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BZ-02: Time Tracking / Billing Hours/Expenses/Miles 2.2 Contact Plus Corp. $39 #3804 keeps track of expenses such as meals, parking, tolls, hotel, etc. The expenses are gathered day-by-day and categorized according to the client that the expense should be charged to. Billable time is also tracked. Simply enter the hours worked and any miscellaneous charges and the program will automatically calculate the taxes and total charge. -------------------------- 7015/0014 PC Usage Loggers Small Programs Disk -------------------------- LOG Marsh, Eric $? allows computer professionals to track time spent on the computer for various clients for billing purposes. Job tracking can be divided by client name, with subdivisions for different jobs, and by employee. LOG-CL Laforet, Christopher $25 is a billing system that assists professionals in keeping track of billing hours worked. This program allows up to nine different clients and hourly rates per log file. It uses the real time setting on your computer to maintain its log in/log out record and requires the user to enter a description of the work being logged. This information is printed on the billing to the client. LOG permits the user to keep logged activity on separate machines (for example on a work machine and a portable simultaneously) and subsequently combine client records for billing purposes. LOG works in DOS or OS/2. (We added the author's initials to the file name to distinguish it from other programs of the same name.) MyLog Crew, Louie $? keeps track of the time you spend on a job. By entering MYLOG/I description, an entry is appended to a log file and not closed until your enter MYLOG/O. To get a report of the log, just enter MYLOG/L. There are several options for listing data in the file or, since the file is stored in straight ASCII text, you can edit it with a word processor. It automatically calculates time elapsed between logging in and out. Since MYLOG takes command line entries, you can make it part of a batch file that calls your application program and you will never notice it until you need it. For example, create a batch file named, say, WP-LOG.BAT which contains the three lines: (1) MYLOG/I %1 (2) WP %1 (3) MYLOG/O. Note that the %1 parameter both serves as a description for MYLOG and lets you pass a filename to WP. Punch-In Ford, Nelson ASP $0 keeps track of employees' time on the job. You can pop it up when another program is running or run it in a non-resident mode. It will print reports by day, week and month. (res:7k+) TimeKeep 1.3 (TIMEKEE) Answers Unlimited $15 helps log the usage of your computer to compute billings for various jobs. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0014 -------------------------------- ----------------------------- 7015/3889 PC Usage Loggers #2 Small Programs Disk ----------------------------- Kcount 1.10 McRae, Graeme W. $0 is a small (4k) resident program that measures the percentage of "active" PC usage by monitoring the keyboard interrupt. Logman Roberts, J.L. $? helps you keep track of exactly how much time you are spending on a programming project. Prgtim Kent, Steve $? contains several utilities for use in batch files to calculate the amount of time spent by someone using the computer. It permits apportionment of the time between business and non-business use. Project A (PROJECT) Sawada, Dr. Masaaki $10 pops up to let you record the date and time that you begin a project. It will show elapsed time for each session, and total time for the entire project. TimeKeeper 2.1 (TIMEKPR) Kyrklund, B. $40 keeps track of time spent on projects/cases for small businesses with up to ten employees including one supervisor. Trace Developer Services, Inc. $35 is a 1.5K TSR which keeps a time log of programs run. It even logs programs executed while shelled to DOS from within another program. It will optionally log the opening of data files. DOS 3+ required. Userlog 1.0 Lindberg, Chris E. $0 is designed to maintain a disk-based file of computer usage. WorkLog Appleman, Harron $? is for self-employed businessmen whose clients demand hourly accounting of services rendered. It's a nice looking program, marred only by my usual gripes: colors not user-selectable, beeps that can't be silenced, and you move back to a prior field to correct an error until you finish the entry and select the "edit" mode. Still, these are rather minor nits, and this appears to be an excellent program. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3889 -------------------------------- BillPower Kelly, Richard A. $100 #7015/1045 is a powerful, LAN-compatible, multi-featured program for professionals who bill by the hour. BP will do automatic billing of one or more clients each month, or on-demand billing. Monthly retainers can automatically be added to bills. BP comes with eight different billing forms, or you can design your own. It can also print checks and transaction reports. Hard disk required. Time Is Money Custom Data Solutions ASP $50-$95 #7015/1012 is a time and expense billing and accounting system that will allow you to completely automate your billing and receivables. It supports time billing in any increment, as well as the sale of equipment or fixed price contracts. A display of pertinent information about the project and client is provided when an invoice is created or reprinted. Most printers are supported, and reports can be printed to disk. A lookup window for clients in the project maintenance subsystem is available. 450K of free RAM and a hard disk is required. 9 O'Clock Olsen, J. W. $30-$70 #7117/2256 is a timekeeping, billing and alarm clock program that will run as a TSR or stand-alone. It will even time events when the computer has been turned off. It will track up to nine activities simultaneously. Data can be edited, totaled, printed, or exported to word processing, database or spreadsheet programs. It also has dBASE export capability. Billings DASA Enterprises $50 #7117/1934 is designed to let professionals keep track of billable items, such as prepaid expenses, auto mileage, phone calls, time spent on a job, etc, and then summarize the charges into the proper ledger files. Several data search and display features are provided. Different billing rates can be established or a flat-fee rate can be used. Specified expenses can be marked-up automatically by a specified percentage. BillPower Plus Kelly, Richard A. $150 #7117/808 has all the features of BILLPOWER, plus the ability to track the activities of up to fifteen employees/timekeepers; prepare mailing labels and merge-print canned letters to your clients; hold the names, addresses, social security numbers, and notes for several thousand people; keep dated memos on various clients or subjects and rapidly sort through this information at any time; and conduct conflict of interest checks. The program offers the option of being installed as RAM-resident and a hard disk required. Logit Robertson Software $30-$45 #7118/1459 is a set of programs that record the use of your computer. Unlike other computer usage loggers, LOGIT stays in memory (using 7k) and automatically keeps a log of the usage of each program, yet you also have the option of making manual entries. The log is kept in a tamper-proof non-text file which the person in charge of the system can read with a separate report writing file. It logs time and keystrokes used. The HP LaserJet printer is supported. PB II Peak InfoSystems, Inc. $75 #7118/1728 is a fast, easy-to-use automated billing and receivables system that may be configured to fit the needs of nearly any professional practice, but has been designed for the small professional office. Invoices and statements are printed in a format that allows you to mail them in standard window envelopes. The program allows you to submit both invoices and statements. ProBill allows up to two hundred different billing codes that you can pre-define with procedure names and billing rates, associate with specific professionals in your office, and attach to project accounts. Once you've defined your billing codes, you can enter a customer charge simply by typing the billing code and time. A printer capable of 132-character lines is required. Service Plus 6.0 [SERVICE] 09-93 CD Sax, Paul $99 #7118/1533 [2 disks] is a service-call tracking system. Features include appointment scheduling with a Tickler file, call-back list, billing and expense reports, user- customization for specific industries, a 45,000 word spelling checker, and more. It is intended primarily for businesses such as auto repair, copier maintenance, plant preventive maintenance, or any other business which provides product service. Requires 640k RAM and 2 drives, and is DOS 5.0 compatible. Tandex Lujanac Database Consulting $80 #7540/3620 [2 disks] is an employee/project time and expense tracking and reporting system. This program is geared toward network users, but will also work on systems with common host file transfer capabilities. 512K, DOS 3.3+ required. Time Counts 1.01 Peripheral Data Systems $130 #20083 [2 disks] is a time and attendance tracking system. It calculates regular time, overtime, doubletime, special hours and gross dollars. It supports all normal pay periods. It automatically applies your company policies such as rounding or grace periods, minimum lunch, shift differentials, and adjustment codes. Detailed reports of hours worked as well as department and shift summaries are generated. Requires 640K RAM, 5Mb of hard disk space and DOS 3.x or 5.0. TimeClock I 2.3s [TIMECLKI] 08-93 CD Faught Data Systems, Inc. ASP $80 #12369 is an employee time clock program. It logs employees in and out and tabulates their hours automatically at end of each pay period. Entries can be made from the keyboard or a barcode scanner. It can also log employee hours by project. TimeClock is LAN-ready and has a bulletin board feature that allows you to post messages to employees. Employees can use the on-screen timecard to see their hours. A status board shows who is in or out. The program also computes overtime and premium time, prints payroll and job cost reports, tracks sick leave, vacations and holidays and can round off to the nearest tenth or quarter of an hour. TimeTrac Compass/New England ASP $50 #7340/2614 helps professionals who bill their time and people who work on projects, keep track of how they use their time. This is not a billing system. It collects information to be entered into an accounting system. Features include flexibility in customization of up to three key fields; the ability to track multiple interruptions, compute a minimum amount of time, sequence reports by any key, and produce reports for a specific date or key range; context sensitive help messages and more. Universal Programmers Time & Billing Smith, Robert J. $10 #7340/2616 tracks hours spent by a programmer on work done for a client. Each client is assigned a project number. This project number is used as an invoice number to track the payment for the service. Weekly and Project Close reports can be generated. Hard disk required. PC/Bill 3.4 [PCBILL] 09-93 CD Radcliffe, Charles W. $45 #7618/2194 [3 disks] is a time and billing system for professionals who bill by hourly rates or dollar amounts for specific services. It is designed for use by a small firm with a maximum of 20 timekeepers. Data entry and bill preparation can be done by computer novices. The program will print summaries of fees, costs, payments, or adjustments by account number or coded description. A program allows you to combine the files created by several users into a combined work file for the current month is provided. You can also print mailing labels, and Rolodex labels. A hard disk or high-capacity drive is required. ]]]]]