Currently, I use On The Job, which works really well at invoicing and time tracking. What I do is I PDF the invoice and email it to clients, and have them pay me via Square Cash. As long as I don't do more than 2500$ of work for any particular client in a given week, they can easily use that.<p>It costs them nothing and it costs me nothing to do this, and there is no percentages taken. Also, we both understand when payment is due, and normally the client pays on the due date. If they don't pay on the due date no amount of pretty software is going to make them more likely to, for obvious reasons. How do you plan to get me to give away 3.9% of my income to use a more integrated service?
This looks like a fine product and kudos to its creators, but I hate that products like this encourage bad practices for freelancers/consultants. Basically, if you're charging in way that requires software to track how much clients owe you, you're doing it wrong. Take the advice of tptacek and patio11 and charge by the day or the week, not the hour.
Is it normal in the US to pay supplier invoices through credit card payments? Nobody would pay 3,9% on amounts of more than a few hundred dollars right? A normal project invoice for say a web studio would usually be well over 10k which means you're regularly paying more than $400 to get a single invoice processed? Am i missing something or do people actually do this? Not trying to be snarky, truly curious.
Looks very nice. I've been using timelyapp.com and this seems to cover my use-case similarly but free - yay!<p>A couple points of feedback:<p>- As a person who lives anywhere but the US, the date format is all wrong and will constantly be a source of annoyance. The datepicker helps, but the csv outputs dates like 07/08/14... I have no idea what date that is. How about ISO standards? 2014/07/08 is completely unambiguous to everyone.<p>- I often do a whole day of work. Say like 4+ hours for a single client. I write a lot of notes during that time for my own reference. So I really need to be able to: type notes while the timer is going, and also for the notes to respect my line breaks (otherwise it just comes out jibberish if I try to write bullet points/etc).<p>- I guess I will use the submitted->approved flow for pending->billed. Not sure if this is something you intend... I 'approve' my own hours, but I would like to be able to mark hours as having been billed so I don't accidentally do it twice :)<p>- The little bubble next to my entries says 'RF', I assume that's a place for an avatar. Am I blind and missing how to set one?<p>But yea overall it looks great!
We’re taking a slightly different approach to invoicing for billable hours. From talking with freelancers, independent contractors, agencies, and other professional services companies, we found that there’s a significant delay between when work is done and when the invoice actually goes out. Then, there’s even more delay between when that invoice goes out and when it gets paid.<p>We’re trying to reduce both of those delays as much as possible.<p>By sending a notification once hours have been approved, we remove the delay between when the work is done and when someone “runs invoicing.”<p>By making the notification personable and easily viewed on mobile devices, we increase the speed with which the customers pay.<p>That’s the general concept! I’d love to hear any feedback and comments the HN community has!
The design looks top notch and beyond that, it looks like you've really identified a specific part of the time tracking/invoicing workflow that has not yet been solved well and you have come up with a solution that completely nails that pain point.<p>Great work guys! : )
I also run a time tracking service (<a href="http://www.spiketime.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.spiketime.net</a> <- sorry, I had to ;-)) and just tried Tiempo.<p>I really like the idea of instant invoices and the approval process (just the fee is a little bit high, I think).<p>Some random thoughts:
- What's the difference between an employee and contractor - is it just the label or do they have different rights in your app?<p>- When you start the mobile app for the first time without using the website before you don't know the meaning of the icons for draft, submitted and approved (I thought the icon for approved was the save-button).<p>- When using the timer I can't select a customer/service when the timer runs as you do this when you click stop timer. Also it isn't possible to make any notes on a running timer
I currently use Harvest for time tracking, creating invoices and sending it out. It would be nice to see a list of features and costs without signing up. It looks like time tracking, approval is free to use. Connecting to Quickbooks costs 10$/month. To create and send invoices you have to choose to receive payments through Tiempo, which will cost 3.9% of the invoice amount. Customers get an option to pay by credit card.<p>I can see this simplifies the process for a lot of people. Being able to send invoices without using the payment service is personally a deal breaker as it would be way higher than the 19$ I currently pay.
I'm really excited to see Tiempo make waves. Time tracking has been a major pain that hasn't been adequately solved for a long time, so it's good to see some innovation here.<p>Any thoughts on integrating with other accounting software in the future, like Xero?
I read that page top to bottom, and was not motivated to switch from my current provider (Freshbooks), with which I am quite satisfied. I consider slowness of payment due to my clients, not my time tracking / invoicing tool.
I like <a href="https://wakatime.com" rel="nofollow">https://wakatime.com</a> because it does the time tracking for me automatically so I don't have to use a timer app.