Zoho Projects announced its staff based billing feature recently. I would like to throw some light on it today. Before the launch of staff based billing, we had project-hours based billing only. In the project-hours based billing, the user rate was common to everyone in the project. Now, with the help of staff-hours based billing, different user rates can be given to different users in different roles and make project billing more effective.

Advantages of staff based billing over project hour based billing

Staff based billing clearly gives a flexibility over the conventional hour based billing. Your clients might not have the same set of expectations. The way they would like to get their project billed, differs. Some might want all the details of the tasks and bugs resolved by a user in the invoice. A few might want the consolidated effort of a user in hours and a few might want different user rates for different roles or persons in order to handle their expenditure on the project effectively. Having said that, staff based project billing is a definite winner. It will help you assign different user rates to the people in your team based on their efficiency, experience, and role.