Time tracking software for marketing agencies
For an agency owner, time tracking is not about surveillance, it is about knowing which clients are quietly costing you money. Verbial paces every hour against what the client is actually paying for and tells your account manager before the month goes underwater, so you can bill the overage, reset the scope, or staff it differently while it still matters.
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A timer tells you how long the work took. You need to know whether the client is paying for it.
- Hear about it at 85%, not at month end. Your account manager gets the warning while there is still time to talk to the client or bill the extra work.
- Timesheets you can bill from. Weekly approvals and reminders get the hours in on time, so invoicing is not a week of chasing.
- Your team sees hours. You see money. Nobody on delivery sees a rate or a cost. You and your leadership see both.
Add invoicing and approved hours become invoice lines for hourly clients and usage statements for retainer clients.
What it does
Timers, entries or weekly sheets
Start a timer, log an entry in plain language ("2h SEO audit for Acme yesterday"), or fill a weekly grid. Rounding and required notes are yours to set.
Retainer pacing by department
Each allocation is split by department. Every entry moves a bar.
Approvals and locks
Weekly or per-entry approval, auto-locking periods, audit trail.
Hours for the team, dollars for the leads
Members see hours. Account managers see money. Admins see cost.
Utilization and capacity
Weekly targets and department views show who is over capacity early.
Straight into billing
Approved time becomes invoice lines, usage statements and cost.
Which plans include time tracking?
| Plan | From | Time tracking |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | Included |
| Starter | $79/mo | Included |
| Growth | $249/mo | Included |
| Scale | $649/mo | Included |
Annual billing is about 17% lower. Configure your price.
Works with
- Invoicing: Add time tracking and hourly invoices pull from approved entries. Delete a line and the entries return to unbilled.
- Profitability: Add the CRM and each client's margin sits beside the deal that sold it. Renewal pricing starts from evidence.
- Harvest alternative for marketing agencies
- Replace HubSpot, Harvest and PandaDoc with one system
- Productive.io alternative for marketing agencies
- Utilization rate, defined
- Realization rate, defined
- Retainer burn rate, defined
- Unbilled work (WIP), defined
- Integrations
Questions
What is the best way to track time in a marketing agency?
Track time against a client project and a department, not only a task, so every hour can be paced against the client's monthly retainer allocation. Approve timesheets weekly, lock periods after 30 days, and let the same approved hours drive invoices and profitability instead of a spreadsheet export.
Can team members see billing rates?
No. Members and managers see hours only. Rates, revenue and margins are visible to account managers, directors and admins. Compensation is visible to admins only.
Does it import from Harvest, Toggl or Clockify?
Yes. The migration hub imports clients, projects, tasks and time entries from Harvest, Toggl Track, Clockify, Everhour and Productive.io, matching people to your team by email.
What happens when a retainer is used up?
The account manager gets a burn alert before it happens. If more work is needed, the client pre-pays an overage, the cap rises for that period only, and it resets at the next period.
Agency operating software
Start with time tracking. Add the rest when it earns its place.
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