Blog - Latest articles on time tracking & e-invoices

Accepted supplier contracts are no longer frozen: rates, payment terms and early payment discounts can be adjusted by change request. The supplier sees old and new values side by side and decides. On consent the new value applies immediately.

Four project types replace what had grown over the years: Time & Material, fixed price to fixed price, fixed price to T&M, and fixed price coaching. For each: the budgets, how costs accrue, how margin is calculated - and who carries the effort risk.

When your freelancers forget to track time, ZEIT.IO now reminds them automatically — daily, weekly or monthly, configurable per contract. Weekends and absences are skipped, and the email arrives in the recipient's own language.

New in ZEIT.IO: absences. Enter them once — the reminder emails go quiet, the days show up as "Absent" on your timesheet, and every active client is notified by email automatically. Plus calendar links and ICS export.

Excel timesheets now render inline in ZEIT.IO as a clean, locale-aware HTML table across every role and share link — no downloads, no app-switching, wide tables scroll neatly, and parsing stays on our own servers for privacy.

Billing categories in ZEIT.IO now carry your own names: "On site 2" becomes "Frankfurt Data Center" – for hourly and daily rates, freelancers and employees. The names appear on the invoice, already-billed time stays unchanged.

ZEIT.IO automates the entire timesheet approval workflow. Approvers are notified instantly and reminded daily until they decide. Once approved, ZEIT.IO can automatically generate an e-invoice for the client or a credit note for freelancers.

Time tracking is often a legal requirement. ZEIT.IO supports you in managing employee contracts with two features: a configurable maximum duration per time entry and an automatic timer stop in case the user forgets to stop it.

Record and edit working hours and project times on behalf of other users on ZEIT.IO. This feature is now available for organizational admins.

The new Teams feature allows you to organize employees into teams. Team lead roles can then approve vacation requests from other team members and view their booked time.