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title: "Keep billable work from slipping through the week."
url: "https://timeretain.com/use-cases/freelancers"
description: "A time tracker for freelancers. Keep client hours and work notes together, so you can review the calls and revisions behind your next invoice."
---

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# Keep billable work from slipping through the week.

Record client calls, project work, and quick revisions as they happen. When invoice day comes, you'll have the hours and notes to explain the work behind each charge.

![Clay figure of a freelancer writing at a table with a calculator, a stopwatch, and floating cards.](/_astro/freelancers.B3w3lec9_Zu4qhi.webp)

-   Lumen & Loom
    
    Running example duration: 3h 15m.
    
    Homepage copy, then art direction
    
    Design
    
    USD 120 Default rate
    
-   Lumen & Loom
    
    4h $480
    
    Revisions after the review call
    
    Tue 4 Mar
    
    1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    
    Revisions
    
-   Apex Labs
    
    6h
    
    API webhooks, plus the extra endpoint
    
    Thu 6 Mar
    
    10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    
    Development
    

-   See each client's hours
    
    Keep the calls, project work, and revisions for each client together. Review the total when you plan the next week or prepare an invoice.
    
-   See where the week went
    
    Compare hours across clients and spot work that took longer than expected. Use that record when you discuss the next project.
    
-   A record for invoice day
    
    Keep the hours beside notes that explain what you delivered, so a client question does not send you back through weeks of messages.
    

Quick client questions, revision rounds, and unplanned calls can be difficult to remember at the end of the month. Small blocks of work can disappear before you prepare the invoice.

Start with the client work you do today. Keep unpaid client work in that client's record, then leave it off the invoice so you can see the full effort behind what you bill.

## Start the next billable block on your device.

Keep short client requests in the same record as larger jobs without changing your invoice system.

-   No account
-   No email
-   No download
-   Stored on your device first

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