Quick start
From sign-up to your first sent invoice in five minutes.
This walkthrough takes about five minutes. By the end you'll have a client, a project, a logged hour, and a draft invoice.
Create your account. Sign up at hourdini.app. We create your first organization automatically. That's the workspace your clients, projects, and invoices live under.
Add your first client. Open Clients in the sidebar, click +, and fill in their name, billing currency, and your hourly rate. The rate you set here is what new projects will inherit by default.
Add a project under that client. Click the client you just created, then New project. You can override the rate per project if this client pays you differently for different work.
Start a timer. Click Start timer in the sidebar, pick the project, type a short description of what you're working on, and confirm. The timer keeps running while you work.
Stop the timer when you're done. The entry shows up in Time, tagged with the rate it locked in when you started.
Draft an invoice. Open Invoices, click New invoice, pick the client and the period (this week, this month, or a custom date range). Hourdini pulls in every billable, unbilled entry it finds and lays them out as line items.
Send it. Review the line items, add or edit any extras you need, and click Send. We render the PDF, email it to your client, and flip the invoice to Sent.
That's the end-to-end flow. The rest of this guide covers the same steps in more detail, plus everything you'll want once your basics are set up: tags, multi-currency clients, analytics, teammates, and the command line.