5pm has an open API that our clients can use to extend it with more functions or communicate with other software.
3Digit – an Internet Agency building websites based on TYPO3 – used our API to build custom 5pm Reports. This is what Cedric Moschallski from 3Digit shared with us:
“Currently we use the API to generate Custom Reports which give us some more finegrained views for our customers. Because of the lack of some fields we have schema for our tasks like “Foo task (3)” meaning this task was estimated for the customer with 3 hours. Also we work with some other special-chars to indicate different billing-modes. In the next step we want to push these reports with one click to some online invoicing tool (http://invoicemachiene.com) over their API to quick-create bills from our open projects.
Our main goal in using the API was to implement some very custom stuff which I did not see in any available software…
Another task will be to implement some specific bug-tracker in our homepage which directly connects to 5pm to create / update tasks.”
Feel free to check 5pm API – it can help you extend 5pm with new custom features.