Are You Ready to Wave with Wrike? Whether you already using Google Wave, or just thinking of giving it a try, we’ve got fabulous news for you!

Starting on February 3, you’ll be able to boost your project management productivity in Wrike by adding Google Wave collaboration feature set to your project management tool. Wrike is the first project management software that allows you to manage your projects directly from Google’s communication platform.

Wrike’s Google Wave integration will allow you to seamlessly turn your waves into tasks, set due dates, update your project schedule and add your Wave discussions as comments to tasks in Wrike! This instant collaboration combination is a breakthrough in the project management space and an outstanding achievement in team productivity. Give it a try, and you’ll see why.

To start managing your projects in Wrike from Google Wave is as easy as 1,2,3. Just add a new contact, wrike-wave@appspot.com, to your Wave (1).


 
Then create a new wave and add Wrike to it (2).


 
This new wave will be your Wrike task. Immediately, Wrike will respond with a request to connect your Wave account to your Wrike account. (That will appear in a separate wave) (3).


 
Once you follow the link, Wrike will recognize you and create your task in your workspace.
To share your new task with your team members, add them to the same wave. Those who have already been registered in Wrike will be recognized by the system. 

All the comments (or “blips” in Google Wave’s terminology) that you and your colleagues add to your task wave will be automatically turned into comments in the task discussion in Wrike. All the changes you make to the main wave content will be added to the task description, as well.

The next time you discuss a project-related task with your team members in Google Wave, simply add Wrike (wrike-wave@appspot.com) to your wave, and let your project management software keep track of all the changes.

Moreover, you can set due dates for your tasks, place them in the right folders and update your project schedule directly from the Wave. When you create a new task, you can use the wave titles just like e-mail subjects to place your task into the appropriate folder and set the correct due date.

For example, if you need to create a task called “update our Web site” in the “ourwebsite.com” folder, and if you want to set the due date to February 18, you simply need to put ourwebsite.com :: update our Web site by 02/18 in the wave title, and don’t forget to add Wrike to your newly created wave.



Wrike will recognize the familiar subject, place your task right where you want it to be and set the due date. Your timeline in Wrike will be updated automatically. It’s a significant productivity advantage that you and your whole team will benefit from when using Wrike with Google Wave.

Note: At the moment, Google Wave API has a number of limitations that restrict Wrike’s integration functionalities. Hardworking Google developers promise to get rid of these limitations soon. Meanwhile, there are several things that we want to bring to your attention.

1.    When you create a task in Wrike from the Wave, it will not be assigned to anyone, so you’ll need to assign your task directly from Wrike.

2.    For now, the system can sync changes made to your tasks in the Wave; however, it will not translate the updates you made to the task in your Wrike workspace to Google’s platform. So if you create a task from the Wave make changes to the task description in Wrike, and then try to update the main wave content from Google’s platform, the changes that you made in Wrike will be lost.

3.    We recommend that you add your team members to your Wrike account first and only then invite them to the task discussion in the Wave.

We’ll keep you updated on the progress.

Do you have a weekly status meeting? Do you have to regularly create sales reports? Or maybe you issue monthly newsletters? In these and thousands of other cases, you will be pleased with the new recurring tasks feature available in Wrike. Now, when you create or edit a task, you can check a box to turn the task from a one-time event to a recurring event.

The recurring tasks feature is great addition to other scheduling options, like customized work days, intraday tasks and task dependencies in Wrike.  Automatic scheduling of recurring tasks will help you reduce time spent on daily planning and result in more realistic plans.

Once the “recurring” box is checked in the task edit form, you will see a pop-up dialog that lets you set up the frequency of your task or event.



For example, if you want to schedule the design of a weekly newsletter due every Monday, you select the “Weekly” button, set it to reoccur every week and check the box called Monday. Then you set the duration of the task recurrence by entering the start day as next Monday, for instance, and the end day as one month later.



After you save the changes to the task, a series of tasks will be added to your Wrike workspace. The tasks will differ by date and title.  A number (starting from 1) will be added to the end of each task title in the series. In our example, we will see  four tasks: “designing weekly newsletter 1,” “designing weekly newsletter 2,” “designing weekly newsletter 3” and “designing weekly newsletter 4” with the corresponding due dates on December 21, December 28, January 4 and January 11. Your recurring tasks are marked up with a special icon in the task list, as well as on the timeline:



When necessary, you can edit the series of tasks by updating the recurrence pattern, or edit an individual task by changing its title, date, description, etc. If you change the due date of an individual task and later update the recurrence pattern, the due date of the individual task will be updated as well. Say you reschedule the task called “designing weekly newsletter4” from January 11 to January 12 and then update the recurrence pattern so that  the task is due each Wednesday, instead of each Monday, the “designing weekly newsletter4” task will be rescheduled for Wednesday, January 13.  

Many of you know that Wrike recently became available in Spanish. Initially, the language of your Wrike interface depended on the domain where you signed up: at www.wrike.com (English) or at www.wrike.es (Spanish). Now we have added the ability to change the language of your Wrike workspace easily.

First, the language option is now available on every page of Wrike’s Web site (see the top right corner of the Web page).



Additionally, you can customize the language of your Wrike workspace and the language of e-mail notifications that you receive from Wrike by using the “My profile” tab (2) that is in the "Account" section (1). Once you switch the language (3) under your personal profile, do not forget to save the changes (4), so that they come into effect!



Each user can individually set the desired language because the settings are personal and do not affect the entire account.

If you were you waiting for the release of Wrike’s interface in Spanish, you will be pleased with the latest updates. Since today, it becomes more convenient for you, as well as your Spanish-speaking team members, clients and partners to collaborate on projects with the help of Wrike. 

To make your experience as pleasant as possible, we made our best to carefully translate Wrike’s workspace, notifications, alerts and help pages. We believe that the possibility to work in the Spanish interface will make your work with Wrike even more enjoyable. Also, it will let you invite more Spanish speaking peers to collaborate with you on Wrike.

“It is very exciting to launch the first localized version of Wrike,” said Nic Bryson, VP of Customer Relations. “With plans for more languages in the future, such as German, French, Portuguese, and Italian, we started with Spanish, the one most called-for by our users. We value our Spanish-speaking customers who have been using Wrike in English to date. We believe that they, as well new Spanish-speaking users, will be pleased with the convenience of using Wrike in their native language.”

How can I see Wrike in Spanish? Visit www.wrike.es or, have Spanish as a high priority language in your Web browser:


 
If you are happy with the release as we are, a tweet or a short blog post about it will become a great “thank you” for our efforts to deliver the Spanish version to you:) Thank you for continuous support and using Wrike’s English version!

Want to see Wrike in your language? Let us know in the comments to this post. Your vote counts!

As you know, Wrike has a keyboard-friendly navigation that makes it easy for you to create and update tasks.

Today, we added a new shortcut for creating tasks inline: “C”. You simply click the right pane with the task list (1), hit “C” on your keyboard, and a new task is created (2). Then, you enter the task title (required), due date and the responsible person (optional) and hit “Enter.”
 


Why is this shortcut so special? It works well for Mac users!
 
As before, you can create tasks by hitting “insert” on your PCs.

Besides Wrike’s new, cost-effective pricing model, you will also be pleased with the enhanced Wrike’s user management engine.

1. The new engine lets you have many user administrators in one account (1).  User administrators can create new users (2) in the account, as well as redistribute subscriptions and additional features among the users (3), but they cannot make purchases or billing changes.

All purchases can be made by the account billing administrator – the person who subscribed to a Wrike trial on wrike.com and then entered credit card information to continue using the service after the trial. The billing administrator also has all privileges of user administrators.



2. The new engine allows administrators to have more control over users. For example, administrators can instantly delete users. If administrator removes a user, the user account is instantly deleted with all user’s information, including tasks and attachments created by the user.



3. The new engine supports a long-requested feature: If you accidentally or deliberately included some person in your email correspondence and CCed wrike at wrike.com, the user is not automatically invited by Wrike.

Instead, the person’s name goes to the administrators' user management tab marked as a “user awaiting invitation” (1). And it’s up to administrators if and when to invite the person to Wrike (2).



4. Finally, storage space was increased up to 5GB per user on the new subscriptions.

All features described above are tied into new subscriptions, so if you are subscribed to an old plan and like the feature, you need to upgrade. To upgrade, contact our support department at support at team.wrike.com.

Besides project discussions, another feature often asked for by many of our users--estimation of task duration in hours--is now live.

To help you build a more precise schedule, we’ve added the ability to set task duration to minutes (1).



Examples of valid entries in the duration field: "2h 30 m", "5d", "3h",  "15m". In other words, you can use the following format to set tasks’ duration: "3d 4h 5m". The task duration feature allows you to enter the correct number of days, hours and minutes or to remove unnecessary parameters.

If you enter a fractional number of days, like "0.5d" Wrike will turn it into "4h" to represent half of the working day. If you enter a fractional number of hours or minutes, Wrike will round it to the nearest whole number.

Project and task discussions are a feature frequently requested by many of our users. We worked hard to create a neat solution that will let you add comments to tasks not only online but also via e-mail. This is a big step forward in project communications, enabling you to leverage the benefits of email and the web interface at full power. Let’s look at the details.

Tasks in Wrike now have a special tab called "Discussions" (1). There you can leave your comments (2) with images (3) and attachments (4) to the task and view messages of other team members (5).



When you update a task via email by adding wrike@wrike.com to the task recipients, Wrike intelligently identifies your comment (6) and adds it to task’s discussions (7).

All attachments to the comments are also visible from the "Files" tab (8). This lets you access important project information from both places.



How much does the useful upgrade cost you? Nothing! The feature is added to your subscription for free.

Wrike is a project management software provided as a service. Every day we work hard to make our service even better and more valuable for you.

On top of small enhancements every week or two, today, we are glad to introduce a significant system upgrade that will bring a great productivity gain to you.

Today, we present several new productivity features that are added to your existing user subscription for free, as well as extra features that can be additionally purchased with the new pricing.

Among the new free productivity features added to your subscription are 1) project and task discussions and 2) estimation of tasks in hours.

Finally, we’ve enhanced our user management engine and pricing model and made it more tempting for you to invite more co-workers, clients and contractors to collaborate with you on Wrike.

Click on the links above to find out more details about the new features and the pricing.

We are glad to share news about the enhanced pricing model with you. We’ve revised our pricing and made it more tempting for you to invite more co-workers, clients and contractors to collaborate with you on Wrike.

To make it happen, we’ve introduced new subscriptions, such as "Manager," "Collaborator" and "Viewer," and let you mix these user types within one account.

Viewer
The special "Viewer" subscription helps you inexpensively involve an UNLIMITED number of people who need to access tasks assigned and shared with them, but do not actively participate in project collaboration. Viewers can mark tasks assigned to them as completed via e-mail or the Web interface, they are also notified about changes.
In short, features available for Viewers include:
•    View unlimited projects
•    View unlimited tasks
•    Discussions (view only)
•    Intelligent Email Engine™ (only notifications and marking tasks as completed)
•    Flexible Structures™ (view only)

Unlike other Wrike subscriptions, "Viewer subscription costs do not depend on a number of Viewer users, you simply pay as small fee as $9.95 for a package that includes unlimited number of Viewer users.

Collaborator
The "Collaborator" subscription costs $9.95 per user per month and lets people create and edit tasks and projects using Wrike’s interactive Web site or their favorite e-mail software. They can use Wrike’s unique timeline to visualize and schedule their tasks. Collaborators can share files in Wrike and discuss tasks. In short, features available for Collaborators include:
•    Unlimited projects (create, edit, view and delete)
•    Unlimited tasks (create, edit, view and delete)
•    Discussions
•    Intelligent Email Engine™
•    Flexible Structures™
•    Dynamic Timeline™ (besides creating task dependencies)
•    500MB of file storage

Manager
The "Manager" subscription is specially created for managers and people who need full control of the projects. In addition to collaborators’ features, managers can create templates, using Excel export and import. They can build task dependencies, using Wrike’s unique, interactive timeline to easily control the schedule. Managers also can run reports and see the task-changes history. If a user has Microsoft Project files, the Manager subscription lets the user easily import them to Wrike, share with team members and work on them together. The manager’s subscription costs $19.95 per user per month and includes a wide range of Wrike’s unique features, such as:
•    Intelligent Email Engine™
•    Flexible Structures™
•    Dynamic Timeline™ (including task dependencies creation)
•    Unlimited projects (create and edit)
•    Unlimited tasks (create and edit)
•    Discussions
•    MS Project import
•    Excel import and export
•    Templates
•    Revision history
•    5GB of file storage

With the new pricing some features are now separated from the main subscriptions, and you can add these features exactly to those users who really need them thus saving your money. These features are
•    Time-tracking ($7.95 per user per month),
•    Windows Mobile sync ($3.95 per user per month),
•    Outlook sync ($3.95 per user per month), 
•    RSS and iCal feeds (both for $1.95 per user per month).

For new customers, the new pricing model went into effect on May 25, 2009.  For more information about the new pricing, please visit http://www.wrike.com/pricing.jsp. For existing customers, the new pricing is optional and they can switch to it at any time.

We hope that the new “mix and match” pricing with unlimited Viewer accounts will help you grow your accounts cost-effectively and plug more people from inside and outside of your organization in the process. To upgrade, contact our support department at support at team.wrike.com.