Bungalow lets you manage your Highrise task list on your iPhone

Do you use Highrise to handle your task list? Do you have an iPhone? Then Bungalow may be for you...

Bungalow brings your Highrise task list to your iPhone so you can manage them on the go. Even if you are not connected to the internet you can tick tasks off, edit them and create new tasks with seamless background syncing when you're back online. In future releases of Bungalow we'll be extending it to handle other parts of your Highrise information. Get it now while the price is low and you'll get all the updates for free!

Prefinery manages software betas and integrates with Highrise

Prefinery manages betas (for webapps and desktop software) — and it integrates with Highrise. It allows customers to create a splash page, supports a sign-up form with fields and survey questions, and handles incrementally inviting users. Customers can sync their list of testers (early adopters, best customers) with Highrise via the API to track leads, conversations, etc for further down the road. Prefinery also integrates with MailChimp.

New Voxtopia extra lets you track your calls through your Highrise account

Voxtopia offers cheap international calling from any mobile phone to any location in the world. The service now integrates with Highrise.

With Voxtopia’s integration, you can now track all incoming & outgoing calls through your Highrise account. Voxtopia will automatically add a note to your contacts when you make a call to or receive a call by one of your contacts through Voxtopia.

You’ll see date, time & duration of the call automatically appear within minutes of your call ending or taking place.

Learn more about how to enable the Voxtopia/Highrise plugin in your account.

Reviews of over 25 Mac and iPhone apps designed to work with 37signals products

Check it out: MacAppStorm has posted a great piece on "The Ultimate Collection of 37signals Mac & iPhone Apps." It offers summaries and reviews of over 25 Mac and iPhone apps designed to work alongside Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, and Highrise.

New in Highrise: More storage, same price

Good news: We've just added more file storage to all paying Highrise accounts — at no additional charge.

• Max accounts are upgraded to 75 GB (was 50 GB)
• Premium accounts are upgraded to 30 GB (was 20 GB)
• Plus accounts are upgraded to 15 GB (was 10 GB)
• Basic accounts are upgraded to 5 GB (was 3 GB)
• Solo accounts are upgraded to 5 GB (was 3 GB)
• Personal accounts are upgraded to 2 GB (was 1 GB)

We hope this additional storage helps those who are already near the limit, and encourages others to attach even more files to their contacts without worrying as much about hitting their limit.

Thanks again for using Highrise!

Basecamp and Highrise change history pages

We're constantly working under the hood to make our apps better. While we usually announce any major changes here at the Product Blog, there's a constant stream of little changes going on too. You can now follow along with everything that's happening at the Basecamp change history and Highrise change history pages. These pages will show you every little bug fix, tech note, update, and feature addition.

Now all Highrise accounts include SSL security

As of today, all Highrise plans — including the free plan — include SSL secure encryption (what's SSL?). Prior to this update only Solo, Plus, Premium, and Max plans included SSL.

To turn SSL on for your account, click the Settings link at the top of the screen and scroll down to the SSL section.

We hope you enjoy this added level of data security. Thanks again for using Highrise!

How GetFave.com uses Highrise to manage sales leads

Lindsay Saewitz, Director of Sales at Fave Media, discusses how the company uses Highrise:

What does your company/business do?
GetFave.com is a local business directory that lets the consumer experience the business before walking through the door. We let businesses express themselves through video, pictures, and other rich content while also helping them get found on the web.

Why do you need Highrise?
We use Highrise to manage our sales leads that are generated through site registrations.

How do you use Highrise and why do you like it?
Through a feature our programmers have developed, we can feed leads into highrise on demand. Then, these leads are randomly distributed to our sales reps (users/people) and tasks to call the leads are automatically created. The sales reps use HR to manage the entire sales process, from calling and setting meetings to taking meeting notes and referring back to them. We use tags to categorize the leads. I like the note taking and I also like the ability to create tasks.

What did you use before and why did you switch? 
We used Salesforce.com before I was at the company. I personally do not have a lot of experience with salesforce but in briefly using it I felt it was overcomplicated. Highrise was recommended by one of our programmers.

Any tips or tricks for other customers?
I love the addition of color coding for the tasks. It’s much easier to find what you’re looking for.

Do you use a 37signals product in an interesting or noteworthy way? Let us know.

How to set up 37signals Open Bar so you can quickly switch between your accounts

Reminder: The 37signals Open Bar lets you quickly switch between your accounts.

How to set it up.

List of recommended free tools for running a small business (including Basecamp and Highrise)

"Running a Small Business – Free Tools" offers advice on tools that help with scheduling, project planning, invoicing, and everything else that goes into any other small business. (The author runs a recording studio.) Two of the tools recommended are Basecamp and Highrise:

Project Planning – Basecamp

Basecamp from 37Signals is an excellent project planning tool. I’ve tried pretty much all of them and like the way Basecamp works the best. Their web interface is fantastic, and it’s almost fully functional on the iPhone too. We use the Milestone feature to set date-specific deadlines (finish mixing by x date) and To-Dos to set unbounded goals (get new mic cables). We try to finish the To-Dos on a weekly basis. We use the Writeboard feature to brainstorm and to lay out our weekly meeting agenda, and occasionally use the Messages feature to share files or links that we don’t want to lose in emails.

Contact Management – Highrise

Highrise is 37Signals’ contact management tool, and it’s ideal for us. It’s really quick and easy to add contacts, and we have people tagged as ‘band’ and sometimes more specifically as ‘bassist’, ‘violinist’, etc. so we can quickly find someone if we need a session player. We also tag bands as ‘prospects’ so we know who to follow up with. The great thing about Highrise is that it’s free for 2 users and up to 250 contacts (you have to look carefully for this plan on the signup page, it’s in small text). We’re close to 250, but when we hit the limit we have to clean contacts out, which is a great way to keep our lists up to date. Another neat feature of Highrise is their ‘Dropbox’. When you’re emailing with someone who’s a contact, you can copy your personal dropbox email address on the message, and it’s automatically added to the contact as a note.

See the full list.