Start your free trial

Signing up takes about two minutes and does more than open an account: it creates a working business, with a starting set of task types and a role to build from, and a thirty-day trial that charges nothing today. Here is what the form asks for, what is waiting for you afterwards, and what to expect if a card or an email goes wrong.

The sign-up form

We ask for a card before the trial starts rather than after, because an auto-converting trial has to be disclosed up front — this is also the only point at which the card is checked to be a working one.

The trial

Nothing is charged today. Thirty days from now the card is charged the plan's price — Crew $45 a month ($450 a year), Team $79 a month ($790 a year), Site $139 a month ($1390 a year), Fleet $249 a month ($2490 a year), plus GST. If yours is one of the first 20 businesses to connect a real Xero organisation, it is half that, for life, applied to your subscription automatically within a day of connecting. Cancel any time before the trial ends, from the Billing screen, and you are not charged at all.

What is waiting when you sign in

A welcome email arrives within a minute with a button, Sign in and finish setting up. There is no password — the link signs you in.

Your business already has three task types (Site work, Travel and Lunch) and one role, Field worker, so there is something to record hours against from day one. Lunch starts as Unpaid, so a lunch break stays out of pay. Leave is not a task type: it is requested separately, as a leave request. The three setup steps covers renaming and adding to these, pricing your first project, and inviting your staff — the same steps the welcome email's link opens.

Starting free

You can also start on the free plan: up to two people recording hours, Xero included, no card. Follow the link in the email and you land on Set up your company. Give it a Company name and say Where your staff work, so every day and week boundary is worked out in the right timezone. If a bookkeeper partner gave you a code, put it in Partner code (optional); otherwise leave it blank. Then the three setup steps take you the rest of the way.

If something goes wrong

If checkout cannot start, the sign-up page tells you nothing was charged and asks you to try again or email hello@hourseasy.com. If you back out of checkout partway through, it tells you the same thing. Either way, nothing is created — you can just start again.