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It sounds like you live in an ideal world. I often help different clients in the same day. Website bugfix in the morning, bring up bluetooth in the afternoon. It's hard to say ahead of time how long either task will take.

Am I supposed to look over my commits at the end of the week and guess a weekly amount for each client? That sounds awful for everybody.

Sometimes you can bill weekly, sometimes you need more granularity. (I use hours.)

And, no, I'm not doing it wrong.



I believe part of the idea is not to take on jobs that are an hour here or there, but to take on work that requires full days or weeks. Your daily/weekly wouldn't change from customer to customer.


Oh, I understand the ideal. I just don't like telling clients, "live with that problem until you've built up a full week of issues for me."

If I can take an hour to fix a previous project, and spend the rest of the day on a new project, that makes everyone happy.

Except people who think that billing by the hour is 100% wrong I suppose.




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