This is quite a simple review, and there are many aspects of the software that I have yet to use and experiment with. As long as you spend time reading the main points of the user manual first, it doesn’t take long to start using the software, which is a really useful-and indispensable tool that you may wonder how you’ve done without all this time. ConclusionĪll-in-all, Billings 3 is a very powerful, but relatively easy piece of software to use. The accounting software is professional, too, with retainer and tax options galore-but all displayed with ease-of-use in mind. There is also a wealth of information contained in the left sidebar, which amongst other things, shows the balances which are overdue in red. There are many professional templates to choose from, or you can create your own from scratch (with your logo on, etc). Once all working slips on a particular project are complete, you simply create an invoice and send it to a client. For example, if I was working on a project that required internet research, I could create a timer (which handily appears in the Mac menu bar), simply clicking on it like a stop-watch to record how long you’ve spent on a task-and it will be billed accordingly in an invoice. You can easily set-up a timer that corresponds to each working slip on a given project to record how much time you have spent working on it. Screenshot of Billings Copyright of MarketCircle | *By Affiliate. What’s good about this software is that these slips can be timed at a flat fee-or by the minute. Once these simple steps are complete, you are able to start working on a project-keeping track of every minute you spend working on it. From there, you create Working Slips (which are the line-items on an invoice). Once a client is chosen, you simply create a new project, with various other options that are very intuitive to follow. This can be done easily-and your clients can also be imported form the Mac Address Book application. One of the first steps I made when using billings was to set up a client. At first, I didn’t do this and instead just got myself confused when trying to work it out myself-especially regarding the use of Timers (which I will come to later on). Intuitively, I visited the Billings Menu-and clicked on Check for Updates-and within a couple of minutes, the software was updated.īefore proceeding, I would strongly advise that you go to the Help Menu, then read through the Billings 3 Guide. Once installed, which is an easy enough task, my first step was to see if there were any software updates before I used it. The following article is my own review of the software after using it. I guess I’m going to have to find another way to track my time, because even if I can get Billings Pro working again, there’s no way I can trust it with my data.Billings 3 is an excellent billing and invoicing tool, which is solely for Mac OS X 10.4 and higher (now, OS X Lion). So now, time tracking isn’t working at all. I did the duplicate slip trick again, and this time it didn’t work. And it wouldn’t allow me to resume timing. Great! Now I can’t trust the time tracker to do it’s sole job. I looked up from working and the menu bar tracker was black, not red. However, now that 2nd timer stopped on it’s own. This was annoying because I now had 2 separate slips for the same project, which I’d have to merge before invoicing, but I figured it was maybe a one-time quirk. Finally, I duplicated the slip and was able to start timing. I went to start the time and continue tracking my time on the project and… nothing. What a mistake! My data migrated over seamlessly, including a single working slip with a balance of 12 hours on it. I just migrated over from an older version of Billings that worked fine.
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