Hourtick for accountants
Time tracking for accountants that survives tax season
Accounting work is billed in small, frequent slices: a reconciliation here, a client call there, a VAT return at 11pm in April. Hourtick keeps a timer in your Mac menu bar so every slice gets recorded, and turns it into client-ready reports without a spreadsheet.
- Free for your whole team, forever
- No credit card
- Every feature included
Budget burn per engagement
Set an hours budget on fixed-fee work and see burn next to the fee in reports.
Locked once invoiced
Invoiced time is locked on every device, so billed numbers never drift after the fact.
Decimal or H:MM
Show durations as 1.25 or 1:15 — whatever your billing system expects.
The real product
What accountants get, free
Timer, timesheet, tasks, chat and reports in one place, the same for the whole team. Free from the first hour.
The problem
- Dozens of short client tasks a day that never make it onto the timesheet
- Fixed-fee engagements where nobody knows if the fee still covers the hours
- Month-end chasing of colleagues for missing timesheets
How accountants set up Hourtick
- 1
Create a client and a project per engagement (for example “Bookkeeping 2026” or “Annual accounts”).
- 2
Use task types such as Bookkeeping, Payroll, Advisory and Admin — mark which ones are billable.
- 3
Start and switch timers from the menu bar as you move between clients.
- 4
At month end, submit your week; a partner approves it and marks billed time as invoiced.
Start tracking your team's time in a minute
Create a free workspace, invite your team with a link and start the timer.
- Free for your whole team, forever
- No credit card
- Every feature included
In practice
A six-person firm tracks bookkeeping, payroll and advisory across 80 clients. Partners filter the month by “billable, not invoiced”, bill from that list, and mark it invoiced in one click.
Included, free
- Mac menu bar timer
- Timesheet approvals
- Billable rates and budgets
- Reports and CSV export
- Invoiced locks
- Offline sync
Frequently asked questions
Can I track fixed-fee engagements?
Yes. Set the project to fixed fee with an hours budget; Hourtick shows hours used against the budget so you can see which engagements run over.
Does Hourtick create invoices?
Yes, through your own Stripe account: connect it in Settings and invoice a client's billable time in a few clicks, with 0 % Hourtick fee. Or keep invoicing from your accounting system and mark the time invoiced so it locks.
What does it cost for a firm?
Free for your whole firm with 500 MB of usage a month, or $29/month for 5 GB — never a per-seat bill when you hire.
Free tools for accountants
Billable hours calculator
Free billable hours calculator: paste time from Toggl, Harvest or Clockify, round to 6 or 15 minutes, apply rates and write-downs, see utilization.
Utilization rate calculator
Calculate billable utilization: billable hours ÷ available hours. Free calculator for teams and individuals, with benchmarks explained.
Other teams using Hourtick
Track your first hour in a minute.
Free for your whole team, forever. Every feature included.