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Rates, snoozing and writing off

How time finds its rate, fixing No rate, snoozing what you’ll bill later, and writing off what you won’t.

Written By Julia M.

Overview

In Finances › Client billing › Ready to invoice, every item needs a rate before it can be billed. Anything you are not ready to bill can wait, and anything you won’t bill can be written off with a reason.

Watch it: the Finances lesson in Campus, step 5, “Time and expenses”, chapter 2, “Rates and No rate” (starts at 0:34) and chapter 3, “Snooze and write off” (starts at 0:58).

How an item finds its rate

Workroom looks in this order: the project’s rate for that service, then the service’s own rate, then the person’s rate.

  • If there is no rate, the item says No rate in amber, with Set a rate.

  • Time with no service type says so, with Set a service type. Pick one and the rate fills in.

Two items in Ready to invoice: one with No rate, one with no service type
Set a rate for the item
Set a service type for the item

Snooze

Not ready to bill it? Tick it and click Snooze: thirty or sixty days, or a date, with a note. It comes back to Ready on its own.

Snooze an item for 30 days, with a note

Write off

Won’t bill it? Tick it and click Write off. Choose a reason, like Goodwill, Our error or Out of scope, and add a note if you like. The dialog shows what the project has written off so far.

Write off a time entry, with a reason and a note

Changed your mind?

In the Written off view, tick the item and click Undo write-off. To pull something back from a draft invoice, take it off the draft.

The Written off view, with each reason