What Got Us to Build This
We are fractionals. We sell expertise and time. We needed a better way to track time and bill clients. These insights led us to build Fractional.Tools.
Our Why: We are fractionals. We sell expertise and time. We hated time tracking solutions.
So we built a solution that fits the lived experience. We decided that a better solution needs to use existing tools. No new installs.
Nothing to install, mobile or otherwise. You already have a calendar.
Our 1st Insight: Our Calendars can do more than track meetings. It can track work. It can track income.
Never leave your calendar. 100% configured in the calendar. No context switching. Your calendar is your record.
Not all calendar entries have to have attendees. A calendar entry has the date, start and end time. We add the link to a client and their bill rates.
Our 2nd Insight: For fractionals, an invoice is just calendar time.
Select a date range and we automatically calculate billable hours from your calendar entries. Generate a professional invoice with one line item: start date + end date + bill rate. Invoices are based on work—auto-processed.
No manual math. Client management happens automatically—we create clients from calendar codes and assign rates. Hourly or retainer—both work seamlessly. Set defaults once, and every new client inherits your settings.
We borrowed from the legal profession to track time as it happens. Your calendar entries become accurate invoices, correct to the minute. Stay focused on client work, not operations.
Our 3rd Insight: Simplicity keeps us in the flow.
Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Desktop or Mobile. We wanted something that we already had installed, not another context switch.
Sometimes we forget to record time. No problem. Use your phone and drop in work you might have missed.
(We wanted a solution so easy, we could update hours while on the Orange line train at rush hour.)