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It’s been a busy summer here at TurboLaw Software, and we’re very pleased to announce the results of all that work: TurboLaw Time and Billing version 1.23! This new version is going to be a big deal for a lot of people, as we’ve incorporated many new features and enhancements that have been directly requested by our users and which really do make everyday tasks faster and easier to perform.

Click on any of the headings below to read more about that particular feature.

Custom Billing Rates

One new feature that’s going to have a lot of people very excited is Custom Billing Rates. Starting with this version of Time and Billing, you can now set a different billing rate for a client or matter.

Custom billing rates will allow you to handle many different situations, such as old clients who still get your older, lower rate, clients who get a discounted rate, or matters that you bill for at a different rate than usual. Whatever the situation, you can now handle it by setting a custom billing rate.

Windows 7 Jump Lists

Another handy new feature that will help you save time is the addition of support for Windows 7 “jump list” commands. Jump lists are new to Windows 7, and they allow you to quickly perform certain actions by right-clicking a program’s icon in the Windows Task Bar (they also give you additional shortcuts if the program’s icon is on your start menu).

With the jump list commands in TurboLaw Time and Billing, you can open the stopwatch, create a new client, enter time and expenses, or perform a search – even if Time and Billing isn’t open on your screen! We love shortcuts here at TurboLaw, and we hope you will too.

Additional Reports

In this version of Time and Billing, we’ve added some new reports to the reporting section of the program. These two new reports are “All Time (billed and unbilled)” and “All Expenses (billed and unbilled).” These two new reports, along with the report filtering options, allow you to create many more types of reports to suit your needs. For example, you can use the new “All Time” report, combine it with filtering by a specific staff member and a specific day, and you now have a report of all the time that has been entered by that person on that day.

New Way To Enter Time

While we’re sure most people are comfortable entering time as hours (e.g., 1.5 hours), sometimes it is handy to be able to enter time more “naturally” (e.g., 00:14:00 for entering 14 minutes). This is especially important when you’re trying to capture more of the smaller tasks you do each day. To help with this, we’ve added the ability to enter time as hours, minutes, and seconds directly from the “Enter Time” window. Now you can type in exactly how much time you spent, without having to convert it to hours in your head.

Separate User Templates

In this version, we’ve revised the way the bill and statement window works – now, templates are separated into “built-in” templates and “user” templates. This way, if you customize a template, it is considered one of the “user” templates instead of potentially overwriting one of the built-in templates. This way, you can customize templates to your heart’s content without ever worrying about accidentally deleting or messing up one of the built-in templates.

There are also a number of other, smaller improvements in this version:

• When adding existing items to an existing bill, you can now add more than one item at a time
• Improved the sorting of items on a bill when they all occur on the exact same date
• Fixed a problem where the “bill total” would not appear on the screen if your computer screen’s DPI setting was set higher than 100%
• Added some self-repair capability for the rare cases when the user’s settings file becomes corrupted

As you can tell, we’re pretty excited about all the new features in this new version – and we hope you will be, too. This new version is available immediately – as long as you haven’t turned off automatic updates, you should receive a notification shortly after you open the program (it may take a little while, depending on your Internet connection speed).

TurboLaw Time and Billing version 1.22 has just been released with some great new features based on feedback from our customers.

The new features in this version are:

• Automatic updates: when an update is available, TurboLaw Time and Billing will download it for you, and if you don’t click to install it yourself, the next time you open Time and Billing, the update will be installed automatically, so you always have the latest version.
• New Templates: we’ve updated some of the default bill templates as well as added a totally new one, called “Acme.” This is a very simple, plain template that works well if you just need something straightforward for your bills – but it’s also a great starting point for creating your own custom template.
• Sample data: speaking of templates, when you are customizing a bill or statement template, when you click on the “Preview” tab you will now see your template with some sample data so you can get a better idea of how it will look.
• No more pop-up balloon tips: when you start TurboLaw Time and Billing, you will no longer see a pop-up balloon asking if you’ve noticed the icon which appears in your notification area (a.k.a. the system tray).
• No more minimizing when clicking the “close” button: now, when you click the red “X” close button, TurboLaw Time and Billing will close, instead of minimizing itself as it previously did.
• User-selectable spell-check language: instead of trying to guess which dialect of English you are using, TurboLaw Time and Billing now defaults to US English and you can select from several other variations (e.g., UK English) from the Options & Settings window.

As always, we hope that you enjoy this latest release of TurboLaw Time and Billing and all the new features and improvements we’ve made.

p.s. If you don’t already have TurboLaw Time and Billing, be sure to check out our free trial!