HoursEasy

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How HoursEasy works, written for whoever is holding it: the owner setting it up, the office sending hours, and the crew recording them.

New to HoursEasy? Watch the setup in under a minute.Your week, your roles, your first project and your first invitation.

Getting started

From signing up to your first pay run.

  • Start your free trial

    What the sign-up form asks for, what your thirty-day trial includes, and what happens if a card or an email goes wrong.

  • The three setup steps

    What each of the three screens after your first sign-in asks for, and why it matters.

  • How HoursEasy fits together

    Clients, projects, rates, roles and dockets — how the pieces connect, in one place.

  • Your first fortnight

    A checklist for the two weeks after you sign up, from finishing setup to your first pay period.

Setting up your business

Clients, projects, rates and the things your staff record against.

  • Set up your clients and projects

    Adding clients and projects, what each project field does, and how work with no client to invoice is handled.

  • A project's rate table

    Pricing role lines and item lines, copying rates between projects, and why an unpriced line blocks a send.

  • Roles and task types

    What a role and a task type each decide, and how the Kind of a task type decides whether hours are paid and whether they reach an invoice.

  • Items, and what about expenses

    Adding items, prompting staff for them on a task type, and where a genuine staff expense belongs instead.

  • Quantities the office assigns

    Recording a charge nobody on site can, such as equipment hire, against a project directly from the office.

  • Your business settings

    Letterhead, logo, timezone and pay period — what each affects and why two of them warn you before you change them.

  • Archiving, deleting and restoring

    How HoursEasy decides between delete and archive, and how an archived row behaves afterwards.

Your team

Inviting people, seats, and when somebody leaves.

  • Invite somebody to your team

    Sending an invitation, reading the Access column, resending a lost link, and every failed-invitation screen.

  • Seats and what you pay for

    What counts as a seat, what happens to your sign-in when you're archived, and how many people each plan allows.

  • When somebody leaves

    What archiving a person does, how to bring them back, and what happens if your plan is full.

  • Enter hours for somebody else

    Switching to another person's timesheet from the office, and what you can and cannot change once you are there.

For your staff

Short guides for the phone. Send this section to anyone new.

Dockets

Getting work signed for, and what happens after.

  • How dockets work

    The three ways a docket gets signed, why it carries no money, and why a signature never blocks an invoice.

  • Managing dockets

    Raising one from the office, sending it to be signed, statuses, downloading, resending a copy and withdrawing one.

  • Signed dockets that no longer match

    What it means when a signed docket and the work it froze disagree, and how to settle it.

Signing a docket

For a client’s representative who has been asked to sign.

Xero

Connecting Xero and sending hours and invoices to it.

  • Connect HoursEasy to Xero

    What connecting gives you, choosing the right organisation, and reading whether the connection is healthy.

  • Match your records to Xero

    Which of your clients, projects, staff, roles and items need a Xero record, how the auto-match works, and confirming before anything can be pushed.

Account and billing

Your trial, your plan and your card.

Troubleshooting

When something does not do what you expected.

  • Troubleshooting

    What "That did not work" means, a sign-in link that never arrived, hours in the wrong week, and a refused entry.