[AccessD] OT: Time billing software

I wrote a billing app.  Clients, projects, Categories of work, charges for
categories of work (on a per client basis), and time worked (child to
ClientProject).  I then have a form for selecting client projects which has
a tab for entering hours worked (start date / time, stop date / time, work
category, description of work), and expenses.  I can "no charge" work if I
need to, and "no charge" work shows up in my reports so that the client sees
them.  I also have an expense table, child to ClientProject, although I must
admit I have relatively few expenses since I don't travel a lot.

I tend to keep details of work down to either a day or a several hour
period.  It is nice though since I do a lot of work at home for many
different clients.  If a client calls (or I call a client) I can close the
current work period I am recording, select that client, build a "phone call"
work record and record my phone calls, which can be a lot of time.  I tend
to keep my billing app open on my laptop the whole time I work.  I then just
switch to it and record a summary of what I did for the last few hours, as I
go through the day.  By the end of the day I have a summary of hours worked,
for what client, with start / stop times.

I have a report generation form which allows me to select a time period
(last month, last quarter, last year, current month etc) and generate
reports for progress and invoice.  The reports can be automatically emailed
to the client and stored (hard copy) as a snapshot in a directory for each
client.  

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Joe Hecht
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:58 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Time billing software


I am writing off several of work because I did not have decent (any) records
of time on a project.
 
To my brother and sister soloists out there:
 
What do you use and how do you track time on a project. Does not have to a
real detail account of time.
 
I just need something
 
Thanks
 
 
 
Joe Hecht
Los Angeles CA
 
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