Add "Rate per hour" option alongside "Rate per month" in client timer settings
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Sarah Warren
Under Timers → Settings → Clients, each client currently only supports a Rate per month field. This works for fixed-fee engagements, but many of our clients are billed hourly, and there's no way to capture that in the client's timer settings today.
Requested:
Add a Rate per hour column alongside Rate per month.
Allow each client to be configured as either flat-fee (monthly rate) or hourly (hourly rate) — or both, if a client has mixed engagements.
Have effective-rate / realization / profitability reporting use the hourly rate when set, so timer entries on hourly clients report against the correct rate.
Use case: We have a mix of monthly-retainer and hourly clients. Right now hourly clients show a "-" for rate and are effectively excluded from rate-based reporting, which distorts profitability analysis across the practice.
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Amber Baker
This would be a great feature for out of scope work on a fixed fee client. If we could have decide whether each workstream is flat or hourly we could have better reporting.