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Bookkeeping firms

See which bookkeeping clients are worth your time

The monthly bookkeeping fee is fixed; the hours behind it aren't. Timix.AI tracks time per client, burns the fixed-fee budget down live, and prices the work against each bookkeeper's cost — so you can finally see which fixed-fee clients earn their keep and which quietly run at a loss.

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One fixed-fee client, read as margin
  • Monthly fee — Fixed Price $650
  • Hours this month × cost rate $520
  • Budget consumed 88%
  • Margin on the client 20.0%

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01 The problem

Fixed fee, unfixed hours

Fixed-fee bookkeeping only makes money if the hours stay inside the price. The clients that slip are rarely the ones you'd guess — and you find out a year too late.

A fixed-fee client quietly becomes a write-off

The monthly fee is fixed; the queries, the catch-ups, the year-end scramble aren't. Without a budget burning down, the fee gets eaten by hours nobody was counting.

You don't know which clients pay their way

Junior and senior hours cost very differently, but if cost isn't separated, the per-client realization is a feeling, not a number — and the price stays wrong.

Small recurring work never gets logged

The 15-minute fix that's "not worth a timesheet entry" is exactly where fixed-fee margin slips away, one client at a time.

02 How Timix.AI fits

The hours-and-margin layer behind the fee

Timix.AI isn't your ledger — it's the time-and-margin layer that tells you whether each fixed fee was priced right, and feeds the bill you raise in your accounting software.

Fixed-fee budgets that burn down live

Set the monthly or annual fee as a Fixed Price budget; soft and hard limits and alert thresholds warn before a fixed-fee client tips into a write-off.

Fixed Price budgets with soft/hard limits + alert thresholds at project/task/subtask.

Realization per client, no spreadsheet

Customer rate and cost rate price every hour, so profit and margin roll up per client; cost rates are dated, so a pay review doesn't rewrite last year's job cost.

Dual rates → margin rollups; effective-dated cost-rate history.

Clean, approved hours to bill from

Draft → Submitted → Approved gives you a tidy record; Customer Billing and Unbilled Time reports export to PDF/CSV for the invoice you raise in your accounting tool.

Approval workflow + Customer Billing / Unbilled Time → PDF/CSV.

No-friction entry at year-end

Client → engagement → task with auto-SubTask, a week grid, Copy Last Week, and Timix.AI sentence logging keep the small jobs from going unlogged.

4-level hierarchy + auto-SubTask; week grid, Copy Last Week; Timix.AI logs by sentence (Starter+).

3 billing types — Fixed Price, T&M, Overhead
2 rates on every hour — customer rate and cost rate
90 days of full-access trial, no card

03 Try it on your own clients

Find your loss-making fixed fees

Create a workspace, bulk-import clients from CSV, set the fixed fee as a budget and each bookkeeper's cost rate, and read margin per client on your own numbers. Full access, 90 days, no card.

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Want to look around first? Pre-seeded IT-services, law-firm and construction demo workspaces are open to everyone and show budgets and per-client margin on realistic data. Open the IT-services demo

04 FAQ

Bookkeeping-firm time tracking, asked and answered

Does it connect to QuickBooks or Xero?

No — there are no named accounting integrations. (A key-authenticated Integration API is available on Professional+.) Timix.AI is the time-and-margin layer that runs alongside your ledger: you export billing-ready hours and post the bill where you already do.

Can it invoice my fixed-fee clients?

Yes — on Professional and up, Timix.AI generates commercial invoices from tracked hours, though it isn't a full ledger or accounting system. For your books and country-specific tax compliance, export clean, approved Customer Billing and Unbilled Time data (PDF/CSV) or sync it to your accounting software.

How do I tell which fixed-fee clients are actually profitable?

Set the fee as a Fixed Price budget and each bookkeeper's cost rate; Timix.AI rolls revenue, cost, and margin up per client, so the clients running over their fee surface before renewal, not at year-end.

Will my team actually keep timesheets up to date?

That's the design goal — a week grid, Copy Last Week, and Timix.AI sentence logging ("log 20 minutes on the Smith Ltd month-end") make the small recurring jobs quick enough to actually record. Timix.AI is Starter+.

Ready when you are

Price the next fixed fee from real numbers.

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