Billing by the hour, answered
The questions that arrive the moment you start invoicing for time rather than for a salary. Every page answers in its first sentence — no preamble, no “it depends”, and no course to sign up for at the end.
Tracking
Getting the hours down accurately in the first place, including on the days when you forget, when there is no signal, and when there are four clients in one afternoon.
- Tracking How do you track billable hours?
- Tracking How do you track time for multiple clients?
- Tracking What should a freelance timesheet include?
- Tracking How do you prove your hours to a client?
- Tracking What do you do if you forgot to start the timer?
- Tracking Can you track work time without an internet connection?
Billing
What you charge, what counts as chargeable, how to round it and how to turn a month of sessions into something a client will pay without an argument.
- Billing What is the difference between billable and non-billable hours?
- Billing How do you set a freelance hourly rate?
- Billing How many hours a day can a freelancer actually bill?
- Billing Should you charge hourly or a fixed price?
- Billing Should you bill a client for breaks?
- Billing How should you round billable time?
- Billing How do you turn tracked hours into an invoice?
- Billing How do you handle overtime as a freelancer?
Most of this gets easier with a log.
Every answer here is simpler to act on when the hours were written down as they happened rather than remembered afterwards.
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