Orbit: Time-based Invoicing

After going through the free trial period, it was clear my small business needed Orbit. I was actually excited to pay for the yearly subscription. But I wanted to point out that you can also gain a LOT of insight by tracking personal time as well—such as R&D, Admin, Accounting. Then at the end of the year getting insights into where you spend most of your time is truly valuable. Plus having it on my Apple Watch is absolutely a must.

There's no way to batch invoices for several clients, and there's no way to edit the invoice to work for my type of business. For $8 a month, it should have more capabilities, and there's no "Help" offered. Yikes. Otherwise, it's a good app and nicely designed but is missing key components for someone who sends at least 45 invoices one day at the end of the month. I have a lot of clients, as I specialize in a service for health insurance.

The best app for tracking time you spent on the project. Especially for freelancing!

The time tracking tool is limited to iOS only and has no visible web alternative. The iOS tracker tool is well built and easy to use but lacks any real functionality like reoccurring invoicing and payment processing or processing integration. The tool definitely has promise but it is clearly written and submitted before it was ready for use. Once these tools are available it will definitely be worth the monthly fee. For now I suggest waiting.

I just started to use this. It’s fantastically Good. By the way, they have very good support for this app on their website you can chat live with them if you click on the little chat icon. I have communicated with this company for Support many times and they’ve always been helpful. I am using it on iPhone, iPad, mac & Apple Watch. I like that I can choose an hourly rate for a client and set a timer and then I can create an invoice from that. I signed up for the yearly subscription. By the way if you go to this app in the app store there is a link to their website. There is a little chat button on the button of the webpage TimeinOrbit is their website. I was able to chat with their support live during their business hours. So cool 😎 By the way if you just want to simply make an invoice just create a customer and then go directly to the invoice on the bottom and create one. You don’t have to use the timer as you can manually add the start and stop time to the invoice after, but if you want to use the timer see below. Here is how i use the app. 1. Add a client and fill out all required fields. You need to put contact person too or you won’t be able to save it. Add address if you want that on the invoice. 2. Then go to clients and select client to make a new project. Pick a color and type the project name. Select billable project if you want to add the hourly rate which is what the timer will use when calculating how much to add to invoice. 3. Then go to timer entries and tap the plus button on the top right. Tap on client to select a client and then select the project you created earlier or add a new project. Type in a catagory name and tap save and then you can click start to start timer. 4. Stop timer when done ✅ and then tap on it to edit time entry. You can add notes for the job and list everything that was done there. 5. Then to create an invoice just tap on invoice on the bottom of the screen. Tap the plus button on the top right. Select the name of the client. Tap on the text that says select time entries to add Tap on add time entry notes to add the notes you wrote before to the invoice. Then tap on add to invoice on the top right of the screen. That will add the timed project to the invoice. Tap on add line items to add other items to the invoice. You can add notes there too. Then tap save. 6. To generate an invoice tap on the circle with 3 dots top right of screen. Select record payment to mark as paid and the do that again to generate a PDF

I love how easy this apps works on all my devices and lets me track what ever I am doing for client work.

A no fuss app that helps me track my time. I love it

I don’t see an easy to add projects from another app to this one so you could start off a new year. The main feature missing for me is Sales Tax per category. Not all items are always taxable in an invoice.

I love this app. It works great on all devices and is a joy to use!

So far, this is quite possibly the best, simple (not basic) time tracking software, and I've personally written time tracking systems like this in my professional career.