YinItAgreementForm

A hundred orders? Drop the whole folder.

Batch mode reads any number of documents and sorts them into one job per case and date. A transcript and its invoice make one form, not two. Two days of the same case make two jobs, but Generate all gives each firm one invoice and one minute agreement for all the days it ordered, and the trial one MOFR (Settings → Options switches back to forms for each day). Tick the jobs you want and press Generate all: the preview shows every file and the math first, and nothing is saved until you say so. The list on the left shows each job's case and date, the transcript's own pages (no word index) and the pages you wrote (Yours); a job read from several documents lists them under it, and a right-click on one shows its text or moves it to a job of its own. A ⚠ next to a job means something to check; hover over it to see what. New job clears the list without asking, and Undo brings it all back for a few seconds.

The result

The court's own fillable form, filled in, with "per email" on the attorney line if you like, and your signature picture on the court reporter line. A trial's days in a row go on it as one range, 9/28/2026–10/2/2026, so a long trial still fits. A clean re-typeset version and the original scan are available too. Sample shown uses made-up names.

Invoices from your transcripts

Drop a transcript PDF and tick Invoice. The page count leaves out the word index printed after the transcript, and the line under it says so: "Transcript pages 378–460 · excludes the 13 word-index pages after them". It is counted four ways (up to the index, by the line numbers, by the printed page numbers, and the index found from the end); if they disagree, or the index would be more than a quarter of the PDF, the field turns amber and tells you why. The page count and your rate sheet price the original, each party's copy and e-mailed copy, and for long transcripts an index for each party, plus one for the judge that the parties split. Whether there is an index is decided on the whole transcript, every reporter's pages (50 pages or more to start with): your 45 pages of an 83-page transcript get one, charged on your 45. Typed fewer pages in Est. number of pages than the transcript has, and that would change it (40 of 83, say)? Generate asks you instead of deciding, and remembers your answer for that day; Peripherals… shows it and lets you change it. The speeds you tick in the Invoice panel (Regular and Expedited to start with) are the ones the invoice offers, each with its turnaround and amount, and with how to pay you. The agreement form names one of them, at one rate per page: Expedited when you offer it, otherwise the slowest. Settings → Invoice changes that rule, and the Speed dropdown under Minute agreement form details changes it for one job. No transcript, just a caption page? Type the pages in Est. number of pages and the invoice bills them. Want the page count, the pages of each day and the charges spelled out for this job? Tick Show granular detail, and choose what it shows. Peripherals… drops the e-mailed copy, or says yes or no to the index, for this job only, and the panel says why there is an index or not: "83 total pages, 50 or more". The notes on the invoice are yours to write, too: place them where you like and have them show only when they apply ("delivered once every party has paid" only when several parties ordered). Four firms sharing the pages can come to part of a cent a page ($6.6125): keep every fraction and round once at the end, as before, or set Rounding to The price a page, to the cent to bill $6.61 × 1,000 pages = $6,610.00, the way a firm checks it with a calculator. The prices in Excerpts… are rounded the same way.

Shared the trial with another reporter? The invoice bills only your pages, the ones with your initials at the foot: 65 of a 150-page transcript, say. Whose pages… lets you tick My pages, another reporter's pages, or The whole transcript, and the app asks when it can't tell. Each other reporter you tick gets invoices for their own pages, in their name, with their address and payment details (Settings → Run sheet → Invoices for, or Details…), numbered apart from yours (DS-2026-0001), with file names that say whose they are. Sample shown uses made-up names.

Excerpts: the whole case on one table

One firm ordered the whole trial, another part of day 1, a third part of that and a stretch of day 2? Excerpts… (next to Parties) lists every day of the case on that invoice in one table. Each row is a run of pages, typed in the transcript's own page numbers (141-170), and the rows around it make room. Tick the firms that ordered each run. Split run cuts a run in two, and Remove run (or the Delete key, or a right-click) gives its pages to the run next to it; Remove this day's excerpts and Remove all excerpts go back to whole days. Each run shows its date and weekday, and each set of firms ordering together has its own colour. As you type, it shows what each run costs each firm at every speed you offer (Prices for: hides a speed), what each group of firms ordering together pays, and each firm's invoice. Pages ordered together split the original and the judge's index, and every firm pays for its own copy, e-mailed copy and index. A run nobody ticks is billed to nobody. The window stays open beside the app and follows what you change there. Sample shown uses made-up names.

Who pays for what, in plain sight

Before you generate, the Who ordered what card lists every day the invoice covers, with a row for each attorney: the pages it ordered (every page, or which excerpt), the page numbers printed on them, who else ordered the same pages, and how many of your pages that bills. An attorney not ticked on a day "orders nothing", and when an invoice won't be made yet (a day with nobody ticked, an excerpt to check, whose pages to bill) the card says so in amber. Double-click a row, or click Edit excerpts…, to change it. Generate all asks before it bills a case with a day not decided: go back and decide, or go on without it.

Different speeds on the same pages? Firms that share pages each commit to a speed: set it in the card's Speed column (or one run's own in Excerpts…), or Generate asks. The one original is billed at the fastest speed ordered; each slower firm pays its share as if every firm had ordered its speed, the fastest pays the rest, and each pays its own copies at its own speed. One firm at Daily and one at Immediate, 10 pages of Sample Rates: the original is $7.60 a page at Immediate, the Daily firm pays $6.50 ÷ 2 = $3.25 of it and the Immediate firm $4.35, and together they pay exactly the bill. A firm with two speeds gets one minute agreement, both speeds ticked. For now, at most two speeds may share the same pages. Sample shown uses made-up names.

See it before it's saved

Click Generate, or Generate all for a whole batch, and the app first shows you each form and invoice as it will be saved, a tab for each file, the invoice with the number it will get. Each kind of file has its own tab colour, and the first tab, The math, shows how every amount is reached. Side by side shows every file at once; Ctrl + and Ctrl − (or Ctrl and the mouse wheel) zoom. Many files? Arrows at the end of the tabs, a Files ▾ menu and Ctrl+Tab take you to any of them. Save saves them. Go back saves nothing and takes no invoice number, so you can fix a field and try again. The run sheet, a spreadsheet, is saved with the rest but not shown. Rather skip it? Don't show previews anymore turns it off, and Settings turns it back on. Once the files are saved, Print… sends them to your printer. Sample shown uses made-up names.

Asked how you got that number?

Your invoices can stay clean, with just the amounts, and the math is still at hand. The math, the preview's first tab, lays out each amount in tables: By invoice, a row for each charge with its pages, rate and cost, whether each firm splits this cost or pays for its own, and what this firm pays, stretch by stretch of pages ("50 pages ordered by 2 firms … ÷ 2"); or Firms side by side, a column for each firm. It remembers the one you chose, and the Invoice panel has its own link to it before you generate. When several firms share the work, All the firms together checks that what they pay covers it. Copy all copies it as text, a line for each charge, for a reply. With previews off, it comes in a small window after saving: OK, Copy all, Save as PDF… (the tables) for the attorney who asked, or Don't show this anymore (Show the math of each invoice in Settings → Options brings it back). And it's kept: Generate saves the math as PDFs next to the invoices, one for each invoice (to send the firm that asks) and one for the whole job; the list under the math, or Settings → Invoice, says which, or none. Prefer it on the invoice itself? Settings → Invoice can also save a detailed copy of every invoice, the same invoice number with the full breakdown. Sample shown uses made-up names.

Shared trial? The run sheet keeps count.

When reporters take turns, each one puts their initials on the pages they write. Run sheet ticks itself when two or more reporters wrote the case's transcripts (and unticks when one did; click it to decide yourself), and the app reads those initials page by page and adds a row per take to the trial's run sheet in Excel: date, reporter, pages written, start and end page, and the witness who took the stand. It finds the trial's run sheet by index number or case name (one trial can have several index numbers) and asks before adding to it. All the days of a trial go on it in one go: if it's open in Excel, you're told to close it before anything is made, so it never ends up missing a day. Filter by reporter to see their pages, or open the By Reporter sheet for everyone's totals. Sample shown uses made-up names.

See what you billed, and what was paid

Records keeps every invoice and form the app made. See totals billed, paid and outstanding for any month, year or firm, with breakdowns by firm and by month. Tick Paid when the money comes in, and if you corrected an amount in an invoice PDF, Change amounts… keeps the totals right. Choose the columns you want: your pages and the transcript's, the excerpt, the speeds offered and the one ordered, whether an e-mailed copy was included, and more, and click a heading to sort. Invoices you made for another reporter stay out of your list and your totals; one click on Show them lists them, with their initials under For reporter. Looking for one firm or case? Type it in the search box: a firm, a case, an index number, an invoice number, with Fuzzy to forgive a typo or Regex for exact patterns. Deleted something by mistake? It waits in the Trash for 30 days. Export a report, an Excel workbook or CSV files whenever you like; a CSV copy is always kept up to date in your Documents folder.

Want to keep track of the work too? Paid is all that's on at first, and nothing ever pops up. In Settings → Records, switch on Invoice sent, Transcribed or Transcript sent, or add a box of your own. Each is a column you tick with a click, a Status column says it in words ("Paid, Transcribed, Not sent"), and every row takes a colour: orange once a transcript is done and every firm that ordered it has paid, ready to send; green once it's sent (purple while it's sent but not yet paid). Tick Transcribed on one firm's invoice and it's ticked on the other firms' invoices of the same transcript, and on any made later when another firm orders a copy. Type notes straight into the table, and let the Records button count what's waiting: Records · Ready to send: 3. With Paid alone, it counts what isn't paid.

Need a corrected invoice, or another day of the same case? Right-click a record and open its job again: the case comes back as you left it. Ticked the wrong invoice paid? Undo (Ctrl+Z) takes it back. Summary… sums up a month or a year (invoices, pages, billed, paid, still owed), and the first time you open Records in a new month it tells you what last month came to. Your records are backed up each day you open the app, and you can go back to any of the last ten days.

Help that understands your words

The whole manual is built in: press F1, or Help → How to use, and type a question the way you'd ask it. "The court is closed that day" finds the court holidays, "bill a lawyer by email" the e-mailed copies, and a typo like "invioce" still finds invoices. The words you looked for are marked in the page, links take you to the next topic, and F1 opens the page for the part of the window you're in (Settings has a Help button on each tab). It all runs on your computer.