Our team’s been busy working on many things (including the iphone/ipad app – more news on it quite soon), and we’re almost ready to launch the first batch of changes. Here’s a few of the things that are about to be updated on Goplan:

Text input will change dramatically. Many of you (and ourselves) had problems with the way you write comments, discussions, or fill things like task descriptions. Textile, which we use for text input is “okay” but far from a perfect solution. So we rebuilt our text-input from the ground up. You’ll now be able to preview things *as you type*, instead of having to guess how things would look like after clicking “Submit”. The screenshot above reflects those changes – we think you’ll love it.

More flexible ways to subscribe. We’re finally ready to offer more payment options as an alternative to Paypal. We’ve spent the last few weeks looking into every nook and cranny in order to allow you to securely subscribe using any major credit cards directly from Goplan – effectively dumping the need for a Paypal account. With this major update, we’ll be ready to give out promotional codes, have more flexible payments, and be easier on you. We can’t wait to launch this.

There’s a lot more coming in the next few days – we expect to launch these changes first thing next week. We’ve been getting an unprecedented number of feedback emails (thanks! keep them coming!) and have been doing quite a few tweaks based on your awesome feedback. Keep an eye out on this blog and our twitter feed for updates!

A few of you have been waiting for this for quite a while, so here’s some good news: Now you can attach files to any comment on Goplan. No more linking to remote files, or uploading files, then copying links just to show that new design. Now you can include files straight from comments to discussions, tasks, tickets, or other files!

The feature is already live for all our users, so feel free to start using it right away. We hope this improves the experience of discussions on Goplan. As always, feel free to send us your thoughts and feedback. There’s a lot more coming, so keep an eye on our blog!

While work continues on large things like the iPhone app and a revamped permission system, we decided to roll out a few minor features we’ve been working on. So about an hour ago we updated Goplan with the ability for administrators to edit profiles for the whole company – something people have been requesting for a long time – and better filtering on the time-tracking screen.

In the next few days we’ll be rolling out more features we’ve been working on, including the ability to attach files to any comment anywhere on the application, which should make it much easier to collaborate from anywhere inside the app – like discussions, tasks and tickets. There’s a number of new and exciting things coming, so keep an eye out on this blog ;-)

As a bonus, here’s a photo of the office while we work on the upcoming iPhone and iPad applications. More updates on that one are coming very soon too. We’re considering doing a few blogposts on the design and development decisions behind the app.

Yesterday we rolled out a new homepage for Goplan. The old one was pretty cool, but it didn’t necessarily reflect how our product looks like, or particularly appeal to our user base. So we built a new one from the ground up, based on the aesthetics that you were already used to from inside the application. We hope you like it! Screenshots of the old and new pages are included below.

The old homepage:

And the new homepage:

As with the product itself, we care about your thoughts and opinion, so if you have any feedback on the new homepage, do let us know! We already had a bunch of feedback on Twitter and did a few tweaks based on it. Thanks, guys.

And with that, we’ll get back to work on a bunch of really cool stuff we’re about to roll out. Keep an eye out on our blog!