More than one billing rate per project?

I agree this would be a nice feature. Perhaps if the 'Normal Billing Rate' could be set for each Task, rather than at the Project level, that would work for me.

Yes. I need to charge travel at 50% of the 'standard rate' but have to manually ammend the invoice

In my case, different types of work attract different rates - so "per task" in my case. However, I would be perfectly happy with just being able to overwrite the "normal billing rate" manually on individual timeslips - it's "good enough, fast".

I'd would be interested in this feature too - my wife and fellow Director provides freelance photography work to another photographer.

We've agreed a number of different rates: - day-time & night-time as well as a different rate for the role that she would have on the night (eg supervisor/photographer or seller (photos are printed and sold on the night)); a total of 6 rates in all!

As she would do one night here, one night there, I've set things up in FAC as one project (which is recreated annually), and 6 tasks, each corresponding to the role and whether it is a day-time or night-time event.

A billable rate per task would made the monthly invoicing that much quicker; but please, please make it default to the global project rate to cater for my other Contracts, which have a single rate irrespective of task!

Cheers
Olly

Hi,

I have finally got around to testing FAC (thanks for the extension) and I must say I am very impressed. I will defiantly be migrating from my current system at the end of the month!

However, during my testing I came across this tread and would like to add my own requests/thoughts here too.

I am just waiting to confirm the acceptance of a bit I put in for some work and if I get the project I will have a further 3 contractor working on the account with me. Unfortunately as per the other user here I will have the same problem with billing as all 4 project team members will be billed at a different rate.

To avoid me having to create different tasks for each contract as suggested above, I think a nice solution would be to add a rate against the people, you could either then add a check box to the task rate saying default from the user rate or specify by task or project.

Maybe a neater solution could also be to add people to the project itself as with my previous application, this then brought in there default rate from there personal file or you could override on a project basis.

In addition it would also be nice to be able to define if a task was billable or not, for instance I might want to track overtime against the project but not bill unless it becomes obvious that two much is being done.

One final point and along the same lines, in another post I notice a request to be able to group expenses on an invoice by category so that you would just get subtotals for each instead of pages of the stuff where you have multiple people submitting expenses for a project. Is this still being looked at and any idea (without committing to time scales) when we might see it?

Many thanks
Jason

Different rates for different tasks is handy but different default rates for different people would be more useful. We charge different rates based on experience and skills of person doing the work. They may do the same tasks as someone else but not to the same level so rates based on task could end up being more difficult to manage.

Perhaps a choice of whether default billing rates of individuals or tasks should override the other could be set in preferences.

Different rates for different tasks gets my vote. Also with options for 0 rated time and rate - for when we want to log free of charge time (cos we're nice) but still have a record in the timeslip

Just to reiterate and clarify (hopefully) my earlier posting. The ideal scenario for me would be:

1) default rates for each user (could you also add a user type of subcontractor)

which could be overridden by:

2) default rates for each project

which could be overridden by:

3) rates for each task

Many thanks in advance!

i would like to see a rate for each employee. This works out best when used with adding timetracking onto invoices.

Tom

This would be a big win for us, either per employee or per task.

I am new to FA and think its great. I would be great to have a way to keep track of time slips on jobs as I don't bill for my time in once I get involved in a design project as I have made my money on the product. However it may be a tool which may help me reevaluate the way I am doing my business, and tracking the time on jobs where the client is not billed would be great

Mee to I have the same problem and the same request...
either per employee or per task, it would be GREAT!

Please let me know your roadmap on this point because I'm looking for the right web application and...except for this point, everything would be great!
If it's a question of days...ok
PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
regards.
S.

I think the new functionality that has been implemented for % markup on expenses is the same functionality and would work with flexible billing rate.

Default is "bill at project rate" then if un-ticked you would get the % entry (ie. 50% for travel rate 125% for marked up rate [needs to be + or -] ) or manual type a rate in.

Bet the challenge is that you then have to retain this figure with the timeslip rather than the hours figure.

Keep up the great efforts - the results are fantastic.

hmmm...
this feature is very urgent!

@s.monzio I wouldn't hold your breath, this thread is now almost a year old!

UGH