Billing for Consultants
Who'd Rather Be Consulting
You became a consultant to do expert work. Not to fight with invoice templates at 10pm on a Sunday. Track time. Bill clients. Get paid. Get back to work.
Admin work is eating your consulting hours
You became a consultant to do expert work. Not to fight with invoice templates. Not to chase payments. Not to spend Sunday night entering hours into a spreadsheet that doesn't even calculate the subtotals correctly.
If billing admin eats even one afternoon a month, at $200/hour that's real money you never bill.
The billing stack for one-person firms
Miru replaces your timer, your invoice template, your expense spreadsheet, and your payment reminders with one tool that does all of it.
Track billable vs non-billable
Tag every hour as billable or non-billable. See exactly how much of your week generates revenue and how much goes to admin, prospecting, and overhead. The ratio matters more than most consultants realize.
Professional branded invoices
Your invoice is the last thing the client sees before they pay you. Make it look like it came from a firm, not a freelancer with a Word template. Your logo, line items pulled straight from your tracked time.
Client portal
Clients log in and see their invoices. No more "can you resend that invoice?" emails. No more "what's the status?" calls. Self-service for them, fewer interruptions for you.
Revenue by client reports
Which clients pay the most? Which eat the most hours? Revenue by client sits beside hours by client, so you decide who to keep with numbers, not gut feel.
Expenses for tax time
Log business expenses as they happen. Software, travel, subcontractors — all categorized. Export expense trends to CSV for your accountant.
The math for consultants
Solo consultant? Miru is $1/month — $12 a year. Every feature — time tracking, invoicing, expenses, Stripe payments, reports, client portal — included. Prefer to pay nothing? Self-host it free; the code is MIT licensed.
Bring on a subcontractor or an associate and each seat is the same $1/member/month — $12/year per person. FreshBooks charges $70/month for their top tier. Harvest charges $9 to $11 per user. The comparison isn't even fair.
Bill like a firm. Pay like a freelancer.
$1 per member per month, from the first member. Your whole billing stack for $12 a year.
Open source. MIT licensed. Built by Saeloun.