How to integrate Chrometa with NuLaw – Chrometa

Connect to Chrometa for a single user
Connect to Chrometa for a team
Import clients, matters, tasks and users
Automated rules
Client and Matter keywords
Manual Allocation
Rules and keywords on the fly
Daily reminder to review your time
Sync Preview for a single user
Sync Preview for a team
Export user's time to NuLaw
Export team's time to NuLaw
FAQs
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All users can link their NuLaw account to Chrometa, import clients, matters and tasks into Chrometa and export the time back to NuLaw

Once they've linked their account:

Team members and solo users can allocate their time entries to clients matters in the Time Dashboard page and export the time to NuLaw.
Team admins can allocate time entries from all team members in the Team Dashboard page and export the time on the team member's behalf to NuLaw

This feature is available to those using the V21 version.

Connect to Chrometa for a single user

Go to Integrations > NuLaw
Click Connect Chrometa to NuLaw
Enter the Application ID, Callback url (https://app.chrometa.com/users/third_party_callback), Application URL and Application Secret. You can find these in your NuLaw Settings
Click Save Connection
Log in to your NuLaw account if not already logged in.
Authorize Chrometa to import your clients, matters and tasks and to export time entries back to NuLaw

Connect to Chrometa for a team

Go to Integrations > NuLaw
Click Connect Chrometa to NuLaw
Enter the Application ID, Callback url (https://app.chrometa.com/users/third_party_callback), Application URL and Application Secret. You can find these in your NuLaw Settings
Click Save Connection
Log in to your NuLaw team admin account if not already logged in
Authorize Chrometa to import your clients, matters and tasks and to export time entries back to NuLaw

Once connected, Chrometa will match each NuLaw account to the Chrometa account using the user's email address.

Import clients, matters, tasks and users

After users connect their NuLaw account, an initial sync is triggered. This imports clients, matters, tasks and users (if using a team account) into Chrometa. The first sync can take up to 10 minutes to complete.

Clients are listed here.

Matters are listed here.

After the initial sync, when a user adds a new client or matter in NuLaw, or when a user updates a client or matt in NuLaw, the changes are immediately reflected in Chrometa.

Manual Sync

A user can also start a sync in the background:

Go to Clients or Matters
Click Sync with NuLaw

Automated Rules

The "Automated rules" setting adds a list of keywords to your clients and projects based on the client name, email address and other basic information from NuLaw. When Chrometa sees the keyword in a time entry, it automatically allocates it to the client. A user can add/edit the list of keywords.

To turn the "Automated rules" option:

Go to Rules > Default rules
Turn all applicable options for email addresses, phone numbers, first name and last name

Client and Matter keywords

A user can see, add, update and delete the list of keywords associated with a client or matter from the Clients or Matters page:

Go to Matters or Clients
Search for your matter, click on the matter name
Enter the associated phone number(s) in the Keywords field and hit the 'Enter' key
Click Save keywords

Every time a document (Word, Excel, PDF...), email or website you work on contains at least one keyword, it is automatically allocated to the client or matter.

As a team admin, the list of keywords is applied to the rest of the team.

Manual allocation

On top of the automatically allocated entries, you can manually allocate time to a client or matter (or change the allocation made by Chrometa).

Go to Time > Allocated or Unallocated
Select a time entry or multiple time entries by checking the box
Click Edit entries
Select a matter from the dropdown
Click Save Entry

Rules and keywords on the fly

All past and future phone calls to and from the number entered in the keywords field will be allocated to the matter.

Daily reminder to review your time

A user can request Chrometa support to send daily notifications to the PC, Mac or Phone to review the time.

Sync Preview for a single user

At the end of the day, the user can review their time under My Time > Sync Preview, this is the preview screen of what the data will look like in NuLaw.

From this screen, a user can edit the time entry: total time, description (all the related documents, emails and online activities) and formatting. By default, time entries are grouped by day and matte.

Sync Preview for a team

A similar screen with data from the entire team can be viewed by the team admin under Team Time > Sync Preview.

From this screen, a team admin can edit the time entry: total time, description (all the related documents, emails and online activities) and formatting. By default, time entries are grouped by user, day and project.

Export user's time to NuLaw

When ready to export time entries to NuLaw:

Click the checkbox at the beginning of the line for each time entry or select All
Click Export to NuLaw

Time entries are sent to NuLaw and hidden from the Chrometa Sync Preview page to avoid double exporting.

Export a team's time to NuLaw

When ready to export time entries to NuLaw:

Click the checkbox at the beginning of the line for each time entry and user or select All
Click Export to NuLaw

Time entries are sent to NuLaw and hidden from the Chrometa Sync Preview page to avoid double exporting.

FAQs

Is the Export automatic?

No, the user or team admin needs to review the time and then export to NuLaw.