I started with iBiz when I got to 10+ clients (not concurrent), I switched over to <a href="http://www.freshbooks.com/?ref=ac36ec82119660-1"><strong class="fs_16">Freshbooks.com</strong></a> (referral link) about a year ago. Highly recommend them. You can access from anywhere, there is a widget for the mac, and your clients can login and their invoices, time bill etc. <br>
<br>-dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Holly Ferree <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hferree@gmail.com">hferree@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've found this thread really interesting and it brings up some other points<br>
I've been debating this month...<br>
<br>
I also turn on timer, do all work for client, turn off timer and then send<br>
invoice to client. I will normally round to the nearest (positive) 5 minute<br>
increment.<br>
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---<br>
<br>
So questions:<br>
What is the best time tracking and/or invoicing software to use?<br>
<br>
Do most use just time tracking? (I'm on a MAC) If so what is it and what is<br>
the cost of the program<br>
<br>
How do you send your invoices?<br>
<br>
(I've finally got a wopping 3 clients now all with different billing rates<br>
and decided to go with some organizational programs) I'm doing a trial<br>
version of ibiz (time tracker and with a click of a button will create an<br>
invoice that you can save as a pdf and/or email to a client...and it also<br>
has a nice idle time notice if you walked away and forgot to turn off the<br>
timer, has a menu bar timer and a dashboard widget timer, and some other<br>
helpful features) and I really enjoy it.<br>
<br>
Is $40 worth having a program that all I have to do is enter the information<br>
for the timer in once per job task and it does the rest?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Holly<br>
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On 1/10/10 7:13 AM, "Fred Jones" <<a href="mailto:fredthejonester@gmail.com">fredthejonester@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I had a discussion with the author of Hamster [0], the time tracking<br>
> tool I use about time increments. His tool tracks by minutes, rounding<br>
> to the nearest minute when it does monthly totals. I know that some<br>
> web dev shops, however, have a minimum increment of 15, 30 or even 60<br>
> minutes. I am wondering what other people do.<br>
><br>
> I, for better or worse (probably worse), end up having a lot of very<br>
> small time increments as I answer an email here, make a small fix to a<br>
> site there, add a page for a different client etc. I have always just<br>
> billed what the Hamster says, but I am wondering now if I should make<br>
> a minimal increment. I definitely lose a bit of time switching<br>
> projects. Sometimes it's really just a second or two but other times<br>
> it's a lot more than that. I was thinking to make a minimum of 15 min.<br>
> per day. Then if I do 2 or 3 little tasks for a client, each taking<br>
> only 2 minutes, I would bill them for 15 min. for that day. We can<br>
> code a script to do this calculation automatically based on Hamster's<br>
> SQLite file.<br>
><br>
> Interesting to hear what people have to say on this subject of time and<br>
> billing.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Fred<br>
><br>
> [0] <a href="http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/</a><br>
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