Billable 1.1 review
DownloadBillable is an application for Mac OS X that helps you keep track of the billable services you perform for a client and then lets you create and manage invoices based on those services.
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Billable is an application for Mac OS X that helps you keep track of the billable services you perform for a client and then lets you create and manage invoices based on those services.
After October 31st the price will be: $24.95
Here are some key features of "Billable":
Keep track of clients with a simple Client Editor.
Store per-client specific hourly rate defaults.
Import Clients from your Address Book.
Create Time-based Services with a time span and hourly rate; have Billable calculate the total cost for you.
Use the built in timer to start and stop a service.
View time progress of an active service via the badged dock icon.
Create Flat Fee Services and specify a manual total cost.
Select services you want to get paid for and create invoices with a single click.
Edit invoice attributes, including: Due Date, Partial Payments, Optional Messages, etc.
Customize the HTML template used to generate the PDF invoices and make the invoices appear how you want them to appear.
Use the source list to get a quick overview of unpaid invoices, services that have not been invoiced; filter down through the client hierarchy and limit the selection to a given client.
Export your data into XML.
In-application Software Update makes staying up-to-date a breeze.
Limitations:
Full-feature 30 day trial.
What's New:
Fixed a bug where the No Selection pane would be shown on launch of Billable if there was only 1 or 2 services in the system and it was registered. Thanks to Mike Stickel for his report.
Fixed a bug (actually more of an oversight) in the default template that would cause an invoice that has all flat-fee services to show the service line items in a random order. This basically involved replacing the line {{foreach service invoice.services list}} with {{foreach service invoice.servicesOrderedByDate list}} in the template. If you use a custom template and are affected by this issue you might want to use invoice.servicesOrderedByDate in your for loop.
Set up a new margin default of 0.75 inch for the invoices. The previous margins were 1.25 inch on the top/bottom and 1 inch on the left and right.
Added hidden preferences (documentation in the Help Book) that allows people who are trying to achieve border-less invoice designs to use the defaults command line to setup 0.0 margins. This along with a 0 margin set in the CSS of the invoice template should allow for border-less designs.
Further replaced the two servicesOrderedByDate references in the template with servicesOrderedByDateAndSummary. This will be handy for people who have multiple services on the same day and use prefixes like “Proj1:” or “Expenses:” – using this new method keeps everything looking more tidy. Again, for those using custom templates you may want to use this. On that note servicesOrderedByDate still works and will continue to work into the foreseeable future.
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