There’s a big new release of TurboLaw Time and Billing on the way, and one of the biggest changes we’re making is to payments. We’ve totally revamped the way payments work and are entered, and the most noticeable change is that you can now apply payments to bills.

Payments can now be applied to bills, or even split among bills.

This change has some other consequences which might not be obvious at first glance.

Bills can now show amount paid and remaining balance.

Because payments and bills are linked, it is now possible for a bill to display how much of the bill has been paid off, and how much remains due.

Also, payments can now be “split” among multiple bills. This allows several bills to be paid at once, and it also allows payments entered in advance (as a “retainer”) to be credited towards new bills.

In the new version of the program you’ll see these bill balances everywhere, so it’s easy to see how much of a particular bill has been paid at a glance, without having to dig deeper.

The new version of the program will also contain new bill templates which take advantage of this new feature, so you can show how much of a bill has been paid – and how much is left to pay – when you print out your bills.

Allowing payments to be applied to bills opens up some powerful options for managing your billing, and we’re very excited to bring this new feature to you. You can expect to see this new feature – along with many more – in the next version of TurboLaw Time and Billing, due out this spring.

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