
How to write a client time report that explains the work
A total tells the client how much time you spent. A useful report shows what moved forward, where the budget stands, and what needs a decision.
Turning tracked hours into an invoice, and the invoice into money.

A total tells the client how much time you spent. A useful report shows what moved forward, where the budget stands, and what needs a decision.

The gap between doing the work and having the money is mostly administrative, and mostly avoidable. What to put on the invoice, when to send it, and how to chase without damaging the relationship.

Approvals exist to protect the invoice, not to police the team. The difference shows up in what the approver is actually looking at.

Most time tracking advice assumes the problem is discipline. It usually is not — it is that the system asks for more precision than the work can supply.
Utilization, effective hourly rate and project margin, straight out of tracked time.
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