Time is Money

Francois Jung

3 years ago | verifed user Verified Buyer

Hi,

It looks great.

And now I want to upgrade.

How shall I do this ?

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Sampath

3 years ago

@Francois Jung: You can buy 2 more codes and add them to your account

Francois Jung

3 years ago

@Sampath: 2 more codes : you mean buy Tier2 ?

Sampath

3 years ago

@Francois Jung: Sorry, yep you can upgrade to Tier 3

Francois Jung

3 years ago

@Sampath: but how ?? I can't find that way ;-) sorry

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Samir Abdelghaffar

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

integration

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Community Member

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

Hi,

1. Can I integrate with my existing project management tools or I need to use it as stand alone utility. What new features do you plan to integrate, can you look at "Gadgit" and emphasis on costing aspect of a particular feature, means define feature, save it for future use and cost it. I guess that will give you a competitive edge.

2. I need webhooks integration to automate my workflow, means take data inside ERP or another project management tool, do you plan to offer webhooks functionality in near future.

3. What about data and hour tracking?

Thanks

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Pandora

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

Any plan to add screenshot feature?

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Pandora: Hello, we do not plan on adding a screenshot feature.

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A B

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

It doesn't look like you can pause a task timer. Especially working from home you can get interrupted. It's easier to pause a time than to continually start and stop a timer in 15 minute increments on some mornings. Any plans for that in the future?

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@A B: Hi AB, if you stay on the task page, you can start and stop a timer as often as you need which would be the same as pausing it. Your recently logged time also shows up on your dashboard so you can click the task from there to get back to it to start/stop a timer.

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Kelly

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

I am interested in this but can’t see how to add projects with end dates. For example, I work with a client for 5 hours this week, but another client for 10 hours from 10th July to 29th. I need to see how many hours are used, how much is left and how long is left. I just can’t see it. Please advise. Thanks.

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Kelly: Hi Kelly, sorry I missed your question previously. We do not have date tracking at this time, only hour tracking.

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Amer

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

Hi,

I often do fixed priced projects and some of them are recurrently invoiced projects. Can I setup

a) fixed amount invoices, and/or

b) recurrent invoices

on Taskbill?

Thanks.

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Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Amer: hello, you can create invoices and add manual line items for any amount. We do not support recurring invoices at this time.

Amer

3 years ago

@Joseph Clarke: Do you plan to include recurrent invoicing in the future?

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Amer: It is not on our roadmap yet but is something we are looking into as a possibility. https://taskbill.prodcamp.com/19

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Joseph Clarke

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User Founder

Hey Everyone, based on feedback from today's Webinar, we have added support for sending invoices from your own domain via custom SMTP settings.

To enter your SMTP settings, click on Settings->Company Profile. Enter in your SMTP username, password, port and server address.

After you click save a test email will be sent to your company email address from your company email address to confirm the settings are correct. All invoices will now come from your company email address set in your company profile and sent via your SMTP server instead of TaskBill.io.

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LTD Buyer

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

Hello,

Software looks interesting. But have few questions before making my mind.

1) What exactly is a "Team Member"? Is it our staff / employee?

2) Is there any approval step to approve the times entered by the team member before it could be sent to the invoice?

E.g. Let's consider a hypothetical situation:, I have two teams of 4 programmers each (so total 8 programmers). Each team has its own project leader (so there are total 2 project leaders). Each team working on separate project for separate client.

When all 8 programmers feed in their work time, I as a owner of the company have no time to verify everybody has entered correct time or not. It is the responsibility of their project leaders to check if each of their team members have filled in correct and legit times for each task and then they should approve/reject it and only approved times should come to billable area. Is it possible?

3) How many currencies are supported in the system and which all?

4) In single software, can we generate bills for different clients in different currencies?

E.g. I have one client from US, one from London, one from Germany and one from India. From within same system can I create separate bills in USD. GBP, Euro and INR respectively?

5) Does it have webhooks support?

E.g. if certain events are triggered e.g. bill created, task entered, payment received etc.. the data should be sent to outside 3rd party tool through webhooks to perform additional automation or integration.

6) If I don't use Quickbooks, what other alternative payment gateways can I integrate with this software to collect the payments? Which all payment gateway integrations are natively supported?

7) I saw in one of your replies that you don't have custom domain support. Then what about the emails those are sent out to clients on various events like invoice generated, invoice paid etc... From which domain name / email id the outgoing emails will be sent to clients? They must be sent from my domain / email.

8) Do clients also have access to this system? And if so, they are treated as team member Or client? Are there any access rights differences between a client access and team member access?

9) Since how long is this software been launched in the market? And how big is your team of developers?

Thanks

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Digital Marketing: Hello, thank you for your questions.

1. A team member is your staff/employee that can login to the system.

2. There is no approval steps, however, you will be able to review everything at the time you send and invoice before sending it to the client.

3. You can set the currency for your invoice to all major currencies which can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217

4. Yes, you can set a default currency across your organization, however, at the time you send the invoice you can select a different currency for each invoice.

5. We do not have any web hook support at this time, you can vote for that here: https://taskbill.prodcamp.com/24. If there is a particular action you are looking to receive a web hook for, please leave them in the comments here.

6. We support Stripe or PayPal and you can also enter payments in manually.

7. We will be adding custom STMP support in the coming week, so you can send emails from your own domain. For now they will come from TaskBill.io and have your email address as the reply to email.

8. Clients currently only have access to their invoice via the link found within each invoice. We are looking at adding more features for clients down the road to view past invoices, payments etc.

9. TaskBill has been available for a little over a year now and is run under the parent company Hosting Playground Inc which has been in business since 2005. We have a team of support engineers working across our various products 24/7.

@Digital Marketing: Hello, thank you for your questions.1. A team member is your staff/employee that can login to the system.2. There is no approval steps, however, you will be able to review everything at the time you send and invoice before sending it to the client.3. You can set the currency for your invoice to all major currencies which can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_42174. Yes, you can set a default currency across your organization, however, at the time you send the invoice you can select a different currency for each invoice.5. We do not have any web hook support at this time, you can vote for that here: https://taskbill.prodcamp.com/24. If there is a particular action you are looking to receive a web hook for, please leave them in the comments here.6. We support Stripe or PayPal and you can also enter payments in manually.7. We will be adding custom STMP support in the coming week, so you can send emails from your own domain. For now they will come from TaskBill.io and have your email address as the reply to email. 8. Clients currently only have access to their invoice via the link found within each invoice. We are looking at adding more features for clients down the road to view past invoices, payments etc. 9. TaskBill has been available for a little over a year now and is run under the parent company Hosting Playground Inc which has been in business since 2005. We have a team of support engineers working across our various products 24/7.

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Lance Cook

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

Does your program integrate with my programs:

1) My task management program is https://clickup.com/

2) My CRM is ActiveCampaign

3) My Bookkeeping system is QuickBooks Online

4) My payment system is Stripe.

Please let me know how and if your system can integrate with my systems. Thanks

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Lance Cook: Hi Lance, we do not have any integrations currently with clickup or ActiveCampaign. We do integrate with Quickbooks Online's invoicing system as well as payment processing using Stripe.

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Kyle

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

Can we do auto-invoicing for a manual rate of whatever we choose or does the software have to calculate it off the billable hours every week?

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Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Kyle: Hi Kyle, you can add line items manually for any amount of rate. You can also set the rate based on the task or the person who logged the hours against the task.

Kyle

3 years ago

@Joseph: Ok, great. Thank you.

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Bryan

3 years ago | verifed user Verified Buyer

The TASK20 coupon literally advertised at the top of this page doesn't work.

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Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Bryan: Sorry to hear you are having issues with the promo code. I will contact SaasMantra support to see why it isn't working.

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Bryan: Please try it again now, it should be fixed.

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Ivan

3 years ago | verifed user Verified Buyer

Can we use our domain name with TaskBill?

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Ivan: We do not support custom domain names with TaskBill.

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Peter Dahl

3 years ago | verifed user Verified User

Would love an integration with the danish accounting software dinero.dk, would something like that be possible for the future?

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Ivan Arnaudov

3 years ago | verifed user Verified Buyer

I purchased a license and spent about an hour looking into it. This is not a review and even if it looks like a list of complaints & grievances, I'd appreciate if it is considered as such, meaning I will be glad if the developer answers to each point not only for my personal benefit but for everyone interested as well. I don't want to be confrontational, and will appreciate comments from the developer. Maybe I am wrong.

I already asked via the support page about the (in)ability to log billing time in minutes (time is kept track in hours; try converting 43 minutes into hours, I will wait). But I also see other areas where the tool is seriously lacking.

1. I don't see the ability to mark a payment as invoiced or paid manually. It seems the tool relies on QuickBooks integration; if one does not use QuickBooks, there is no way to keep track of what is billed and paid. I at least cannot see it. I.e. the "Record Offline Payments Manually" item in the deal description is false, and "Automated Client Invoices" means nothing if it requires QuickBooks. In any case, the tool does not have any invoice generation capabilities of its own.

2. Along with the inability to log time in minutes, the app does not allow logging start time and end time (which is a must when one moves from another system to this one and wants to know the sequence of tasks performed during each day). One can only enter the date and length of time spent on a task, which is insufficient.

3. The Date Range selector in the Report tool is hopelessly broken. Instead of Start Date and End Date as in any other software I've seen in the last 30 years or so, date range uses a single field that says for example "July 23, 2021 to July 29, 2021". The problem is that if one clicks on that date range, a single calendar appears. The user must have the strength of mind to figure out that they are supposed to click TWICE on dates to select the start and end date. This is horrible UI/UX.

I was hoping I would get a tool that would allow me to keep track of maybe 20 hours monthly of extra project work that I do on top of my regular duties. So far I am using Clockify but their free version does not support billing/invoice tracking, and their paid version that does simply does not work out for me considering how little I am using it each month. Judging from the deal description, TaskBill could satisfy my requirements but apparently this is not the case.

I will be glad to stand corrected. Until then, whoever considers buying it, my advice is to register a free account and test thoroughly before committing.

Ivan Arnaudov

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Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Ivan Arnaudov:

1. Hi Ivan, Quickbooks is not required to use our invoicing system. When you click on an invoice, in the row of buttons, there is an Add Payment button. Click that button then enter in the payment method and the amount received. If the amount received is equal to the total, the invoice is marked as paid and your client is notified of the invoice being marked as payed. Please contact us via support if you need further assistance entering in an invoice payment.

2. We will be adding the ability to manually add a start and stop time in addition to the log hours feature shortly: https://taskbill.prodcamp.com/20

3. Thank you for the feedback on the date range picker. While I don't agree with you stating it is broken, we will look into if there is a better solution. With this range picker you simply click your start date and then end date and the range is highlighted in gray.

Ivan Arnaudov

3 years ago

@Joseph: Many thanks for your quick reply here and over email!

To everyone else reading this, I had a detailed communication with the developer, and my misunderstanding about invoicing was cleared. And it is now possible to add start and stop time when logging a task. A feature that I missed is already live and working, in a matter of hours! We still don't see eye to eye about date pickers :)))))) but I've given the developer examples of a better solution and it is up to him to decide if/how/when to implement a change.

This is the kind of response that deserves respect and appreciation.

Joseph Clarke

3 years ago Founder

@Ivan Arnaudov: Glad to be of service, thank you for the feedback!

Sampath

3 years ago

@Ivan Arnaudov: Thanks for taking time to come back & update us.

Looking forward to reading your review :)