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The following settings are part of the rate card:

You can set any number of billing rates. Click Billing Rates at the bottom of the table in the Time Tracker screento make changes. Rate 1 should be your standard rate, as EasyBooks uses this as a default when you are entering time.

• Rate Name - Choose a name appropriate to the billing rate such as Standard or T+Q.
• Hourly Rate - Set the hourly rate (excluding tax) for this billing rate.
• Income Account - Choose the appropriate income account so sales income is billed into the correct account.
• VAT Account - Choose the appropriate VAT account. Normally this should be set to VAT sale standard.

Click Invoicing Method at the bottom of the table in the Time Tracker screen to specify how EasyBooks should create sales invoices from the time worked.

EasyBooks track of all hours worked, and uses some simple rules to generate the sales invoices. Each billable rate is linked with a particular income account and sales tax account. These settings allow you to track income from your standard hours as separate from income that came from premium rates such as overtime, or call-outs. It isn't necessary to do this of course, but you might find the option useful.

The following settings are used to control how the sales invoices are produced.

• Group Time Entries - You can choose to show each time entry on its own line in the invoice if you like. Or you can let the app group the hours together, either daily, weekly or all together on one line. 
  
  When time is grouped, only the hours in the same billable rate are grouped together. Each billable rate is treated separately, but grouped using the same method. Each line added to the sale contains the number of hours worked, the hourly rate and the overall value (plus any sales tax).

• Billing Multiple - Some customers have rules about how hours can be invoiced. Typically they might allow hours to be invoiced as daily amounts, rather than small fractions of hours. The rule can be such that you can only bill for multiples of 15 minutes, or for half a day. This setting is used to define the multiple, and you can of course pick "None", in which case the hours are billed as they are. 
  
  If you pick a multiple such as "15 minutes", the sales invoices will be generated using this multiple. You can then decide how to handle your extra hours worked above the multiple using the carry rule.

• Carry Rule - This option is available if a billing multiple is set. It defines how EasyBooks will process any surplus time worked that does not fall into the multiple. 
  
  As an example, suppose you have entered time that adds up to 12 hours and 40 minutes. The billing multiple is set to 15 minutes, or 0:15. The multiple means 12h 30m can be billed directly, with another 10m worked. 
  
  You can choose not to bill for this time, carry it forward for billing next time, or round the time up to the next multiple. 
  
  If the carry rule is set to carry forward, EasyBooks keeps track of un-invoiced hours and brings previous hours into a sale, marking the invoice with the hours "b/f" (brought forward). It also marks the number of hours being carried forward to a future invoice with "c/f".

 

Include Descriptions - Every time entry contains an optional description line. Typically this would be used to describe the work completed, such as "Normal Hours", "Server Rebuild", or "Out of hours work". These descriptions can be helpful reminders about what you were doing at the time, and can be kept hidden from customer's invoices or added to each line as required.

If time is being grouped, the descriptions are sorted into unique entries and added to the sales line.

For details of how to carry out tasks in the Time Tracker screen, please refer to:

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