How do consultants track time for multiple clients?

Set up one project per client, give each its own hourly rate, and log time against the right project as you work. Clocktower then totals hours and billable amounts per client, ready to export.

Can I charge different rates for different clients?

Yes. Each project in Clocktower carries its own hourly rate, so a billable total adds up correctly even when your clients are billed at different rates.

How do I turn tracked time into an invoice?

Filter your hours by client and date range, then export a timesheet. The numbers you need for an invoice are ready in seconds, with hours and amounts already totalled.

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Time tracking for consultants

When you sell your hours, the hours you forget to write down are revenue you never see. Here is how to capture all of them without it becoming a second job.

Consulting income is time turned into money. That makes time tracking less of an admin chore and more of the thing that decides whether a month was profitable. Yet most consultants track loosely: a note here, a guess there, a frantic reconstruction the night before invoices go out. Every one of those gaps is unbilled work.

The fix is not a heavier tool with more fields to fill in. It is a habit light enough that you keep it, paired with rates and exports that do the arithmetic for you.

The real cost of fuzzy tracking

When you rebuild a week from memory, you round down. A call that ran long becomes "an hour." The twenty minutes spent reviewing a contract disappears entirely. None of it feels dishonest, but across a year it adds up to a meaningful slice of your income quietly given away.

Tracking as you go removes the guesswork. You bill what you actually worked, and you can defend every line if a client ever asks.

What a consultant actually needs

Fast capture. If logging takes effort, you will not do it on a busy day, which is exactly the day with the most billable time.
Per-client rates. Different clients, different rates. The total should account for that without a spreadsheet.
A clean export. At invoice time you want hours and amounts grouped by client, ready to drop into an invoice.
Privacy. Client work is sensitive. Your records should not sit in a third-party account you do not control.

How Clocktower fits a consulting practice

In Clocktower, each project is a client. You swipe to drop a block of time onto your day and tap the client it belongs to. Each client carries its own rate, so a billable total builds as you log. Reports break the work down by client and by week, and you can filter by client and date range to export exactly the timesheet an invoice needs.

Clocktower reports screen breaking tracked time down by client and by week, with billable amounts shown.

Reports group your hours and earnings by client, so invoicing is a read-off, not a reconstruction.

Daily reminders keep the habit honest: a gentle nudge to log before the day closes, so your timesheet is never a guess at the end of the week.

A simple weekly rhythm

Daily: log blocks as you finish them, or clear the day in a minute when the reminder lands.
Weekly: glance at the week to catch anything missed while it is still fresh.
At invoice time: filter by client and period, export, and bill the real number.

Clocktower is a visual time tracker for people who bill by the hour. Log your day in a swipe, keep per-client rates straight, and turn the week into a clean, billable timesheet.