Unexplained hours
Track time against the client, project, job, and service so the final time summary has useful context.
Invoicing for software developers
Turn development work into clear, client-ready invoices
Quote fixed-price or time-and-expense work, track your hours and expenses, and issue an array of unique invoices to your clients.
- No credit card
- Perfect for solo users and small teams
Connected billing flow
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Essentials plan
Affordable developer invoicing from $5 per month
Billable Hub is invoicing and time-tracking software for independent software developers and small development teams. Essentials costs $5 per month or $45 per year and includes two seats, 10 active clients, 25 active projects, time tracking, estimates, invoices, and secure client access.
Start with a 90-day trial—no credit card required.
See full pricing and welcome savingsWelcome Savings reduces your initial paid price even further.
Built for developers
- Independent developers
- Full-stack consultants
- Front-end and back-end specialists
- Mobile developers
- Automation and testing consultants
- Small development consultancies
- AI Strategists
Less billing archaeology
The invoice should not require a second development project
When scope, time, expenses, and approvals live in different places, billing turns into reconstruction. Billable Hub keeps the commercial record connected while you keep delivery in the tools your team already uses.
Scope and billing drift
Start with an estimate, preserve revisions and client responses, and carry accepted work forward into the billing flow.
Last-minute additions
Keep reimbursable expenses and extra charges with the work instead of recovering them from messages at month end.
Estimate to payment
One path from proposed scope to payment follow-up
Use a connected billing record around the development lifecycle without trying to replace your repository, issue tracker, or deployment stack.
- 01
Estimate
Define fixed-price deliverables, hourly services, tax, discounts, or a deposit before work begins.
- 02
Approve
Let the client accept, decline, ask questions, or request a revision through a focused document view.
- 03
Track
Record time, expenses, and additional work against the correct project or accepted job.
- 04
Invoice
Build a detailed invoice from time entries, expenses, services, custom line items, or completed jobs.
- 05
Follow up
See delivery, views, balance changes, reminders, and payment activity in the invoice history.
Practical capabilities
Billing tools that fit development consulting
Give clients enough detail to understand the bill while keeping the workflow practical for a solo developer or a small delivery team.
Project-aware time tracking
Use live timers or manual entries, resume recent work, and connect time to a client, project, job, and service.
Fixed-price estimates
Present scope and pricing before work begins, manage revisions, and optionally request a deposit on acceptance.
Detailed client invoices
Combine billable time, services, expenses, and custom line items into a clear document with notes and payment terms.
Expenses and extra charges
Record vendors, categories, receipts, and invoice impact so pass-through costs stay connected to the engagement.
Client and team approvals
Collect client estimate decisions and, when your plan includes it, route sensitive invoices or estimates through internal approval.
Payment follow-up
Track delivery and views, use reminders and late-fee policies, and preserve a history of balance and payment changes.
Feature availability varies by plan and add-on. Compare plans .
Flexible billing models
Hourly, fixed-price, or time and expense
Development engagements rarely use one billing model forever. Billable Hub supports the common ways independent developers structure client work.
Hourly
Capture billable time throughout the work and use the resulting entries when it is time to invoice.
Fixed price
Quote a defined scope, record the client decision, and create a job or invoice from the accepted estimate.
Time and expense
Bring labor, reimbursable costs, services, and approved additions together on the final bill.
Client-ready detail
Useful context without turning invoices into release notes
Use project and job names, service labels, line-item descriptions, client notes, and document footers to give the client the right level of detail. Ticket numbers, statement-of-work references, milestones, or release context can stay in the descriptions and notes that travel with the billing document.
- Separate rates by service or project
- Filter time and reporting by client, project, or user
- Create deposit or final invoices from accepted estimates
- Export invoices and estimates as PDF, CSV ZIP, or JSON ZIP
Clear product boundary
A billing workspace—not another engineering platform
Billable Hub is designed to connect the commercial side of client development. Keep code, tickets, sprint planning, and technical documentation in the tools made for them.
Where Billable Hub fits
- Estimates and client acceptance
- Billable time and project expenses
- Detailed invoices
- Reminders, approvals, and billing records
Keep your specialist tools
- Source control or code review
- Issue and sprint management
- Deployment or incident management
- A full bookkeeping or payroll system
Questions and answers
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about how Billable Hub fits this billing workflow.
Can I invoice both hourly and fixed-price development work?
Yes. You can invoice from tracked time and services, create custom line items, or convert an accepted fixed-price estimate into a job or invoice. That makes it possible to use different billing models across clients and projects.
Can time entries stay attached to a specific client project?
Yes. Time entries can be connected to a client, project, job, and service. Billable Hub also provides recent-work shortcuts and reporting filters so the billing record stays organized as projects multiply.
How can I include ticket or statement-of-work references?
Use project and job names, line-item descriptions, document notes, or footers to carry the reference a client expects. Billable Hub keeps that commercial context on the billing document without trying to become your issue tracker.
Can a client approve an estimate before development begins?
Yes. Clients can accept, decline, ask questions, or request revisions from a focused estimate view. Accepted estimates can create a job, create a deposit invoice, or be converted into a final invoice, depending on the workflow you choose.
Does Billable Hub handle reimbursable development expenses?
Expense tracking can capture a vendor, category, receipt, currency, and invoice impact. Expenses can then be included when you prepare the client invoice.
Does Billable Hub replace my accounting or project-management software?
No. Billable Hub focuses on estimates, billable work, expenses, invoices, client access, receivables, and billing records. It does not currently sync bank transactions or replace an engineering project-management system.
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Pricing at a glance Compare all three plans Welcome Savings prices with regular prices shown for comparison.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials Core time tracking and invoicing for solo operators and small teams. | $2.5/mo | $22.5/yr |
| Growth Advanced invoicing, expenses, automation, and expanded capacity. | $7.5/mo | $67.5/yr |
| Professional Top-tier controls, customization, reporting, and team capacity. | $25/mo | $225/yr |
Every plan starts with a 90-day trial. Annual billing includes three free months.
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Spend less time reconstructing the bill
Start with the next estimate, keep the billable work connected, and send a clearer invoice when the project is ready.
No credit card required. Feature availability varies by plan.