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Time counting tool

Anonymous
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Hallo every one!

Id like to introduce my self firstly, im Manolis, from Greece. I'm an architect and i use Archicad since the begining a long time ago.

One tool that i think it will be very useful for freelancers, like me, is a project time counting. More specificaly what i mean is a tool that will start counting the time since the begining of a project and only during the period that the main designing window is active (when someone is drawing and not when is sitting still). In that way someone will know how much time has spent to the specific project therefore he will know what to charge for it and the customer also will know that the designer is not asking more than he actually worked.
For example i begin a project, having agreed with the customer that i charge 20euros per hour, the counter counts the hours since the begining and have a report printed at the end, before i give the project to the customer, so that he will pay only the amount of money that corresponds to the hours i spent on the specific project.


I didnt know where to post this kind of topic so if its in the wrong place please move it to the right one.

Im looking forward to your answers as to if this is possible and could be added in one of the next archicad updates!
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Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
In Mac I use a combination of Time Sink (http://manytricks.com/timesink/) and Billings (http://www.marketcircle.com/billings/). There is another called Process (http://www.jumsoft.com/process/) which allows a ot of flexibility but in my case I spent too much time playing with it and not working.
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TMA_80
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hi and welcome to ac-talk !

Have had a look at ArchiTime from cigraph ?
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