Show HN: Tiempo – The fastest way to track time and get paid • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Tiempo – The fastest way to track time and get paid

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Post by eswat » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 1:14 PM UTC

tadmilbourn wrote: post #57

eswat wrote: post #50

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Yeah, which is a shame for good apps like FreshBooks and probably Tiempo that handle the other heavy lifting like invoicing but don’t play nice with a day/week workflow.

What are the differences that you see between a day/week workflow and an hourly one?

Some of it has been mentioned in the other comments, but for me the biggest changes:

- You get away from commodity-based pricing, which is huge and makes charging clients what you’re actually worth a lot easier - No anxiety about what’s considered billable work or how efficient you should be since more efficiency == less billable hours - Don’t have to use a time tracker app, so more time spent on doing actual work than micro-managing your time

Hope that helps. There’s a plethora of value-based pricing out there too!

Re: Show HN: Tiempo – The fastest way to track time and get paid

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Post by tadmilbourn » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 1:31 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #72

kkilat wrote: post #14

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Yep, that's Stripe's 2.9% credit card processing fee, and then 1% that we take. Our goal in the future is to open up and accept other online payment options that have lower overall fees, as well though. We definitely want you to keep as much of the money you've earned as possible, and get it as fast as possible!

Anything that supports ACH would be good for payments to agencies or consultancies which can often be $15-20k or more. I know Dwolla is one but I'm sure there are others. It would also be nice to have the option to add the fee to the invoice rather than pay it out of gross. Meaning for a $100 invoice, add $3.90 to it so that I get $100 after all fees. Most clients would never go for that but on smaller invoices you c…

Great ideas! If everyone had a Dwolla account, it would be a wonderful thing. Instant payment transfer at low cost. That's the future we want to see. We'll layer on more payment methods over time so that folks can choose which method makes the most sense for them based on cost and speed.

Re: Show HN: Tiempo – The fastest way to track time and get paid

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Post by vesh » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

I currently use Harvest for time tracking, creating invoices and sending it out. It would be nice to see a list of features and costs without signing up. It looks like time tracking, approval is free to use. Connecting to Quickbooks costs 10$/month. To create and send invoices you have to choose to receive payments through Tiempo, which will cost 3.9% of the invoice amount. Customers get an option to pay by credit card.

I can see this simplifies the process for a lot of people. Being able to send invoices without using the payment service is personally a deal breaker as it would be way higher than the 19$ I currently pay.