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Allison S.
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Computer Software, 11-50 employees
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Shana B.
Used daily for 2+ years
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The main benefit is a completely easy to use and easy to implement billing software that allows the overall billing process to be smooth and efficient for both our firm and our clients.
The best thing about Bill4Time is that it is so easy to use and you can access it from anywhere. I can work on client billing and invoices from home or on the road and do not have to worry about making sure my laptop is with me. It provides the LEDES invoice formats that our clients require for us to submit our bills electronically to them and creating the LEDES files is just the click of a button....
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Eric Y.
Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Overall, I am pleased. The software is very easy to use to track time and expenses. Support is very good. The accounting features take some learning and could be made easier. Nice integration with Box too.
The software has a lot of useful features such as allowing you to bill by the hour, flat, or contingency. I use all three fee arrangements so this feature is crucial.
In terms of the user interface, it is not the most appealing software. Everything is basically blue, white, or grey. There is a helpful dashboard, but overall, it might benefit from some redesigning.
Wes S.
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I have had the trial version of Bill4Time installed on my iPhone for two weeks. I am working as a solo practitioner between GC positions, and I just wanted an app that could act like a clock in my pocket, easily tracking time billed to clients. Bill4Time in the iPhone has several problems. If you shut off the app before hitting the "save" key, it loses the time (the entire data entry) for the time...
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Cherry D.
Financial Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Easy set up. User-friendly. Cost efficient. Bill4Time enables a small company to have the organization, efficiency, and the professional look of a large company without the large cost. The cost fits in our budget.
We love the ability to have live billing numbers, the opportunity for look-back, and the ability to attach client expenses to the billing.
As of now, I'm not sure of anything that I would change.
Julia B.
Law Practice, self-employed
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Love it. Simple and fast. Great reporting.
It is very intuitive and easy to use. I can enter time and run reports in no time flat.
Would love to be able to link expenses from my bank account to be able to run an income and expense report.
David M.
Law Practice, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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First used Bill4Time when I left a larger firm and set up a smaller 3 attorney firm. When I left that firm for a higher education institution the software wasn't needed but when I retired from the institution and wanted to have a limited solo practice I immediately went back to Bill4Time since I was familiar with it and knew how easy it would be to use in a limited practice environment.
Simple to set up, easy to use, support. Having retired from full time practice I needed a simple to use billing software for the limited practice I have maintained from my home. This software offers everything I need at a reasonable cost.
Not really. I probably could use other features of the software but haven't taken the time to learn them.
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Legal Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We used Bill4time to charge our clients that are using our representation services. Personally, I mostly use it in the Iphone application that you can easily download in your appstore. This software allows you to keep tracking of the time you are investing in each client and it has a lot of descriptions and matters that you can use in order to describe it in your invoice to the client. The app is very easy to understand and is super practical for tracking the time. The software is very friendly in terms of its dashboard and the addition of clients to the database. I also use the function of internal time to track the time I invest in some managerial functions for our own Firm control in order to find ways to elevate our productivity.
There are some matters missing in the App and you need to use miscellaneous options in order to categorize it which takes you some time.
Alanna P.
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We were able to easily transition from outsourced to internal billing. It has saved us time and money with our accountant and has made it very easy to gather all the information we need in real time.
It is very easy to record, view, and edit time entries, and have them automatically feed into invoices. All the reports we need are there, and anytime we find a need with no report, the customer service at Bill4Time has been amazing with quick responses and solutions for our needs. Recording and applying payments has now become very easy, and the management of trust funds is also a great feature.
It's not always apparent to me which report will be the best for the data I need to view. I often have to do a lot of trial and error when selecting reports.
Thank you for your review Alanna!
Suzy F.
Used daily for 2+ years
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Our firm is a virtual office, so cloud-based SaaS is a must. Bill4Time has easy to use LEDES invoicing, and great reporting functions, and you can specify the data you want to focus on. In my practice, I haven't found anything that I need that Bill4Time doesn't do.
We've been using the service for over 4 years and earlier on, there was some funkiness involved when trying to create an invoice; however, they've appeared to fix this.
mike b.
Law Practice, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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I have been using Bill4Time for over 7 years and it is phenomenal.
The software is user friendly and clients find the billing easy to understand when sent for their review and payment.
I like everything about Bill4Time; to include the price.
Owen G.
Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Customer service is responsive, sort of. They will respond--but it is not always productive. I wouldn't say it's terrible. I wouldn't say it's stellar.
The best part of Bill4Time is that it is intuitive for users to enter time, and expenses. There is very little training. Bill4TIme has/supports API's, which allow client and matter data to be fetched for use in other systems, like a practice management suite. The integration with QuickBooks works well. The iphone app is well done.
The pricing is a bit steep compared to TimeSolv, which offers the same as Bill4Time and more. If my firm had things to do over again, it would probably go with TimeSolv (and if B4T's prices continue to increase, we will make a move). Another drawback is that B4T does not have single sign-on capability. I'm told they're working on it. Single-sign-on allows the program to authenticate using a firm's...
Richard T.
Law Practice, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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Billing and collecting is a lot easier
The time tracking feature is fine. I wish that you would help filling out the description of the billing by, for example, entering Telephone Conference when I click on the type of service rendered; Review when I click on Review; Correspondence when I click on Correspondence, etc. The billing becomes a problem when you begin to prepare an Invoice and then you can't go back to it because it is in "Pre-Billing"
Putting together a bill is not as easy as it should be. It should be easier to put together a bill.
John P.
Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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The software itself is fine. What stands out, however, is the technical support. They not help with software questions, but help even more with correcting bookkeeping errors. We have gone to a virtual firm model, so each attorney handles more and more of the day to day administrative functions, including billing and bookkeeping. To know you have someone to call who can generally take the time to walk through and correct mistakes and provide technical assistance is critical.
As with any software if you were to develop it yourself (assuming you had the ability to do so) you would do it differently in some regards. For instance, I usually enter time for a day on the following day. it would be nice to not have to change the date for each entry, but to change the date just at the start and keep it on that date until you manually change to a different date. This is a nit and relates to how I do things. I'm sure I could come up with other nits, but overall the program works and works well.
Teri S.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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I think Bill4Time is as easy or as complex as the user makes it. It fits those of us who are not really accounting types as well as those who are pros. I am able to add users, clients, projects, activities, tasks, etc...quickly, and easily. That means a lot to our small business.
1. I like being able to associate budgets to clients. This is very helpful if it involves a fixed bid project. We don't want to go over budget or under. Running the Budget Report every few days keeps our projects inline with the client's expected investment. 2. I like the new dashboard. It's much more convenient and fun. 3. It's easy to add in contractors when needed. It's easy to give them the access I want them to have. It's also easy to set contractor's rates.
I would like to be able to include sub-projects (or phases) under a parent project. This would be very convenient. I would like more control over the report formating. I've noticed that some really wide reports are generated on portrait layout PDFs. Sometimes we have all hands on deck and are really busy. I would like the software to send out an alert when hours logged are within 10% (or a user-defined percentage) of the associated budget. This would keep us from accidentally going over budget.
Teresa G.
Legal Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Never had issues.
It is user friendly, the support at B4T go above and beyond. Easy to use, not complicated any single user can use without difficulty.
I would like to be able to attach documents to the time entries.
Leslie B.
Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Control over my time and eases the "task" of invoicing clients for work produced for them. What's not to like ... converting from Timeslips to Bill4Time literally saved my practice and my homelife!! No more stress to get monthly invoices out. A single one-off invoice can be produced in minutes to submit to escrow for a closing or other special needs. Just a terrific tool for a firm like mine.
Ease of use is key. Works across all platforms, desktop, iPad, iPhone from anywhere anytime. Helps me gauge my productivity on a daily basis throughout the month. Doesn't take specialized training to use like Timeslips did. Not dependent on a staff member to enter time from time sheets gives me more flexibility and CAPTURES more of the time spent on tasks.
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Carlos d.
Law Practice, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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easy to bill
cloud base -easy to use, the app is pefect
limited features, no spanish version. Tarif module is limitaed
Carin Z.
Legal Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Our company counts on B4T for its time keeping and billing. If we would not have a tool like this, we would miss out on a lot of time not invoiced, or expenses not rebilled.
It's easy to use and web based. I can add users easily and set their access levels. I never had a problem so far, after working with it for 5 years. The website is never down.
Can't think of anything about the software, it works perfectly. It is not cheap, that is maybe the only thing.
Tracy S.
Design, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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I'm in love. I've told every one of my freelance designer friends about it. It is invaluable to me.
The software is SOOO easy to use. It has saved hours and hours of time each month on my billing and has helped me gain more than a 30% increase in my billable hours. I also love being able to pull reports. I can get an excellent picture of how much I'm billing, who I'm billing, who has NOT paid me, etc. It has absolutely been the most significant game-changer in my business.
Honestly there is nothing that I don't like about the software.
Jake H.
Legal Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I've used Bill4Time for more than 5 years, and they have continually worked to adapt and add additional features. It is a very good product.
Bill4Time is very intuitive, and the customer support staff are responsive and very easy to work with. Bill4Time provides a very functional platform that allows busy professionals to have the tools they need at their fingertips wherever they are.
Bill4Time is great at tracking time and providing reports for the time and invoices, but it is not a full scale CRM. That has not been a problem for my firm, as that was not the purpose.
Robert K.
Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Excellent-vital and essential tool for my practice. Using it now for more than 13 years.
Ease of entry and reporting, including new dashboard
Bill set up a bit cumbersome but not really a problem.
Monica S.
Law Practice, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Our experience has been a very positive one and we especially love the customer service and how the employees follow up to see how you're doing after an issue had been notified and fixed.
We're very happy with this product and all of our attorneys use it to enter all time entries for work performed. I especially like how easy it is to locate the case and enter the time worked.
Double entries were common before, but it seemed the company has fixed that problem.
Vivian C.
Law Practice, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Bill4time is very easy to use and the transition form our old billing program was seamless. I really like that we are able to have the developers create custom reports that fit our needs.
So far I have found nothing that I don't like.
Virginia B.
Accounting, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I have been working with Bill4Time for a number of years and the overall experience has been very good.
ease and flexibility of use, able to record time in arrears or make changes; able to write extensive description of work performed
Would prefer a report that is more customizable for columns to be displayed. Reports being printed are too limited in presentation. I use the detail report as support detail to accompany a company billing.
Sidney S.
Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Bill4Time is really easy to use. The best feature is that you can see all of your unbilled clients on one page, how much you have not billed them, etc. It is so much easier than other billing software because you just click to generate the invoice. Also, the batch billing makes it super easy to create all invoices at once.
I do not really have any complaints about the software. The only thing i have noticed is that Smokeball billing has more features, but for me those extra features are not necessarily needed so I like the simplicity of Bill4Time.