Time and projects
Time Reports
Your tracked time for any range, client or project: share it, export it, or attach it to an invoice.
Open in EscBooksMaking one
- Open Time Reports. It starts on This month, for every client and project.
- Pick the dates: a preset (Today, This week, Last month, Last 30 days, This quarter, Last year and the others), two clicks on the calendar, a month's name for the whole month, or dates typed in. The arrows beside the dates step the range back or forward by its own length: a month steps a month.
- Pick the clients and projects. Tick a client for all of its time, or single projects across clients; Only narrows to one in a click, and typing filters the list. The × beside it goes back to everything.
- Narrow it if you like: Billable only or Non-billable only, and Not invoiced yet or Invoiced.
The report's settings are in the page's address, so a bookmark brings it back. A range picked by name keeps its name: a bookmarked Last month is always last month. Projects have a Time Report button that opens this page for just that project (see Projects).
What it shows
- Total Time: everything tracked in the range, also in decimal hours.
- Billable: the billable part, with its hours after rounding and its share of the time. Billable hours are hourly time rounded by your Billing Rules, the same way an invoice bills it; time billed by the day or as a fixed fee isn't in them.
- Amount: what the time comes to at your billing rules and rates, in each client's own currency.
- Days Worked: how many days in the range have time on them.
Under them, a chart of the hours, billable solid and non-billable faint: by day for a month or less, by week up to about four months, and by month beyond that.
Summary and Detailed
- Summary totals the time in groups: by client, project, service, day or description (Group by), and inside each by a second of those or nothing (then). It starts on project, then description. Click a group to open it, or Expand all. Each row has its share of the time, its Time, Billable time, Billable hrs and Amount.
- Detailed lists every entry, newest first: its date, description (with the client, project and service), its start and end times, duration, billable hours and amount. Non-billable time says so, fixed-fee time says Fixed fee, and invoiced time is marked Invoiced.
Try the grouping on a month of one client's time:
Attaching it to an invoice
An invoice's time report goes out with it: it's sent with the invoice and shows on the client's invoice page. An invoice with time on it already has one, the time billed on that invoice. To send a different one:
- On the invoice, find Time report in the Time Detail card and click Attach a Different Report (or Attach a Time Report when the invoice has no time on it). Time Reports opens on the invoice's client and month; for an invoice dated in the first ten days of a month, the month before.
- Adjust the dates and projects until it shows what you want the client to see.
- Click Attach to the invoice (Attach to INV-0057) in the bar at the top, or Cancel.
You can also start from a report: Attach to Invoice lists your recent invoices, drafts first: those for the report's clients, or every client's when it isn't narrowed. Either way, attaching changes nothing the invoice bills, and works on drafts and sent invoices alike. On the invoice, View opens the attached report, Change picks another and Remove goes back to the time billed on it. How much of it the client sees is the invoice's Time Detail: see Invoicing and getting paid.
A timesheet on the invoice itself
When you invoice tracked time from To Invoice, Invoice lines decides how it reads: Grouped keeps the invoice short, and One per entry puts every entry on it as its own line, for clients who want the detail on the invoice rather than in a report beside it. Adding time to an invoice later with Add Unbilled Time offers the same choice.
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