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Projects your team can follow
Each project adds up the time logged against its hours budget.
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Time tracking
Time tracking for consultants
Start a timer on client work, see billable hours by project and have the billable value in front of you when you invoice.
Free plan, no card needed. Or book a demo.
Your time is the product
Whether you bill by the hour or a fixed fee, you need to know how many hours each client really takes. Otherwise a "small" engagement quietly eats a month.
In startbuddi you start a timer on the task you are working on. The time lands on the task, the project and your week, with billable hours and their value added up. When it is time to bill, you create the invoice in Money Manager with those numbers in front of you.
- A timer on any open task.
- Billable or not, entry by entry.
- An hours budget per engagement.
- Invoices and retainers in the same workspace.
- Timer on tasksEvery hour tied to a client.
- Billable valueTotals per week and per project.
- Hours budgetSpot overruns on fixed-fee work.
- Invoices nearbyBill from Money Manager in the same login.
Timer & week
A timer on the client's task.
Press Start timer on any open task. When you stop, the time is saved on that task and in your week.
- Start timer and Stop on any open task
- Week totals: Total, Billable, Billable value and Tasks
- Previous week, This week and Next week
Hours vs budget
Hours against the engagement.
Give the project an hours budget and see what is spent and what is left.
- Hours budget on each project
- Time logged, Spent so far, Cost to complete
- Filter the timesheet to one project
Create
Invoice with the numbers in front of you.
Create the invoice in a minute, in any currency, with a Pay button for card or transfer.
- Existing client or One-off recipient, with Also save as a contact
- Tax rate, discount and any currency: naira, cedis, dollars, pounds
- Notes and footer for your bank details and a thank-you
Same workspace
Time that sits next to the work and the client.
Timesheets are part of the same workspace as your projects, clients and invoices.
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Everyone's work, one list
Timers run on tasks, so hours always belong to a piece of work.
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Invoices that get paid
Send the invoice from Money Manager with the billable value in front of you.
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A portal for each client
Share progress with the client in their own portal.
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Plans
Time tracking on every plan
Timers, timesheets and billable hours are on every plan, including Free. Team time needs teammates: Growth includes 5 seats and Scale 15.
- Free Included, free forever $0
- Starter Included, 30-day trial $29/mo
- Growth Included, 30-day trial $79/mo
- Scale Included, 30-day trial $199/mo
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Questions people ask
Can I turn tracked time into an invoice?
Not in one click yet. Your hours show their billable value, and you create the invoice in Money Manager.
Can I track time on a fixed-fee project?
Yes. Set an hours budget on the project and watch time logged against it.
Does it work for a solo consultant?
Yes. Log your own hours, mark what is billable and see the week's billable value.
Is it free?
Yes. Time tracking is on the Free plan.
Know where the hours go this week.
Start a timer on your next task and see billable hours add up. Free to start.
Free plan available. Every paid plan starts with a 30-day trial.