BillQuick 2005 is the most powerful Time Billing and Project Management software on the market. Implementing BillQuick in your office will result in reduced overhead, more accurate time tracking, and increased revenue.

BillQuick is fully customizable to fit your specific needs. The time tracking, project management and billing feature set offered in BillQuick is unequaled. It includes over 400 standard Invoices and reports, allowing you to meet the requirements of your most demanding clients and providing the in-depth analysis tools needed to optimize all aspects of your business.

Professionals require billing based upon criteria such as fixed fee, time and expense, hourly billing, hourly billing with a "not to exceed" amount and contractual billing based upon percentage and/or progress payments of a fixed fee. BillQuick meets these requirements! It also accommodates project phasing and billing against retainers. With it you will track time and expenses and create in-depth analysis reports to track project and office profitability. BillQuick makes time tracking, project management and billing as simple as possible. It meets the requirements from a one-person office to a large network based organization - all at a fraction of the cost of what is currently available.

BillQuick allows you to enter time in as little as three key strokes. The program reviews employee, client and project data automatically and bills intelligently at the appropriate time. The time card module allows employees to enter their time directly into the system, while limiting their access to confidential information.

Fee Schedules within BillQuick allow unlimited bill rates to be assigned to employees, clients, projects, activities and/or any combination of the four. All invoices, statements and reports are completely customizable with Crystal Reports. Invoices and Statements can be specified for individual projects, enabling you to meet the demands of any client. You do not need to change the way you run your business. BillQuick adapts to fit your business the way you run it!

BillQuick-QuickBooks integration allows real-time synchronization between BillQuick and QuickBooks. Finally, a best of breed solution where you never have to enter data twice! The integration is complete, automated and configurable. When data is entered, modified or deleted in one program, it happens in the other immediately - in real-time.

BillQuick and QuickBooks integration details

New Features in BillQuick 2005:

*Not all features available in all BillQuick editions - see comparison chart

Payroll Integration - New for BillQuick 2005, Take your employee time records directly into Intuit Payroll Services Complete Payroll or any of the QuickBooks Payroll offerings. Integration with Intuit Payroll Services does not require QuickBooks, you can integrate directly Save time by automating payroll processing. Save effort and improve accuracy.

Document Management - New for BillQuick 2005, Information at your fingertips! Bring all of your project documents and email into a custom structure on your PC or Server. Organize your folder tree by Project Manager, Client, Project, etc. Hotlink to all important documents and communication.

BillQuick-Microsoft Office Accounting (OA) integration delivers real-time synchronization between BillQuick and OA. The integration is complete, automated and configurable. When data is entered, modified or deleted in one program, it happens in the other immediately - in real-time.

BillQuick-Peachtree integration delivers true synchronization between BillQuick and Peachtree Accounting. The integration is complete, automated and configurable. When data is entered, modified or deleted in one program, it happens in the other with a click of a button.

• Enhancement - User interface looks and feels like the latest Microsoft Office family of software, including quick-access side menu, brighter colors, easier to read screens, and more. These refinements and others improve ease of viewing information and interacting with data

• New - Integration with Intuit Complete Payroll

• New - Integration with Microsoft Small Business Accounting

• New - Accounting menu for QuickBooks integration, Microsoft Small Business Accounting integration, and Intuit Payroll integration

• Enhancement - Transfer Credit and Debit payment types from QuickBooks to BillQuick

• New - Sync Settings allows to associate payroll items per employee making it seamless to generate payroll data in QuickBooks

• Cloning option for main projects along with their phases

• New - Client Manager field for person responsible for the client relationship. Client Manager may be used to filter various reports

• New - Add the same memo to multiple projects/engagements at the same time using the Change panel

• New - Create a client record on-the-fly when creating a new project. Like the mirror image of this feature, create a new project when creating a new client record, speeds up setup, saving time and effort

• New - Estimate function for defining, editing and printing estimates in BillQuick. Estimates can be printed with Invoice looks and sent to client. Once approved, estimates can be converted in budgets or converted directly into a invoice with line items matching the approved estimate

• New - Delayed fee schedule allows you to bill your clients using a different fee schedule that kicks in only after the account retainer amount is all used up

• New - Retainer History tracks retainer invoices, retainer payments, and application of retainer amounts to invoices

• New - Expense Log now supports whole numbers and decimal values, thus allowing you to record partial expense units

• Enhancement - Smallest time interval function now available separately to Actual Hours, Bill Hours or both

• Enhancement - Revised Project Time and Expense report shows employee and vendor time in separate sections

• New - Report filter screen has check box based filtering allowing user to quickly filter by conditions such as Status, Active/In-Active, Billable/Non-Billable, etc.

• Enhancement - With the Billing Review Report, you may now choose to show time and expense memos

• New - On the Billing Review screen, the Invoice Number column allows the user to view the invoice number that will be automatically assigned when the billing record is processed into an invoice. User can assign preferred invoice numbers if desired

• Enhancement - Generate billing records with additional options - by Client group, Project group and Project Manager

• Enhancement - Now have the option to automatically generate the net bill amount automatically using the Percent Complete value

• New - Write-Up/Write-Down field added to Time Entry table. This field gets updated automatically as you write-up or write-down an invoice in the billing review screen or directly in the time card

• New - Bill Amount Threshold - option to set a threshold net bill amount, billing records will be shown for projects only if the amount is greater than the minimum set in system settings or in the Billing Review screen

• New - Option to automatically change a project's status to Completed when the total amount billed equals the contract amount

• New - Paid In Full automatically displays and prints on invoices once they are paid in full

• New - BillQuick's more than 400 reports are now grouped on the More Reports screen by type of report in a Windows Explorer style tree. Users can add or change any of Report Folder Names and group standard and memorized reports as desired

• Enhancement - Option to create a manual invoice from a budget and estimate

• New - Apply memos to multiple invoices using the top and bottom invoice memos available

• New - A second Invoice Memo can be added and shown on invoices

• New - Option to record a Retainer for a client or a project. A client retainer can be applied to any invoice regardless of the project involved

• New - Add option to save an unapplied payment to the client or project Retainer account for later application

• New - Document management form which allows users to manage client and project documents, folder creation and email review. Reads Microsoft Outlook records. Firm can have a consistent folder structure on their PC or server, thus making it easier and more efficient to manage contracts/engagement letters, spreadsheets, tax returns, financial statements, CAD files, and so on for scores or hundreds of clients

• Enhancement - now choose the type of data to be stored in a custom field. Choices include Currency, Date, Text and Numeric

• New - QuickUpdate added to BillQuick. This powerful tool allows you to recalculate billing rates and cost rates for time entries that were recorded prior to assigning a fee schedule

• New - Additional database back-ends now available. Microsoft Access is standard with BillQuick Basic. BillQuick Pro comes with Microsoft Desktop Edition of SQL Server (MSDE). BillQuick Enterprise users will have the choice of Microsoft SQL Server, or MYSQL

• New - Print or Send to Excel results from the Find function

• Enhancement - Bottom buttons on forms are now replaced by a toolbar located by default at the top of the screen. User can however drag it to the bottom of the screen

• New - Powerful calculation options added to the headers of most numeric fields. You can now quick see the Sum, Average, Count, Maximum and Minimum values of the column

• New - A new wizard provides step by step guidance for Timeslips users to convert their data to BillQuick

Complete BillQuick 2005 New Features List (PDF)

*Not all features available in all BillQuick editions - see comparison chart

System Requirements for BillQuick 2005 Version 6.0.x.x

BillQuick 2005 is designed for 32-bit Operating Systems
Operating System Requirements:
Any of the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 98 (SE)
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Microsoft Windows NT4.0 Workstation with Service Pack 6.0a or later
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

The enterprise edition of BillQuick 2005 requires Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or better for improved performance.

BillQuick 2005 Minimum Hardware Requirements:

Processor: 2 GHz Intel Pentium IV-class processor or faster
Memory: 512 MB of RAM
Hard Disk Space: 300 MB of hard disk space required, 50 MB additional hard disk       space required for installation (350 MB total)

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