[consulting] Billing Increments

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi,

Since moving to Billings I have change to billing 15min blocks. So I will no matter how much I work on the block I will charge for it. However if I work on a Slip mutiple times the real times will get added together which add up to less that the 15min block, so the rounding is only done once per job.

Gordon.

On 27/01/2010, at 1:17 PM, Henry Poole wrote:

> At CivicActions (5 years ago) we began billing in 5 minute increments and switched to 15 minutes a couple of years ago. The 15 minute increment seems to be a good place for us. It catches a certain amount of context switching.
> 
> We've also been experimenting with flat monthly rates for certain roles. Tracking by the minute for 5 years is a grind;)
> 
> Nice conversation!
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Jason A. Nunnelley <jason at jasonn.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I tend to bill in 15 increments, with 1 hour minimum per day. I would
> try to find a way to make your billing system do that. But, if you
> can't, perhaps scheduling work efficiently will make up for the
> system's failings. For example, if you have a client that's switching
> you back to their task for smaller blocks of time, you're likely not
> really in control of your schedule appropriately enough to bill as a
> contractor (that way). You should block out bigger chunks of time for
> that client or default bill them a daily fee for your "drop what I'm
> doing," service.
> 
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