Use “Log hours” in Recued. Record one block of work against an engagement. It uses the connections and settings you choose when you run it.
Log hours
Use “Log hours” in Recued. Record one block of work against an engagement. It uses the connections and settings you choose when you run it.
Complete workflow
Billable Hours
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Use Billable Hours in Recued for time tracking, invoicing, freelance, and consulting. It includes 11 built-in actions and 4 ready-to-run workflows. Actions that change data use Recued's approval controls.
You are viewing one recipe in this workflow. Installing it opens the complete pack so its other recipes and background automations arrive together.
Use “Open an engagement” in Recued. Record a client and the hourly rate you bill them. Keyed on the label, so re-running with the same one converges instead of opening a second engagement at a different rate.
Use “Show unbilled hours” in Recued. What you have worked and not yet billed, per task. Hours and entry count come from the store over every matching row; the per-task money breakdown covers the entries fetched, and the card says when those differ.
Use “Bill a period” in Recued. Group a period's unbilled billable hours by task, stamp each entry with your invoice reference, and produce invoice lines whose amounts add up to the total. Entries already carrying an invoice reference are left alone, so running it twice cannot charge the same hour twice.
Use “Records runtime” in Recued. It helps you complete this workflow using the connections and settings you choose.
Logging time
Give the engagement, the date, how many minutes, and what you did.
⛔ Minutes, not hours, and that is deliberate. 1.75 hours stored as a float and multiplied by a rate is how money quietly drifts; 105 minutes is exact. The conversion to money happens once, at the point a figure is stated, and is rounded to two decimals there.
⚠ There is no start/stop timer. This records a block you already know the length of. A stopwatch would need the recipe to run twice with state in between, and a half-open timer is worse than no timer — it looks like tracked time and is not.
⚠ Billable off still records the time. Non-billable work is worth knowing about; it simply never reaches an invoice and is counted separately on the board.
⚠ Nothing here prevents overlapping entries. Two blocks covering the same wall-clock hour are both kept — the pack does not know your calendar, and refusing honest double-entry would be worse than showing it. The board totals what you logged.
How it works
Inspect the data fetches, transforms, gates, and output this recipe runs.
Process (30 steps)
engagement_id
trim
Trim whitespace from setting engagement id
id_present
compare
Check if engagement id has data
id_guard
guard
Stop if id present equals
engagement
recued-core.billable-hours.engagement.get
Get engagement on billable hours
found
compare
Check if engagement record id has data
found_guard
guard
Stop if found equals
is_active
compare
Check if engagement record status equals active
active_guard
guard
Stop if is active equals
minutes_whole
round
Round setting minutes to 0 decimal places
minutes_positive
compare
Check if minutes whole is greater than 0
minutes_guard
guard
Stop if minutes positive equals
date_in
trim
Trim whitespace from setting worked on
now_iso
date_add
Add 0 seconds to
today
date_format
Format as a date
worked_on
default
Apply default
date_len
string_length
Apply string_length
date_ok
compare
Check if date len equals 10
date_guard
guard
Stop if date ok equals
date_parts
split
Split worked on into parts
period
template
Generate text from a template
description
trim
Trim whitespace from setting description
task_ref
trim
Trim whitespace from setting task ref
engagement_ref
template
Generate text from a template
logged_at
date_add
Add 0 seconds to
create
recued-core.billable-hours.entry.create
Create entry on billable hours
hours_decimal
math
Calculate: {{step.minutes_whole}} / 60
hours_shown
round
Round hours decimal to 2 decimal places
amount_raw
math
Calculate: {{step.minutes_whole}} * {{step.engagement.record.rate_per_hour}} / 60
amount
round
Round amount raw to 2 decimal places
card
to_summary
Format results as a summary card
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Output
summary
card
Settings
Configurable at install. Defaults shown — change them anytime in Recued.
minutes
setting
=
0
billable
setting
=
true
task ref
setting
=
worked on
setting
=
description
setting
=
engagement id
setting
=
[object Object]
Uses (2 operations)
Pack operation
Get engagement on billable hours
recued-core.billable-hours.engagement.get
Pack operation
Create entry on billable hours
recued-core.billable-hours.entry.create
Trust & control
What installing this recipe would let it do. Recued grants these permissions at install — review them there before approving.
What it's allowed to do
Write
Pack
Billable Hours
external change
Read: engagement.get · No approvalWrite: entry.create · No approval