FreeAgent Budget Summary « Outlandish Ideas

This Firefox and Chrome extension adds a small graph to the FreeAgent project summary screen showing the labour spend, project expenses and remaining budget.

FreeAgent is a web application to help small businesses like us keep our accounts in shape. It’s great and it makes our lives so much easier but it lacks a quick way to see if a project is on track or in danger of going over budget.

Using the information already contained on the project summary screen, the extension creates an At a Glance box containing a stacked bar chart showing expenses, labour (time multiplied by billing rate) and remaining budget.

If your project has the misfortune to go over budget, this is also shown on the chart.

Install

Click to install FreeAgent Budget Summary.

Firefox users need to add the Greasemonkey extension before clicking the link above.

Google Chrome users just go ahead and click the install link, you have Greasemonkey functionality built in.

Internet Explorer and Safari users may be able to get add-ons to support Greasemonkey scripts but we haven’t tested this so we can’t give you any guidance.

The extension runs entirely within the page in your web browser. None of your personal information is sent anywhere else.

We’ve been using it for a week or so and it’s been really helpful. We hope you find it useful too.

Limitations

The chart is not shown if the project does not have a budget or billing rate set. Also, if the budget is set in days rather than hours or pounds, the chart is not shown as it is not possible to convert days into hours without knowing the length of a working day (i.e. 7, 7.5 or 8 hours).

Billable and unbillable hours are counted together.

Change Log

v1.4 – 15 Nov 2011
Updated to match new freeagent.com URLs
v1.3 – 20 Jul 2011
Tweak to account for change in page HTML
v1.2 – 6 Jul 2011
Fixes bug that stopped it working on other FreeAgent domains (thanks Japh)
Auto-detects the currency
v1.1 – 25 May 2011
Shows exact figure for labour, expenses and remaining budget as well as graph
v1.0 – 13 Apr 2011
First public release

Posted 13 Apr 2011
By Tamlyn
6 comments

Comments

Japh 4 Jul 2011

Hey guys,

Great little script! I hadn’t even realised I needed it til I found it :)

I’ve tweaked it a little for my own purposes, so that it uses my sub-domain instead of yours and my currency symbol too.

One suggestion I would make, is that you make the script use whatever currency symbol is already on the page? That might make it a little more user-friendly.

Thanks again!