I don't know about FREE, but Microsoft Word has some nice Billing, Invoice templates.

As for as timeliness and projects are concerned, at work we use MS Excel. If you take the time to learn the software, it's pretty powerful.

I think people don't give the office package enough credit...

You can always take a look at http://sourceforge.net and http://freshmeat.net. You might find something on http://hotscripts.com, but there are commercial packages (paid) on Hotscripts, as well as Freshmeat. Sourceforge, I believe, are all free. You'd want to search for ERP or CRM to get the results you are looking for. You'd have to test what is there to see if it's to your liking.

Hi,

For project time tracking, task management, on-line client-developer communication we use Project Pier. It's open source on-line project management app: http://www.projectpier.org/

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B.K.D
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions so far... I'll go away and have a look at these...

I've been doing some digging myself and found out that M$ actually have a free accountancy package... it looks like it does what i need it to for accountancy ... although I havn't tried it yet...

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008
https://www.microsoft.com/SMALLBUSINESS/sta...8d-6afe9b8414cd

It still leaves me with a need for project management software.. so hopefully some of the suggestions will come up with a winner.

Thanks again.

Go the whole hog with MS Project! We have it but never really used it for anything other than Gantt charts - but it might be a lot better than I realised(?)