--- title: "Clock Clerk for software development — tasks, hours and client billing in one place" description: "For software agencies: the board your developers work from is the list of tasks they log time against, the client's questions stay on the card, and invoices are drawn from the approved hours. Import tasks from Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello or Notion." url: "https://clockclerk.com/software-development" --- For software agencies # Connect the tickets, the hours and the client's invoice Your developers move cards on a board, log their hours against those same cards and talk the work through in a thread beside them. At the month end the approved hours become the client's invoice, so nobody rebuilds the month from three tools. [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 feature, from the ticket to the invoice 1. #### 1 Plan The Checkout API card goes on the client's board with its estimate, or comes in from Jira with the rest of the sprint. 2. #### 2 Collaborate The client asks about the go-live date in a thread shared with them, and the answer stays beside the work. 3. #### 3 Track The developer logs the hours against the card from the week sheet, and the card shows how much of its estimate is used. 4. #### 4 Approve Their manager approves the filing, and the approved hours are locked against later edits. 5. #### 5 Bill The client's invoice is drafted from the approved, billable hours, priced at your rate card. Why Clock Clerk ## Built for teams that ship client work #### Keep your tracker Import tasks from Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello or Notion and pick the items to bring over. It is an import, not a sync: nothing is written back to your tracker. #### Estimates you can see Each card shows the hours logged against its estimate, so an overrun shows while there is still time to talk to the client about it. #### Fixed fee or time and materials Bill by the hour at your rate card, or follow a fixed-fee project's hours and cost to see whether it paid. 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 **Does the board replace Jira or Trello?** It can. Where the engineers stay in Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps or Notion, link the project to it instead and import their items as cards, so the hours are still logged against the work they track. **Does it have a timer?** No. Hours are typed against a day, which is what a client is invoiced for and what a reviewer can sign off. Most people log each day as they go, in the day view, stepping a task up a quarter-hour or adding an hour in one click; a whole week typed at once takes under two minutes. **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. ## Bill the client for the work your board already shows 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)