Billings

Why is this update showing up in the list today? It's been out for months!

If you are looking for an invoicing and time-tracking app that has Calendar synchronization (for those that like to track jobs with notes in Calendar, like me, and for those that don't like subscription-based web products) try OfficeTime. I just moved over to it from iBiz and I'm liking it.

DISCONTINUED. This page should be closed by MacUpdate.

I loved Billings but is is discontinued. They will only further develop Billings PRO and I won't share my client data with them on the cloud. So it is a hard step but I have to look for an alternative app right now.

Really love Billings but lack of updates on both OS X and iOS make me dislike it. Their Twitter account is also worthless !

The inability to easily edit the built in templates ruined this program for me. Except for that, it met my needs. However the template that was best for my work was too pale--grey and reddish--so that when I emailed my invoice and they printed it out, they could not read it. I wasted most of a day trying to work around the problem, but I'm done with it for good now... A major problem for an otherwise excellent program.

I have been using iBiz for almost 6 years now...it had its bugs and every release got worse for me, so I ventured forth to look for an alternate solution. I stumbled this list by MacAppStorm: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/finance-roundups/7-invoicing-apps-for-os-x/ I tried every one of them, not diving too much into instructions as I wanted to get something that would be intuitive without much research. I tried them all and Billings was perfect for me: -I was able to create a template based on theirs to match my company's invoice, worked like a charm -The whole workflow of invoicing, adding payments, and reminding clients is incredible -I love the project integration with the project and invoicing, something iBiz never got right -Recurring invoices? Hell yeah! I am in love, great application, I'm glad the research paid off. Now, time to invoice the living crap out of my clients!! :-)

I'd love to love Billings… but I cannot. Each time I try to customise an invoice I end up being frustrated about the template editor, the inability to easily see a template (like in Pages' Template Chooser), and the handling of the tools itself such as aligning boxes, page breaks. The entire application is just horrible to use and Market Circle has done little over the years to improve this basic functionality… instead focusing on iCloud/iPad syncing and the like. Honestly, most SME's don't need that added functionality and prefer ease of use. It's overtime to make Billings template editor actually useable.

If you need a credit invoice, and at one point you do! Forget about it, the users have requested this feature since 2008, but Marcet Circle does not listen to its costumers!!!

Been looking for a good invoicing app of a while now and after bouncing around between iRatchet (the old non-App Store version, since you can't get a demo of the newer version), iBiz, and Billings, I finally settled on Billings - mostly because it handles hourly invoices extremely well and has an awesome iOS counterpart! There is a lot to configure at first, which can be very overwhelming - especially when trying to setup your own customized invoice design, but once you get things set up it works pretty well. There are a couple of quirks and annoyances preventing me from giving this five stars. First and foremost, invoices are numbered as an overall total, and not on a per client basis. In addition, you can't renumber an invoice, and the total continues up even if you delete an invoice (i.e. you create an invoice which is numbered 180, then you delete for whatever reason, create a new invoice it is numbered 181 even though invoice 180 no longer exists). Fortunately this can be resolved by using a custom field, but would still be nice if you didn't have to manually enter the invoice number each time. Sorting through invoiced projects is difficult as well, as there is no way to group paid and unpaid invoices - you can use the reporting function, but that can be more complicated than it's worth. Finally, and this is the biggest annoyances, there is no way to discount an invoice by a fixed amount, Billings only supports discounting by %. While these seem like a lot of complaints, I do like the program overall - once you get it set up to your liking it makes keeping track of all your invoices quite painless, add to that its iOS counterpart to create invoices on the go, this is a pretty good invoicing program border lining on being great.

wow, you can't change your star rating here can you... i was going to downgrade the ease of use, on second thought, because creating your own custom template is not at all intuitive, sorta clunky imo. but re: comment below about not being able to bill various projects monthly... the solution for that is to create a project called, for example, CLIENT - January; then each slip in that month is a different project. you can put details re: the slip work in the slip log. and you can combine slips into a single invoice when the time comes, simple by selecting multiple slips in the create invoice area. you can change invoice number in the create invoice area as well...

I like the app but the developers dont offer any update for some of the features users have been requesting for years. The basic ability to show discounts on a invoice is imperative.

What the... I've had this update for weeks now!

Be warned that this release doesn't work with PowerPC. They tried to install this update to my system without telling me this. It is really a bummer because this version finally adds support for Postbox support for mailing out invoices! Blah, I really wanted that feature.

The interface is beautiful, and it has a huge edge over other invoice software in that regard. But what makes the application useless for my needs (and judging by their forums a lot of others) is the complete lack of flexibility for numbering invoices.

The severe lack of import options ruin what is otherwise a good program. I am currently using an online billing system which can export to a variety of formats (csv, text etc) and billings only plays nice with its own Daylite program.

I was initially impressed with Billings as I am a designer and loved the interface, but as soon as I had to bill a client, I left the software and went back to On The Job for my time tracking and invoicing. Here's why: You cannot invoice a client for a month's worth of work. You are forced within the constrains of a "slip." There is no flexibility. This is a huge flaw in the program in my opinion. I have many clients that have multiple projects, and I just bill them per month for my work. I just need a program that has different filtering mechanisms that allow me to bill per time, per project or per client. Billings was rendered worthless as soon as the above mentioned problems were revealed. This is sad as I loved the interface, but above all else, I need function before form.

I tried Accounts way back which was an iBank and iBiz all in one.. it went bankrupt and was complicated anyway.. tried GrandTotal and TimeLog and thought that was it.. but it's is 2 pieces of software and GT has some bugs and is basically annoying for a few reasons I won't get into.. but I don't like it anymore, really.. tried iBiz.. these guys are clearly not thinking of non-americans and the template part is as bad as GT's. Finally tried Billings.. and am thinking it might actually do what I need.. and the template editing is much less of a pain than in the aforementioned ones... It is also cheaper and I actually think much better for a small business like mine. You can link files, add notes, link URL's... It even allows me to keep my Address Book entries actually synch fairly automatically (at the press of a button) with my clients in BILLINGS.. the others don't somehow which I always found weird. So BILLINGS it is, it speaks my currency, it speaks my dates (european dates).. I'll move my bills to it slowly and see if I'm still happy in a few months.. I didn't pay attention t it way back because I thought its price was too cheap lol How dumb can I be !!!

After ditching MacFreelance for terrible support and an incapacitating bug, I have found Billings to do everything I need it to do, and that's great. I've had good experience with support at the software company and will be continuing to use Billings for a long time. I'm an independent freelancer and I probably invoice a couple times a month, so for that, it does great.

3.6 now has multiple currencies, which is all that this freelance translator who gets international jobs needed. This has perfected an already excellent application. Kudos to the developers!