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The Reports tab of Time turns logged hours into two things: a per-project summary, and a picture of where the days actually went.

By project

One row per project, for the selected range: With a Total row underneath. The two most useful numbers are next to each other on purpose. Hours against Billable is your recovery rate — the share of your week that a client is paying for. A project where they diverge sharply is either badly scoped or being given away.
A project showing hours but $0.00 has nothing priced behind it: usually someone with no job role, or a role whose rate is still blank. See How hours are priced. Fix it on the rate card or the project, not here.

Daily breakdown

Every day in the range as a bar, with its total beside it. Empty days show a dash. It answers questions a table cannot: whether the work is spread or crammed, whether you are logging at all on Fridays, whether a “quick” job quietly ate a fortnight.

Range

Today · Week · Month · Custom. Custom is the one to use for a billing period that does not match a calendar month, or for the life of a single project.

Getting it out

  • Save PDF — a formatted report. For a client who wants to see what the hours went on, or for your own records at month end.
  • Share — a link, rather than a file.
Read the report before you send it. It shows descriptions written for yourself, and fixing my mess from Tuesday reads differently to a client than it did to you.

What to do with it monthly

  1. Check for unbilled time. Compare Hours against Billable. Decide deliberately what you are absorbing.
  2. Check for zero-rate projects. Any project with hours and no amount is time you cannot bill.
  3. Bill the hourly work. Pull the entries onto an invoice with Time entry.
  4. Look at the fixed-fee jobs. Hours on a fixed-fee project don’t invoice, but they tell you whether the fee was right — which is what you price the next one from.
That last step is the one studios skip and the one that compounds. A fixed-fee job you lost money on is only a lesson if you know you lost money on it.