How to bill time by client or project rates
Every entry in TimeCache must have a billing category assigned to it. If an entry is for billing time, you have two choices. You can use different billing categories for different activities as explained in About billing category listings.

Or you can set TimeCache Preferences to use client or project/matter billing rates. This allows you to set a primary billing rate for each client or for each project.

This can expedite entering data when most of your time is spent on one activity. For example, somebody who works as a designer might use client rates to establish a standard Design rate for each client.

When you set TimeCache to use either client or project hourly billing rates, you still have the option of billing individual time entries at an "activity" billing rate. Of course you can also bill for expenses. Following the example of the designer, he/she could bill for production time or meeting time or any other types of activities, and all expenses, with different billing categories.

Setting rates
Once TimeCache Preferences are set for client or project billing rates, you need to make sure your client or project listings have billing rates set. TimeCache requires a billing rate when you create a new client or project rate (depending on your settings.) If you have already created client or project listings without assigning billing rates, you need to edit your listings or they will have a rate of 0.

You can edit client or project billing rates in the List Manager. Either edit client or project listings, as described in Editing listings, or edit only the rate in the rate text box near the bottom of the List Manager panel.


To change a billing rate directly in the List Manager, click Edit and enter a new rate in the text field. Click the Edit button again (now with a title of Save) to save the new rate.

Applying client or project rates
Once you have completed all the above steps, you can use client or project billing rates. Whenever you add an entry to the Daily Log, the name for the standard hourly rate you've entered in TimeCache Preferences appears in the Billing category column of the entry, and the rate you specified for that client or project is applied to the entry.

If you want to use a different billing rate for your time (and have created other time-based billing categories), or want to track an expense, you can enter any other billing category by clicking the arrow in the data entry popup window when it's in the Category column and choosing it from the list that appears. Or you can begin typing the name of the category and let TimeCache auto-complete the listing for you.