I use a cool little desktop app called Trax Time. (www.spudcity.com) It has a start-stop button, so you click on it to set the timer going for whatever job you're doing. You can have as many projects as you like. The phone goes, you click out, click into the other client's project, talk to him, then click out and click back into the previous project.
You can add notes about what exactly you were doing, so at the end of the week/month you can bill a client for x hours, broken down into y hours on A, z hours on B etc. You can produce reports at any interval, covering any interval. I have most of mine set to report weekly, so on Sunday nights I run my reports, do my invoicing for the week, and go to bed on Sunday night feeling all a-glow at the number of dollars i just billed. There's a multi-user version too so teams can all do the same thing and the project manager can gather everyone's data off the network for billings. I have TraxTime running all the time and it is really useful for keeping track of where my time has gone. Oh and it's easy to make corrections too, for when someone yells out "LUNCH!" and you rush to the food, fogetting to click out of the project. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > Aaron Roberson wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good project time management application that > > > would be good for consulting jobs? I am thinking of something that has > > > a stop watch you can click to start and stop and automatically > > > calculate expenses incurred. It would be nice if it had invoicing > > > capabilities as well. > > > > > > I used to have a similar app on an old machine of mine but it has > > > since fried (literally went up in smoke) and I can't remember what it > > > was called or Google it. > > > > > > Thank for your suggestions, > > > Aaron > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278841 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
