Tingo Teams competed and won the chance to pitch to Jason Calacanis, Tyler Crowley and Lon Harris on episode seventy nine of This Week in Startups, The Global TWiST Meetup. We were very happy with the feedback and positive comments that we received from the panel.

We were even happier when Tingo Teams was voted unanimously as the best pitch for show. We were competing with some fantastic startups from all over the world and are very excited about having our product validated so emphatically.

Today we updated the TingoTeams web dashboard, adding support for job scheduling.

First is the the ability to set a date and start/finish time on a job:

Next, we’ve added a variety of different ways to filter and view lists of jobs. In the screen shot below, we’re looking at the Today’s Jobs screen (which also shows any overdue jobs).

We’ve improved the layout of this page to look more like a time sheet and changed the information displayed for each job to show job and reference numbers, the job’s suburb and the contact name.

On the right, you can see the other available views.

And finally, we’ve added a calendar view. Each day is colored according to how much work is scheduled for that day. Anything that needs attention is highlighted in red:

Scheduling support is available now in the web-based dashboard, and an updated iPhone app will be available as soon as it’s approved by Apple.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think of these latest improvements - or anything else for that matter!

We consider TingoTeam’s messaging to be one of it’s strongest points - especially on the iPhone where it works at least as well, if not better than SMS.

The web dashboard however didn’t work quite as well because new messages were only shown when refreshing a page or moving to another page.

Over the last week or so we’ve been working on rectifying this and the dashboard now supports real-time messaging. Now, you can be viewing any dashboard page and as soon as someone sends you a message it will instantly appear in the sidebar:

You don’t need to do anything to get this new functionality - it’s available now to everyone using the web dashboard.

Not content with only supporting desktop browsers and the iPhone, this week we’ve been working on the mobile version of the dashboard website.

Although not quite as elegant as the iPhone app, the mobile dashboard supports all the functionality of TingoTeams allowing users with other phones to use the service.

To use the mobile dashboard, simply bring up your phone’s web browser, navigate to m.tingoteams.com and login.

Please note that because of the large number of mobile phone devices we’re not in a position to test the mobile site on every device. As such, the mobile dashboard may not appear identically on all phones. If you encounter issues that you believe should be rectified please let us know.

Today we released a new version of the web dashboard for TingoTeams.

Included in this release is a brand new, cleaner look and feel. We’ve improved nearly every page in subtle (and sometime not so subtle) ways and more efficient pages means the whole site runs faster.

This version of the Dashboard is intended for use by in-the-office managers with desktop browsers or on-the-road staff with notebooks (or netbooks) and web access. An optimized version for mobile phone browsers is in the works and should be available soon.

This release also makes all the functionality of the iPhone app available through the browser, making it even easier to manage your mobile team.

Today, we’ve released the first version of TingoTeams for iPhone.

The TingoTeams iPhone app lets you and your team be completely connected while out in the field. Create and assign jobs, send and receive messages, take photos, add job notes and more…

For a more a more detailed overview, please see the Tour, or download it for free from the App Store and try it out for yourself.

You don’t even need a TingoTeams account beforehand, sign up for free right there in the app!