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Tabs3 Billing Software Tabs3 Billing Software

Tabs3 Billing Software

Reliable legal billing software that helps your law firm get bills out faster and increase productivity.

New! Tabs3 Version 15 is now available. Learn More...

Tabs3 Billing Software

SOS, Inc. Tabs3 Demo Videos & Screen Images
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SOS, Inc. Replace Timeslips with Tabs3 and SAVE 20%!
Timeslips users can now switch to Tabs3 Billing Software and receive a 20% discount.


Tabs3 Billing Software now includes a free single-user version of PracticeMaster Basic.
Purchase any level of Tabs3 Billing Software and automatically receive a free copy of PracticeMaster Basic, a $150 value. Or, upgrade to PracticeMaster Premier and receive $150 off of your purchase.

  • Recommended by more than 90% of the law firms who use it.*
  • 95% satisfaction level for customer support.*
  • Helping law firms with legal billing for over 25 years.
  • Integrates with Tabs3 Financial Software, PracticeMaster, and QuickBooks®.
  • Client Server version available to meet the demands of mid-sized law firms.
  • Simplifies all of your legal billing tasks like tracking time, billing clients and recording payments.
  • Helps you remember all of the time you should bill.
  • Makes it easy to submit your time for billing.
  • Tracks which members of your law firm still need to turn in time or sign off on a final bill.
  • Quick access to the client information you need, such as recent bills, unbilled work, payments, and accounts receivable.
  • Provides insight into your law firm's productivity and profitability by area of practice, case and employee.
  • Flexibility to bill the way you want to and customizing the look of your bills.
  • Multi-level security so that attorneys and staff only see information they are supposed to see.
  • Helps you look more professional with updated design and customization of reports and statements. Bills and reports can also be saved as PDF's for easy e-mailing.
  • Collection reports show you which clients are late with payments.
  • Powerful compensation rules give you the flexibility to allocate payments the way you want to. Related reports make it easy to see how much timekeepers have earned.
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* Based upon 2006 internal research.

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SOS, Inc. Tabs3 Detailed Feature List

Integration with other programs
  • Tabs3 Billing Software Integrates with:
    • PracticeMaster Practice Management Software
    • Tabs3 General Ledger Software
    • Tabs3 Trust Accounting Software
    • Tabs3 Accounts Payable Software
    • QuickBooks®
    • Palm™ Handhelds

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Tracking your time is easy
  • Simple forms make it easy to enter your time. View a Screen Image
  • Stop watch timers track time as you go, and then turn the time into a billing entry with one click.
  • Spell check the notes you make in time entries.
  • An Entry List of recent ledger transactions lets you review past work as you enter new data. View a Screen Image
  • Track both Hours Worked and Hours to Bill when you enter fees, so you get more accurate reporting as well as the ability to write-up or write-down hours.

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Flexibility to bill the way you want to
  • Edit, reprint or unbill a billing statement at any time.
  • Nearly unlimited billing rate flexibility - use one of the standard billing rates for a timekeeper, or the billing rate for his/her level (e.g., partner, associate, etc.), or create custom rates for any timekeeper or client.
  • Split fee billing lets you bill several clients a percentage of the fees and/or costs for a matter.
  • Distribute payments across multiple bills for multiple attorneys.
  • Contingency, flat fee, retainer and task based billing.

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Tools to get your bills out faster
  • Review unbilled time and expenses by timekeeper or client using the Work-In-Process Report. View a Screen Image
  • Print or display draft statements for internal review and editing.
  • Save any statement or report as a PDF file.
  • One click drill down to individual transactions from the Work-In-Process Report, Transaction File List or Draft Statements makes it easy to update entries.
  • Use different billing criteria to print groups of client bills.
  • Electronic billing to automatically format bills for insurance companies with Tabs3 Taskbill Software.
  • To ensure you never miss a bill, Tabs3's unique Pre-Bill Tracking feature tracks the status of individual bills and WIP reports, making it easy to check which pre-bills have been received, still need editing or are on hold. View a Screen Image

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Reports to stay on top of your billing
  • Collections Report:
    - Amount billed.
    - Payment history.
    - Outstanding invoice.
    - Contact information for easy follow-up.
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  • Work-In-Process Report:
    - Unbilled time and expenses by timekeeper or client.
  • Aged Work-In-Process Report:
    - Number of days fees and expenses have gone unbilled for each client.
  • Recap of Hours Report:
    - Find missing time that has not been turned in yet.
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  • Client Ledger Report:
    - History and status of all client billing statements.
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  • Accounts Receivable by Invoice Report:
    - Amounts billed to each client.
    - Amounts due for each invoice.

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Compensation Reports and Tools
  • Create compensation rules for multiple originating, primary and secondary timekeepers.
  • Fee Compensation Rules tables can be shared, copied and customized, and each table can include multiple rules.
  • Compensation Rules can be based on many criteria. Here are some examples of how rules can be used:
    • Kathy gets 2% of receipts from all working timekeepers.
    • Bruce gets 5% of receipts from work done by Amber, Deb and Phil.
    • Dan gets 5% of receipts for Acme Insurance until June, 2007.
    • Brad gets 10% of receipts for Widgets International until he receives a total of $10,000.
  • Compensation Reports:
    • Allocated Payments Report.
    • Cash Receipts Report.
    • Receipt Allocation Report.
    • Unallocated Payments Report.

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Reports that give you insight into your firm's business
  • Accounts Receivable Reports:
    - Who is late with payments.
    - How late payments are.
    - Payment history.
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  • Client Productivity Report:
    - Profit your firm made from each client.
    - How a client's profitability varied from year to year.
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  • Timekeeper Profitability Report:
    - Billings, overhead and profit for each timekeeper.
    - Net profit for each timekeeper.
    - Percent of your firm's billings that each timekeeper has produced.
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  • Receipt Allocation Report:
    - Payment allocation to different attorneys, advances, expenses, sales tax and finance charges.
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  • Collections Report:
    - Amount billed.
    - Payment history.
    - Outstanding invoice.
    - Contact information for easy follow up.
  • Task Code Billing Report:
    - Billed and unbilled task based billing transactions.
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  • Task Code Budget Report:
    - Billed and unbilled amounts for expenses and activities broken down by common tasks such as phone calls, meetings, research, etc.
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  • Area of Practice Productivity Report:
    - Billings broken down by area of practice.
    - Effective billing rate for each area of practice.
    - Write-ups and write-downs for each area of practice.
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Reports that give you insight into your employees' productivity
  • Timekeeper Productivity Report:
    - Hours and amounts that each timekeeper billed.
    - Effective billing rate of each timekeeper.
    - Each timekeeper's write-ups and write-downs.
    - Total billable and non-billable hours and amounts for each timekeeper.
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  • Area of Practice Productivity Report For Each Timekeeper:
    - Amount of billable time people spent on each area of practice.
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  • Timekeeper Status Report:
    - Work-in-process and accounts receivable each timekeeper is responsible for.
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  • Timekeeper Analysis Reports
    - Analyze timekeeper performance for range of months.
    - Analyze all timekeeper performance for individual months.
    - Compare rates for hours, amounts and receipts.
    - Compare billed rate, effective rate, and more.

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Ease of use
  • The Tabs3 Client Manager gives you a quick look into all of a client's vital statistics and quick access to the tasks you do most. A client's contact information, recent payments, work-in-process, accounts receivable balance and fund account balance are neatly presented on screen. Tabs3 Client Manager also gives you one click access to the ten tasks you do most often. Customize them so that the reports you run and the forms you fill out every day are only one click away. View a Screen Image
  • Add reports to the Drop Box as you run them. Then easily attach them all to one e-mail instead of e-mailing each one separately.

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Security so people only see the information they are supposed to see
  • Restrict people's access to certain timekeepers, certain clients or cases.
  • Decide who can create new entries, edit existing entries and delete entries.

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Minimum system requirements
  • Windows Vista / XP / 2000.
  • 29 MB of disk space. An additional 20 MB of disk space is required for the System Configuration program. The System Configuration program must be installed in order to use Tabs3. Additional hard drive space will be required for data files.
  • 800x600 or higher screen resolution.
  • 16-bit color or higher. 32-bit color is recommended.
  • Internet Explorer Version 6 or 7.
  • If using the Client Server Version, STI Server is required. The STI Server software must be installed on a computer running Microsoft Windows 2000 / 2003 Server, NT 4 / 2000 Workstation, or Windows XP Professional. STI Server will also run as an NLM on a Novell Server running a version of NetWare supported by Novell. STI Client Server software uses TCP/IP protocol

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SOS, Inc. Free Onsite Consultation

Our staff can provide you with an on-site (in the greater Seattle / Puget Sound Area) or Web-based demonstration.

To schedule a free on-site demo or consultation to discuss any of our products, please contact us at 206-399-6665 or complete our contact form.