It has good flexibility with custom fields, can handle purchase orders, has decent reporting, does timing fairly nicely (I prefer Billings). It can handle some more than just time tracking and invoicing. But it has a great feature set, making its early 2000s appearance excusable. The developers have not kept up with the last decade or so of MacOS app styling and standards. Well, actually it “looks” rather outdated and drab. But for tracking time and projects, Zoho Books and Zoho Invoice wasn’t sufficient for my needs. So once I set up their recurring invoice, that’s it. That way it is fully automated, and not dependent on me and my computer (especially helpful when I am away and offline for extended periods). I only have a few clients I provide these services to, and I keep it all online. I use Zoho Books to invoice for services such as domain registrations, and hosting services. I’m undecided if I’ll continue once the year is up. So I switched to a free 12 month trial of Zoho. For some years I was using Wave Invoicing (which is also excellent), but they stopped supporting users outside the US. I already use Zoho Books for the online aspect of my invoicing, for one of my businesses. Zoho Invoice and Zoho Books are good as online applications. It also didn’t have the kind of reporting I need. I didn’t want to waste time trying to get a timing app to work well in a GrandTotal based solution, if it wasn’t going to be as efficient and excellent as Billings. But after an hour or so trying to get it to meet my needs I moved on. I already have a license for it via my SetApp subscription, so I was keen for it to work as I needed. It does that, but it’s not its primary focus. I just want my timer to take entries I give it, and to time those. Tyme was over-simplified, and Timing was overly complicated as it is geared towards automatically timing activities you do on your computer. It has no timing functions, yet allows for other apps to plug into it. GrandTotal looks decent for an offline invoicing app.
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