--- title: "Clock Clerk for creative agencies — projects, team chat, timesheets and billing" description: "For creative agencies: plan projects on boards, talk them through with your team and your clients, log the hours and bill them, all in one place. You pay only for the people who log time." url: "https://clockclerk.com/agencies" --- For creative agencies # Projects, team chat, timesheets and billing, in one place Brief the work on a board, talk it through with your team and your clients in the same project, log the hours against it and bill what was approved. One tool instead of four, with freelancers paid from the same timesheets. [Start free trial](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup) [See the whole product](https://clockclerk.com/index.md) Thirty days, every feature, no credit card required. Managers, administrators and finance never cost a cent. Three people or fewer? [Start on Free](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup?plan=free), with no trial clock. How it works ## One campaign, from the brief to the invoice 1. #### 1 Plan The campaign's deliverables go on its board, in columns named your way, from Brief to Design to Client review. 2. #### 2 Collaborate The client's marketing lead comments in a shared thread. Guests see only the threads you invite them into, and are never charged. 3. #### 3 Track Designers and copywriters log their hours against the deliverable, and freelancers fill in the same week sheet. 4. #### 4 Approve The account director approves the filings, and anything wrong goes back with the reason on the sheet. 5. #### 5 Bill The client is invoiced for the approved hours, and each freelancer's month becomes their pay, countersigned and approved. Why Clock Clerk ## Less chasing, more making #### Clients in the conversation Invite a client's people into the threads you choose. They see those and nothing else: never your cards, your hours or your other threads. #### Freelancers on the same sheet A freelancer's month becomes an acceptance protocol at their cost rate, countersigned by their manager and approved before it is paid. #### Managers are free Account directors who approve and producers who only read the reports are never charged. You pay for the people who log time. Pricing ## You pay for the people who log time, not the people who manage them Most time trackers charge a seat for everyone who signs in, including the managers who approve and the administrators who run it, and the approvals and reports those managers need often sit on a higher plan that raises the price of every seat. Clock Clerk charges only for the people who log hours that month. Everyone who reviews, approves, administers or reads the reports is free, on every plan. A typical per-seat time tracker - Someone who logs time **A seat** - A manager who approves it **A seat, and approvals often need a higher plan** - An administrator **A seat** - Finance, reading reports **A seat** - Someone on leave all month **A seat** Clock Clerk - Someone who logs time **$3–$6 / month, or $0 on Free** - A manager who approves it **$0** - An administrator **$0** - Finance, reading reports **$0** - Someone on leave all month **$0** A manager who also logs hours counts once, at the same price as everyone else. There is no manager seat and no admin seat. Free $0 up to 3 people Up to 3 people, 10 active projects and 20 clients, with the week sheet, boards, team chat, approvals, rate cards and the standard reports. No card, no trial clock. [Start for free](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup?plan=free) Starter $3 per filer / month Up to 15 filers and no limit on projects or clients. Everything in Free, plus single sign-on, threads shared with your clients and a holiday schedule that takes paid holidays off people's targets. [See what is included](https://clockclerk.com/pricing.md) Team Recommended $6 per filer / month No limit on people, projects or clients; contractors and invoices, task imports, export to QuickBooks, your logo and brand color, cost-basis reporting and scheduled reminders. [Start free trial](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup?plan=team) Enterprise Talk to us Export to SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics 365 and every other ERP, data residency, a named support contact, and the option to run it on your own servers. [Contact sales](https://app.clockclerk.com/contact?reason=sales) Starter and Team are priced per person who files, with no limit on reviewers, administrators or finance. Free holds 3 people in all. [Compare plans in full](https://clockclerk.com/pricing.md) Questions ## Asked before they switch **Can our clients join the conversation?** Yes, on any paid plan. Share a thread on a project and invite your client's people by email. They sign in from the link and see only the threads they were invited into, never your cards, hours or other threads, and they are not charged. **Can a manager see everyone?** Only the clients and projects they were granted. A grant is not a seat on a team either: a manager books nothing until a project is ticked for them like anybody else. **Do managers and administrators cost more?** They cost nothing. Only the people who log hours in a month are billed, and at one price whatever their role. A manager who approves, an administrator who runs the organization and a finance lead who only reads the reports are free, however many you have. ## Give every project one place to live Thirty days, every feature, no credit card required. Start with your work email and set a password from the link we send you. [Start free trial](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup) [See the whole product](https://clockclerk.com/index.md)