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Time Tracking

Every billable hour,
accounted for.

Start a live HH:MM:SS timer attached to a client, project, and activity type. Stop when done, mark entries billable or non-billable, and convert your hours to a professional invoice in seconds.

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ACTIVE SESSION
Client
Johnson Family Research
02:34:17
■ Stop Timer
+ Manual
Today's total 4h 12m
This week 18h 45m
Billable value $1,781.25
How It Works

Stop guessing. Start billing every hour you earn.

Research is easy to lose track of. AncestorOS makes it effortless to capture every minute of billable work.

One-Tap Timer

Tap Start Timer, select the client, project, and activity type, and your time is being tracked with a live HH:MM:SS display. Seven built-in activity types — Research, Analysis & Correlation, Report Writing, Transcription, Archive/Travel, Client Meeting, and Administration — so your time reports show exactly where your hours go. A warning alerts you if you try to leave the page while a timer is running.

Manual Entry

Forgot to start the timer? Use the manual entry tab to add time after the fact — pick the date, start time, end time, client, project, activity type, and notes. Mark the entry billable or non-billable. Only billable hours flow into invoice calculations.

Export to Invoice

When you're ready to bill, convert your logged hours to invoice line items in one tap. Hours, descriptions, and rates are pre-filled and ready to send.

Recent Entries & Reports

Recent time entries are grouped by date so you can review your week at a glance — each entry shows the activity type, client and project, and hours in a clear, readable format. See your billable hours broken down by client and project to know exactly where your time goes.

Related Features

Invoicing

Convert tracked time into invoices and track what has been paid.

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Client Management

All time logs are attached to the client record.

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Research Tools

Document the work that drives your billable hours.

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FAQ

Common questions

You start a timer when you begin work and stop it when you finish. Before starting, you pick the client and project the time belongs to, choose an activity type, and mark whether the time is billable. Stopping the timer writes the entry to that project's time log. You can also pause and resume without losing the elapsed time.
Seven: Research, Analysis and Correlation, Report Writing, Transcription, Archive and Travel, Client Meeting, and Administration. The categories match how genealogical work is actually billed, so a client sees archive travel and report writing as separate lines rather than one undifferentiated block of hours.
Yes. Entries can be added manually with a date, duration, client, project, activity type and notes, exactly as though the timer had recorded them. Nothing distinguishes a manual entry from a timed one on the invoice.
Time entries marked billable can be pulled into an invoice as line items, carrying their description and duration across. You review and adjust them before sending, so nothing bills a client without you seeing it first.
No. Time tracking is part of the Pro plan at $40 per month or $400 per year, alongside client management, projects, invoicing and expenses. The Hobbyist plan at $15 per month covers personal family history research and does not include the practice tools.
NEVER LOSE A BILLABLE HOUR

Your time is money. Track it.

Time tracking and invoicing are included in the AncestorOS Pro plan at $40/month. Cancel anytime.

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