Hello everybody!

We're gearing up for the release of Billings 3.0.3 and have made a beta for everyone to try. It has the following changes since 3.0.2

• Fix for adding contacts from Daylite when you double click vs select the add button
  
• Support for symbols in Client Group names
  
• Fix for a crash on sending an estimate
  
• Fix for a possible crash on startup
  
• Fix for some possible crashes on quit
  
• Fix for deleted payment methods causing odd redraw issues
  
• Added to report engine for client - prefix, suffix, first name, last name, middle name, and formal full name which is all of these as one
  
• Updated currency formatters in create windows to display values in a Mac OS X 10.4+ manner consistent with elsewhere in the application
  ADDED IN BUILD 30024
  
• Enforced having a date specified on a payment/retainer
  
• fixed a crash when viewing retainers or payments without a date
  
• fixed recovering from an invalid slip type
  
• Added ability to link to a contact in AddressBook (rather than just being able to restore) when you click the lightning bolt icon to resolve an unlinked Client
  
• Fixed a problem where client balance may not updated when an invoice is created
  
• Increased the max height of the client info pane to accommodate extra long addresses
  ADDED IN BUILD 30028
  
• Added a note about upgrading to the Upgrade Assistant
  
• NEW FEATURE Backup the database on Quit added to the General preferences
  
• Fixed date formatter in recurring invoice next send date field
  
• Disabled the "Delete" button from being default when deleting a Client
  
• Added rate, taxes and total columns to mileage report
  
• Fixed the client info pane's background image to accommodate its new increased height
  
• Fix for invoice file reference being sent to Daylite, even for multiple project invoices
  
• Added a My Eyes Only query to AllSlipsView
  
• Added "Unbilled Clients" report
  
• Appointment times come over when importing client and projects from Daylite as working slips
  
• The pending button in project list works even when project is completed or cancelled
  
• Fixed slips imported from Daylite tasks to be timed slips that bring over time between start and complete date time
  
• Added Basic Quantities Report
  
• Fix for duplicate Time Entries when exchanging a bex file after a project was imported from Daylite
  
• Fixed a bug where a Working slip imported from Daylite would be marked as complete in its edit card but the done button would still indicate it was not complete
  ADDED IN BUILD 30029
  
• Fix for a potential incompatibility with Tiger introduced in the last two beta releases
  

You can download it here. (~25MB)

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kevin Hiscott,

How can I get my trial period to restart with my download of 3.0.3 beta?

I was irritated by the 3.x bugs regarding adding clients from DayLite and was ecstatic when I downloaded 3.0.3 beta this weekend: it worked... with extras!

Then this Monday, gloomy again as I am prevented from logging in because my 21 days has expired, even though I swear 3.0.3 beta said I could restart the trial period. Thoughts?

p.s. I really really want this to work, and so does my firm bank account, which is eagerly awaiting for me to invoice.

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Originally posted by Kevin Hiscott:
Hello everybody!

We're gearing up for the release of Billings 3.0.3 and have made a beta for everyone to try. It has the following changes since 3.0.2

• Fix for adding contacts from Daylite when you double click vs select the add button
  
• Support for symbols in Client Group names
  
• Fix for a crash on sending an estimate
  
• Fix for a possible crash on startup
  
• Fix for some possible crashes on quit
  
• Fix for deleted payment methods causing odd redraw issues
  
• Added to report engine for client - prefix, suffix, first name, last name, middle name, and formal full name which is all of these as one
  
• Updated currency formatters in create windows to display values in a Mac OS X 10.4+ manner consistent with elsewhere in the application
  

You can download it here. (~30MB)

Is that possible to include possibility to insert more than 999 in quantity field?

thanks a lot

We've updated the beta to build 30024 with the changes noted up in the original post.

When will be the 3.0.3 official update?

Is possible to have 2 independet numbering for invoices and separate for retainer invoices?

thank you

We're aiming to release 3.0.3 officially later this week.
And we will take your requests into consideration thanks.

We've updated the beta gain to build 30028 with the changes noted up in the original post.

I already sent this to the Beta list but as it still hasn't been fixed in the latest build I'll post it here as well.

I'm still having this problem and have to always switch to a different Region which makes working with Billings really painful.
I think this might have been a problem with Billings 3 from the beginning. I just didn’t notice as I was working with existing slips until the beginning of October. Only then when I created new ones did I run into this problem for the first time.

Today I had a thought though...
When using the Switzerland (German) Region the numbers are formatted to display SFr. for currencies:


So I though: could it be that the . (dot) in SFr. is interpreted as part of a number by Billings?

Finding out was simple... I just changed the Region to India which uses Rs. to as a currency indicator also with a dot.



And also here... Entering 50 would turn it into 0.50 automatically.


Becomes


Notice how the dot behind RS is missing and it just displays RS0.50?

It does the same for Swiss Franks


Again no dot.

So I think I found the cause of the bug! :-D
And of course I hope it will be fixed soon as this will be a real issue for everyone outside of the Dollar, Pound, Euro, Yen etc. zone (anywhere that doesn’t use a symbol).

We've been looking into this bug recently and it looks like its actually a bug in Apple's formatters. They will likely not be fixing this as they now have a new type of formatter.

The problem with the new one is that it requires amounts to be entered exactly as expected, meaning the currency sign followed by a period, followed by a space, followed by the amount with all the correct punctuation. This is a real pain to have to enter the exact format every time.

So we are currently investigating a way around this and hope to include it in a future update.

For those of you that watch this thread. You can get 3.0.3 Final (build 30312) by going to Menu -> Billings -> Check For Updates...

We'll do the official release tomorrow morning (download page and KB).

Thanks for all the help!