Timeslips 10.5 for Windows

For 16 years, Timeslips by Sage has been considered as not only the leader in time billing software, but also as the standard by which other time billing products are measured. A powerful feature set is presented in a user-friendly interface, making Timeslips by Sage an incredibly capable product that requires very little time to learn. You could say that Timeslips by Sage is the perfect solution for anyone whose time is their money and who can't afford to waste either.

When you choose Timeslips by Sage, you are choosing the recipient of countless awards and endless customer praise, but more importantly, you are choosing a product backed by Sage - a recognized worldwide leader in business automation solutions. We have the experience to realize that some of the best ideas come from our customers, and we have the resources to incorporate those ideas into our products.

A concept that has been fundamental to Timeslips' continued success is that each customer is unique. Each Timeslips by Sage user has their own preferences for how their bills should look, the terminology used, the level of detail in their reports, even color of buttons on the menus.

Rather than produce a one-size-fits-all product, we have incorporated sets of features and customization tools of varying abilities into three distinct levels of Timeslips by Sage. Of the three Timeslips levels, the mid-level product (or standard edition) is certainly the most popular choice among Timeslips users. Recommended for established firms of 1 to 20 workstations, the standard edition of Timeslips comes with a powerful set of features, designed to accommodate the time tracking and billing needs of any service professional. For small businesses with basic time tracking and billing needs, there's no better choice than Timeslips Express. With its carefully selected feature set, this simple, yet powerful version of Timeslips includes the essential billing tools that every service professional needs.

Because Timeslips Express does not contain the advanced features and options that are typically not needed by small businesses, setup and learning time is greatly reduced. Timeslips Enterprise, version 10.5, is the client/server version of Timeslips. With many flexible features, and SQL server architecture, Timeslips Enterprise is the perfect billing tool for service-oriented businesses of any size. In addition to its client/server capabilities, Timeslips Enterprise comes with the premium features required by larger businesses, and sold separately in lower Timeslips levels.

Regardless of the level that you choose as being right for your business, you will have access to tool sets and features that allow you to modify Timeslips to meet your very specific needs.

Each level of Timeslips by Sage has unlimited capacities for user, client, and task names. Each level is network-ready. Each level can be upgraded to adapt to your growing business.

From its informative reports, to easy-to-use menus, to innovative features found in no other product, Timeslips' ultimate purpose is to make your business more profitable. One of the ways this is accomplished is by automating many of the processes that you now do manually. When those processes are given to Timeslips, your business becomes more efficient, your billings become more accurate, and more of your time becomes billable. Timeslips by Sage will quickly become one of the most important and certainly one of the most underpaid members of your firm.

The Timeslips Navigator menu system acts as your command center, routing you through the program via a click of the mouse, and using an easy-to-learn graphical interface, which is also customizable in the standard and Enterprise editions. The Guides feature is your built-in tour guide, designed to help you learn Timeslips quickly. Dozens of personal settings, such as system-wide terminology, custom data fields, default values, and billing rate rules will greatly reduce the work involved in getting bills out the door.

Timeslips standard edition and Timeslips Enterprise can also accommodate numerous billing styles such as flat fee, hourly, contingency, and progress, to name a few. Not only will each of your client's bills contain just the amount of detail that you choose, but they will also appear with your logo, choice of colors, or any other element that you include in your bill design.

Time and Expense Tracking:

Tracking time and expenses, whether it is from one computer or from dozens simultaneously, is a simple process. Use the stopwatch timer to track your activities, or simply enter all of your time at once. A long list of tools and preference settings make time and expense entry as effortless as possible. Create custom abbreviations for quick entry of text descriptions, set the order in which your cursor jumps from one field to the next, and even set default values for time entry fields.

• Stopwatch timer.
• Custom abbreviations for quick data entry.
• Spell-checking.
• MiniView timer can be run in the corner of the screen over other applications.
• Hide information, such as rates, from other timekeepers.
• A Slip List view displays all, or selected slips on one screen.
• Make mark-ups and adjustments on individual tasks.
• The Data Entry Assistant allows timekeepers to quickly access all of their activity for the day, week, or other user-defined time period.

Accounts Receivable:

• Statement generation
• Transactions include payments, invoices, credits, discounts, write-offs (bad debts), reverse payments (bounced checks), and refunds.
• Aged balances are tracked in components of fees, costs, and interest with multiple periods, each one defined by you.
• Assign local and state tax rates to clients. The tax system is designed to adapt as your tax laws change. It also handles international tax systems.
• Set up discount rules for early payments.
• Bank deposit slips for payment tracking.
• Multiple client funds (trust) accounts.

The Timeslips Accounting Link (TAL), which is included in Timeslips standard, and Enterprise editions, allows Timeslips to connect with over 20 different general ledger accounting software programs. Whether you post manually or use it to link directly to your accounting program, the invaluable Transfer Register report details the account breakdown for each transaction. The latest list of accounting partners can always be found on our Web site.

Billing:

When it comes time to bill your clients, generating bills is no longer an all-day process. Simply click Generate Bills from the Navigator menu, select the clients you want to bill, date ranges, specific activities, or any of dozens of settings. To make it even easier, save all of these settings as a template and make billing a one-click process! Timeslips by Sage Standard and Enterprise editions also allow you to track time on separate projects for each client, and then bill them individually, or on one consolidated bill. Your bills are generated to your exact specifications with every detail you need, in the order you select, and in the format you've designed. When you approve those bills, every time and expense record is closed and marked with the invoice number and date. You always have the ability to undo a bill in order to make a change, or even reprint an old bill whenever it's needed.

• Create professional-looking, custom bill templates that contain your logo and choice of detail, or use a pre-set template.
• The Billing Assistant is your in-house automated bookkeeper and interactive pre-bill worksheet. Producing accurate bills has never been simpler.
• Reprint old bills.
• Print bills to text or RTF file.
• Save selection, sort, and preference settings for easy, one-click billing.
• Multiple projects or cases for any client can be consolidated onto one bill, or printed individually on separate bills.
• Additional billing formats are available for use with legal bill auditing firms (additional purchase required).
• System Administration functions allow application- and database-wide management in networking environments, with audit trail tracking on system-wide entries.

Reporting:

Timeslips by Sage contains dozens of pre-defined reports, including:

• Custom sort and selection criteria can be saved as templates for quick access.
• Graph reports in pie, line, bar, and mark formats.
• Accounts Receivable reports by aging period show clients with unpaid and overdue balances.
• Slip Listings that give you detailed or summary reports of every task performed in your firm. You select whom you want to report on, the time period, the sort orders, and the amount of detail. Timeslips will save your settings for quick and easy reporting.
• Invoice reports for billed monthly values reflect fees, costs, paid and unpaid balances.
• An intuitive report wizard to walk you through the steps of setting up the right report.
• Bank deposit slips
• Client budget reports
• Productivity and Profitability analysis reports compare billed vs. non-billed work and the percentages of each, varied by week, month, or year.

Networking Features:

• Unique, detailed security profiles may be set for each user.
• Control access to databases with Station Administrator.
• The Connected Databases feature keeps multiple databases synchronized.
• Turn off all active stopwatch timers with one mouse click.
• Audit Trails show you the date and time of any action performed by the timekeeper that was logged into the database.

Data Import:

A built-in text import utility allows Timeslips by Sage to accept data from other applications or your old billing system. If you can produce data in a delimited text file then Timeslips by Sage will import information like client names, addresses, balances, rates, task lists, and more. Setup time is reduced dramatically when you do not have to reenter your data!