Catch the hours that never make it onto a bill.

A compact timer sits in the dashboard header. Click play and Esqase creates a blank time entry and starts counting, and the clock stays in sync across your browser tabs. You can also click Record time on a task, event, note, document, or communication log.

If your firm has set a billing increment, worked time is rounded up to it when you save the entry or pause the timer. The Duration field still shows the true worked time, so your own records stay honest, and the Total field says what will be billed.

A draft is missing a matter, a member, or both. Quick timers started from the header commonly begin that way. Open the entry, set both fields, and it moves to Pending, which is the state that can be added to an invoice.

There are four layers: member, matter, client, and firm. The category picker shows all four groups at once with each option's rate beside it, and the narrowest match is listed first. Picking a category fills the Rate field, and you can override it on that one entry.

You add it from the invoice, not from the Activities page. Open or create the invoice for the matter and add line items, and the dialog lists that matter's unbilled activities. Only billable, active, unbilled entries appear, so the same hour is not offered twice.

The work in progress report lists what has been recorded and not yet invoiced, so unbilled hours surface before the month closes rather than a quarter later. Each report downloads as a CSV.