What's new in Ancor.
What we shipped, plainly, updated once a month. No launch language. If it is here, it is live in the product today.
INR pricing · GST-ready invoicing · data hosted in Mumbai
Timesheets that close, and invoices that come from them.
Most of this month went into the part of the week after the work is done: getting hours approved, turning them into an invoice, and getting that invoice into your books and paid.
Submit, approve and lock timesheets
People submit their week, a lead approves it, and the week locks. If a week is sent back, the person gets an email saying so. You can also have Ancor remind people to fill in their timesheet on a schedule.
Draft an invoice from logged time
Draft an invoice from the hours logged on a time-and-materials job, or from a fixed-fee milestone, instead of copying numbers out of a timesheet.
Tally export and a UPI QR on invoices
Export invoices, credit notes and payments for Tally, and print a UPI scan-to-pay QR code on the invoice so a client can pay from their phone.
Retainer hours that roll over your way
Choose what happens to unused retainer hours: none roll over, all of them do, they roll over up to a cap, or they expire after a set time.
Change requests the client accepts in one click
The client accepts a change request from their link, and Ancor keeps a record of who accepted it and when.
A Files tab on every project
Upload PowerPoint, MP4 and zip files as well as Word documents, up to 25MB each, and find them on the project.
Free tools you can use without an account
A margin leak check that reads last month's deliverable tracker, and three calculators for utilisation, billable rate and project margin.
Product guide videos and an Android app
Nine short videos that walk through the product, from a first project to the money view. Ancor is also on Android now.
Find anything, and read up on the money side in India.
A smaller month in the product. The main change is that you no longer need to know where a page lives to get to it.
Search for any screen
Press Cmd-K (Ctrl-K on Windows) from anywhere and type what you are after, in your own words. Someone looking for unpaid invoices does not need to know the tab is called Cash. It only shows screens you can open.
Three guides for Indian agencies
Plain write-ups on GST and TDS, retainers and rate cards, with the numbers worked through.
Home tells you what to do next.
We took the score off Home and put a short list there instead: the few things worth doing today, with the money attached.
A Home that lists actions, not scores
Zero to three items, ranked by rupees, each with the next step attached: draft the invoice, add the missing rates, open the scope. When there is nothing worth doing, it says so.
Money in one place
Money opens on a view by client, then shows how much of each scope is used up, what you are waiting on the client for, and a nudge you can edit before it goes.
Prices in rupees first
The site and pricing now lead with rupee prices plus GST, with a switch for other currencies.
Sign-off you can produce, and one screen per client.
A month spent making the two things agencies argue about, money and approvals, hard to lose. Plus a long list of fixes we found by sitting down and using our own product the way a customer does. Some of it was embarrassing. All of it is fixed.
Client sign-off with a full audit trail
The client opens a magic link in their browser, no account and no password, and approves the exact version they are looking at. The record keeps who approved what and when, next to the file, forever. Work marked approved internally that the client never signed off gets flagged before the invoice does.
One screen per engagement
The tasks, the schedule, the files, the client thread, where the money stands, and what has been signed off, all in one place. Opening a client on a Monday takes about ten seconds instead of four tabs.
Lane boards you name yourself
Group the work the way your studio actually thinks about it, not the way a tool decided you should.
Version history on deliverables
V1 through whatever number you are on, dated and in order under the deliverable, so a rollback conversation takes a minute.
A faster cold load
Roughly twenty seconds quicker from a cold start. Small, but you open this thing every morning.
Things we built and never made noise about.
Real features, shipped a while ago, that we undersold. If you are already on Ancor, you may not know these are in there.
Recurring work, generated for you
The same monthly retainer tasks materialise on their own, and each retainer's margin is tracked as it decays, so a retainer going underwater is a number you see in week two.
A pipeline next to the work
A plain CRM for contacts and deals, sitting on the same screen as delivery, so the warm lead does not go cold under a busy month.
Team capacity, added up
Booked hours per person across every project, with the overloaded ones flagged, so you see the 96% before it becomes a resignation.
Weekly digest and client health
A weekly summary of where things stand, and a read on which client relationships are heating up or cooling off.
An API and webhooks
Scoped, rate-limited API keys and outbound webhooks, for the teams that want Ancor talking to the rest of their stack.
Fourteen days free, and we do not ask for a card to start.