KLAGRECA  Some of these reviews, I think, are alittle off base. Here is what I think is an objective review:

Layout -- easy, coherent and simple.

Tracking clients - integrates with Address Book. easy as pie.

Tracking projects --- good. navigation of adding events could be made easier.

Invoicing -- a couple of clicks and you've emailed an invoice to click. Nice.

Customizing templates -- err.. not much fun. Be sure to read their guide first.

Recording payments -- needs work here. There's a few ways to do it and its not clear how outstanding balances are managed.

Stability - no problems here.

Overall - its simple and mostly intuitive. Fully usable for a small business. Has some rough edges but workable with extra time.

To the previous grumpy folks: Give IGG a break. They're a small shop yet they are quick to respond to forum posts and emails. iBiz might have suffered lately since they've been pouring their time into iBank 3.

iBiz will be 5-star product after some reworking of the template and payment pieces. If you're a small biz and bill hourly for projects, this is a great solution and I don't hesitate to recc it.  (Version 3.1.10)

STORMCHILD  Garbage.

I tried to use iBiz 2 (starting when it was still called iWork), and experienced nothing but frustration with its endless stream of bugs and problems that were either replaced with new ones or never resolved. Eventually iBiz 3 appeared, and sure enough, many of the problems I had reported with iBiz 2 were STILL not fixed. I paid nearly $40 CAD for this junk; I thought it was overpriced, but needed something like this for my business, and at first glance it seemed nicer than the alternatives. But soon I discovered it had serious problems, such as miscalculations and data loss. One would be "fixed" and another one would turn up. No one could trust its numbers enough to actually use it for tracking time and billing clients (in other words, it's completely useless).

What a waste of time and money. I find it hilarious that the price has actually gone UP as the quality of the software remains consistently poor.

Billings is vastly superior, and even Studiometry (which I don't particularly like) is at least reliable and does what it's supposed to do.

This developer has proven himself incompetent and incapable of creating a quality, reliable application. iBank is even worse; you know you're in the wrong business when you can't even write software that does math properly, despite the fact that a computer doing all the actual computation.

Do yourself a BIG favor and steer clear of IGG's terrible software.  (Version 3.1.9)

PHALERON  This program (at least the demo version I tried) has some serious issues with reliability. I like the interface a lot, especially the payment feature and the file-based timer triggers, but I would not trust it with time-tracking.  (Version 3.1.7)

JMORGAN  ibiz for me was way too slow and buggy. I liked iratchet a lot but found timenet to be my favorite. i bougt it today and the service is very nice. quick replies  (Version 3.1.6)