HourBill - fast time management and billing

What follows is our description of the app on the iTunes App Store for version 1.1:

HourBill is about workflow. HourBill is time billing software reduced down to its essence and reinvented for speed and efficiency.

HourBill is a time sheet app featuring the fastest data entry of any app of its kind, with an emphasis on efficient workflow, flexibility, and a robust, fast, easy-to-use backup-and-restore system.

HourBill is for anyone who needs to keep track of hours spent on work for pay or any other purpose: consultants, freelancers, contractors, professionals, hourly workers, people who need to keep track of hours spent on a project, for billing purposes, records or otherwise.

A feature list for HourBill:

• direct input of times on app startup: just tap in the time. Most account entries (time blocks) don't even need that, because the app guesses that you mean the current time for the start or end of the time block.
• switch accounts or create a new account with a tap and a swipe as soon as you start the app.
• start or end a time block with one key tap, which makes taking breaks off the clock as simple as it could be.
• enter an end time for one account and a start time for another in as few as four key taps, including tapping Enter.
• enter or express entries in terms of start and end times, or in terms of hours worked, independently for each account or entry.
• hours worked can be expressed as hours:minutes or decimal-hours, independently for each account.
• hourly rate of pay can be set independently for each account and each entry.
• automatic flagging of accounts for the presence of incomplete entries.
• all aspects of an entry are editable at any time after it's created.
• accuracy to the nearest minute, with all times stored internally w.r.t. Universal Time.
• a stylish and distinctive app icon, that looks fabulous on your phone!
• an extensive and thorough in-app help system.
• email a report of any account to an email address from your Contacts.
• backup system stores up to five backups of your data in one of the most powerful of all clouds! This requires a free easy-to-set-up account with that cloud. We tell you how, and it's free! Many people already have one.
• back up at the touch of a button, or set the app to back up new data automatically whenever the app is started. The best backup system is the one you use.
• restore all of your data from any of five stored backups at the touch of a button. Bang and you're there! It doesn't get any easier.
• transfer backup files between devices with HourBill installed, restoring one device from the backup file created on another.
• Your cloud ID is encrypted on your device, and backup files are only readable by HourBill.

If you like HourBill, and we think you will, a modestly priced in-app Upgrade is available which allows you an unlimited number of accounts (the free version allows you two.)

The Upgrade also lets you generate sub-accounts corresponding to billing periods, either manually, or automatically in the background on a monthly, bimonthly, biweekly or weekly basis on a day of your choosing.

If you have any questions or comments about HourBill, or bug reports, we'd love to hear from you at our App Support link. You can also reach us with the 'Email The Developer' button in HourBill's Help screen.

We are offering HourBill as a free app with a paid in-app upgrade, so that you can decide for yourself whether what it does suits you, without obligation, and with the least possible inconvenience in taking it to the next level and adopting it as your mobile time management system.

There is much more to come. HourBill will be extended to run on other handheld platforms, including tablets, and we are planning desktop/laptop control/management solutions to handle payroll and expenses for multiple employees. HourBill 1.1 for iOS is but the first step on this journey. The future is bright.

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RunningTotal

RunningTotal is a fast, robust and legible tool for keeping track of financial accounts. These could be bank debit card accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, expense accounts, or anything else that requires you to keep a record of money going in or going out. It is reliable, and it is private. Your data is yours, unless you choose to email it to someone else.

RunningTotal was designed for flexibility. You decide how the account info should be displayed, both in the summary screen and in the detail screens. With a best-in-class integrated help system, and a collection of sample tables provided with the app, you'll be off to a flying start. Why should you have to say, "What's supposed to happen?" We want to anticipate the question and answer it before you ask.

A brief listing of some other features:

• the best, most intuitive numeric data entry keypad on the planet.
• integrated automatic internal backup system that detects database errors and corrects them, and lets you know when there might be a problem.
• not the usual dry narration.
• a storage area for accounts that haven't been accessed recently, so that you don't have to delete them to reduce the inevitable clutter.
• edit dates whenever you like, for current or past transactions.
• display of account limits (e.g. credit card limits) in both the detail screens and the main account display screen if you choose.
• an in-app email system for mailing tables to an address of your choosing.

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Call Now

Call Now is useful for those times when you don't want to mess around with the phone number Favorites list. For example, you could be jogging, driving, or riding your bicycle on the freeway. Somebody could be chasing you. Or, you could have the double-click on your iPhone's home button set to go somewhere other than accessing your Favorites list, such as Home or the iPod app, or managing active apps on an iOS multitasking device.

If you have a phone number that you want to dial easily, quickly and repeatedly, you want Call Now.

Only for iPhone.

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