Aelgo launch-of-manhour

We’re very pleased to announce the launch of our new time-billing, automated-rate-selecting, song-and-dancing, OS X Leopard-only app!

Manhour features a flexible rate structure: it lets you specify what hourly rates should apply during certain time intervals- so you could charge your regular base hourly rate during office hours, then automatically apply overtime rates for those late night stints… or use a different rate for weekends and holidays.

If you’re a photographer or someone else who works in a ‘seasonal’ industry, where the value of your time rises and dips as demand for your work shifts throughout the year (think wedding season, for instance), use Manhour to automatically track what rate to use when calculating your fee.

You setup Rate Categories, create Projects you want to time-bill for, then let Manhour do the work of recording billable hours (or minutes.. or seconds…. Manhour lets you set your own billing block size… bill per full half hour… or every 3 seconds… it’s your call) and figuring out your fee for you. Hit the ‘Start’ button when you start work… and ‘Pause’ when you stop. It’s that simple.

You can even hide Manhour’s main window and control recording from the status menu bar. We wanted Manhour to complement your workflow as unobtrusively as possible. It doesn’t try to do too much, doesn’t force you to fill in more details than you need to track your time and fees… it just quietly reckons with time & money while you work, so you spend your time on billable hours, doing great work.