FairHour
Know your hours before you write the invoice
If your client work lives on a Trello board, the hours can live there too. Press Start on the card you are doing, and on Friday the week is already added up.
Add to TrelloThe problem with Friday
Most freelancers do not lose money on their rate. They lose it on the hours they forgot: the half hour of feedback on Tuesday, the call that ran long. Rebuilding a week from memory always comes out short.
A timer only helps if it is where you already are. FairHour sits on the card itself, so starting it is one click on something you had open anyway.
One click, and a note for what you did
Start on the card. Write what you are doing while the timer runs: “Hero section layout”, “Second round of feedback”. Each session keeps its own note, start and end.
That list is what answers “what took six hours?” when a client asks.
Saved as you type. You can also add it after you stop.
- Hero section layoutToday, 09:00 – 09:4242m
- Review feedbackYesterday, 14:00 – 15:451h 45m
- Kickoff notesSat 7 Nov, 09:00 – 10:001h 00m
Totals per deliverable
Every card adds up all the time you have ever tracked on it, with the date of the last session. If one card is one deliverable, that is your number for the invoice line.
- Homepage Design5 sessions, last Sun 15 Nov6h 00m
- Onboarding copy1 session, last Fri 6 Nov5h 10m
- Unit tests1 session, last Sun 15 Nov1h 08m
What FairHour does not do
- It does not make invoices or store hourly rates.
- It does not export yet. You read the totals on screen.
- The weekly timesheet covers this week and last week; card totals cover all time.
If you need invoicing inside the same tool, a full tracker such as the ones on our comparison pages is the better fit.
Freelancers ask
- Can FairHour make an invoice?
- No. FairHour tracks the time and adds it up. You read the totals from the timesheet and put them in the invoicing tool you already use.
- Can I show my hours to a client?
- Yes, if the client is on the board. Board admins see the team view and the timesheet; everyone else sees only their own time. For a client who is not in Trello, the timesheet on screen is what you copy from.
- Does my client see a timer running?
- Only board admins see who is tracking right now. A client who is a normal member or an observer does not.
- What if I work on two cards at once?
- There is one timer per person. Starting on the second card stops the first and saves it, so the same minutes are never counted twice.