by Erik Ford with 7 comments.
Two of the more difficult things to do as a freelancer is to track your time working and, subsequently, bill your clients accurately. Are you one of those freelancers who are manually keeping track of your time? Are you using a word processing or spread sheet application to generate your invoices? Well, we think the Fanurio Time Tracking software is just what you need. And the fine developers behind this software have given us one free license to share with you!
Track time with little effort.
Fanurio allows you to track your time both manually and/or with a timer. Simply start the timer when you begin working on any project, pause the timer for those much needed coffee breaks and stop the timer when you have completed your task. And the software is intuitive enough to alert you when your machine has been idle and the timer is currently running.
Make sure you get paid for all of your work.
From the moment you land a new contract, Fanurio provides powerful tools at your fingertips to help you manage and bill all of your work. And you have the freedom to bill hourly or by project. The application also allows you to round time, apply discounts and include fees for work you have sub-contracted.
Your projects can be invoiced at any time and the numbering system is updated automatically. Fanurio empowers you to view which invoices are paid or past due as well as each project’s remaining balance.
Do you often work with foreign clients? No problem. Fanurio can handle multiple currencies from within the application!
Multi-User capabilities
Fanurio can import time recorded on multiple computers, making it useful for small teams and people using more than one computer. If you are part of a team, each member can install Fanurio on their own machine to track time. Members can export their time and send it to the team leader to prepare invoices for their clients.
Built to be safe and reliable.
Fanurio uses a SQL database to prevent any accidental loss of data. For greater security, you can backup your data manually or automatically when the application closes.
Analyze your performance
There are multiple reports that Fanurio can generate to help you analyze your performance over any given time period. Here are just a few questions you can quickly get answered by using this application:
- How much time have I logged so far for Client “X”?
- How much time have I logged so far for Project “Y”?
- How much money have I made this week?
- Who was my best client this year?
- How much have I invoiced this year?
Runs on multiple platforms.
Fanurio is built using Java technology, which enables it to run on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and other “flavors of Unix”. You don’t have to worry if you have multiple computers with different operating systems. Your time and investment in Fanurio is protected and portable between all of them.
For a full list of features, please visit the features page on the Fanurio website.
How to win.
Enter to win your own free license for Fanurio by leaving a comment on this post with the following:
- Your name
- Your e-mail address (must be valid and only the winner’s email address will be shared with Fanurio to fulfill the promotion)
- How do you think this application will benefit you as a freelancer?
You may only enter once. This promotion will run until March 1, 2010 at 12:00am Eastern Standard Time. The winner will be randomly chosen, using random.org, and notified within 48 hours of the closing of the promotion.
Good luck! If you would like to play with the application, you should download the 30 day free trial version.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Vassilis Mastorostergios for being the grand prize winner of this promotion. We would also like to thank the people at Fanurio for their help and support as well as all of the people who participated. Participants in this promotions can view details of the drawing by visiting the drawing details on random.org. You must enter the valid email address you provided for the promotion.
It seems alot more user friendly than quickbooks. I think it will save me alot of time and headaches.
How I think this application will benefit me as a freelancer.
Well, I’ll be able to track time, and bill my customers on a per hour basis
I’m so bad in managing & organizing my time, even worse in tracking time. so fanurio will be perfect for me
I’ve been looking for a good time tracking tool and think this will be really helpful. I really need a better tool to track the time I spend working on each project. Not to mention that I still don’t have a billing app…
I’ve used so many applications to track my hours and generate invoices but I haven’t found the one. This app looks like it meets my needs since it’s developed for freelancers.
One of the hardest things on been a freelance is to organize time and money, Fanurio will do all that =)
I would like to enter the contest to win the Fanurio license. I am a freelancer doing a home based business. Fanurio is an excellent program to help me manage & organize my billing and expenses efficiently.