Time rounding on invoices

When you bill a client for time and materials, you can round logged hours up to a tidy increment, rather than invoicing to the exact minute.

Steps

When creating a time & materials invoice, open the Time Rounding section of the invoice setup.
Choose Round up to nearest — for example, 15 minutes — or leave it on No rounding to bill exact hours.
Choose Apply rounding to — Each time entry is the default and most commonly used option.
Save this as your project's default so future invoices for the same project use the same setting automatically.

Good to know

Rounding always rounds up, never down or to the nearest increment — so a client is never short-changed by a few minutes landing the wrong way.
Available increments include 1, 5, 6 (0.1 hr), 10, 15 (0.25 hr), 30 (0.5 hr), and 60 minutes (1 hr).
Rounding only affects what appears on the invoice — your underlying logged hours and reports always reflect the exact time recorded.
Rounding each time entry individually is the best-tested option and works well for every project type.

FAQs

Does rounding change my actual logged hours? No — it only affects how time is presented and totalled on the invoice itself.

Can I set a different rounding rule per project? Yes — it's set when you create a time & materials invoice and can be saved as that project's default.

Will rounding ever reduce what I bill? No — rounding always rounds up in the client's direction of paying for a full increment, never down.