I’m still looking for a replacement to Billings, at this rate I’ll need to build part of it myself and rely on csv exports from one of the better desktop time trackers.
Edit, because HN says I’m too chatty!
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No offence but after being burned by MarketCircle with Billings, I can’t trust my business invoices to something I don’t control completely and a single-desktop-app solution doesn’t work for me.
So my plan (unless something OSS turns up) is to build out the invoicing solution I need as a web app and then have it generate an internal representation of billable hours by importing csv files. These could come from one of the available desktop “time tracking” apps (such as Klokki) or from manually created timesheets, or wherever.
If a time tracking becomes unsupported, I can swap to another one or enter blocks of time manually, and the important part (invoice handling, billing etc) is unaffected.
In case you didn't see it (I know I wouldn't notice because its not a reply), I "replied" in my original comment because HN wouldn't let me reply at the time.
TLDR: I'm happy to (and would like to) use a desktop app like Klokki to track time, but I'm unwilling to have the financial aspect (invoicing/billing and payment records) in something that I don't control fully.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 20.1 ms ] threadI’m still looking for a replacement to Billings, at this rate I’ll need to build part of it myself and rely on csv exports from one of the better desktop time trackers.
Edit, because HN says I’m too chatty!
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No offence but after being burned by MarketCircle with Billings, I can’t trust my business invoices to something I don’t control completely and a single-desktop-app solution doesn’t work for me.
So my plan (unless something OSS turns up) is to build out the invoicing solution I need as a web app and then have it generate an internal representation of billable hours by importing csv files. These could come from one of the available desktop “time tracking” apps (such as Klokki) or from manually created timesheets, or wherever.
If a time tracking becomes unsupported, I can swap to another one or enter blocks of time manually, and the important part (invoice handling, billing etc) is unaffected.
Some of the billing functionality is coming very soon to the app. Plus invoicing is also on our radar.
Can you elaborate on the CSV export?
In case you didn't see it (I know I wouldn't notice because its not a reply), I "replied" in my original comment because HN wouldn't let me reply at the time.
TLDR: I'm happy to (and would like to) use a desktop app like Klokki to track time, but I'm unwilling to have the financial aspect (invoicing/billing and payment records) in something that I don't control fully.