{"id":91,"date":"2019-06-14T04:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T04:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.pfind.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:45:22","slug":"freshbooks-with-retainers-bill-the-client-on-recurring-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebool.com\/hub\/freshbooks-with-retainers-bill-the-client-on-recurring-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New & Improved FreshBooks With Retainers – An Innovative Way To Bill The Client On Recurring Basis In Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summary<\/strong>: FreshBooks<\/a> is a cloud-based invoicing software that allows you to create professional and best-looking invoices for your clients. It allows you to customize the invoice based on your business needs, including applying late fees, requesting deposits, adding a markup price, and more. With the new Retainers feature, it makes it easier for you to bill your clients in advance on a recurring basis, keep track of your work time, and request payment for excess hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

FreshBooks has been known for its excellent service in helping service\nproviders bill their clients. With the invoicing system that offers many\nimportant features to help businesses ensure the on-time payment for their\nproducts and services, it gives your business a good way to streamline your\nworkflow and manage your timeline better. Not only invoicing, FreshBooks also\noffers lots of other functionalities to keep the proper management of your\nbusiness finances, including expense tracking, time tracking, project\nmanagement, and accounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The services provided by FreshBooks are always being improved as time\ngoes by. Lots of new features are being added to the platform, giving their\nusers more and more convenience in managing various aspects of their business,\nso that they can focus more on things that matter the most, which is to deliver\nthe best products and services for their clients. Whether you are providing\nservice to first-time customers or repeat customers, the invoicing system\nprovided by FreshBooks can give you the ease of mind of knowing that you will\nget paid on time, every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, a new feature has been added to the FreshBooks functionality,\nwhich is called Retainers. It is a feature that allows you to bill your clients\nin advance for the work hours that you will spend for their projects. This new\ninvoicing feature can be used to bill your clients on a recurring basis, making\nsure that you will get paid for each hour that you spend working on their\nprojects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retainers Allow You To Forecast Your Income In Advance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With many types of business, especially service-based businesses, it can be difficult to forecast your income in advance. This is due to various factors. For instance, service-based businesses are unpredictable in terms of overall fees per project, as they will depend on how much time it is required to complete the project. So, each client might be billed differently depending on how complex or how time-consuming their project can go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Predict income and bill client on recurring basis with advanced options.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With Retainers, it becomes even more possible for you to forecast your\nincome in advance. This is because you can calculate the allotted time for each\nclient in advance and create invoice based on that calculation. You can set the\nprice per hour, price for excess hours, and track the time required to complete\nthe project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billing Excess Hours Can Be Done Easily Using This New\nFeature<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With the regular invoicing method, you might not be able to calculate\nthe excess hours that you have spent on your client\u2019s project. This is no\nlonger the case as Retainers can be used to track the alloted hours and time\nperiod that you have spent working with your clients. This means that any\nexcess hours will be tracked, and the payment for such excess hours will be\nincluded on the invoice automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the hours logged have surpassed the alloted time as defined\noriginally on the Retainers, you will be given a notification that the excess\nhour billing has been started. The accumulated excess hours will also be added\ninto the Retainers, updating the original invoice fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Retainers Can Be Used To Manage Your Workload Better<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Retainers are the type of innovative invoicing method that is quite\ndifferent from the regular invoice system provided by FreshBooks. With\nRetainers, all things related to the project that you are working for your\nclient are logged within the invoice itself. This includes the progress or\ncompletion milestones that you have achieved within the project. Since there is\nan alloted time system, you can easily keep your clients informed about the\nprogress while you are working on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the addition of time management feature that is directly\nintegrated to the Retainers, managing your workload will become much easier to\ndo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retainers Are Integrated With All Other Relevant Functions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the differences between FreshBook invoicing system and other similar systems is that they are not solely dealing with the invoicing aspect of your business. But, they are also dealing with many other relevant aspects as well, such as time tracking, expense tracking, accounting<\/a>, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in the case of Retainers, this is a new feature that is integrated\nwith all other relevant functions in your business. In this way, you can bill\nthe clients on a recurring basis in advance and inform them about the progress\nof your work at the same time. As such, you are not required to use different\nsoftware or apps since many functions are already integrated to ease your\nworkflow. The time tracking function is the most valuable feature to use with\nRetainers, as it helps you log your work hours on the invoice itself, without\nthe need for you to use any external time tracking software or apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Retainer Summary Report Helps Review Your Work\nPerformance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Retainer Summary Report is another function that you can appreciate\nwhen using the FreshBooks platform in your business. When billing your clients\nin advance, your clients need to know how their alloted time is spent for their\nproject. As such, the Retainer Summary Report can provide a detailed\ninformation regarding the hours used for their project as opposed to the hours\navailable in the alloted time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since it is integrated to the Retainer invoice itself, you can give\nyour clients the information that they need for their project. It is also\nuseful for you to track the performance of your work throughout the time. You\ncan find the information regarding the Clients, Period, and Groups of the\nRetainers that you have used. It is also very easy to organize your Retainers,\nmaking it easier for you to review it in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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