Law-firm billing depends on reviewed project time, and Everhour keeps Basecamp hours, rates, budgets, and reports ready for approval.
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Organize Basecamp work into a billing record a partner, bookkeeper, or client can read without extra explanation. The practical goal is to connect each time entry to the right project, to-do, person, billable status, and review period before it reaches an invoice.
For law firms, the record must separate billable client work from internal or administrative time. Discovery review, contract drafting, client calls, and filing tasks may belong on the client bill. Training, internal meetings, or corrected duplicate work may need to stay visible without increasing the amount owed.
Client billing works best when rate decisions happen before weekly or monthly review. A Basecamp project can represent the client work, while rates live in the billing layer as a project rate, member rate, or task-level override. That structure keeps partner, associate, paralegal, and special task pricing from becoming a spreadsheet argument at invoice time.
A defensible line item needs enough context to support the charge. Use the project name, to-do title, person, date, time spent, billing status, and a short note when the task name alone is too thin. A line such as `April 8, 2026, A. Rivera, Draft motion outline, 2.4 hours, billable` gives the reviewer a clear starting point.
Non-billable time should stay in the project record even when the client never sees it as an amount due. It explains why total effort differs from the billable subtotal, and it helps partners judge write-downs, scope drift, and staffing decisions after the invoice goes out.
The common mistake is deleting or hiding non-billable work to make the report look cleaner. That removes the evidence needed to reconcile reviewed time against actual effort. Mark specific to-dos non-billable when they should not be charged, and keep the hours available for internal reports.
A one-off billing worksheet is enough for a small client project with a few entries, one rate, and a short review cycle. It breaks down when several people work on the same client, rates differ by role, tasks move between billable and non-billable, or the firm needs a repeatable approval trail.
Everhour adds the managed layer for Basecamp work: embedded tracking through the browser extension, project budgets, billable project settings, task-level non-billable controls, custom task rates, approval-ready timesheets, and invoice-oriented reports. Reviewed hours can move toward billing without re-keying the same time into a separate tally.
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Separate billable legal tasks from internal coordination before review starts. A project can hold the client work, while to-dos should describe the chargeable activity clearly enough for billing review. Generic labels such as "client work" force the reviewer to reconstruct the record from memory.
Yes. Administrative time can remain attached to a client project when it is marked non-billable. That keeps the project history complete without adding the time to the client-facing amount. Removing it weakens later review of staffing effort, write-downs, and scope pressure.
Member rates fit projects where each person bills at a different hourly rate. A project rate fits work charged at one project-wide rate. Task-level rate overrides fit specific work that carries a separate price, such as a special review category or agreed drafting rate.
The easiest detail to miss is the reason behind the time entry. A to-do title can be enough for routine drafting or review, but a short note helps when the task name does not explain the client value, correction, or billing judgment behind the entry.
Budget limits give the firm a checkpoint before reviewed time exceeds the client's expectation or an agreed cap. The budget does not replace the invoice review. It tells the billing owner when the project needs a scope discussion, write-down decision, or approval before more time is charged.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks time or money budgets against Basecamp projects, with recurring periods, configurable email alerts, and budget protection rules. That helps a law firm monitor client spend before approved hours become billable invoice lines.
Everhour sets billing status at the project level, supports project rates, member rates, fixed fees, and custom task rates, and allows specific tasks inside billable projects to be marked non-billable. Reports can show billable time, non-billable time, billable amount, and cost.
Track Basecamp work with budgets, approval-ready time, billable status, and invoice-oriented reports. Everhour gives law firms a clearer path from reviewed hours to client billing.
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