workelligence

Agencies

Stop giving away retainer hours.

See how much of every retainer is used, any day of the month, and bill the overage with the period.

A month at an agency like yours

Three ordinary weeks. Illustrative examples, not customer stories.

Example

The retainer that ran over

A social retainer covers 20 hours a month. The team logs 26, and nobody sees it until the invoice is due, so the client pays for 20.

With workelligence: the retainer's burn meter shows the hours used any day of the month, and when you bill the period, the 6 extra hours appear as overage next to the covered hours.

Example

The favour

“Could you just resize these banners?” Three hours later it is done, logged to the retainer and lost in it.

With workelligence: the period ledger shows every entry against the retainer before you bill, so you can decide what to raise with the client.

Example

Friday timesheets

Time is typed in from memory on Friday afternoon, and the short calls and quick edits are the first to go missing.

With workelligence: a timer runs while you work, and missing days are marked in each person's week.

Recurring invoicing

Retainers and monthly fees bill themselves.

Set the schedule once, weekly to yearly, with the billing day you choose. Every run creates the draft, or finalizes it for you where nothing changes from month to month.

  • Hours quota, burn meter and overage per period
  • Auto-finalize where nothing changes
  • One invoice per period, never two
Read the use case

Example from the app: the recurring invoices list with schedule, billing day and next run; a monthly retainer run creates and finalizes the October invoice.

Time tracking

Every billable hour, logged where it belongs.

A timer while you work, a week grid that marks the days without time, and last week copied in one click. Billable time collects on the project until you bill it.

  • Timer with pause and resume
  • Missing days marked, in the week and in My Work
  • Timesheets per person for the team
Read the use case

Example from the app: a week of logged time, day by day, with a running timer and the entries of the day.

Billing

Close the month in one run.

Bill a project or a retainer period from logged time, with the statement of hours attached. Quotes turn into invoices, invoices carry their e-invoice, and the DATEV batch goes to your tax adviser.

  • Standard, partial, advance and final invoices
  • XRechnung and ZUGFeRD on every finalized invoice
  • Supplier invoices read from the PDF, approved by a person
Read the use case

Example from the app: the invoice list, where a draft invoice for logged September time is sent.

What four hours a week are worth

Four recovered hours a week are about 17.3 hours a month. Enter your own rate to see what that means for your firm.

£2,167per month
£26,000per year

Arithmetic only, based on 52 weeks a year. Your own numbers will differ.

Your 30-minute discovery call

A genuine review of how your agency tracks time, runs retainers and bills clients today, and where it can improve.

No slides. No sales pitch. A genuine review.