For architecture practices

Time tracking for architecture practices

An architecture practice usually sells a fee by stage and still needs to know what each stage costs. ReliTime bills fixed-fee stages, records every hour inside them, and shows the margin on the job.

Fee stages billed as a percentage

Sell a job or a single stage for a fixed fee and bill it in stages, each a percentage of the fee, marked ready by a person when the work is done. A fee billed in full is exactly the fee.

A GST tax invoice with fee stage lines, the tax, and the total.

Every hour inside the fee, still recorded

Hours booked to work a fixed fee covers are never billed by the hour, and they still count towards the job’s budget, so a stage running over its time is visible before it is invoiced.

A job’s budget panel: hours quoted, booked and remaining for each stage.

Leave and the week in one place

Leave is requested, approved and balanced in the same application as the timesheet, with each person’s own working days.

The leave screen: balances by type and a calendar showing who is away this month.

Questions people ask

Do hours inside a fixed fee appear on the invoice?

No. A fixed fee is billed through its stages only. The hours are kept for the budget and the margin, not charged again.

Can a fee stage be billed twice by mistake?

No. Each stage is billed once, and the stages of one fee cannot add up to more than the whole fee.

What happens to old invoices when a rate changes?

Nothing. A new rate starts on a date and never overwrites the old one, so re-running an earlier invoice prices it at the rate in force when the work was done.

Can different jobs carry different SAC codes?

Yes. Each job carries its own SAC code, and the invoice prints it on every line for that job. A job with none falls back to the organisation’s default, visibly, rather than inheriting one silently.

Where to go next

Every feature

Timesheets, approvals, rates, budgets, invoicing, leave and scheduling, one at a time.

See the features

GST invoicing

Tax invoices raised from approved hours, with CGST and SGST or IGST worked out for you.

See GST invoicing

Free templates

A timesheet, a job budget tracker, a GST invoice, a leave planner and an expense claim, free.

See the templates

See it on your own kind of work

We set ReliTime up with a walkthrough rather than a sign-up form. We will take you through a working organisation, from a week of timesheets through approvals and work in progress to a GST invoice, answer your questions as we go, and set up yours.

Or write to hello@relitime.com.