We're proud to announce that LiveTimer will soon include expense tracking and invoicing. These features should be the perfect complement to LiveTimer's time tracking and billing features, which currently include billing rates (in multiple currencies) and billing reports. Soon, you'll also be able to generate and track customizable invoices that include your billable time and expenses. We are intent on making LiveTimer a complete online time and billing solution!

We've been working hard on these features, which we expect to complete this quarter. We're making this announcement now because we've been asked many times about our support for expense tracking and/or invoicing. We feel that our customers and potential customers deserve to know our plans so they can make more informed decisions themselves.

There's one last piece to this announcement: LiveTimer's pricing will stay the same! We hope you agree that time and expense tracking, plus invoicing, for $5 per user per month is a great value.

We've just completed a major upgrade of LiveTimer's reporting system. We've added new billing reports, new report grouping options, and a number of features that improve the flexibility and performance of reports.

The new report configuration page is shown below:

You can now convert a summary report to a detailed listing report, and vice versa, just by changing its "Style". Furthermore, detailed listings can now be grouped with the same options as summary reports. These options have been expanded to include a number of date-based groupings:

Our billing reports are brand new, and hopefully not too overdue for users who have been entering billing rates since the beginning of the month. Since we support multiple currencies per account, we also allow billing reports to display multiple currencies, each in its own column within the same report:

We hope that our new reports help improve both your revenues and productivity!

We're pleased to announce the introduction of billing rates to LiveTimer. In order to enable these new features in your account, go to the Settings Tab, then Billing, and then click Enable.

LiveTimer supports 164 currencies and allows multiple currencies per account. You can even configure the format of each currency independently, including whether cents are shown.

In keeping with the flexibility of our classification system, we also allow you to specify the level at which billing rates are used. You can track billing rates per client / project / task, per activity, or per user.

Billing rates can be named and shared, or can be uniquely assigned.

We've also added the ability to mark certain classifications as "Not Billable". For example, if you've defined billing rates for clients / projects / tasks, you can mark certain activities as "Not Billable" in order to override the billing rates.

Please note: We've got quite a few more billing-related features coming in the very near future. The first will be reports that use these billing rates, which will make these new features truly useful. Rest assured, they're right around the corner!