Get Your Nights Back
You're the practitioner, the biller, the bookkeeper, and the salesperson. Track Billed Time handles the back office so you can focus on the work you actually bill for.
$10/month for a single user. Card required — no charge if you cancel within 30 days.
What "solo" actually means here
A solo isn't just a freelancer with a laptop — you're a one-person business running every function: intake, scoping, time capture, invoicing, deposits, collections, marketing, and the actual billable work. The inflection points are real: the first month you bill more than you can invoice in a weekend, the first time a client deposit gets lost in your inbox, the first time you realize you've been undercharging because you forgot to track an entire engagement.
Track Billed Time is built around the assumption that the person doing the work is also the person sending the invoice — so capture has to be fast, invoicing has to be one click, and retainers have to be automatic. No "ask your admin to configure that." No "upgrade to enterprise for reporting." Just the back office, handled.
Why generic tools waste solo hours
Most solos start with the same stack: a freelancer time tracker, QuickBooks, a Word invoice template, a spreadsheet for retainer balances, and a contacts app. Each tool is fine in isolation. The problem is the seams between them — and as a solo, you are the seam.
Time capture leaks. If your timer lives in one tab and your client list in another, you'll forget to start it, mislabel entries, and reconstruct hours from memory at month-end. Research across professional services puts the leakage at 10–30% of billable time. A timer that knows your client list and follows you across pages captures hours you'd otherwise write off.
Invoicing eats nights. Generic tools generate an invoice per project. Most service businesses bill per engagement per client, often with multiple engagements on one invoice, a courtesy discount on one line only, and a retainer draw applied last. Doing that in Word takes hours per month. Doing it from tracked time takes one click.
Retainers belong with billing. Holding client funds in a generic spreadsheet — without per-client ledgers, low-balance alerts, or a clear audit trail — is how solos lose money to mistakes or chargebacks. Retainers belong in the same system as your time and billing, not in a separate file you update when you remember.
Reporting doesn't exist. You can't tell whether you're collecting what you bill, what your realization rate is, or which client types are most profitable — because nobody built that report for a one-person business. You need a dashboard designed for a solo, not a stripped-down version of enterprise software.
Dig deeper in our overviews of time tracking & billing and solo pricing.
Your Pain Points, Solved
"Spending nights on invoicing instead of doing the work"
→ One-click invoice generation from tracked time — across every client and project
"Tracking hours on sticky notes and spreadsheets"
→ A built-in timer that follows you across pages, plus manual and batch entry
"No idea if you're collecting what you earn"
→ Real-time realization tracking and a collections dashboard
"Client deposits tracked in a separate spreadsheet"
→ Retainer ledgers per client with deposits, withdrawals, and balance alerts
"Worried about scope creep and write-offs"
→ Live realization and budget-vs-actual visibility on every engagement
"Notes about clients live in scattered emails"
→ A simple knowledge surface per client to keep context where the work happens
See It in Action
Client: Acme Corp
Matter: Contract Review
Monthly Billings & Collections
- Billed
- Collected
Everything a Solo Needs — Nothing You Don't
- Persistent timer that follows you across every page
- Manual time entry and batch import for catching up
- Clients and projects with rate overrides
- Professional multi-project invoicing with one click
- Retainer tracking — deposits, withdrawals, and balance alerts
- Owner's dashboard with realization and collection metrics
- Lightweight client knowledge surface for context
- Data export — your data is always yours
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Frequently asked questions
Who counts as a 'solo' for this software?
Anyone billing their own time by the hour and running their own business — independent consultants, freelance designers, solo accountants and bookkeepers, coaches, therapists, contractors, virtual assistants, and solo attorneys. If you're the one doing the work and sending the invoice, Track Billed Time is built for you.
Why do generic time trackers waste solo hours?
Generic tools were built for either freelancers logging hours into a single project, or 100-person companies with a billing department. Neither matches a solo who juggles multiple clients, multiple engagements per client, and retainer balances. You end up stitching a timer, a spreadsheet, a Word invoice template, and a payments inbox together — and spending nights doing it.
How long does setup take?
Most solos are live within an afternoon. Import your existing clients and projects, set your default hourly rate, optionally enable retainers, and start the timer. White-glove migration from QuickBooks, Toggl, Harvest, or spreadsheets is included.
Does it handle retainers and client deposits?
Yes. Every deposit, withdrawal, and transfer is tracked against the client and engagement it belongs to, with low-balance alerts and a digital ledger. Hold deposits cleanly so you never bill against funds that aren't there.
How much does it cost for a solo?
$10/month for a single user — flat. No setup fees, no per-project charges, no separate billing module. Cancel anytime.
More questions? See our full FAQ or compare pricing tiers.