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You'll need to specify how many hours you worked on the project, your hourly rate and the total for that project or part of the project. Make sure the invoice clearly states the payment methods you accept and the details for payment.

Some freelancers choose to round up to 15-minute increments, whereas others to the half-hour. For instance, if you have worked on a project for 3.10 hours, with the 15-minute increment you will charge 3.15. On the half-hour round-up, your billable hours are 3.5.

Invoices must always include the invoice date as well as the due date. Setting a due date encourages the client to pay you within a certain time frame. The general rule is 30 days from the invoice date. However, you can discuss this with your customer and either make it shorter or longer than 30 days.

What are Minimum Billing Increments? In short, your tiniest time "package." Most consultants & freelancers in the creative industries bill in 15 minute increments. That means if a client calls you for a 5-minute discussion, you'd bill them for 15.

Make sure that you include your hourly rate on the invoice along with the number of hours worked in the breakdown of services. It's usually best to create a table for this, with columns for the task description, hourly rate, number of hours worked and then the cost of this.

Using a 6-minute increment chart is simple and straightforward. To calculate how many billable hours you worked, simply locate the number of minutes in the left column, then record the billing increment to its right. For example, say it takes 14 minutes to respond to a client's email.

Standard freelancer billable hours chart Time incrementsMinutes of work0.251-15 minutes0.516-30 minutes0.7531-45 minutes1.046-60 minutes