[consulting] How do you bill client hours?

[Brian Knoblock]

I also use Freshbooks and love it, its not perfect but its saved me a  
ton of time finding and invoicing un-billed hours.

BK

On Jan 10, 2009, at 1:00 PM, William Smith wrote:

> I use Freshbooks (an online service) which allows me to manage  
> clients, has a timer and can generate invoices directly from the  
> time logged (saves me a lot of time on accounting / admin), handles  
> the sending out of invoices (either email or snail mail), you can  
> set it up for clients to be able to log in and see their account  
> status, etc..  And if you are on a mac, there is even a handy  
> dashboard widget for time tracking that integrates directly into  
> your account.
>
> I've been pretty happy with it, although it is a pay service if you  
> are managing more than a few clients.
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Jones <david at web-reverb.com>  
> wrote:
> This is a great topic!
>
> I use an online service by Qonsort called QFile that allowed me to  
> track clients, projects, time on the clock and more.  It's great for  
> independents.
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Dave Myburgh <davemyb at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> How about this: we use this list as it does include independents,  
> and if the powers that be object to that, then we can start a  
> separate list?
>
> I, for one, would be interested to hear how others manage their  
> time, particularly with respect to keeping track of client billable  
> hours. At the moment I use a small freeware timer program that can  
> keep a list of different timers. So when I start work on a project,  
> I select the timer for the project, click the start button and get  
> to work. When I'm done, I stop the timer. At the end of the month, I  
> check the monthly total and bill the client.
>
> Up until now, I haven't done much on the project management side  
> i.e. keeping track of bugs, requests, etc. using an issue tracker  
> system. I started looking at creating a system using OG and Project  
> modules, but a friend suggested Redmine, which I eventually got  
> installed and started using. Now I just need the clients to use it.  
> Does anyone have any ideas for this?
>
> Well, I think that's enough to get the ball rolling, so I'll leave  
> it at that for now. Looking forward to hearing from everyone else.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Adam Mordecai <mordecai at advomatic.com 
> > wrote:
> The majority of people on this list are independent developers, to  
> splinter it even more would cause a low traffic list to be even more  
> low traffic.
> On Jan 10, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Sam Cohen wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm an independent Drupal consultant and I have purposely decided to  
> not grow and become a web shop or work for another web shop. I like  
> being a one-person operation.
>
> I think being an independent, a one man or woman "shop," comes with  
> many unique challenges and I was wondering if any other Indies out  
> there would be interested in starting a separate email list just for  
> Independent Drupal Consultants, in order to share advice on things  
> like time management, working with clients, managing work load, etc.
>
> If so, please email me at sam at samcohen.com and I'll start a list.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
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