Hourglass connects logged time, billing rates and project budgets — giving you true margin visibility per project, per client and across the business, without rebuilding a spreadsheet every month.
Start for freeMost agencies know what they invoiced. Very few know what they actually made after delivery costs. Without connecting time to billing rates, profit per project is always an estimate — and estimates are usually optimistic.
Map actual hours logged to billing rates and compare against project revenue. Understand true margin per project automatically.
See how closely actual delivery matched the estimate. Surface projects consistently over or under-delivering on scope.
Set per-engineer and per-role billing rates. Hourglass uses these to calculate cost and revenue across every report.
Track how fast each project is consuming its budget. Spot acceleration in spend before it exceeds the agreed scope.
Generate billing-ready summaries by client and project. Export to CSV or PDF without manually aggregating time data.
A top-level view of total hours, billable percentage, revenue and margin across all projects — ready for leadership review.
How do consulting firms track project profitability?
By connecting time logged to billing rates and comparing the result against project budgets and agreed fees. Hourglass does this automatically — every logged hour updates the profitability calculation in real time.
Why is it hard to understand profitability in professional services?
Because the data lives in different places: timesheets in one system, billing in another, rates in a spreadsheet. Hourglass brings all three together, so profitability is always one click away.
What billing rates does Hourglass support?
Hourglass supports per-engineer billing rates set at the organisation level. Rates are applied automatically when generating profitability and client billing reports.
Can I export profitability data for invoicing?
Yes. The Client Billing report can be exported to CSV or printed to PDF. It shows all logged time by project and engineer, ready for invoice generation.
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