[consulting] Billing Increments

[Joel Farris]

I bill in one hour time increments. If you want my attention, you pay for an hour. If you want me for the day, you pay for all 8 hours (or whatever). It works really well for invoicing, and it prevents the clients from calling and/or emailing unless it's really important. :)
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Joel Farris
TransparaTech, Inc
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On Jan 10, 2010, at 4:13 AM, Fred Jones 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.