This release is a small collection of features that fix friction you've probably just learned to live with.

Plan by duration

Don't have exact dates of the task? Enter working days instead. Set one date and the other fills in automatically, holidays respected. 

Also, when you update Start and End date, number of days are automatically updated.

The tool adapts to how planning actually works

Real working hours

Define your team's actual working days and hours. Task dates now calculate around your schedule, not a theoretical full week.

This will align with your duration. You wont be able to select start or end date on a non working day

Your currency

Set a preferred currency for resource and costing sections in your projects. USD is still the default, but your team's numbers should speak your language.

The same is reflected in Project cost in project detail as well as on timesheet report.

The duration-first planning feature is one we've wanted to build for a long time. Most tools require both a start and end date before they'll do anything useful. But that's not how real planning starts. You know roughly how long something takes, even when you don't know exactly when it happens.

Now you can plan that way. And as you do, Astravue quietly builds a record of your actual effort, so the next project you scope has real data behind it, not just gut feel.

These are small changes. But the right small changes are often what make a tool feel like it finally gets you.

Regards,

Team Astravue

New

Time tracker - Start now, log later

Start a timer instantly without naming a task. When you stop, enter the task details and save. Supports billable toggle and manual entry mode. Designed for uninterrupted work — capture first, categorise after.

Project auto-closure

Project auto-closes when all tasks underneath are closed. You can now toggle on or off depending on your business need.

Improved

Timesheet — show/hide columns + 2 new cost fields

Customise which columns appear in your timesheet view. Two new fields added: Non-billable cost and Total cost — giving teams full cost visibility beyond just billable hours.

We are listening, prioritizing and building the app. So, feel free to drop your feature request. We will definitely look at it.

Regards,

Team Astravue

Enhancements

Global Timesheet — Member Visibility

All team members can now view the global timesheet. The cost column remains restricted to organisation admins and admins only, keeping sensitive data secure.

Global Timesheet — Status Filter

A new status filter has been introduced in the global timesheet, making it easier to slice and analyse time entries by their current state.

Bulk Download for Attachments

You can now bulk-download attachments across projects and tasks in one go — no more downloading files one at a time.

Cleaner Contact Column in Projects Table

The Contact column now displays only the contact name. The email address has been removed from the table view to reduce clutter.

Bug Fixes

Guest login Issue: Resolved a login issue affecting guest users on the Wegot Utility account.

Dependency alignment: Fixed a visual misalignment in the Dependency view.

Unread message behaviour: Clicking an unread message now marks it as read without hiding it immediately. The message disappears only after the next unread message is opened.

Truncated contact email: Long email addresses in contact fields are no longer truncated. Full email is now visible on hover.

Timelog sort order: Timelogs are now sorted by creation time, not by logged time, ensuring chronological accuracy.

Dashboard time discrepancy: Resolved an inconsistency where logged time on the dashboard did not match actual time entries.

Regards,

Ramesh

Founder, Astravue

New feature

Projects now include three built-in fields — Actual Date, Budget, and Spent — giving your team real-time visibility into project finances. With improved spent calculation powered by user timesheets, you can track costs as they happen and keep every project on target.

Enhancements

• Task bulk update — Update multiple tasks at once, saving time on large project changes.
• Global Timesheet Report & Project Timesheet APIs — Both APIs are now fully documented and ready for integration.
• Download all attachments — Download every file attached to a project or task in a single click.

Bug fixes

• Fixed Project Timesheet showing incorrect data due to a date-related issue.
• Fixed Project Edit Customer UI display issue.

Improvements

• Improved Account and Contact redirection flow.
• Enhanced project spent calculation using user timesheet data.

Please share your feedback with us and keep flowing your ideas which would make the app awesome for you and help you with your business growth

We just shipped MCP support for Astravue. Here is what it actually does and why we think it changes how professional services teams work.

The problem it solves

Most teams plan in one tool and execute in another. The gap between those two is where context gets lost, work gets duplicated, and decisions slow down. MCP closes that gap.

What you can do right now

From inside Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or VS Code, you can:

• Create tasks, assign them, and set due dates with a single prompt
• Ask what is overdue across all your projects and get a real answer with owners and deadlines
• Log time, update task status, and manage subtasks without leaving your editor

A real example

Say a project owner wants to spin up a new client deliverable. They type:

"Create five tasks for the homepage redesign, assign them to Sarah, due next Friday"

Tasks appear in Astravue right away. No tab switch, no copy-paste, no re-entry.

Or a developer finishing a feature types:

"Log 2 hours on the API task and mark it in review"

Done. They stay in flow. The work is tracked.

What is covered

Projects and spaces, tasks and subtasks, time tracking, and team operations. If it exists in Astravue, your AI tool can reach it.

Why we built this

AI should be part of execution, not just planning. When your AI tool can actually act inside your project management workspace, the whole team moves faster. Owners get visibility without chasing updates. Team members spend less time on admin and more time on work that matters.

Security

We use OAuth 2.0. No API keys, no extra credentials to manage. You sign in with your existing Astravue account and access is tied to your existing role and permissions. If you only have access to certain projects, the AI tool sees only those. You can revoke access any time.

Rate limits apply per account through the standard Astravue API limits. One heavy session does not affect the rest of your team.

How to connect

1. Add https://api.astravue.com/mcp as an MCP server in your AI tool
2. Sign in with your Astravue account when prompted
3. Start working

Available on all plans. No extra setup needed.

This is live now. Connect your AI tool and try it.

We’ve been listening to the changing trend in AI and SaaS.

Soon, usage based pricing would take over user based pricing. We wanted to be early adoper to this model. So, we have rolled our Lifetime Pack alongside per user pricing. 

Details in astravue.com/pricing

 Smarter Kanban Boards

We’ve overhauled the Kanban experience to make it feel more fluid:

• Drag & Drop Everything: You can now drag entire boards to reorganize your workspace exactly how you want it.
• Smoother Columns: We’ve polished column visibility and movement, so managing your workflow feels snappy and intuitive.
• Reliable Filtering: We fixed a bug where filters didn't always play nice with columns. Now, what you see is exactly what you filtered for.

Better Timesheets & UI

• Stay Focused: In the Timesheet table, the first column now "sticks" while you scroll horizontally. No more losing track of which row belongs to which project!
• Clean Look: We’ve optimized headers and column widths to give your data more room to breathe.
• Custom Field Sorting: Sorting now works perfectly across all your custom fields, making it easier to find the specific data you need.

Managing a global workforce shouldn't feel like a second job. Up until now, capturing team hours meant wrestling with a "Frankenstein" of spreadsheets, messy manual entries, and the constant fear that billable hours were slipping through the cracks of different time zones. It wasn't just tedious; it was an administrative burden on your team’s creativity.

Introducing Global Timesheets in Astravue. Now, your entire team’s hours are unified in a single, seamless view. No more timezone math—just clean, accurate data in one click.

What’s Upcoming:

• Instant Time Tracker: Log hours will become just easier; just click and go.

This week marks a major milestone for Astravue.

We are taking the first structured step toward Project Profitability Control — helping you ensure that your projects don’t silently erode margins.

Resource Management — The Foundation of Profit Protection

Projects don’t lose money dramatically. They leak it gradually.

With the introduction of Resource Capacity Management, Astravue now moves closer to answering a critical business question:

Are we deploying the right people, at the right capacity, within the right budget?

Here’s what this unlocks:

• Visibility into team capacity
• Alignment of resource allocation with planned effort
• The foundation for cost tracking against project budgets
• Prevention of margin leakage before it becomes damage

This will soon be tightly connected witt

• Timesheets clocked by team members
• Budgeted project costs
• Actual effort vs planned effort comparison

The end goal is simple and powerful:

No project should leak money.

You grow your business confidently. You protect your margins. You deliver great customer experience — without compromising profitability.

This is Phase 1. More financial intelligence is coming.

Experience & Usability Enhancements

We also made several improvements to make daily execution smoother and faster.

 Chat Improvements

• Default landing tab changed to Direct Messages for quicker conversations.
• Added dynamic search in chat sidebar for faster project and DM navigation.
• Improved message grouping for better readability.
• Enhanced dynamic scroll handling in project chats to adapt automatically when content changes.

Notifications

• Clicking the notification toggle now automatically marks notifications as read.
• Task close actions now properly handle notifications, mentions, and reminders — ensuring cleaner workflow completion.

Timers

• Global task timer popover now hides automatically when the last active timer stops — cleaner UI, fewer distractions.

As we build Astravue, our focus remains simple: help service teams save time and protect billable minutes.

What’s New

Threaded Context Where Work Happens

Tasks in Astravue now carry their full context. Conversations, updates, and decisions stay threaded with the work itself—so teams don’t waste time searching across tools or re-explaining details.

Why this matters: When context is always relevant and visible, teams make informed decisions faster. Less back-and-forth. Fewer mistakes. More time spent delivering value.

For agencies and professional service teams, every minute counts in billing. This update is designed to respect that reality.

Astravue on Gmail Marketplace

Astravue is now available on the Gmail Marketplace.

Project members and stakeholders can now:

• Raise tasks directly from emails
• Convert client requests into actionable work instantly
• Preserve email context without manual copy-paste

Why this matters: Email is still where a lot of work begins. By turning emails into tasks seamlessly, teams eliminate delays, reduce context loss, and move faster from request to execution.

The Bigger Picture

These updates are about one thing: keeping context connected so teams can move faster, decide better, and stay profitable.

As always, we’re building Astravue for teams who value clarity, accountability, and time.

We’re excited to roll out a suite of new features designed to make your project management and team communication smoother than ever. From enhanced guest permissions to smarter chat tools, here’s what’s new!

Empowered Guest Collaboration

We’ve expanded what guest users can do to help your projects move faster.

• Create Tasks: Guest users are no longer limited to just editing—they can now add new tasks, allowing them to contribute directly to the project pipeline.
• Granular PM Controls: Project Managers now have a toggle for Full vs. Limited privileges. You decide exactly how much control your guests have over task creation and management.

Smarter Team Chat

Communication is the heart of every project. We’ve added two highly-requested features to our chat module:

• Online Status: See who’s available at a glance with real-time presence indicators.
• Threaded Replies: No more lost context in busy group chats! You can now reply directly to a specific message, making it easy to keep track of different conversation threads.

Personalized Views

Everyone works differently. You can now Favorite your most-used views for instant access. Whether it's a specific board, list, or timeline, your favorite workflow is now just one click away.

🛡️ Coming Soon: Task Approvals

We know how quickly "scope creep" can derail a project. We are currently working on an Approval Workflow.

Soon, any task added by a guest or team member can be sent for approval before it officially joins the project scope. This ensures every new item aligns with your project goals and budget.

Regards,

Ramesh