What is Billings 3*?
Billings 3 is an excellent billing and invoicing tool, which is solely for Mac OS X 10.4 and higher (now, OS X Lion). The following article is my own review of the software after using it.
What is Billings Pro for Mac? Billings Pro is an easy to use estimating, time tracking and invoicing app for freelancers and small businesses. Exclusively for the Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. 'Billings Pro is a superior solution for managing company-wide billing, client-related expense tracking, and invoicing.' - Macworld Awards: 4 out of 5 mice - Macworld 4 out of 5 mice - MacUser UK Track Time & Expenses. Start, stop, and resume a timer from anywhere with Billings Pro on your Mac. Billings Pro syncs across your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch so you can keep working from any device. Start a timer from your Apple Watch. Create an invoice on your iPad. Track payments on your Mac. Billings Pro is a native app so you can keep working even when you don't have an.
Once installed, which is an easy enough task, my first step was to see if there were any software updates before I used it. Intuitively, I visited the Billings Menu—and clicked on Check for Updates—and within a couple of minutes, the software was updated.
Before proceeding, I would strongly advise that you go to the Help Menu, then read through the Billings 3 Guide. 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).
How to use Billings…
One of the first steps I made when using billings was to set up a client. This can be done easily—and your clients can also be imported form the Mac Address Book application.
Once a client is chosen, you simply create a new project, with various other options that are very intuitive to follow. From there, you create Working Slips (which are the line-items on an invoice). 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. What's good about this software is that these slips can be timed at a flat fee—or by the minute.
Screenshot of Billings Copyright of MarketCircle | *By Affiliate.
Timers
This takes me to the subject of Timers. 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. 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.
Invoices
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Once all working slips on a particular project are complete, you simply create an invoice and send it to a client. There are many professional templates to choose from, or you can create your own from scratch (with your logo on, etc).
Billings Mac Os
There is also a wealth of information contained in the left sidebar, which amongst other things, shows the balances which are overdue in red. The accounting software is professional, too, with retainer and tax options galore—but all displayed with ease-of-use in mind.
Conclusion
All-in-all, Billings 3 is a very powerful, but relatively easy piece of software to use. 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.
This is quite a simple review, and there are many aspects of the software that I have yet to use and experiment with. That-said, I know that this software is now on it's 3rd version, with many amendments made to it by MarketCircle to make this software the best it can be. I know that when I need to use the other varied software options contained in Billings, they will aid me effectively.
Billings Software For Mac
Before proceeding, I would strongly advise that you go to the Help Menu, then read through the Billings 3 Guide. 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).
How to use Billings…
One of the first steps I made when using billings was to set up a client. This can be done easily—and your clients can also be imported form the Mac Address Book application.
Once a client is chosen, you simply create a new project, with various other options that are very intuitive to follow. From there, you create Working Slips (which are the line-items on an invoice). 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. What's good about this software is that these slips can be timed at a flat fee—or by the minute.
Screenshot of Billings Copyright of MarketCircle | *By Affiliate.
Timers
This takes me to the subject of Timers. 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. 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.
Invoices
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Once all working slips on a particular project are complete, you simply create an invoice and send it to a client. There are many professional templates to choose from, or you can create your own from scratch (with your logo on, etc).
Billings Mac Os
There is also a wealth of information contained in the left sidebar, which amongst other things, shows the balances which are overdue in red. The accounting software is professional, too, with retainer and tax options galore—but all displayed with ease-of-use in mind.
Conclusion
All-in-all, Billings 3 is a very powerful, but relatively easy piece of software to use. 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.
This is quite a simple review, and there are many aspects of the software that I have yet to use and experiment with. That-said, I know that this software is now on it's 3rd version, with many amendments made to it by MarketCircle to make this software the best it can be. I know that when I need to use the other varied software options contained in Billings, they will aid me effectively.
Billings Software For Mac
Do I recommend this software? Yes. In a nut-shell, it has professional invoicing capabilities, easy-to-use project management and because it's made for Mac, looks great (especially the red PAID stamp, see image above). I think I'll be using this software as long as I have a Mac, which will be until the day I stop designing! You can download Billings 3 from MarketCircle on thier site, Billingsapp.com.
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Dvdvideosoft free. Hi Andrew, I was quite excited when I read this article, I have been looking for a good tool to help with my invoicing for a while, but I have to say, I was very disappointed when I installed this software.
It is good looking, and it looks like it has some great features, but I didn't find the interface so intuitive, the worst thing however, has to be the invoice customization process, after an hour trying to create a good looking, branded invoice template I had to give up through sheer frustration.
Spectrasonics stylus rmx mac os. A not-so-effective customization process meant I was simply unable to create a branded invoice template that met my satisfaction.
Didn't you experience problems during this part of the process? Maybe I was doing something wrong, I don't know, but after an hour of trying, I couldn't produce an invoice that I would be happy sending out to clients, so it's an hour wasted and billings moved to the trash I'm afraid.
I'm a big fan of your site and always look forward to your posts, but not a great recommendation in my opinion Andrew.
