and a new features. In fact, since our last email, here are the things which have been added to Copper in a few short months, and more is on the way!

- Great new Budgets tab in Projects, with handy chart showing project budget progress, and timeline of invoicing. Plus! CSV export for import into Quickbooks/MYOB
- Billing is now ready for integration with Xero and Freshbooks.
- Great new task drag and drop in project breakdown view makes it super easy to reorder, and create subtasks.
- Refinements to Time and Comment Entries (via 3 ways, in stopwatch timer, in task view, and in the To Do view)
- Improved embedded URLs across Copper allowing easy linking to external assets and other web apps.
- Improvements to special character rendering for multiple languages (Copper is now available in 5 languages, and is ready for easy translation).
- Added ability to turn off Relative Dates,
- Fixed bugs that annoyed Ben and the rest of the Copper Family.
- Added our fantastic new Copper Logo and Favourite Icon.
- Added Help Links to the menu, and debug code for better diagnosis and Support

Want to see more? Great! Provide your feedback here in the community.

If you’re a customer and would like to be a beta tester for new features, please let us know via info@copperproject.com

A message from a long-term customer

Posted by admin on June 5, 2010 in Project Management Software, Testimonials Leave a comment

This is why we love building and refining Copper. What other job would offer the honour of being privvy to hundreds of different business models across the globe, all with a single purpose, to better manage their businesses and add value to their customers in turn.

This is from W. Ross Wells, from ZenFilm in Texas.

We started our company in September of 2005 in the living room of our house… after years of operating much larger production facilities… the paradigm for production was changing and we saw that smaller, lower overhead, aggressive little shops might have the staying power in the changing media climate.

4 years later… we have 9 employees and we have experienced exponential client and revenue growth.. Copper has been with us ever since we added our first employee… it has grown with us and honestly it is part of the family.

You made an extremely high end management system available to us when we had no cash to spend… and now that things are better… we have a really high performance platform to run our company with.
It means a lot that you are doing well… sometimes we dont stop to think how far we’ve come… we have come a long way and you have helped us do it.

Sincere thanks and best wishes for many more years of partnership.

Thanks Ross, as discussed we’ll beer it up next time I’m State-side.

Copper Project Management Software and PRINCE2

Posted by admin on June 5, 2010 in Project Management Software Leave a comment

Fresh from our Community, a question about Copper and Prince2. We’re much obliged to answer!

March Special Offer & News

Posted by admin on June 5, 2010 in Newsletters, Project Management Software Leave a comment

Our latest newsletter is jam packed full of nerve endings!

Click here to catch up on the latest and greatest news.

License upgrade discount ends December! Only $749!

Posted by admin on December 30, 2009 in News, Project Management Software Leave a comment

If you have a Corporate 2008 or Standard 2008 or earlier server license, take advantage of our special upgrade price of $749 for the very latest v4 codebase. A huge step up from previous versions, click here to purchase

– Ben Prendergast

A message from a long-term customer

Posted by admin on November 27, 2009 in Project Management Software, Testimonials Leave a comment

This is why we love building and refining Copper. What other job would offer the honour of being privvy to hundreds of different business models across the globe, all with a single purpose, to better manage their businesses and add value to their customers in turn.

This is from W. Ross Wells, from ZenFilm in Texas.

We started our company in September of 2005 in the living room of our house… after years of operating much larger production facilities… the paradigm for production was changing and we saw that smaller, lower overhead, aggressive little shops might have the staying power in the changing media climate.

4 years later… we have 9 employees and we have experienced exponential client and revenue growth.. Copper has been with us ever since we added our first employee… it has grown with us and honestly it is part of the family.

You made an extremely high end management system available to us when we had no cash to spend… and now that things are better… we have a really high performance platform to run our company with.
It means a lot that you are doing well… sometimes we dont stop to think how far we’ve come… we have come a long way and you have helped us do it.

Sincere thanks and best wishes for many more years of partnership.

Thanks Ross, as discussed we’ll beer it up next time I’m State-side.

– Ben Prendergast

New Standard v4, Single Codebase, Changelog.

Posted by admin on November 26, 2009 in News, Project Management Software Leave a comment

We’re excited to announce that all of our plans are now under a single build, for the first time in Copper history!

This means that from our Standard product at $29/mth, you now have access to the web’s best project management and collaboration tool. Standard offers the best 5-user PM tool, with interactive gantt charts, resource time management, stopwatches and task comments that drive automated timesheets, billings, and our improved file upload function.

In addition, we’ve been super busy, adding a new file upload feature, improving UI workflows, and have even more planned over the coming weeks.

4.03 Tweaks/Fixes (rolled out 2nd Dec 2009):
- Fixed Projects/Contacts Tab
- Language Token fixes in Projects
- Removed Est/Act/Comp column to declutter project view
- Fixed issue with Springboard Activity Tab not filtering by year
- Now sections remember how a user had them (open/close them, they stay open closed!)
- Fixed New Event on Calendar
- Fixes to Multilanguage in Gantt (Finally! Copper is about 99.999% Translatable now)
More to come in 4.04 – in dev now.

Now there’s no excuse! Come on board and see how Copper can improve your studio/business productivity instantly. If you have any questions or queries, please get in touch!

– Ben Prendergast

Follow us on Twitter!

Posted by admin on October 15, 2009 in News, Project Management Software Leave a comment

Follow us on Twitter for updates, new releases, and other Copper news. Click here: @copperproject

– Ben Prendergast

How does Copper compare to MS Project?

Posted by admin on September 23, 2009 in News, Project Management Software Leave a comment

I received this question today via email, and thought I’d post up my response:

Q. How does copper compare to MS project software? Why use copper, what are the costs and how does it work better than MS project?

A. The biggest issue with MS Project is that it is simple a single user repository and having come from a PM background I often found that it dictated how I work. I also found when I did use it within a team environment that MS Project did nothing to assist in the management of the politics of a project, and tended to make me focus more on the technical side of the timeline than actually getting things done (and the more I focussed on that, the less work that got done, and the more I’d have to update my schedule!)

With Copper, we turned that on its head. We still provide great project setup tools like the flash gantt timeline view and drag and drop subtasks in the project creation screen, but the real power of Copper comes with its multi-user platform, which assists in the collaboration component of all your projects.

Once you’ve allocated your users to tasks (or even gone the extra step of committing their available time, if you want finite resourcing), they then go ahead and provide a running commentary of the work they do along with how long it takes them and their subjective impression of how complete a task is. This is an easy process for them, and provides a natural update mechanism, removing the pain associated with timesheet tracking, and ensuring if one member is away for whatever reason your team can pick up where they left off. This is to say nothing of the other areas of Copper like the document management module, contacts module, reports, and group calendar functions within Copper. Being available anywhere anytime, I don’t hear of may customers going back to MS Project once they’re on board with Copper

The net result is that over time you can review how your projects have tracked and we’ve found teams become more cohesive the more they use Copper. In a recent survey we found that over 80% of our customers save between 10-20 hours per week, and 20% save more than 20 hours a week just by using Copper.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any specific questions on functionality, or anything else for that matter!

– Ben Prendergast