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Managing Time & Billing

Time & Billing functionality forms the core of Star PM. Design principles have been focused on providing extensive and easy to use functionality that will address the requirements of the most demanding clients.

Time & Expense Entry
With Star PM Time & Expense entry, developed using Microsoft Smart Client technology to ensure ease of use and flexibility of deployment, you will:

• Ensure that the maximum amount of time and rechargeable expenses are captured for every job, resulting in improved billing and recovery.
• Link scanned expense receipts to expense entries to assist during approval, reimbursement and billing.
• Provide users with intuitive software, enabling rapid deployment and requiring minimal training.
• Provide users with the ability to capture Time & Expenses irrespective of where they are working, thus ensuring that WIP is available for billing as quickly as possible.
• Ensure that time targets can support flexible working, whether this be for part time staff, accounting for PTO or time off in lieu, thereby improving control and streamlining administration.
• Have the ability to record Time & Expenses in multiple currencies, meaning simplified billing and accurate recording of exchange profits and losses.

Billing
With Star PM Billing you will:

• Have complete control over the appearance of the bill, utilising standard paragraphs and having the option to automatically email the bill to the client in PDF format. This will ensure speed of delivery as well as generate time and cost savings.
• Have access to a wide range of billing options and ways in which to allocate WIP against a bill. WIP may also be left unallocated and non-WIP bills may be produced.
• Be able to identify billing opportunities easily, enabling you to bill more quickly, reducing lock-up and improving cash flow.
• Automatically generate billing targets for the following year, making fee forecasting a painless exercise.
• Be able to exploit a range of approval processes, ensuring that bills are approved and printed only when your own guidelines have been met.
• Be assured that the most complex requirements, including multi currency and multi entity, can be addressed.
• Be able to generate repetitive periodic bills automatically, either client by client or in bulk, saving vast amounts of time.