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Manage billing with service hourly rates for tasks
Manage billing with service hourly rates for tasks

Manage billing for projects that include multiple services with different hourly rates.

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The Service Hourly Rate (Tasks) setting allows you to manage billing for projects that include multiple services with different hourly rates. This feature links tasks to specific services and automatically applies the service's hourly rate to any time entries recorded under those tasks.

How it works

First, navigate to Projects, select your project, and navigate to the project "Settings" page. Here you can review the Billable Rate "service hourly rate (Tasks)":

When selected, here’s the impact on the project time entries’ default billable rates:

  1. Create a service with “Per Hour” type:

  2. Assign this service to a task:

  3. Result: Any new time entry associated to the task takes the rate of the associated service as as default billable rate value:

Supported billing types

This option is available for the following project billing types:

  • Time & Materials

  • Fixed Fee

  • Retainer

What happens to time entries in which scenario?

Action

Effect on existing time entries

Effect on new time entries

Associating a service to a task

No change to existing time entries

New time entries use the service’s hourly rate

Changing the service on a task

No change to existing time entries

New time entries use the updated service’s hourly rate

Removing a service from a task

No change to existing time entries

No hourly rate will be applied for new time entries

Updating the service’s hourly rate

No change to existing time entries

New time entries use the updated service’s hourly rate

Changing the project’s billable rate to Service-based

You can apply the service rate to all past entries using the Update Billable Rate modal

New time entries use the service’s hourly rate

Changing the project’s billable rate from Service-based

You can apply the service rate to all past entries using the Update Billable Rate modal

Future entries will use the new project rate setting

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