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Ask HN: How do you track and generate line items when invoicing?

1 pointsby tomahonyover 10 years ago
This is probably a question best posed to freelancers; when you are working for clients, how do you track what will eventually become the line items in your invoice? Or maybe you don&#x27;t include a detailed breakdown of tasks completed in invoice? If you don&#x27;t, why not?<p>For example, as a web developer I was finding that when it came to invoicing a client (every 2&#x2F;4 weeks) I would have a big empty expensive invoice with no indication of what was done. I first tried to simply log manually the tasks that I finished and on what date but I invariably forgot to add them sometimes. I then started using my git commit log to get an overview of what I did in a days work for a client. I use these commit messages to create an invoice with each line item containing the relevant commit messages for each day.<p>Is this an issue for anyone else? If not, why not? If so, how do you deal with it?

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