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Product updates, engineering insights, and productivity tips for teams and freelancers.

Retainers That Pay Themselves

Your client saves a card once from a retainer invoice, and every retainer invoice after it is charged when it goes out. Review each draft first, or let a fixed-price retainer run on its own.

Sep 26, 20265 min read

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A Client Portal for Projects, Invoices, and Payments

Give clients one secure place to see project progress, time, expenses, retainers and invoices, then pay an invoice online through your own Stripe account.

Sep 21, 20267 min read

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Send Your Invoices to Xero (Beta)

Connect your Xero organisation and Quanta pushes each invoice you send, and each payment you record, into Xero. Totals match to the cent. It is in beta and on for every workspace.

Sep 7, 20268 min read

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Fixed-Fee Projects in Quanta

Price a project as one number instead of by the hour. Bill the fee in full or in slices, track fee against cost, and still log every hour for the record without those hours turning into billable time.

Sep 4, 20263 min read

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Team Capacity in Quanta

Set a weekly capacity for each person and see tracked hours against it, week by week. A capacity bar per teammate, billable and non-billable split, over-capacity flagged, and utilization at a glance.

Sep 4, 20265 min read

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The Task Library and Task Rates in Quanta

Keep one shared list of tasks every project can use, with names that stay in step everywhere, common tasks added to new projects automatically, per-task billable rates, and a colour for each task that shows across the app.

Sep 4, 20264 min read

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Log Your Time by Asking Claude

An MCP server that lets Claude log your day, fix what you got wrong, and fill your timesheet from your calendar, your commits, or its own session, without leaving the conversation.

Aug 29, 20266 min read

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Budgets in Quanta

Six ways to cap a project: fees or hours, for the whole project, for each task, or for each person. Set a floor as well as a ceiling, decide who sees the money, and switch types without losing what you configured.

Aug 23, 20266 min read

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Retainers in Quanta

Run recurring retainers and prepaid hour blocks end to end. Quanta tracks the burn, drafts the fee and overage invoices on schedule, locks the billed time, and keeps client-level visibility under control.

Aug 23, 202612 min read

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Weekly Timesheet Approval in Quanta

Ask your team to submit their week, review hours by day and by project, and sign off in one place. With multi-level approval, minimum hours, automatic reminders, and weeks that lock once approved.

Aug 12, 20266 min read