Time Tracking for Consultants
Most consulting leakage comes from work that felt too small to log in the moment: prep, follow-up, review time, travel, and quick client interventions. Sandtime.io helps consultants capture that invisible work, monitor retainer burn in real time, and send invoices backed by a clear record instead of Friday guesswork.
Why Consultants choose Sandtime.io
Keep Client Time Invoice-Ready
Attach every advisory hour to the right client, retainer, and engagement before billing reviews become an archaeological dig through calendars and email threads.
Capture Forgotten Advisory Work
Log calls, workshops, reviews, prep, travel, and follow-ups while they are still visible. The small pieces of consulting work are usually the first ones to disappear.
Spot Retainer Leakage Early
See how much of each retainer is already consumed before the client goes over. That makes scope conversations earlier, cleaner, and easier to defend.
Keep the Whole Engagement Team Aligned
Track partner, associate, and subcontractor hours in one place. Everyone works from the same source of truth instead of reconciling separate spreadsheets at invoice time.
Common use cases
- Capture advisory work as it happens across calls, workshops, reviews, travel, and follow-up
- Monitor retainer burn before clients go over budget and before margin quietly slips away
- Pull a defensible billing summary at the end of each engagement without rebuilding the week
- Track partner, associate, and subcontractor hours in one shared account
- Separate client delivery from internal business development and admin work
- Export time logs by client, engagement, and date range for invoice generation
Key features
Fast Capture During Client Work
Start tracking when a client call, review, or working session begins. One click keeps time tied to the right engagement.
Retroactive Time Entry
Add retroactive entries with enough context to explain what happened. Useful when work happened away from the desk or between meetings.
Multiple Engagements Without Friction
Switch between active clients, retainers, and internal work without losing the in-between time that usually gets forgotten.
Client-Ready Reporting
Pull reports by client, engagement, date range, or team member. Export a clean audit trail for invoicing, status updates, and internal review.
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