I enjoy not messing my personal contacts with my business contacts and that GrandTotal leaves my address book alone. Plus we do not bill time but licenses, GrandTotal seemed very easy to setup and to adapt to our needs. All the editors are straightforward and very powerful. I would gladly take some keyboard shortcuts, but maybe I didn’t look hard enough!

So final: GrandTotal: no messing around, a very logical way of working, filing, writing, easily overridable fields during invoice entry, complete control of the invoice design, very reasonable price… Congratulation guys! And thank you!

Looking forward to what else is this promissing app brings.

Yeah, that sounds about right. The deal breaker for me, though, was the apparent lack of a basic project management function (along the lines of Billings). TimeLog doesn’t seem to handle anything other than time tracking very well (if at all).

Or am I missing something? I haven’t tested either GT or TimeLog very extensively, so it’s just my first impression.

~G

We’ve tested Billings, OTJ and GrandTotal and so far, we’ve decided to go with GrandTotal. Mostly because of two points that were very important for us: invoice template designer and multi currencies capability. Billings has much room for improvement in both, OTJ feature set is less extensive. Espesially when it comes to the invoice template designer, GrandTotal just outperforms both of them by far.

In the end, it comes down of what you workfow and needs are. As for Billings, it has the nicest interface of all.

As a translator/copy editor, I normally bill by the word, and Billings seems to have a nice, if basic, project management function that handles that nicely. With its project view, I can track which projects are in progress or completed, which is something that (on first glance) doesn’t seem to be possible (or at least not intuitive) with On The Job 3.

Oh well. Guess I’ll stick with Billings for now, even though it’s not perfectly suited to my needs either.

Cheers,
~G

There are some good choices here and what it’s really going to take for me is solid linkage to some sort of accounting package. GrandTotal and TimeLog have been highly rated and GrandTotal hasn’t even hit Rev 2.0 yet. . Billings is another app that is moving forward yet still is missing a few things (most of the attorney that I’ve read struggle with it handling different billing rates)

I’m glad there are so many good options on the Mac for invoicing. I’m confident that no matter what a persons needs are there will be a program to suit them.