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Proposal deadlines and reminders
A small but powerful addition to our recent Pipeline feature set: your proposals now have a deadline and an optional automatic email that will remind your client if they haven't signed by then.
We're driving a little urgency with your clients to get you going on that work!

When filing expenses in Monograph, QBO-integrated firms will now be prompted to specify the Vendor that these expenses should be associated with within QuickBooks Online.
If a vendor is not yet available within QBO, you are able to click "+ Add vendor" to create a new one.
Non-reimbursable expenses will now have this vendor set as the Payee once the purchase is synced to QBO.
This feature is available on the website and on the mobile application.



Less than a week ago, we introduced our new Pipeline product. Now, Pipeline users will notice a new workflow that makes collecting consultant proposals easier than ever.
When you’re creating a budget for a new lead, you can send proposal requests directly to consultants.

Consultants receive an email, and when they respond with their proposal, we automatically update the lead budget, store the proposal in Monograph, and notify you.
No more re-checking your inbox. No downloading or uploading files. We’ll take care of everything. Learn more here.
Track leads, send proposals, and win more work
You’ve been asking for a better way to manage leads, proposals, and forecasts. We’re excited to
finally
share it.Pipeline
brings the “find new work” process directly into Monograph, so you can manage potential and active projects in one connected system. No more spreadsheets. No separate CRM. Just one source of truth from first conversation to project completion.With Pipeline, you can:
- Track leads, proposals, and wins in one place
- See which opportunities are closing soon and which need attention
- Forecast future revenue and staffing demand
- Move approved work smoothly from potential to project kickoff
- Keep business development and operations aligned around the same data



How to access Pipeline
Pipeline is available as an add-on for
Grow plans
.To learn more or get started, click
Pipeline
in the left navigation.- If you’re an admin, you can unlock Pipeline right in the app—or book a demo with our team.
- If you’re not an admin, you can request access and loop in the right person at your firm.
We’re really excited about this one and yes… there’s more coming!
If you invoice different amounts over the life of a project, your profit and revenue forecasts just got a lot more accurate.
You can now customize anticipated revenue by phase, by month, directly from the project details page. This lets you match your invoicing schedule to how you actually plan to bill your client.

For example, in the screenshot above, the firm expects to invoice 50% of the Schematic Design budget in the first month and 50% in the last month, so they’ve adjusted the schedule accordingly.
If you typically invoice evenly across a phase, there’s nothing you need to do — we automatically create a default, evenly distributed schedule for you.
But if your billing varies over time, be sure to review and update your revenue schedule. Doing so ensures your profit and revenue reports reflect reality as closely as possible.
Learn more here.
Enjoy more accurate profit and revenue forecasts! 📈
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Invoices
Track payment methods in Monograph
Track the specific method of payment your clients use to pay invoices and compare time to payment more effectively.
When recording a manual payment, you will be required to select the type of payment used. These methods will be filterable and sortable on the "Payments" report. 
In addition to logging the payment types, the "Invoices overview" page will now display a chart to compare how quickly your invoices are paid via each method.

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Projects
Customize the names of specific phases
Monograph now allows you to customize the names associated with phases to be more explicit about the work being done both to your team and to your client without losing the aggregations associated with the phase type. With this feature, as an example, you can maintain a generic "Add services" phase type but customize the name(s) on your projects to align them to the specific pieces of work they represent.
Here's how it works
When creating or editing a project's phases, by default the phase name will match the pre-existing phase type name, but you can edit the "Phase name" field to customize what is seen across Monograph for that phase.


The phase name will show anywhere the phase is displayed or filtered on, and the phase type will solely be used when aggregating phase data across multiple phases, such as in the "Group by" function on the Time log report. 


Custom phases are still able to be created by checking the highlighted box when adding a phase type on a project. With this release, the new expectation is that an existing phase type can be used in lieu of a one-off custom phase in most cases.

Giving your clients the best possible experience will help drive future business for your firm.
Clients have always been able to view all the invoices you share with them, pay online and save payment methods.
Now, we've overhauled and expanded the client experience in Monograph so clients can track invoicing progress, retainer application and phase dates.

Read more about the improved client experience, and how this will save your firm time, here.
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Projects
Invoices
Control your billable expense spend!
Set budgets for your billable expenses and use these to understand when invoicing whether you are within limits when getting reimbursed from clients.
How it works
- Add a project-wide or expense category specific budget for a given projecton the Project Budget page

- Track progress towards these limitson your Project Financials or when adding expenses to an invoice

The tooltips on the invoice builder show the impact of the Included expenses and the potential impact if adding a Logged expense towards the specific budget set. Expenses not tied to a budgeted category will not have a tooltip since there is no maximum spend set.
- Lastly, all expenses will now aggregate by category to show cumulative spend on invoices moving forward.To show specific expense details, there is a new "Expense detail" section that will be shown in the Invoice appendices below the "Time log" (if shown). These details can be set to shown or hidden on the Invoice template.

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Invoices
More invoice template settings now available!
Monograph has 2 new invoice template settings available:
consolidating hourly data for identical roles
and hiding employee names on the Time log
Update your existing templates to apply these settings today!
Consolidate hourly data for identical roles
New invoice templates will now default to consolidating hourly data when multiple team members have the same role and rate on a given phase.


While new invoice templates will have this setting on to consolidate data by default, you will need to update any existing templates to confirm this change for those.
This consolidation only applies to the client-facing display. You will still enter the amounts to invoice per each role and rate on the invoice builder.
Hide employee names on the time log
For scenarios where you do not want to communicate the name of the specific team member who logged each timesheet entry, you are now able to disable the employee name column on the time log. 

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