About General Preferences
The General pane of Billings Preferences is where a variety of settings that affect day to day use of Billings can be found, including:
- How Billings should round timed slips as it calculates cost. At 1 minute increments, Billings will calculate a new total for the timed slip every minute.
- A standard hourly billing rate. New timed slips will use this rate by default.
- Whether you report distance in miles or kilometers.
- Whether you wish to sort clients by person's name or company name.
- Preferences for whether or not Billings should automatically check for updates, show menubar timer, show All Slips after import, show the Timers window when Billings opens, and keep the Timers window above all other windows.
- Automatically backup on quit always/once a day/once a week.
- Ability to reset warnings.
Some of the General Preferences don't take effect immediately. You have to quit and re-open Billings in order to see the result of changing one of those settings.