You bill one client at ₹2,000/hour, a specific project at a discounted ₹1,500, and a senior teammate at a premium. A rate card captures each of those rules once, so when you turn tracked time into an invoice, Finocket picks the right rate automatically instead of one flat hourly figure.
Scope a card how you bill
Each card sets a rate (per hour or per day) and pins it to any combination of client, project and team member. Leave an axis blank and the card applies regardless of it — so a card with everything blank is your company default, and a card scoped to just a project covers all its time.
Most-specific wins
When several cards could apply to a time entry, Finocket picks the single most specific one, in this fixed order:
- project + member
- project
- client + member
- client
- member
- company default
The result is deterministic — the same entry always resolves to the same rate. If two cards tie at the same level, the one with the latest effective-from date on or before the entry's date wins; a card dated after the entry is ignored, so a mid-year rate change never re-prices old work.
Override a single line
A rate card is a default, not a straitjacket. When you build the invoice from tracked time you can override the rate on any line — the override wins over the matched card, and the card it beat is still shown so you can see what the standard rate was.
No card? Nothing changes
If no card matches an entry and you set no override, the line falls back to the entry's own rate — exactly the behaviour from before rate cards existed. Rate cards are strictly additive: turn them off and your billing is byte-identical to a flat hourly rate.
Where to set them
Rate cards live on the Timer page and need the Projects module on (enable it under Settings → Modules & features). Owners and assistants manage cards; an accountant sees them read-only.
Related: Projects & time tracking, Clients, projects and invoices.