iBiz Version History


iBiz 3.1.12
  • Fixed rounding bug with the quick timer window
  • Fixed Applescript bug with invoices
  • Improved payment-type job events being in invoices
iBiz 3.1.11
  • Fixed invoice bug where past payments could be erroneously added

iBiz 3.1.10
  • Fixed bug with Address Book not being searchable
  • Improved date formatting on invoices

iBiz 3.1.9
  • Improved server performance on Xserves
  • Improved editing start/end dates
  • Improved iCal syncing
  • Added <NON-PAYMENTS TOTAL> tag


iBiz 3.1.8
  • Improved Leopard compatability



iBiz 3.1.7
  • Improved loading large numbers of invoices
  • When clicking in notes field the text is no longer autoselected
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when making an invoice and the date field was selected
  • Improved Leopard compatability



iBiz 3.1.6
  • Start/end dates of report are prepopulated to today
  • Improved selection of projects in the More Invoice Options sheet
  • Improved support for iBiz Widget
  • Reports don't include non-billable job events



iBiz 3.1.5
  • Fixed bug with "More Invoice Options" sheet
  • Improved editing start/end dates
  • Fixed a bug where job event start date could jump to earlier in the day



iBiz 3.1.4
  • Improved loading of quick timer events
  • Improved Applescript
  • Added German localization
  • Performance improvements
  • Improved editing job events on iBiz Server



iBiz 3.1.3
  • Improved AppleScript support
  • Improved dragging and dropping of events
  • Improved consolidating of events on reports
  • Improved display of event groups when changing a sub-event's type to flat rate
  • Improved idle timer



iBiz 3.1.2
  • Custom event rates are now correctly applied to events added from iCal
  • Added alert panel when events will be deleted by iCal sync
  • Improved password checking when clients login (iBiz Server only)
  • Markup percentage is hidden when job event earnings is hidden (iBiz Client only)
  • Can now correctly set the markup rate in iBiz Server custom job events
  • Fixed bug with <DAYS UNTIL DUE> invoice tag
  • Clients with no activities no longer show up as 'active' clients



iBiz 3.1.1
  • Fixed error where start date could be wrong when inserting a custom event
  • Images for pop-up calendar have been restored
  • Hopefully fixed bug where user log could get out of sync in display
  • Project balance doesn't include job events already marked as invoiced
  • Improved progress indicator when consolidating job events
  • Improved dialog in setup screen
  • Improved handling of mileage events in estimates
  • Fixed a couple of issues where there were workarounds for permission settings (server version only)
  • Minor improvements to Applescript
  • Fixed bug where Preview button wouldn't work sometimes



iBiz 3.1
  • Speed improvements when launching iBiz
  • Invoices and reports now show payment events if payment event tags are present, regardless of other tags
  • SSTime tag no longer shows seconds
  • Fixed iCal to-do import bug
  • Fixed bug where seconds could round instead of minutes
  • Can no longer add a project while 'All' client is selected
  • Fixed "client owes" text when 'All' client is selected
  • Improved filtering of clients based on fiscal year set in preferences
  • Added settings for how taxes are calculated
  • Fixed bug where auto-filled event wouldn't take on project discount attributes
  • Improved delete project dialog
  • Improved syncing/checkout (server only)
  • Added permission setting for hide/show client balance column (server only)
  • Fixed bug when invoicing events from a selected date range
  • Improved selection of report templates pop-up menu
  • Improved display of report graphs
  • Improved deleting clients
  • Improved the way job event groups appear in reports
  • Can create clients while checked out (server only)



iBiz 3.0.1
  • Fixed invoice bug when all client is selected
  • Improved client-server syncing (server version only)
  • Fixed date localization bug in project retainer
  • Minor improvements to document monitor
  • Fixed bug where child events could loose there invoice status
  • Improved number of overdue invoices table column



iBiz 3.0
  • Fixed sorting bug
  • Document Monitor works with Dreamweaver now
  • Improved dragging of document monitor items
  • Improved client list display
  • Several other small bug fixes



iBiz 3 release candidate 3
  • Can correctly edit HTML templates outside of iBiz and changes will be reflected
  • Improved downloading upgrades
  • Hopefully fixed crashing bug where with Quick Timer events
  • Quick Events autosave every 3 minutes
  • Fixed bug where rates from custom events would trump project or global rates
  • Fixed editing bug with project-based retainers
  • Client sorting is not case-sensitive
  • Can now invoice correctly with "All" client selected
  • Non-billable items don't affect project earnings
  • Fixed bug with deleting items from file cabinet



iBiz 3 release candidate 2
  • Fixed bug with idle timer and quick events
  • Minor error checking improvements on the server
  • Minor improvements to editing Billing items
  • Improvements to to-do items, especially with server/client
  • Fixed crash when editing notes and then clicking on notes field in drawer
  • Improved running balance display for some currency settings
  • Improved registration
  • Improved stability when switching projects when a timer is running
  • Improved setting up group rates on server when adding/deleting clients



iBiz 3 release candidate 1
  • Improved launching sequence
  • Improved registration
  • Fixed bug where uprade could run twice when updating from earlier betas
  • Fixed graph display bug when consolidating job events in a report
  • Improved some help labels
  • Can no longer add payments to the All client
  • Improved editing and deleting billing activities with the All client selected
  • Improved drag and drop of job events
  • Fixed bug with editing HTML invoice templates
  • Quick timer events respond to idle timer now



iBiz 3 beta 11
  • Fixed issue with client table column width
  • Fixed bug where CPU could spike when no template was selected
  • Fixed bug with loading mileage events
  • Fixed bug when editing and then emailing an invoice
  • Invoices are multi-page PDFs now
  • Improved server preferences pane
  • Permission settings work when user is checked-out
  • Fixed SSTIME tag bug
  • Improved tags for reports
  • Enabled the registration system (it needs to be tested too!)
  • Fixed error with search field loosing focus
  • Fixed no selection bug in Billing section
  • Fixed issue with printing multi-page invoices
  • Fixed bug with hours as decimals in invoices (<TIME D> tag)
  • Improved pop-up calendar
  • Fixed bug where stale invoice could be displayed
  • Improved job events contextual menu



iBiz 3 beta 10
  • Fixed bug with network prefs not displaying when a client is checked out
  • Minor improvements to billing section
  • Improved invoice generation, hopefully fixed bug with "printing error"
  • Emailed invoices subject contains invoice number
  • Can drag and drop template tags
  • UI improvements to billing section
  • Fixed bug where invoiced events could get out of order
  • UI improvements
  • Fixed bug where reports would sometimes not work



iBiz 3 beta 9
  • Can delete Document Monitor items by pressing delete key
  • Fixed bug where you couldn't edit an estimate event if it had been added as a work event and then deleted
  • Added corner menu to small Quick Timer table to hide/show columns
  • Improved behavior when editing job events
  • Improved udpating of quick timer menus
  • Hopefully fixed printing error bug
  • Improved PDF printing of invoices
  • Fixed bug where you couldn't change notes of an invoice
  • Fixed quick timer bug where they wouldn't load sometimes



iBiz 3 beta 8
  • Fixed bug where you could change icons sizes of project filters
  • Hopefully fixed bug that could cause troubles with Address Book data
  • Improvements to editing job event time
  • Fixed bug with employee tags in reports
  • Improved template editing
  • Added option to hide/show document monitor dock-badging animation
  • Fixed bug with fixed rate for projects
  • Improved file cabinet detecting changes to folders


iBiz 3 beta 7
  • Fixed bug where project could incorrectly appear to have a timer running
  • Fixed decimal string localization bug
  • Support for remote connections to iBiz Server (iBiz Client only)
  • Support for username and password to login (iBiz Client only)
  • Added "Connect" button to iBiz Client
  • Sensitive data now encrypted when sent over a network
  • Improved XML export
  • Fixed bug where HTML invoices could not work
  • Can change "toolbar" icon sizes
  • Fixed bug where not all projects would show up in report options
  • Improved tabbing in job events list
  • Fixed formatting bug in balance column of Billing area
  • Fixed bug where "fixed rate" projects didn't work
  • Fixed several other minor bugs and issues
  • User interface refinements
  • Minor improvements to iCal syncing


iBiz 3 beta 6
  • Improved Quick Timer table editing behavior
  • Improved editing projects with pop-up calendar
  • Improved image interpolation when associating files to File Cabinet
  • 2nd tax now compounds correctly in invoices
  • Improved UI appearance if launching for the first time
  • Improved opening projects from Spotlight
  • Fixed bug with string encodings in HTML-based invoices
  • Fixed event selection bug when changing clients
  • Fixed bug where invoice template packages could get way too big
  • Improved job event editing and timer behavior
  • Improvements to Workday view
  • Improved stability, especially when starting/stopping timers
  • Hopefully fixed bug where old "iWork" invoices would come through with a bad amount value
  • Fixed invoice editing bug with client/server
  • Added <CL. LAST PAYMENT> tag
  • Fixed server registration bug


iBiz 3 beta 5
  • Added more user permission settings
  • Improved selection when deleting job events
  • Fixed bug with to-do displaying the overdue warning triangle
  • Improved job event selection
  • Improved purchasing from within the app, especially when upgrading
  • Improved quick timer behavior (now rounds and client selection is filtered)
  • Preliminary support for exporting invoices created in iBiz 3 as .xml files
  • Fixed bug where PDF invoices could get stuck at being only 1 page long


iBiz 3 beta 4
  • Regular events in status item menu display project and client names
  • Improved project and client selection retention
  • Improved iBiz Server preferences toolbar selection
  • Added more permissions options to iBiz Server
  • Quick Timer events create logs
  • Minor improvements to preferences
  • Improved behavior of payment allocations
  • Improved Quick Timer behavior
  • Fixed some small bugs


iBiz 3 beta 3
  • New document icon for invoice template packages
  • Fixed bug where return wouldn't end editing in job events
  • Next invoice # now correctly stored with server
  • Fixed bug where stopping one timer wouldn't stop quick timer events and vice versa
  • Improved quick timer dragging and dropping
  • Improved AppleScript support
  • Added setup assistant to server
  • Payments window resizes when toggling "Show Payment Allocations"
  • Improved permissions options for server/client
  • Added job event notes to info drawer
  • Other bug fixes and enhancements


iBiz 3 beta 2
  • Added clients contextual menu
  • Added ability to "Show Active Clients"
  • Fixed bug with server where one couldn't add permissions
  • Status item shows "Other Running Timers" now
  • Can select multiple items from Doc. Monitor
  • Improved proejct notes to allow carriage returns
  • Other minor bug fixes


iBiz 3 beta 1
  • Minor refinements and bug fixes across the board
  • Double-clicking a .biztemplate file in the Finder will automatically install it in iBiz (single user version)
  • Major UI improvements to the main window of iBiz Server
  • Fixed bug where reports wouldn't work
  • Fixed bugs with File Cabinet
  • Fixed bug with Doc. Monitor
  • Improved dragging and dropping from Doc. Monitor
  • Fixed bug where iBiz could crash when stopping tmer from dock
  • Improved printing of HTML based invoices


iBiz 3 alpha 9
  • Spotlight support for finding projects
  • UI enhancements (after meeting with UI specialists at WWDC)
  • Improved reporting stability
  • App Monitor now monitors each window for each application
  • App Monitor now called "Time Capture"
  • File cabinet is linked to app monitor so once you open a file through iBiz, the app monitor automatically times how long you spend on that one file
  • Improved iCal syncing
  • Added "iBiz Setup Assistant" window
  • Add new columns to the clients table for overdue invoices and client balance
  • Added descriptive text when tables are empty
  • Minor UI changes to reporting window
  • Improved sorting client by status
  • Improved localization of numbers
  • Added preliminary Automator actions


iBiz 3!
  • Initial public release