>Thanks Larry.
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>This is a new one to me. Who puts it out and have you ever thought of rolling your own... program that is. < g >

I did have a roll-your-own Time and Billing program, that was working pretty well. It worked very will within FoxPro....as soon as I got into the VFP or FPD (!) development environment, I would

DO timecard WITH "clientname","START"

and that would, of course, run a little program that would insert a record in into the time table, under the client's name. I think I may have even busted out and gotten it to track projects.

At the end of the session, I would

DO timecard WITH "END"

However the reason I like TraxTime, is that it works outside of FoxPro; and since I divide my time between development work, network management and mangement consulting, it is a little bit more versatile.

What TraxTime doesn't do particularly well, is handle non-billable time. Since I have a target number of billable hours per month....and TraxTime has a "scoreboard" right on the front, that tells me how I'm doing. I don't like to contaminate the totals with non-billable time. So it isn't ideal. Naturally, I suggested this to them, and it hasn't appeared. If I was to attempt a re-write, this is the first thing that I would incorporate.

But, for $35.00 it changed my life...and like I mentioned the reporting is outstanding. http://www.spudcity.com

My feeling is, that if you are not using something like this, you are giving away at least 25% of your billable time. If I hired programmers, I would insist that they use something similar.