Atelier has released v1.9 of Fanurio, its billing and time-tracking application for freelance businesses. When a new assignment is received, users create a new project and add invoices and expenses, charging flat or hourly rates, or nothing at all. Data can be imported from CSV files, or exported to CSV, Excel and HTML, the last used for printing or e-mailing invoices to clients.

The updated version of the program can now import Address Book contacts into its database, saving time. Users can also create more project reports, and the time tracker will detect idle stretches, avoiding accidental overbilling. Finally, tax calculation should be more precise, and invoiced items can be filtered out for easier browsing. Fanurio 1.9 is a Universal Binary for Mac OS X 10.3, and costs $40; a trial version is fully functional for 30 days.