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title: "Clock Clerk for consultants — client projects, billable hours and invoicing"
description: "For consultants and consultancies: log billable hours against client projects, have them approved, and draft the invoice from them at the rate you agreed. Managers and finance are never charged."
url: "https://clockclerk.com/consulting"
---

For consultants

# Billable hours in, invoices out

Keep each client's projects, rates and conversations together. Log hours as you work, have them signed off, and draft the month's invoice from exactly the hours that were approved, at the rate you agreed.

[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 engagement, from the scope to the payment

1. #### 1 Plan

   The engagement's workstreams go on the client's board, each with the hours you scoped.
2. #### 2 Collaborate

   The client's people join a shared thread by email, and a change of scope is agreed in writing, beside the work.
3. #### 3 Track

   Each consultant logs billable hours against the workstream, a day at a time or the whole week at once.
4. #### 4 Approve

   The engagement lead approves each filing, and the approved hours are locked.
5. #### 5 Bill

   The invoice is drafted from the approved, billable hours at the client's rate, emailed, and marked paid as the payments arrive.

Why Clock Clerk

## Run the practice, not the paperwork

#### Rates that resolve themselves

Set a standard rate, a client's rate, a project's, or one person's on one project. The most specific one that covers the day prices it.

#### An invoice that stays as sent

An issued invoice is a frozen document, and the hours on it stay locked unless it is voided.

#### Know what each client costs

Switch a report between what you bill and what the work costs you, by client, project or person.

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.

**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.

**What happens when the trial ends?**

Nothing is deleted. Every screen, report and export goes on working; the organization simply stops accepting new hours until a plan is chosen.

## Turn this month's hours into this month's invoices

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)