Trados Business Manager – End of Life Announcement

Trados Business Manager (TBM) has reached end of life. Following the discontinuation of TBM sales on 31 October 2023, all maintenance and support services will conclude on 31 October 2024.
What Does This Mean for TBM Users?

  • End of Services: RWS will no longer provide any services related to the installation or updating of TBM.
  • Existing Installations: TBM will remain functional where already installed, but the RWS support team will not offer assistance in troubleshooting issues, addressing reported problems, or providing further development for TBM.
  • Documentation: The TBM documentation has been removed from docs.rws.com.
  • Community Support: The community forum for TBM will remain accessible in a read-only format for users to reference if needed.

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Creating an invoice from SDL Trados Studio in Business Manager

If your SDL Trados Business Manager database contains a job linked with a project created in SDL Trados Studio, you can create an invoice right from within Studio. No need to switch to TBM, open list of jobs, find necessary job and select Create invoice button. Instead, you can do this from Studio, and a job in TBM will be automatically marked as delivered.

To create an invoice:

  1. Select a project in SDL Trados Studio and click Create an invoice.
  2. The system will try to find translation job in the TBM database. If such job would not be found, you will see an error message:

    Otherwise, you will get confirmation message in Studio, and new invoice editing from will be opened in TBM:
  3. Again, all fields will be automatically filled-in. If default tax is selected in the customer settings, this tax will also be automatically applied. Just check payment term, specify contact person (if needed), or other details, and then click Save.
  4. When invoice is saved, it can be printed.
  5. As with quotes, from this window, you can export an invoice to a number of supported formats, save it as PDF and attach to an Invoice document (for later viewing or sending), send by e-mail using your default Windows e-mail client, or send by e-mail using TBM mail sender.