Billing Time While Working from Home

If your income relies on billing clients on an hourly basis, you probably need time tracking software to ensure your times are accurate, so you don’t unwittingly do any free work.   

Accurate accounting for your time is critically important to many professionals and home workers. You need to bill for relevant activities without missing anything, and no one wants to spend more time on this administrative trivia than necessary. This is a common problem that several software companies have tried to solve. 

When working from home, you still must think like someone with an office job. This means, as far as possible, structure your day like a regular workday. Be open to adjusting routines, but make sure your important administrative tasks and communication work gets done. How does that advice apply to billing time? 

Two things are possible if you are using time tracking software. First, this could be a new thing so you need to learn the software and adjust to using it every day. Second, if you are used to tracking and reporting your time manually, you can easily transfer this work to an app. Do you report your time late every afternoon? Keep doing it. When you complete a deliverable for a client, do you automatically jump over to a spreadsheet and record your hours?  

The best time tracking software will make it easy to either switch from an old system or get used to tracking your time, if this is a new activity. If you work from home with a team and have to consider the team’s billable hours, things to change. The whole team needs to get used to a new time reporting policy, and maybe a new piece of software as well.  

Time Miner offers easy tracking and reporting for smart phone users. More importantly, the Time Miner app integrates with a variety of business software to automatically track time spent on phone calls, for example.