Fanurio User Guide

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. What is Fanurio

1.2. System Requirements

1.3. Frequently Asked Questions

1.3.1. Installing the Registered Version

1.3.2. Location of Data and Settings

1.3.3. Changing Settings Manually

1.3.4. Installing and Running from a USB Stick

1.4. Known Issues

1.4.1. Idle Detection on Mac

1.4.2. Running on Mac

1.4.3. Sending Emails

1.4.4. Direct Printing vs PDF Printing

1.4.5. Fonts and PDF Invoices

1.4.6. Character Encoding

1.4.7. Tray Icon Support

1.4.8. Ubuntu Time Zone

1.4.9. Database Error Message

1.5. Language Support

1.5.1. Location of Translation Files

1.5.2. Translating to other Languages

1.5.3. Installing a Language File

1.6. Keyboard Shortcuts

1.7. Global Hotkeys

1.8. More Help

2. What's New

2.1. Version 2.2 (October 14, 2009)

2.2. Version 2.1.1 (July 22, 2009)

2.3. Version 2.1 (July 9, 2009)

2.4. Version 2.0 (February 26, 2009)

2.5. Version 1.11.3 (October 9, 2008)

2.6. Version 1.11 (July 29, 2008)

2.7. Version 1.10 (April 22, 2008)

2.8. Version 1.9 (February 4, 2008)

2.9. Version 1.8 (November 12, 2007)

2.10. Version 1.7 (September 3, 2007)

2.11. Version 1.6 (July 2, 2007)

2.12. Version 1.5 (May 28, 2007)

2.13. Version 1.4 (April 18, 2007)

2.14. Version 1.3 (March 1, 2007)

2.15. Version 1.2 (February 12, 2007)

2.16. Version 1.1 (January 16, 2007)

2.17. Version 1.0.2 (December 5, 2006)

2.18. Version 1.0.1 (November 24, 2006)

2.19. Version 1.0 (November 10, 2006)

3. Tutorial

3.1. What does Fanurio do?

3.2. Lesson 1 - Describing Your Business

3.3. Lesson 2 - Creating a Client

3.4. Lesson 3 - Creating a Project

3.5. Lesson 4 - Adding an Item to a Project

3.6. Lesson 5 - Adding Time to a Service Item

3.7. Lesson 6 - Creating an Invoice

3.8. Lesson 7 - Printing, E-Mailing or Exporting an Invoice

3.9. Lesson 8 - Creating an Invoice Template

3.10. Lesson 9 - Exporting Your Data to CSV or Excel

3.11. Lesson 10 - Displaying the Daily Time Log

3.12. Lesson 11 - Backing up Your Data

3.13. Epilogue

4. Features

4.1. Using Discounts

4.1.1. Discounting the Invoice

4.1.2. Discounting each Service Item

4.2. Tracking Time

4.2.1. Manual Time Recording

4.2.2. Manual Timer

4.2.3. Smart Timing

4.3. Importing Timesheets

4.4. Reporting

4.4.1. Time Reports

4.4.2. Invoice Reports

4.4.3. Payment Reports

4.4.4. Project Reports

4.4.5. Example: Project Reporting

4.5. Exporting Data

5. Creating Invoice Templates

5.1. Before You Read this Guide

5.1.1. Audience

5.1.2. Support for templates

5.1.3. About Freemarker

5.2. Installing a Template

5.3. Using Template Placeholders

5.4. Formatting Dates

5.5. Working with Lists of Objects

5.6. Customizing for PDF Export

5.7. Example: A Basic Template

6. Template Placeholders Reference

6.1. Business

6.2. Client

6.3. Contract

6.4. Invoice

6.5. Item

6.6. Payment

6.7. Tax

6.8. Project

6.9. Time Entry

6.10. System

Glossary