BillPower --> time & billing with totally integrated general ledger
(can be invoked as either stand-alone or POP-UP program)
TickleX --> the ultimate in scheduling/planning/docket control
(can be invoked as either stand-alone or POP-UP program)
MT-Tracker --> TickleX's scheduling power, plus client management
ReSearch --> research/evidence organizer for litigation support
RAMDESK
RAMdesk ($50) is a handy "pop-up" program that contains a number of fea-
tures useful in a business environment. INCLUDING EVERYTHING FOUND IN SIGNOUT,
it will also handle several other jobs on your network:
--> act as an E-Mail system to pass messages among the workstations;
--> schedule and review upcoming events on a pop-up basis, allowing
up to 20 alarms per day;
--> maintain a pop-up record of income, expenses, and the time spent
working on various projects;
--> provide a pop-up address and phone directory, giving you instant
access to records on hundreds of people;
--> provide a pop-up programmable calculator with a 50-line "tape";
--> allow you to establish numerous pop-up databases, such as to-do
lists, general ledger account listings, etc.
Once RAMdesk is installed (it needs 45K), it's instantly available at
the touch of a hot-key combination. It may be called up from within most
word processors, spreadsheets, and other primary applications. If you also
happen to have BillPower and TickleX, you'll find that RAMdesk ties in beauti-
fully with them. Whatever appointments or deadlines you've scheduled with
RAMdesk will be automatically picked up by TickleX, while BillPower will auto-
matically take in the services, expenses, and receipts you've logged with RAM-
desk. TickleX and BillPower can even assimilate entries made into RAMdesk by
users on other computers around the office. If the computers are networked,
the assimilation will be handled automatically; otherwise, you may use floppy
disks to transfer the data between each "satellite" computer and the main data-
base on another machine.
BILLPOWER and BILLPOWER PLUS
BillPower is a system designed to relieve you of the drudgery involved in
billing. In a nutshell, it will track the time you work on professional mat-
ters, keep up with your receipts and disbursements, and calculate the amount
owed by each client. And it will automatically prepare informative monthly
statements for all your clients. All on either a stand-alone or POP-UP basis!
Engineered exclusively for the small firm, this innovative software offers
a rare combination of power and ease of use at a fair price. Unlike programs
that attempt to electronically emulate ancient manual accounting procedures, èBillPower is designed to capitalize upon the power of your computer. If you
are an "old hand" at bookkeeping, then open your mind to a real-time system
which immediately updates all balances at the time an entry is made; one that
does not require periodic batch postings or annual close-outs; one that pro-
vides a convenient method for correcting erroneous entries; a system that never
erases old data in the interest of consolidation. You'll find both BillPower
and BillPower Plus to be advanced products.
--> BillPower ($100): time, billing, & bookkeeping for firms with
up to three timekeepers -- includes bank account management,
income-expense reports, balance sheets, & several bill formats.
--> BillPower Plus ($150): time, billing, & bookkeeping for firms
with up to fifteen timekeepers -- builds upon BillPower's fea-
tures, adding the abilities to keep extensive indexed memos on
any subject, maintain notes on thousands of people, conduct con-
flict of interest checks, prepare mailing labels, and more.
BillPower can prepare several types of reports. Whenever you request
one, you will be presented with a screen listing the parameters by which you
can choose the information to be included. After you have selected the appro-
priate parameters, BillPower will hunt through its data base for informa-
tion meeting your specifications. The report may be sent to the screen, the
printer or to a disk file.
Finally, while other time and billing programs may offer "links" to exter-
nal accounting software, BillPower completely integrates its bookkeeping func-
tions into the rest of the program. In fact, BillPower Plus can simultaneously
update affected G/L accounts (as well as a client's balance and aged receiv-
ables) at the time that a disbursement or receipt is entered. This "real-time"
approach to bookkeeping, virtually unprecedented in a time and billing program,
saves you the time you would otherwise spend making duplicate G/L entries, pos-
ting transactions, and/or transferring files from one program to another. With
BillPower Plus, a SINGLE entry can handle all the updating that needs to be
done. No other program offers such a degree of integration. NONE!
TICKLEX
TickleX ($50) is a tickler/calendar program that will keep track of your
appointments and deadlines, print your itinerary at the beginning of each day
day, keep a "to-do" list, and chart the projected course of each matter you
handle. It will also schedule trips and vacations, print weekly and monthly
calendars, and beep at you when something needs doing. Stand-alone or POP-UP.
TickleX is unusual in its ability to dynamically link reminders to ap-
pointments and deadlines. Assume, for example, that you have a very important
meeting scheduled for 15 August. As with other programs, you could establish
reminders several days or weeks in advance to allow adequate preparation for
the meeting. For the purposes of this example, let's say that you have entered
a reminder one week in advance and another two weeks in advance. Now, what
happens if the meeting is moved forward one week to 22 August? Again, all tic-
kler programs would allow you to reschedule it. But TickleX will also
automatically update the two reminders, moving each one week forward in order
to maintain the original reminder intervals. Other programs would require you
to search for each reminder, delete it, and then enter it again on another
date. This TickleX exclusive is an absolute "must" for offices that have fre-
quent schedule changes.
TickleX is also unique in the way it handles multi-day events. TickleX
allows you to enter an event such as a week-long trip with just one entry.
Other programs might require a separate entry to be made for each day of the
trip. If your trip plans change, you need change only a single entry if you èhave TickleX.
TickleX even has built-in project planning. No fancy charts, mind you.
Just a very simplistic means of linking and updating related events. And it's
completely integrated into the TickleX system. All project updates are auto-
matically incorporated into the same schedule that contains appointments, dead-
lines, vacations, etc.
Add to these features an attractive user interface, the ability to attach
extensive notes to each scheduled event, a number of other nice touches, and
TickleX comes up a winner. Whether you're an executive looking for a powerful
centralized personnel scheduler, a busy entrepreneur needing an easy-to-use
tickler system, or a lawyer seeking the ultimate docket control software, Tick-
leX is the program for you. There isn't a more robust scheduler available at
any price. At only $50, it's a steal.
MT-TRACKER
MT-Tracker is the ideal client tracker and scheduler. It integrates the
scheduling power of TickleX with the ability to track several thousand clients,
companies, contacts, projects, or jobs. Also included is a note-keeping module
that will link memos to the dates and clients to which they apply.
In addition to the expected name, address, phone, and contact information,
each client record has space for six full lines of miscellaneous data and nine
USER-CUSTOMIZABLE fields. And each note kept in the Note-keeping module may
contain up to seventeen lines of information.
Because MT-Tracker is an integrated system, you can easily zip from one
module to another. Assume, for instance, that you're looking at Mr. Smith's
record, and you'd like to see everything (not just one or two items) scheduled
for him during the coming month. A few keystrokes later, what you need will be
displayed on your monitor or sent to your printer. When you're finished look-
ing at the schedule, press a key to re-display Mr. Smith's record. Notes and
logged events, income, and expenses are just as easily accessed.
If you're a sales representative, consultant, personal injury lawyer, or
anyone else who needs to track clients, customers, or jobs, this is the soft-
ware you've been waiting for. Give it a try.
RESEARCH
ReSearch ($50) is a program designed to help you keep track of re-
search, chronologies, and evidence. When you enter an item of research, you
may tell ReSearch such things as the source, page, and line number where that
item can be found. You may also enter an eleven-line summary of the item and
indicate the subject category into which the item falls.
A prime use of this program is to create printouts of research data, sor-
ted alphabetically by subject abbreviation. Another use is to keep tabs on
documents and other evidence (who sent it, who received it, its current loca-
tion, etc.). It can also be used to prepare a chronological report of a se-
quence of events which may have been entered at random into the data base.
Finally, it can scan depositions provided to you on disk in industry-standard
ASCII format and transfer verbatim text directly from the depositions to its
