Ask HN: What do you use for tracking time and invoicing clients?

6 points by mattew ↗ HN
I have a small software development consulting company. We have approximately 5 employees, and anywhere between 5-10 active clients at any one time. We need an easy to use system for tracking our hours and invoicing our clients. What do you suggest?

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We use Freshbooks for invoicing and Basecamp for time tracking, but I'm trying to get that to change.

I have a cofounder that is very insistent on his system, as he takes on a huge work load and has to maintain high efficiency to keep up. I see some inefficiencies in what he's doing (doesn't track hours with a clock, writes them down on a sticky note before copying them into Basecamp), but convincing him is going to be hard because he's very stubborn about his ways.

I also want to maintain visibility of what he's doing, along with the other staff, so I haven't found a good replacement yet. I'll watch this thread intently :)

I use FreshBooks with the mac dashboard widget and just turn it on and off as I do work so my time tracking is completely accurate.