Consulting teams run client work in Asana, while Everhour turns tracked hours and project costs into billing-ready records.
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Consulting firms need more than a total number of hours at the end of the week. You need time tied to the client, project, Asana task, consultant, date, and work description. That structure lets a manager review whether the entry belongs on the invoice, the internal cost report, or a non-billable project review.
Use the same project structure your team already follows in Asana. A consultant logs time against the task they worked on, adds a clear description, and marks the work according to the billing rules for that client engagement. The result is a time record that explains the work without requiring a separate status meeting.
Consulting firms lose margin clarity when every hour sits in one bucket. Client strategy calls, delivery work, proposal writing, internal training, and rework need distinct treatment because they answer different questions. The billing team needs billable time. The operations lead needs utilization. The partner needs to know which engagements consumed unpaid effort.
A clean setup uses project, task, person, and billable status as separate fields instead of burying decisions in notes. For example, a task named `Client onboarding workshop` can hold billable delivery time, while `Internal account planning` stays non-billable. That distinction keeps invoices cleaner and makes profitability reports easier to trust.
A consulting time workflow starts with daily entries and ends with weekly review. Consultants add timer-based or manual time entries to Asana tasks, managers check descriptions and billable status, and approvers close the period once corrections are complete. The review should happen before invoices, payroll review, and client reporting use the data.
The strongest workflow defines who can edit time, when late entries close, and which descriptions are specific enough for client review. A useful entry says `Prepared stakeholder interview summary for phase 2 discovery`, not `admin` or `client work`. Short, specific notes reduce invoice disputes and make project retrospectives more useful.
A one-off time tool is enough when one consultant needs a quick record for one project or one week. It stops being enough when multiple consultants share the same client budget, expenses need receipts, managers approve time, and accounting expects consistent billable totals. Consulting firms need a durable workflow once time affects revenue, utilization, and reimbursement.
Everhour fits that managed workflow by keeping time, budgets, expenses, approvals, reports, and invoices connected to Asana work. Teams can keep tasks and statuses in Asana while Everhour handles the billing and cost layer around the work, including the records finance needs after delivery ends.
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Consulting firms should track the client project, task, consultant, date, time spent, billable status, and a short work description. Rates, expenses, approval status, and budget context should sit in the connected time and cost workflow. That structure gives managers enough detail to review the work before billing or profitability reporting.
Consultants should log time daily when the work affects billing, utilization, or client reporting. Daily entries preserve task context and reduce vague descriptions. Weekly entry works only when the consultant still has reliable notes for each task, date, and client. A weekly total without task-level detail creates billing review problems.
Consulting firms should keep non-billable time visible instead of deleting it from reports. Internal planning, training, sales support, and client rework all affect capacity and margin. The key decision is whether the hour belongs on the invoice, in an internal cost report, or in a utilization review.
The most common mistake is mixing billable delivery work, internal work, and reimbursable costs without separate fields. A note such as `client work` does not explain the deliverable, and a blended total does not tell finance what to invoice. Separate task context, billable status, descriptions, and expenses before approval.
Expenses change the workflow because time records alone do not show the full cost of delivery. Travel, materials, mileage, or pass-through vendor costs need receipts, categories, billable status, and budget treatment. Consulting firms should review those expenses with time entries before sending the client invoice.
Everhour Expenses tracks project costs with receipt images or PDFs, unit-based categories, budget inclusion controls, invoice integration, and expense reports. A consulting team can keep delivery tasks in Asana while Everhour keeps reimbursable and billable costs organized for profitability and client billing review.
Everhour adds time tracking controls inside Asana tasks and projects, then syncs project names, task titles, custom fields, and tags into reporting. Consultants track hours where the task lives, and managers review time by the same client and project structure the team uses for delivery.
Track client hours, expenses, approvals, and invoice-ready costs from Asana projects with Everhour, so consulting firms protect margins and keep reimbursement records organized.
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