Bill4Time
The Most Trusted Name in Legal Time & Billing Software.
Executive Summary
Bill4Time is a cloud-based legal time and billing software designed for small-to-mid-sized law firms and legal professionals. It streamlines time and expense tracking, matter management, and compliant invoicing, offering features like online payments and comprehensive reporting. The platform centralizes critical data to reduce administrative overhead, improve cash flow, and enhance firm productivity and financial oversight, enabling legal professionals to focus on practicing law.
Use Cases
- Accurate Time and Expense Tracking for Billable Hours
- Streamlined Invoice Generation and Delivery
- Online Payment Processing and Collection
- Compliant Trust Accounting Management
- Centralized Matter and Client Data Management
- Monitoring Firm Performance and Productivity
Features
Visibility
- Interactive Dashboards: Provides real-time, visual overviews of firm performance, financial health, and productivity with configurable grids.
- Comprehensive Reporting Suite: Generates detailed reports on time, billing, expenses, and payments, with filtering and export options (PDF, CSV).
- Unbilled Work Identification: Automated reports and dashboards help identify unbilled work and potential revenue leakage.
- Client Portal Access: Allows clients secure 24/7 access to view invoices, payment history, and shared documents.
- Trust Accounting Audit Trails: Maintains complete audit trails for trust accounts to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
Intelligence
- Automated Billing: Uses pre-bill review, batch billing, and detailed invoice features to create professional bills and account statements rapidly.
- Automated Payment Reminders: Reduces late payments with automated overdue invoice tracking and email reminders.
- Customizable Billing Rates and Rules: Applies user-specific, matter-specific, or flat rates instantly, with the ability to override rates as needed.
- Auto-text for Time Entries: Allows users to define abbreviations that automatically expand into full descriptions in time entries, saving time.
- Time Entry Rounding: Automatically rounds up time entries to predefined intervals (e.g., 6 minutes) for consistent billing.
Support
- Live U.S.-based Support: Access to support agents via phone, email, or chat during business hours.
- Online Knowledge Base & Video Tutorials: Extensive self-help resources including articles, step-by-step instructions, and video tutorials.
- Recorded Webinars: Access to past webinars for in-depth training on various aspects of the system for beginners and advanced users.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-based SaaS
- Deployment
- Cloud/SaaS
- Authentication
- User logins with secure access, client portal access with advanced security features.
- API Available
- Yes
- MCP Server
- No
Infrastructure
- Globally distributed data centers
- Amazon Web Services (implied as an example of secure infrastructure)
Integrations
- QuickBooks
Security & Compliance
Certifications: SSAE 18 SOC1
Encryption: AES-256 equivalent SSL encryption at rest and TLS in transit (256-bit SSL encryption mentioned).
Pricing
- Model
- Per user/month
- Starting Price
- Starting at $27 per user/month (billed annually)
- Target Customer
- SMB to Enterprise (including freelancers, small, mid-size, and large businesses)
- Contract Type
- Annual (with discounts), Monthly available
- Free Trial
- Yes, 14 days (credit card required)
Ratings & Reviews
G2: 4.7/5/5
About Bill4Time, Inc.
Bill4Time provides cloud-based time tracking and billing software for law firms and a variety of professional services teams, including accountants, architects, and consultants. The platform offers comprehensive features such as time and expense capture, invoicing, online payments, trust accounting, and reporting to enhance billing efficiency and cash flow.