Head over to this thread on our forums for the new Daylite betas (Daylite, Daylite Server, and Daylite Delivery.
To request a Billings Pro beta, please get in touch with our support team.
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Billings Pro 1.5.1 is now available
June 15, 2011 on 4:48 pm | Ryan
Just some minor bug fixes in this release.
You can update Billings Pro directly from the Mac App Store.
For Self-Serve users, please make sure you upgrade Billings Pro Server first (available here).
Billings Pro 1.5 now available in the Mac App Store
May 25, 2011 on 2:10 pm | AJ
After a few months in beta, we’re super excited to finally release Billings Pro 1.5 and Billings Pro Touch 1.5 with Marketcircle Cloud.
We know that people love the experience they get when they’re using a Mac or iPhone app, but at the same time we know that people are attracted to the convenience and hassle-free setup they find with most Web apps.
With Billings Pro 1.5, we’ve combined these two approaches so our users can experience the best of both worlds – the Mac and iPhone experience with the flexibility of the Web.
With Marketcircle Cloud, users don’t need to worry about setting up servers and networking, or having to make a large upfront investment in software and hardware. In less than 5 minutes, small businesses will be up and running, ready to track time and send invoices.
Workers are able to track time from anywhere, at any time, from almost any device. You can even use Billings Pro when you can’t find an internet connection – data is saved locally on your device and will synchronize automatically when you find a connection.
The pricing is simple – it’s US $19.95 per month/user, which includes usage of Billings Pro for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, and our Timecard web interface. The first 30 days are free and you don’t need a credit card to sign up!
Billings Pro is available as a free download in the Mac App Store, and you can get Billings Pro Touch for your iPhone or iPod touch from the iOS App Store.
We also wiped the slate clean and created a brand new website to talk about Billings Pro – we think you’ll like it 
Billings Pro Self-Serve
For businesses that prefer to host their own database, we’re going to continue offering Billings Pro with a self-serve hosting option. For self-serve pricing please visit our webstore.
If you’re currently using Billings Pro 1.0 or 1.1, you can upgrade to 1.5 for free (Download it from the Mac App Store). Make sure you upgrade Billings Pro Server first (available here).
Until next time…
AJ
Billings Pro 1.1 adds support for QuickBooks & MoneyWorks
April 4, 2011 on 10:55 am | Ryan
Today we’re shipping an important update to Billings Pro – version 1.1.
Billings Pro 1.1 adds an export to QuickBooks feature, MoneyWorks integration, and some general speed and usability enhancements. You must upgrade both the server and the app.
Export to QuickBooks
You can now export Clients, Invoices, Payments and Retainers to an IIF file and then import that IIF file into QuickBooks. You can also import the chart of accounts and client names from an IIF file.
MoneyWorks Integration
Billings Pro now integrates with MoneyWorks 6.0.5 (Express, Gold and Data Center). Billings Pro connects to the running MoneyWorks database to exchange data. There is no manual file transfer. You can send over Clients, Invoices, Payments and Retainers. Payments received in MoneyWorks for an invoice created in Billings Pro are pulled into Billings Pro, and the totals are updated. You can also import Clients from MoneyWorks.
What else is new?
Faster Invoice, Estimate and Statements Generation
We’ve sped up the process of creating these documents significantly. This is especially apparent on slow networks or on distant networks. The process is the same but the speed has improved considerably.
Directly add Clients in Billings Pro
You can now add clients directly in Billings Pro – you don’t have to import them from Address Book or Daylite. Billings Pro no longer requires the client to be in Address Book before sending an invoice.
Fore more details about everything new in Billings Pro 1.1, please read this Knowledge Base article.
UPGRADE PROCEDURE:
Please follow the steps outlined in this article in order to ensure you update Billings Pro correctly.
Both the application (Billings Pro), and the server (Billings Pro Server) must be upgraded to 1.1.
Upgrade Billings Pro Server first, then upgrade all copies of Billings Pro on all computers.
Daylite, Daylite Server 3.14, and DMI 2.5.4 released
March 23, 2011 on 3:19 pm | Ryan
Daylite and Daylite Server versions 3.14, as well as DMI (Daylite Mail Integration) 2.5.4 are now available for download.
The updates contain a few bug fixes and enhancements, but were primarily released for compatibility with Apple’s latest OS X release, 10.6.7.
For the full release notes, check out our Knowledge Base article.
Download links
- Daylite: click here
- Daylite Server: click here
- DMI: click here
Billings 3.7 Released
January 14, 2011 on 2:18 pm | Ryan
Billings 3.7 is now available for any of our users that don’t have the Mac App Store version installed.
You can click the “Check for Updates…” menu item in Billings for an easy in-app update, or download it from the Billings website.
Other than a bug fix or two, Billings 3.7 maintains parity with the version available in the Mac App Store. You can read the full release notes here.
Also, as we mentioned previously, there are a few important things to be aware of:
The App Store shows an app as already “Installed”
The “Installed” button appears because the Mac App store is identifying applications that have the same internal application identifier on both the Mac App Store and from the developer’s own store. As such, it’s more a bug on Apple’s side than a confirmation that you can update your copy of the apps from within the App Store. You can only update applications purchased via the Mac App Store using the Mac App Store.Can I easily move my Marketcircle-bought copy of an app to the Mac App Store?
Unfortunately not. The App Store has no way to migrate existing users to the Mac App Store purchase history (and uses an entirely different, Apple-specific, way of securing purchases).Macworld also wrote a great article entitled “The Mac App Store: What you need to know“.
If you’ve downloaded a trial of Billings and wish to purchase it from the Mac App Store, please follow these steps.
Since Billings can be purchased 3 different ways. We’ve written an article that outlines the differences.
Billings 3 Now Available on the Mac App Store.
January 6, 2011 on 9:23 am | AJ
I’m sure you’ve all heard that the Mac App Store is available today with an update to Mac OS X 10.6.6.
I’m quite excited by the prospects of the Mac App Store because it eliminates two significant friction points for new Mac users (regardless of the developer):
- Download and installation. Currently there is no consistent method for this and a new user must navigate the different ways. Sometimes it can be daunting.
- Purchasing. Once again, each developer has a slightly different store.
So in theory, we should see many new customers regardless of the exposure issue. I still think developers will have to continue marketing efforts in order to drive awareness. The Mac App Store won’t solve that problem once it gets populated and the buzz dies down (as it is with the current iOS App Store).
We’ve started our Mac App Store adventure with Billings 3. The current rules prevent us from submitting our other apps: Daylite and Billings Pro. Hopefully the rules will be relaxed a bit in the future.
So what does this mean for existing Billings 3 users?
- If you’ve purchased directly from us or via a retail location (you received a physical box), then you continue to update Billings 3 via our site.
- If you’ve purchased Billings 3 via the Mac App Store, then you update using the Mac App Store only.
The licensing mechanism is different and not compatible thus you cannot swap between one another. We are hoping to find a way to unify this (Apple has done it for their apps, so there must be a way. Hopefully they will share it).
We will maintain feature parity between Billings from the Mac App Store and Billings from our site (other than this initial release) until further notice.
So let’s see how this Mac App Store changes the desktop software landscape in the coming months and years.
Until next time…
AJ
Daylite for iPad is here!
December 15, 2010 on 10:35 am | AJ
It’s finally here.
When the iPad was announced earlier this year, we had the choice to change paths from our then current development plans and focus on the iPad. We thought about it and decided to stay the course with a plan to address the iPad in 2011 (especially considering that the then current version of Daylite Touch would run fine in 1.x or 2.x mode and we needed some backend changes to do what we truly wanted).
At the time we didn’t realize the change in behaviour the iPad would bring.
A few months after the iPad was released, the number of requests (email, phone and others) drove us to do a little bit of digging. What we found was a drastic behavioural change for many CEO’s, Presidents, Executives and “on the road” staff.
70% of the people I spoke to (you know who you are — and remember, these folks asked for a native version), dropped their desktop usage to about 15 minutes a week. The rest was iPad. Wow!
That and the impressive iPad sales at the time, prompted us to change a few things. We hired a few more people and scaled back the original iPad plan. We decided to leave the backend alone and deliver an iPad version with full feature parity to Daylite on iPhone (not some scaled back thing like many iPad apps).
The iPad is changing the way people are conducting business all over the world. Apple has already demonstrated this with their iPad in Business Profiles.
Daylite for iPad takes mobile business to the next level. Rather than filling this post with a list of features, I’ll let these 4 case studies do the talking:
We focused on functionality – not so much on fancy extras. I like how the folks at AppStorm put it:
“The interface is simple and frill-free and the functionality blows away anything you’ve seen before.”
We’ve put together a few pages highlighting Daylite for iPad, along with an FAQ.
We’ve also tweaked the licensing model to be “per user” instead of “per device”, so if you have a Daylite Touch license already, you can use Daylite on your iPad right away. You’ll need Daylite Server 3.13 for this. If you don’t have Daylite Touch licenses, you can buy some on our store.
As always, we’re working hard to make small businesses more efficient, so they can focus on moving forward by doing what they do best.
Until next time…
AJ
Daylite & Daylite Server 3.13
December 15, 2010 on 10:35 am | Ryan
Along with the release of Daylite Touch for iPad today, we’re releasing Daylite and Daylite Server 3.13.
The main reason for this release is the change to the Daylite Touch licensing structure.
Previously, if a user had an iPhone and an iPod touch (or iPad), they’d require 2 licenses to be able to sync both devices with their Daylite database.
When we developed the licensing structure for Daylite Touch, the iPad wasn’t even a rumour. At this time, most Apple customers (and our customers) only used one iOS device – an iPhone OR an iPod touch, as the two products are almost identical.
Sure people had an iPod touch for their car stereo, but in almost all cases, people were accessing Daylite from only one iOS device.
This has since changed, as many people (including us) use both an iPhone AND an iPad on a regular basis.
For the release of Daylite Touch 1.6, which adds native iPad support a user needs only one license of Daylite Touch to support all of their iOS devices. A user will be able to run Daylite Touch from their iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with only one license.
To take advantage of the changes, please make sure you download the latest version of Daylite and Daylite Server (3.13) from here, and download Daylite Touch 1.6 on your iOS device from the App Store directly on your device, or from iTunes on your Mac.
You can read the release notes here.
We want to encourage the use of Daylite Touch, and that means being able to use it from any number of devices.
Happy Holidays!
- Ryan
Billings Pro Touch Available on iPad (sort of)
November 25, 2010 on 1:16 pm | Ryan
Apple released iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch a few days ago.
We’ve been using Daylite Touch, Billings Touch, and Billings Pro Touch on iOS 4.2 for some time now we’re confident in saying they are working perfectly.
With today’s release Billings Pro Touch is now available for download on iPad – it was previously unavailable as it required iOS 4.2.
You can run Billings Pro Touch in it’s original (iPhone) size, or use the 2x feature to fill the iPad’s screen.
Download the app from iTunes on your Mac, or directly from the App Store on your iPad.
You can also use Timecard to track time, mileage, and expenses right from Safari on your iPad.