[consulting] Billing Increments

[Brian Knoblock]

HI
On Jan 10, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Holly Ferree wrote:

> 
> 
> So questions:
> What is the best time tracking and/or invoicing software to use?
> 
> Do most use just time tracking? (I'm on a MAC) If so what is it and what is
> the cost of the program
> 


I use Freshbooks.com , plus an app call MinBooks on the iPhone to track time, and invoice, I highly recommend checking it out, and its free for 3 clients or less.

BK

lansingit.com


> How do you send your invoices?
> 
> (I've finally got a wopping 3 clients now all with different billing rates
> and decided to go with some organizational programs) I'm doing a trial
> version of ibiz (time tracker and with a click of a button will create an
> invoice that you can save as a pdf and/or email to a client...and it also
> has a nice idle time notice if you walked away and forgot to turn off the
> timer, has a menu bar timer and a dashboard widget timer, and some other
> helpful features) and I really enjoy it.
> 
> Is $40 worth having a program that all I have to do is enter the information
> for the timer in once per job task and it does the rest?
> 
> Thanks,
> Holly
> 
> 
> On 1/10/10 7:13 AM, "Fred Jones" <fredthejonester at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I had a discussion with the author of Hamster [0], the time tracking
>> tool I use about time increments. His tool tracks by minutes, rounding
>> to the nearest minute when it does monthly totals. I know that some
>> web dev shops, however, have a minimum increment of 15, 30 or even 60
>> minutes. I am wondering what other people do.
>> 
>> I, for better or worse (probably worse), end up having a lot of very
>> small time increments as I answer an email here, make a small fix to a
>> site there, add a page for a different client etc. I have always just
>> billed what the Hamster says, but I am wondering now if I should make
>> a minimal increment. I definitely lose a bit of time switching
>> projects. Sometimes it's really just a second or two but other times
>> it's a lot more than that. I was thinking to make a minimum of 15 min.
>> per day. Then if I do 2 or 3 little tasks for a client, each taking
>> only 2 minutes, I would bill them for 15 min. for that day. We can
>> code a script to do this calculation automatically based on Hamster's
>> SQLite file.
>> 
>> Interesting to hear what people have to say on this subject of time and
>> billing.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Fred
>> 
>> [0] http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/
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> Holly Ferree, Graphic Designer, BFA
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