Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1. About Fanurio

Fanurio helps freelancers keep track of their time and work and then invoice it to their customers.

Every time you sign a contract, just add a new client to the application and create a project. During the project, you can add services and expenses to account for your work. You can decide anytime if a service is billable or not and if it should be billed in hours or units. Billable services and expenses can later be added to an invoice.

To create an invoice, you don't have to wait for the completion of the project. Partial invoices can be created anytime during a project. And you can invoice multiple projects too. Invoices can be exported to an HTML or PDF file using an invoice template so that you can print or e-mail them. Fanurio can handle templates in several file formats like HTML, Microsoft Word 2007 or OpenDocument Text.

The time spent on each service can be recorded using a timer or it can be entered manually. Fanurio has an iTunes-like mini timer that gives you quick access to the timer. To make the time tracking more accurate, Fanurio can detect if you leave the computer and forget the timer on. When you come back, it will ask you if the idle time should be considered.

Data can be exported to CSV or Excel and the application integrates with the tray bar on Windows and the dock icon on Mac.