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iBizTM 3

Your premier time-billing and invoicing manager for Mac OS X.

Manage your time, manage your business, seamlessly.

Do you collaborate with several people in your office?

Do you work with different people on the same project?

Do you have multiple computers from which you work?

If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, the iBiz Server/Client package is for you!

Using the iBiz Server/Client package, all of your client and project information can be stored on one central computer on your network. The information can then be accessed by using an iBiz Client program running on any other computer connected to the network (see diagram).

iBiz Server and Client are incredibly easy to set up because they use Zero Config Networking to discover each other. What this means for you is that all you have to do is install the programs on the appropriate computers and launch them - the rest is taken care of automatically!

Download a free, full-featured version iBiz Server/Client package (10 day trial period).

Benefits and Features of iBiz Server:

• Keep all data (clients, projects, etc.) centralized.
• Access data from multiple computers on the same network.
• Work on data remotely or on the road and synchronize later.
• Assign to-do items to different users.
• Restrict permissions to certain users.
• Create a central list of job events to be shared across the network.

Getting Started with iBiz in a networking environment

Using iBiz Server and iBiz Client with Zeroconf networking technology, groups of people can easily collaborate on projects.

Setup

The first thing to do is make sure you have a copy of iBiz Server and at least one copy of iBiz Client.

Put a copy of iBiz Server on the computer where you want to store your data. This computer will also need to have the clients for whom you are going to work in Address Book.

Launch iBiz Server by double clicking it. If you are you upgrading from iBiz 1.4.x, iBiz Server will ask if you want to import old iBiz projects. Before choosing yes, please read the document titled "Attn-Upgrading Users" that explains how to ensure a smooth upgrade.

iBiz Server

iBiz Server acts as a "middle-man" in that it allows users running iBiz Client on other machines, connected through a local area network, to access project information stored on the machine running iBiz Server. This allows users to collaborate on projects while they are working on separate computers.

When running iBiz Server in the main window you will see a checkbox next to each client. This checkbox sets whether or not a client is available to other users on the network running iBiz Client. On iBiz Server you can see which users are connected via iBiz Client by looking in the "Connected Users" drawer.

iBiz Client

On another machine, or on the same machine on which iBiz Server is running, launch iBiz Client by double clicking it. All of the clients which are on iBiz Server (which have the checkbox marked as checked) should appear in the clients list.

iBiz Client should behave exactly as the single user version of iBiz, in that one can add, delete and modify projects and job events. The only limitation is that users running iBiz Client can not change client information remotely because this information is stored in the Address Book database on the same machine as iBiz Server.