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Basecamp has become the de-facto standard for project management for small development teams: it allows everyone on the team to easily communicate with each other and with clients, without having to wrestle with emails, CCs, etc. Everything is there and you know you can always send a message to the people you need to talk with it with a simple push of a button.

We use Basecamp every single day and thought it might be extremely useful to be able to import projects and clients from our Basecamp account into our 16bugs account, so we decide to integrate the two services.

Simply go to your company’s “Settings” tab and you’ll see a Basecamp box in the sidebar. Enter your details and you’re set! Now, when you create a new project or a new group, you’re offered with the opportunity to import it from Basecamp.

You can also bind already created members with their Basecamp counterparts: go to the “All People” tab and click the small Basecamp icon next to the person you’d like to bind. By binding all of the members, they’ll automatically be added to projects you import from Basecamp, if they have access to it.

This feature is available on all plans!

And it’s not over. There’s another app from 37signals we’ve integrated with 16bugs: Campfire.

Campfire is a great tool to chat with your team, so we thought it might be very useful to receive notifications about new bugs and updates in your chat room if you’re already there chatting with your teammates.

To activate it you need to be on a paid plan, then simply goes to your company’s “Settings” tab and right below the Basecamp box you’ll see a Campfire box: enter the details and off you go.

We recently introduced a 30-day free trial on all new companies, but if you’ve already created your company and you’d like to try out the new Campfire integration along with all of the other features available on premium plans, simply drop us an email and we’ll enable the free trial on your account.

Instead, if you’re ready to upgrade your account, here’s a coupon to get 50%-off on your first invoice: GIMMECAMPFIRE.

There’s more in the working, so stay tuned!