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jtmkennedy

02 May, 2012 12:49 PM

Bought this add on today on iphone but cannot find it on screen. any ideas? Use Easybooks on mac, ipad and iphone.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Mark on 03 May, 2012 09:20 AM

   

   If the business selected has no customers then it will not show up in the list, or the feature may be turned off on the add-on screen.

   I hope that helps!

   Karen

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2. Mark closed this discussion on 03 May, 2012 09:20 AM.

3. jtmkennedy re-opened this discussion on 03 May, 2012 10:28 AM

4. 2 Posted by jtmkennedy on 03 May, 2012 10:28 AM

   

   Hi Karen, I'll check with Rory O Beirn who recommeded this product. I do
   not have customers in the usual sense - just people I pay for various
   services/ utilities etc. What I'm really tying to do is track time I spend
   at different jobs so I can claim appropriate points for continuing
   education or track time I spend preparing reoports so I can charge
   correctly. Is there a way I can set up a "business" to just do that? I've
   paid for the app so might as well use it. Find your acounts package
   fantastic and brutally effecient. Keep up the good work.Keep it simplebooks
   for dummies! I'm a GP in Ireland. Regards, Seamus K

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5. Support Staff 3 Posted by Admin on 03 May, 2012 11:26 AM

   

   Hi Seamus,

   The Time-Tracker is really aimed at tracking time worked for clients, which is really useful for consultants and contractors working for more than one customer at a time. It allows you to set up billing rates for each customer and makes the invoicing process easy. That said, I do know of some people who have managed to bend its use so that they can run an equipment hire business using it. They use the equipment names instead of the rate names (so "Bulldozer" instead of "Standard rate" for example) and set the billing method to bill per day.

   I'm not sure if it will do what you want it to, but of course you're welcome to try and see. To get the feature to appear at all, just create a customer account (a new account in the category "customer"). This should get you started. It sounds a bit like each job could be a customer account, but it could also be that one client has more than one job for you to track time on. This is also possible, as you could use a new "rate" to separate the jobs and Easy Books will create an invoice listing the two jobs for that client.

   All the best, let me know how you get on.

   Mathew

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6. Admin closed this discussion on 03 May, 2012 11:26 AM.