Using Time Tracker for Billable Hours as a Drafter

[SetashaBybee]

I am wanting to use Time Tracker to provide detail for my billable hours as a drafter and am wondering how others use it. Namely, if I bill in increments of 15 minutes, is it common to add up all time within a day that I've spent on a particular project and then round that total to the next 15 minute increment? Or is it best to only bill any chunk of time that's more than 15 minutes? My problem is that I'll jump into a project for maybe 11 or 12 minutes and then come back later in the day for another 10 minutes, so if I don't count either of those then I'm not being paid for a 30 minute chunk of time that I was working. Thanks in advance for your feedback.

[para-CAD]

For hourly work, I export project time and open it in a spreadsheet.  I find the total time and bill for that exact time. 
 

Hourly clients know upfront that they pay for my time….nothing rounded up in my favor or down in theirs. 
 

When I’m dealing with last nigh’ts spicy dinner, they will see some 10 minute work spurts in the spreadsheet on the following day. 
 

I often find that working hourly increases my personal stress level if I cannot maintain focus on what I’m doing. Dogs might want to come visit me or my family is doing something unintentional that is distracting. I normally only do hourly if I know there’s going to be lots of changes as the project progresses because it’s impossible to flat rate bid that.

 

I also use a separate timer, there are all kinds of free versions out there that are pretty good. My wife uses Clockify, and I use something that is mac specific. 
 

Most time tracking apps create a nice report and consolidate everything. It’s nice being able to track my time while I’m doing research on the county GIS page separately from only tracking work in chief architect from the chief architect time tracker.