Freelance time tracking

Time tracking for freelancers: bugbear or benefit?

Time tracking is one of those necessary evils for freelance designers — it's a nuisance, but you have to track your time or you won't be able to bill your client accurately. If only there was some kind of automatic way to know how much time you've spent on a job. Well, actually, there is. Without your having to do anything about it yourself, time tracking software from GridIron will keep track of your freelance projects, no matter which office or creative professional applications you're using.

Time tracking for freelancers made easy with GridIron

Working with creative professionals, GridIron could see how much time designers were wasting looking through files, emails, and phone logs at billing time, trying to estimate the time spent on a project. Not to mention the time wasted in creatively filling out timesheets or generating slightly fictional invoices. Another typical time tracking scenario with freelancers is the "simple 5-minute tweak" requested by the client, which turns out to take half a day in Adobe Illustrator CS2 — but you don't have the figures to back that up and bill for it. With GridIron's creative workflow software, freelancers are saying goodbye to worry over time tracking and hello to Flow, the ground-breaking visual workflow suite.

Freelancers track time automatically with Gridiron Flow

For many freelancers, the time tracking feature of GridIron's workflow management software is a huge benefit. One of the best advantages of the feature is that you don't have to change the way you work mdash; Flow automatically clocks you in when you start work on a file, say, in Adobe InDesign, and clocks you out when you finish. The GridIron software lets you decide whether to track time on one file, a series of files, or an entire project, which is particularly useful for freelancers with multiple clients and projects — or you can just leave it up to Flow to track everything. With GridIron Flow, you can export time tracking reports that show you daily rollups or a detailed breakdown of specific work sessions. And because the time tracking feature is just part of GridIron's visual workflow suite, freelancers can see time tracking built right into workflow maps as an integral part of the project.

Read more about GridIron's unique time tracking software for freelancers here.