I appreciate that this will have been raised already, but is there any chance of a synced iPhone version of Billings?

Sorry to repeat what will have been requested already, but it is a very important addition ...

I'll second the request - having something on the iPhone/ iTouch would be *very* handy for on-site visits, even if it was one way (from iPod to Billings).

Thanks

Thanks for your features requests. I can submit this to our Billings development team, but I will need more detailed info as to what features you would like to see should we decide to develop something for the iPhone or iPod Touch?

More details... hmmm? Well, I think there are many of us, myself included, who would value having an option for logging time in the field other than:

a) bring a laptop with you, specifically to run Billings.
b) keep track on a notepad to then manually enter into Billings.

We need to have some means to sync Billings data from a portable device. I used to use a Palm for this explicit purpose. Using the Palm Daylight conduit, I'd sync "appointments" entered on the Palm to Daylight. In Daylight, I'd link these "appointments" to projects. Then I'd send these "appointments" to Billngs as work slips. Basically, it was a pain and didn't work so well. I've been patiently waiting for a solution since the iPhone was released.

So. The iPhone iPod Touch seems an obvious platform to take some portion of Billings with us on the road. There are two ways to get there as I see it:

a) You use sync services to sync Billings data to ical and address book, and from there the iPhon. Somehow using categories or tags in appointments names, you can associate ical/iphone appointments with a client/project, and sync as a working slip. iBiz purportedly has some functionality similar to this. Not an elegant solution.

b) You have a satellite application native to iPhone/iPod Touch that provides working slip entry and editing, perhaps runs some reports, and syncs to Billings. I'd pay to have this.

Hi Sean,

I agree with Lon's suggestion, though I'm not at all confident I understand his two options ...

In very short order, I have found the ability to monitor emails on the iPhone indispensable. This has significantly reduced the stress of being out of the office, and has really changed the way I am able to work.

For Billings, what I need to be able to do is to add or find and existing client, add or find and existing project and add a time sheet, and record time. When I return to the office to then have Billings sync the information across to my Mac is the critical point.

For me, this is all about logging time in Billings when I'm out of the office using my iPhone. I would not generally want to make or access estimates (though this could be useful), prepare reports (I don't tend to do this anyway), or generate invoices. It is only about logging time, without trying to remember what I did, or to keep paper records which I then transfer into Billings on my Mac.

I had software which did this on my PC, running on my smart phone/PDA. It may well have been iBiz, I don't recall. It was fairly crappy, but it did record time accurately and sync back to the main PC program.

Cheers
John

Amen to the request for a iPhone/iPod Touch widget. I've been using AllTime on the Palm for several years despite its all too many shortcomings, but the ability to track time away from the office is indispensable as I'm away from the office for a week at a time several times a year.

Personally, I'd be happy if all it did was enable me to track time on any existing or new project and then sync the data back to Billings on the desktop. It would also be useful to be able to run reports from the iPhone when away from the office.

I would also be willing to pay for such an app.

The most important things for a mobile system to have is a client and project list, record tasks in realtime, adding time for tasks and adjusting tasks currently on the mobile system. When adding to a Phone the ability to keep business contacts and tasks separate from personal ones and click to call from your client list.

I am an attorney running a solo practice, and for me an iPhone Billings native app would be tremendous. Although I use DL and link it to Billings, the two programs must serve different purposes for me. DL calendar is a malpractice protection system tracking my future responsibilities (court appearances, etc.). Billings, by contrast, is used as a separate system to make money by capturing the time I actually spent working on a project. Although I pull DL appointments into billings, I do this only to remind myself to bill for those anticipated actions. The time allocated in DL for an appointment is frequently no reflection of the time actually spent doing the work.

Thus, a Daylite iphone integration is useful only for planning, not at all for billing all the time I actually can bill. Please, please create a native app for Billings on the iphone that will allow me to create and edit slips, as well as (most importantly) marking the slips as completed.

Martin

Sorry to bump this post, but with the announcement of the 3G iPhone and the Apps store, is MC working on an iPhone application? Even just to carry over the Time slips and recording would be a huge step forward for me.

AJ? How about some indication of what we might have to look forward to?

Cheers
John

Yeah what's in the pipeline?

Ben
Sydney

I'm wondering too :-)

As for feature requests, how about a full working version of billings on the iphone? That means we can invoice when away from the office, kill time doing paperwork in boring hotels etc (I can't believe I'm asking for that but there you go!). Everything syncs with the computer back at base just like address book, ical etc. I guess having an online version of billings, MobileMe style, is pushing things a bit but then you did ask

:-)

Now that us Canadians will be getting the iPhone "legally" I think an application would be fantastic! Even simple time tracking and project overview would be amazing to have on the go.

Thanks

Mauricio

Amen to all the above!

I currently use Windows Mobile and sync Contacts and Calendar to the mac, (I'm only testing Billings at the moment so haven't yet discovered how well the integration works) but now in the UK we have the 3G iPhone with GPS, I'll be getting one of those.

I want to:
1 capture slip-type info on-site, especially expenses, mileage, stock usage - hours are usually less important to me as I'm generally working to fixed prices but still useful
2 create/edit/amend client info as you get it, i.e a new contact within a company
3 create new slips for further work on a project
4 I would LOVE to be able to create an invoice at the end of the day and send it off there and then. This would help ensure invoicing accuracy, speed up my cash flow and mean less time spent on admin in the office!

Add another 'vote' to the request for a Billings Touch application.

The only thing I really see myself needing is the ability to track time, which would include being able to create new workslips for existing projects, and track additional time on existing workslips.

Another one who would find it incredibly useful to keep mobile time records at client sites, etc. on a mobile device.