What's New in Rotor Rate v1.11: Know What You're Owed, When It's Coming, and Where Every Offer Landed

This one's a bigger update — mostly focused on the business side of running your drone work. The theme: less guessing about money.

Payout tracking, right on the Business dashboard

Every completed mission now shows an expected pay date and a status pill — displays 'awaiting, overdue, or paid' — right where you already track everything else.

In Settings → Payout terms, you can set the terms for each network you fly under (Zeitview, RAAD, FlyGuys, Droners.io, plus your own private clients). Common options like n+15 and n+30 are pre-made; anything custom is fine too. If a network's published terms is already known, we already pre-filled them for you.

From then on, the Business dashboard does the math:

• Displays what's awaiting payment across every network and outstanding invoice into one line item.
• Expand it to see the mission-by-mission breakdown, or the invoice-by-invoice list.
• Payment made? Tap on any completed mission to Mark paid to stamp the actual pay date.
• If a mission is missing terms or a pay date, a small badge tells you exactly what's needed to reconcile it.

Note: Refly missions are excluded from the payout math automatically — there's no additional payout coming — but refly mileage still logs as its own expense tied back to the original paid mission so your records stay clean.

Optional calendar reminders for expected pay dates

This is actually pretty cool, when you download the .ics for a mission and later mark it Completed, an updated invite generates/downloads to add a small follow-up event on the expected pay date. In other words, your calendar reminds you to check for the deposit on the N+xx date from when you marked the mission complete.

Once you mark the mission paid, or move it out of Completed status for whatever reason, the follow-up .ics calendar invite cancels automatically. You can turn the whole thing off in Settings → Display.

Smart use of your calendar... stay organized and efficient.

Pass Log is now included with every subscription

I've been beta testing this one for a while and I believe it's a worthwhile addition to Rotor Rate. you can track all of the offers you turned away and use that information to see the pattern over time. Every entry gets a color-coded delta from the fair rate:

• Green — the offer was right at or above fair.
• Amber — technically profitable but a thin margin.
• Red — well below fair; walking away was almost certainly the right call.

If the network bumps the price, you can update the pass log and see if the new rate is in the ballpark... no need to re-enter the data, just click the button and see the offer vs. fair rate instantly.

Also new: mission details and expense entries now include a refly → original mission link, so you can trace which paid job funded any given refly trip without hunting.

Site-wide zero-clutter pass

I wanted to clean things up a bit; dashboards, income-by-client, and the calculators no longer show $0 placeholders where nothing is actually owed or spent. Empty columns stay empty. The result: a much cleaner scan for what actually needs your attention.

Coming next

A few things we're actively working on for future updates:

• TFR alerts in Airspace Check — when your scheduled mission window overlaps a Temporary Flight Restriction, Airspace Check will flag it automatically. We're waiting on FAA credentials to switch it on.
• Facebook Groups extended trials — Growth Access Program campaigns going out to Part 107 Facebook groups. No credit card required, full-suite access for the trial length, then a one-time offer to continue. Since you're already a member, you can still enjoy the extended offer if you're a member of the group... just enter the code and it'll extend your subscription by the duration of the offer (60days, etc.). Just my way of saying thank you and to keep it fair.
• Embeddable calculator widget — for those that offer services to drone operators, I'm creating a drop-in Rotor Rate calculator that the partner sites can embed. Still working out a few bugs on this one, but soon.
• Video Updates - yeah, there's been a LOT of changes since I originally made the how-to videos; it's time to get in front of the camera again.

These are directional, not promises — timelines depend on outside factors, etc. If you're interested in knowing more, you can always see the current list of updates and changes at /changelog.

-Rotor Rate Team-