Coming next week: Teams, Permissions, Plan updates. Also, iPhone app updates!
We’re really excited about the changes we’ll be rolling out next week. We’ve been hard at work on some of these things for quite a while now, and can’t wait to finally have you try them out. Without further ado, here’s what’s coming:
Teams and permissions
The big thing we’re rolling out is our “teams and permissions” functionality. You’ll soon be able to divide your users into teams, which can then be assigned to projects with specific permissions (like the ability to read only, or read and make changes). Any user can be in several teams, which means possibilities are endless. You’ll be able to organize your users any way you like.
Permissions solve the problem many of you had of needing a way for your users and collaborators to be limited in the things they could do. So now there’s two main access types to a project, which will be configurable by company administrators through the Projects screen: read only access or read-write access. You can set permissions at the user level, or at the team level (so in a given project members of a “Design team” might read and write, whereas someone else - or a different team - might have read-access only).
In designing the new teams and permissions functionality we’ve made a few changes to users. Most of them are trivial, but there’s one thing you need to keep in mind: the notion of collaborators is going away. Collaborators were users that had access to a given project only. Since our permissions let you do the same thing more easily, everyone’s a user from now on. During the migration to the new functionality, we will automatically create teams for your collaborators, so that they still have access to the projects they were previously on.
Plan updates
With the redesign of our teams and permissions and the removal of collaborators, we had to do a few updates to our plans. Professional and Unlimited accounts aren’t affected, but our Free and Startup plans will suffer minor adjustments. Here’s a breakdown of the new limits for Free and Startup plans, that will be going live next week:
- Free plan: 2 users and 1 project, with 100mb of storage space.
- Startup ($10/mn): 10 users and 10 projects, with 10gb of storage space.
There is a small number of companies who will be negatively affected by this change, and we’re here to help out those that are. Companies on the Startup subscription that go beyond the new limits for their plan will be given an extra 6 months of today’s limits in order to adjust (usually by archiving old projects or removing old users). If you have any questions as to how the plan updates may affect you, feel free to contact our support team. Again, only a small minority of Startup companies will be affected - Professional and Unlimited plans remain unchanged.
iPhone app updates
Finally, a short update on our iPhone application. Those of you who’ve been checking out Get Satisfaction have probably already seen an early screenshot (head there if you haven’t). We’re hard at work at it and don’t expect it to take much longer. There will be a post dedicated exclusively to the iPhone application soon, namely to answer some of your questions on pricing (hint: free for users of our paid plans) and schedule. Keep an eye out on our blog for more screenshots and app-related posts very soon!
Less users and less projects ?? Too bad for FREELANCES.
Comment by Thibaut Ninove — September 13, 2010 @ 7:32 pm