# Time tracking

> A timer or a timesheet, costed at the employee rate and billed at the customer rate.

Section: Projects and time · Canonical: https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/time-tracking

Projects → Time.

**Two ways in:** a running timer (start, stop, and it survives a page reload), or a weekly timesheet grid for people who prefer to fill it in at the end of the week.

**Every entry carries two rates**, and this is the point:
- a **cost rate** — what the person costs you, which goes to job cost, and
- a **bill rate** — what the customer pays, from the rate card ([Price levels and rate cards](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/price-rules)).

The difference is your margin on labour, visible per project on the profitability report rather than only in aggregate at year end.

**Approval:** timesheets can require approval before the time becomes billable, so a mis-keyed 80-hour day does not reach an invoice.

**Billing it:** approved billable time waits in the unbilled queue and is pulled onto an invoice — all of it, or a selection. Time already invoiced cannot be invoiced twice.

**Utilisation** (Projects → Utilisation) shows billable hours against available hours per person, which is the professional-services edition's core number.