One instrument, five functions

Most teams assemble their back office from parts: a timer app, a spreadsheet of receipts, an invoicing tool, a reporting add-on. Each seam between those tools is a place where hours go missing, expenses arrive late, and invoices disagree with the record. Telometris removes the seams by keeping everything in a single ledger.

Time is the root of that ledger. Every entry belongs to a project and a person with a rate, so recorded hours convert directly into labor cost and billable value. Expenses and travel ride the same capture-and-approval flow, tied to the same projects. When the month closes, invoices assemble themselves from what was approved — and reports simply read the ledger back.

Where review is configured, nothing reaches an invoice or a report without passing that review. Supervisors approve hours, expenses, and travel; approved entries lock; invoices bill only what was accepted. That discipline — record, review, approve — is what lets a small team produce records that hold up to a client's scrutiny or an accountant's audit.

Review requirements are configurable by company and project. A project may operate with active approval of time and expenses, a lighter process, or no approval requirement for its records, depending on policy.

It also means each feature below is not a module you configure, but a stage of the same pipeline. Start with time tracking and the rest follow naturally.

Time and expenses begin as operational records. Approval establishes organizational acceptance. Invoicing converts accepted work into financial records. Reporting and profitability explain the outcome.

Time tracking, expenses, invoicing, approvals, and profitability reporting are presented as five functions because each serves a different business purpose. They remain part of one system.

Work is organized through clients, projects, assignments, and tasks. Time and expenses become operational records. Approval establishes organizational acceptance. Contractor and client invoices use eligible records for different financial directions. Reporting and profitability explain the result.

The functions do not need to collapse into one record in order to remain connected. Telometris preserves the difference between recording work, accepting work, valuing work, invoicing work, and understanding the outcome.

Follow work from the company and client relationship through project assignment, operational records, approval, contractor cost, client billing, reporting, and profitability.

Review the canonical definitions for operational records, rates, billing methods, invoices, statuses, reporting, and profitability.