Billing by the hour
Every hour recorded, every hour charged
For lawyers, consultants, architects and anyone who sells time. The hours go in as the work happens, each one tied to its client, and the statement at the end of the month is a download, not a reconstruction.
Start with the legal case All use cases
The example comes ready: a succession case in three phases, with hours on each step.
Time, as it happens
Start the timer, do the work
A timer on every task, from the task itself or from the top bar, where it also finds the task to time. One runs at a time; it is kept on the server, so it carries on through a reload, a sign-out or a change of device, and stopping it records the time to the minute. Forget it, and it stops itself after 24 hours and tells you.
- Log after the fact instead: add hours and minutes to any task, dated on the day they belong to
- Install the app on your phone: the timer is one touch from its icon
The week in one sheet
Friday afternoon, in five minutes
The timesheet shows your week: a row per task, a column per day. Type 1:30 or 1.5 and move
to the next cell; paste a week from your spreadsheet and the cells fill in. Every cell is a dated
entry in the same ledger the timer writes to, so the report shows the hour on the day it belongs
to, not the day you typed it.
- Lowering a cell records a correction: nothing is overwritten
- Holidays and days off are shaded, and still take time
- Nobody else sees your sheet
What to charge
The statement, priced at each client's rate
Each client has a rate, or takes the rate of its group. The spent report of any period works out what the hours are worth, and the statement per client lists the work done, the hours in hours and minutes and in the decimal hours the rate is charged in, and the charge. Download it as a PDF to send, or as a spreadsheet to adjust.
- A fixed-price job, a filing or a consultation, is a billable extra on the same statement
- Each client remembers its previous statement, period and total
- Fees are visible only to the people allowed to see financial information
Confidentiality
A case the team sees, a note only you see
Every task carries a rule for who can edit it and what everyone else may do: open to all, kept to one team, or only yours, with the others reading it or not seeing it at all. Being the assignee grants nothing by itself. The security log keeps every sign-in, failed attempt and password change.
Try it with the example
Your workspace starts with a succession case: intake, filing and hearing, the hours on each step, a filing that waits for the petition, and a note only you can see. Remove it with one click when you are done.