Time tracking only pays off if capturing time is easier than forgetting to. Billable gives you two ways in — a live timer and a manual entry — and one way out: onto an invoice.
Step by step
- Start the timer, or log the hours — Start a timer when you begin a task and let it run, or type in hours and minutes afterwards if you have already done the work. Either way the entry is tied to a project.
- Control it from wherever you are — The running timer sits in the top bar. Pause it when you step away, resume when you are back, stop it when the task is done.
- Bill the time — When you raise an invoice, pull the project’s unbilled time onto it. Those hours flip from unbilled to billed, so they cannot be charged twice.
- Export when someone asks — Need the underlying hours outside Billable? Export the timesheet to CSV.
Habits that make it stick
- Start the timer before you start the task, not after — retro-fitting a morning’s work is where hours go missing.
- Log the small stuff. The ten minutes on a call and the half hour on revisions are exactly the time that never reaches an invoice.
- Check each project’s unbilled total before you invoice it, rather than after.