When multiple slips are selected in Billings the bottom of the screen shows the sum of the monetary totals for the selected slips, all nicely added up.

In addition to the monetary totals, I would like to see the sum of the time for the selected slips.

My work is budgeted based on a set number of hours rather than a monetary figure. The Billings time logging feature is wonderful, but there is no way to see how many hours I've taken on a project so far. Its quite frustrating to see the total money right there, but have add up the time in every slip in my head in order to see if I'm on-budget.

- Adam

P.S.
Another way this information could be useful is to show a running difference between the estimate total time and the working total time. The only problem is that I don't know how this running difference would work once working slips are invoiced.

Check out Billings' reports, some of which give you at least some of the functionality you're looking for (including a per-project estimate vs. actual report).

HTH

The "per-project estimate vs actual" report would suffice in the mean-time (while waiting for a nice running ticker), but I could not get it to report "actual" amounts until I sent an invoice, long after I needed the information.

Thanks for the quick reply, Adam!

- Adam

Cool but still cumbersome, just like total earnings and balance for a project, I'd like the total time spent to show next to in its own column in the Project View.

Since a year now I've been using Billable for all of my project activities and I find it a very useful program although it is not that feature full as Billings.

I'm considering moving to Billings now but, as I have read here and seen in the trial version, there is no way to tell how long you have been busy on a project when you select the slips. This is one big plus for Billable and one majore leak for Billings. I hope this will be "fixed" in the upcoming versions and then I'll be happy to make the step and start using Billings.

I agree w/ Tom J. This is a MAJOR problem. What good is time-tracking software that won't tell you how much time you've spent on something?

I don't want to create an invoice just so I can figure out how much time I'm spending. I've already bought Billings, and I've been struggling with it for a while. I'm starting to consider going back to keeping text files which note the time, which was my previous system.

Perhaps I'm needlessly ranting, but this is extremely frustrating.

Summary totals. This has been a frequent request all throughout the Billings software. It leaves out summary totals in almost every place you would expect to find them - under columns on numeric data. I too am hoping that they are working on what seems to be a large oversight. I really enjoy using Billings, and I am limping along with workarounds and partial solutions like the reports. But I am hoping for better in the near future.

How about it MarketCircle, any chance of getting relief on this subject?

I would ditto the requests in this thread. Time totals where time is listed would be a great help.

....hey, I want this too. Relatively new Billings user and this is something I REALLY need as well.

I heard good things about Billings but so far, I have to say that I am not terribly happy with the lack of responsiveness from the developers on the forum here. This seems like a pretty thing to implement and this thread has been lying idle without resolution for nearly a year now...