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Timesheets for engineering consultancies
Engineering consultancies sell their engineers' time, so the timesheet decides what gets billed and whether a project makes money. TimmieTime is built around that kind of work: projects for clients, several ways of billing them, and budgets that need watching.
Engineers fill in their week in a grid that works like a spreadsheet. Project leads see the hours against each project as they come in, and the office turns those hours into invoices without copying them into another system.
Billing the way engineering work is priced
Each project can be billed in the way it was agreed with the client, and different projects can use different methods.
- Hourly work can be billed at each person's own charge rate, or at one hourly rate for everyone on the project.
- A project can bill each person's rate multiplied by a figure you set, which suits firms that price work as a multiple of cost.
- Fixed-price projects can be invoiced in parts, and TimmieTime stops you invoicing more than the agreed price.
- Monthly fees and fee stages can be added to a project and appear on its invoices.
- Clients can be invoiced in their own currency, using an exchange rate you enter on the invoice.
Keeping projects within budget
Projects can have a budget in hours or in money. The insights report shows how much of each budget has been used and, at the pace of the last four weeks, roughly when it will run out. It also lists open projects that nobody has logged time on for two weeks, so stalled work is noticed.
Rates that change over time
Charge rates are dated from the first of a month, so a pay review or a new rate card applies from the right month. If a rate was missed, you can add it for a past month, and invoices that were already issued keep the figures they were issued with.
Leave, holidays and site days
Public holidays for your region are added for you, and leave sits inside each person's week, so expected hours drop on those days. Company events, such as a safety day or a year-end function, appear as a row in everyone's timesheet and people mark that they attended.
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