This Beta release came as a surprise to me. Last 2 months I have been testing between 10-15 invoicing and billing applications. From Filemaker templates to even the immense Quicken and QuickBooks and all sizes of invoicing applications in between.

Some had good working features but with 99.99% I stumbled on this little problem. Multi-lingual invoices. You can adapt you system language whatever you want, the invoice application stays English. Point me an invoicing app that is localized. I haven't found a single one. The last one I found that arose above all and yet such a small application was TaskTime4. Easy as 1, 2, 3 and 'localization' could be done by tweaking the preferences file (one Dutch and one English), but of-course that is not the way to go.

Now for Billings 1.x versions, that wasn't it for me, I tried Billings (1.x) version. It was too poor, couldn't do what I needed. Now Billings 2 Beta. It has all I need. Simple invoices, simple reports and above all, the new Design part for Templates in Billings 2 makes it so easy to make a Dutch invoice template and an English one. Multi-lingual invoicing is now possible and a fact with Billings 2.

As for the previous comment, I am in the support business myself and you sometimes get things asked you don't even know how to react on. I can imagine somethng like this really happening: Customer e-mail message: "Now I have installed Billings 1.x, when I put in an audio CD my Mac goes playing music suddenly..." I mean, you don't have to be a rocket-scientist to guess that Billings has nothing to do with that 'problem'.

In short, people looking for an application that does allow you to make quick invoices (flat fee or by hour, and more...) ESPECIALLY the people that have to send out invoices in more than one language. Billings 2 is a must try! For sure a perfect example of a 5 star (*****) application.

Best regards,

Piet Nutbey
The Netherlands