> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.getatelier.design/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Time reports

> Hours and value by project, a daily breakdown, and a PDF you can put in front of a client.

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:

| Column       | What it tells you                     |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------- |
| **Hours**    | Everything logged.                    |
| **Billable** | The portion marked billable.          |
| **Amount**   | Billable hours at the project's rate. |

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.

<Info>
  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](/time-tracking/rates). Fix it on the rate card or the
  project, not here.
</Info>

## 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.

<Warning>
  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.
</Warning>

## 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.