[Boston.pm] OT: recommendation of billing services for consulting work needed

[Adam Russell]

In addition to my full time job I do some consulting about 10-15 hours a 
week.Up until now I have been using a local staffing agency to handle the 
billing for me. The set up is that I make the arrangements, negotiate my rate, 
and then the clientworks with the agency to handle the billing details. I tell 
the agency the hours I worked and they collect the money and cut me a check.All 
well and good in hiding the tedious administrative details from me. The 
complication is that client has revealed to me that the agency's charge for 
being the middleman is a hefty 30% of my rate! I had known that their was a 
surcharge for their services but the amount was either miscommunicated to me, 
or...adjusted upwards without my being notified.
I know that there are likely at least a few people on this list that have 
solved for this problem themselves. So, my question is, what is the best way 
(in terms of ease, and low overhead) to handle billing for my part time 
consulting work?   

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Re: [Boston.pm] OT: recommendation of billing services for consulting work needed

[Ben Tilly]

I've used Freshbooks for this in the past.

I am currently using the Hours Keeper app on my phone.

Both work well.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Adam Russell  wrote:

> In addition to my full time job I do some consulting about 10-15 hours a
> week.Up until now I have been using a local staffing agency to handle the
> billing for me. The set up is that I make the arrangements, negotiate my
> rate, and then the clientworks with the agency to handle the billing
> details. I tell the agency the hours I worked and they collect the money
> and cut me a check.All well and good in hiding the tedious administrative
> details from me. The complication is that client has revealed to me that
> the agency's charge for being the middleman is a hefty 30% of my rate! I
> had known that their was a surcharge for their services but the amount was
> either miscommunicated to me, or...adjusted upwards without my being
> notified.
> I know that there are likely at least a few people on this list that have
> solved for this problem themselves. So, my question is, what is the best
> way (in terms of ease, and low overhead) to handle billing for my part time
> consulting work?
>
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