Welcome to the Celerative release notes in which we announce changes and updates related to our platform. 

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We have some awesome news! Our Global Payments Feature has now been officially launched!

Ever wanted to get rid off manually paying contractors? Now you can! 😎

The first thing to do is onboarding and set up your remote team. Creating as many contracts as you need, using our template or upload your own if that's more convenient.  

1. Add Expert's information

2. Choose Pay with Celerative Plan

3. Manage contract documents

Then fill in your billing information and now you are ready to pay your whole team each month with one bulk payment. We'll make sure they get paid right away, in the payout method and currency of their choice! 

You can also choose to use the platform for free with our Expert Management Plan. It allows you add your own team members and manage project assignments!

We're excited to announce that the Check Out process has been improved!

Now, signing a contract won't take as long and is easier than ever. You'll be able to see more information about who you will be working with before checking out.

We've also made improvements on our mobile version so that you can enjoy the same experience, no matter which device is in use.

🔎 From now on this is what you'll see:

> At your right there will always be a Summary of what you are paying and who you will work with.

> You can share it with anyone in your company who needs to take a look in the Share for Review gap.

> After you agree, we will ask for your billing information and that's it! You'll get a new screen with an overview, options about payment methods and next steps.

Jump straight into finding the right person for your project with our Featured Experts board! 🙌 

This new feature will help you find the most experienced candidate with instant availability to join your teamwork.

We only show you pre-vetted experts, using a combination of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and human curating. You can review their technical profiles and set up interviews quickly, choosing those candidates that best suit your needs!

We are really confident about our talent pool. Sure, you’ll have a developer available that will be perfect for the job!

Hey there;

We’re pleased to announce that the following features and enhancements are now available:

• improvementTalent Request

  Posting a job opening on the site is now easier than ever. Instead of creating an entire project, you can post your vacancy directly onto the website and have it filled within minutes! There are two ways:
  
  
  
  
  newNo matter which one you choose, you will find a so much more friendly way to fill in the request:

  1. Choose a Job Title from the list or write one of your own and select Quantity.
  

  2. Write the job description with your own words or use the template we added to help you.
  

  3. Select Job Type and Job Duration
  

  4. Inform which technological expertise does the expert need to have and post it!
  

  new Did you forget to clear up something or just want to modify the request? Don't worry, it was about time we made editing possible.
  
  

  
  

• improvement Project

  Share your project with the whole team! You can now add external contributors. So easy as going to Projects -> Team -> Add team member -> fill in their contract information and save!

Now you can manage your absence days from your Expert Account 😎 

Simply log in and fill out the information asked. You'll receive a confirmation letting you know that it's been processed.

We have made it possible for developers to fill their profiles on the platform with all of the information in their LinkedIn profiles.

You can now easily import an entire professional history and portfolio 📄 by linking it to your developer account.

Jump to the top of your job search with our new Job Board 🙌 

In one place, you can find any open position as well as have all information pertaining to that role listed out for easy browsing. 

Get a feel for what each individual company is looking for in an employee and then take action by applying right there on the site. 

We have something available that will suit everyone's needs.

We're now partnered with Payoneer! 🎉

This deal allows developers to receive payments directly in their balance, saving the 1% transfer fee and only paying a $3 flat per month.

That's more than 400 dollars saved each year (considering monthly payment of $3650). 

❗ In addition, starting today if you received any money from Celerative you will have access to the Payoneer card.

I'm happy to announce a new set of features on celerative's platform. We are improving the platform to make it represent better the flow of selecting candidates. We implemented a tracking system to be able to have more visibility and measure our hiring process timings. Adding features to improve the customer UX and reach to the user directly instead of them dealing with a third party app (transferwise)

Don't hesitate on reaching us for feedback on any of these.

EXPERT

CORE-2336 transferwise email payment from celerative

Payment email it's now sent directly from celerative (through hubspot) instead of being sent from transferwise to remove the intermediary and let celerative be the face to the expert. Also the expert payment screen was improved and now a receipt can be downloaded from the experts project payments screen when clicking on Completed status tag

CORE-2491 hide hire expert buttons

Hire expert buttons were shown in expert project view.

CUSTOMER

CORE-2500 change requests list sort

The requests list is now sorted by relevance so that the actionable requests are now on top. Also more information on disabled buttons was added to that screen.

CORE-2463 Autocomplete timezone input

Timezone input autocompletes now with the browser's default timezone, depending on the user location. This makes it easier for the customer to create a new project.

ADMIN

CORE-2396 admin new dashboard

Initial version of an experimental admin dashboard to be able to see and react faster to the most important things to be done in the platform

CORE-2448 Changelog service, implemented for TeamDraft/Request

Added a new changelog to see who, when and what was changed in each request so that it can be traced every change.

CORE-2456 ui changes team proposal/request screen

The screen was fully refactored. It's now the same regardless of the state of the request.

• On top there are breadcrumbs so now the project and customer is accesible with a click from this screen
• The screen is divided with the Experts proposal on top, and Customer Proposal on the bottom.
• On the top right, the buttons to see and share the Expert Public Proposal can be used
• On the top right of the lower panel, then buttons to see and share the Customer Public Proposal can be used.
• The new history view button is on the top right to see the changes of the request states in time.
• The proposal of experts can now be edited. 📛 WARNING: depending on the state of the request editing this can lead to data inconsistencies. If the user has already signed the contract, a new contract is going to be created and the old (signed) one will be out of reach from the platform (but will always be stored and recoverable from s3)
• In order to add new experts there is a new button in the lower panel, and a popup is opened with the experts selection now in a modal.

All users & tech debt

CORE-2435 ant forms update
CORE-2435 FORMS UPDATE AND STATE REMOVE
This makes the bundle size smaller so that the platform loads faster, also should make all forms in the application more reliable and react faster to user input.

CORE-2479 delete mediaquery, and antd in the process

This makes the expert's profile form react faster and work better in small (mobile) screens.

CORE-2307 fix recommender score

This will improve the sort made in expert selection screen with more relevant results. Also the top 6 experts per skill shown in the web will be the best now.