I recently spent a half hour creating a custom report using the "New Report" menu item, and when I go to use the report, it does not show up in the reports list. It was properly saved into the "Billings>>Templates>>Reports" folder, but it does not appear in the list. I can navigate to the report on my hard drive, but it is fairly useless since the app doesn't recognize it.

I'm also curious as to why I need to name my template twice; once when I enter the "New Report..." dialog box and once again after I have created the template and close the layout window. It seems counter intuitive.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

What version of Billings are you using? Version 2.5 was released a few days ago.

The new report should show under the category (ex. Clients) for which the report is created.

When creating a new report, Billings will ask for a name, which is displayed in the reports list when you want to run a report. This should something descriptive for the report.

When saving the report you've just created, it will ask for the filename to use when saving this report in the Templates directory.

I believe this is a bug in Billings. It was present in v2 also. You have to move the template file (located in ~/Library/Application Support/Billings/Templates/Reports) to the Templates folder. Then the Reports listing will see it. Weird workaround, but it works.