Nobody sends you an invoice at the end of the month, so nothing forces you to keep a record. And then somebody asks how District 8 went, or the bonus conversation arrives, or a client swears you never agreed to something — and the answer is in your head, four months ago, next to everything else.
Time trackers exist to produce invoices. Project tools exist so a manager can see a burndown. Neither is built for the person who is paid the same whatever happens this week, and who is still accountable for four clients, a quarterly target and a contract renewal.
So salaried people keep it in their head, or in a spreadsheet they abandon by March. I did both for years.
I’ve run projects, people and change in corporate IT since 2007, on salary, the whole time. This is the record I needed and couldn’t buy.
A project can be not billable and still worth timing. Cloudbase never shows a dollar figure you didn’t ask for, and never calls unpaid work $0.00.
Standard ⟶Odometer in, odometer out, vehicle on the line. On the 1st a report finds every trip you forgot, builds the .csv your employer wants, and puts it on your Today.
Standard ⟶Type it in and it becomes a ticket with who asked and when. Four months later “we never agreed that” has a date on it.
Standard ⟶What you did, for whom, and when — assembled as you went, not reconstructed the night before the review.
Standard ⟶Tell Cloudbase how each client pays you — a fixed salary, quarterly bonuses, an annual payment on renewal, or nothing at all — and it works backwards from the hours you logged.
It’s an estimate and it says so. It’s also the only place I’ve ever been able to see which client is quietly eating my year. Nothing here is reported to anyone — it’s a mirror, not a timesheet.
“Doesn’t your employer already have systems for this?”
They do, and I use them. Their systems exist to answer their questions — a timesheet code, a status field, a ticket queue somebody else designed. None of them answer mine, and none of them follow me when the work spans two employers and three side projects.
So this sits alongside, not instead. It’s the notebook I’d be keeping anyway — and it happens to have a timer, an odometer and a searchable memory in it.
A browser tab on whatever machine you’re at — nothing to install, nothing for anyone to approve. Working from home across two or three devices is the normal case, not the workaround.
Log your hours, your miles and your notes. Nothing here wants a copy of your employer’s records, and every field is renameable so you’re never forced into their vocabulary either.
Roles change, contracts end, employers move on. Your data exports whenever you ask, in formats that open without me.
New projects default to not billable, and every module is off until you switch it on. A salaried workstream is one of the starters — work orders and mileage, no rate anywhere.
No. There is nobody to report to and no feature that could. No manager view, no shared dashboard, no export that goes anywhere on its own.
That’s the whole reason it exists. Each client says how it pays — salary, bonus, hourly, not at all — and each project shows only the panels it needs. One screen, four kinds of arrangement.
Never. No streaks, no reminders to fill in a timesheet, no red at midnight. A quiet week is a fact, and the only thing that comes looking for you is a report you asked for.
One reimbursed mileage report you’d have otherwise forgotten usually covers a year of it. And if $24 is genuinely the blocker, write to me — I’d rather have you in here.
Ask. If others would use it I build it free and you keep it free for good; if it’s only yours, I’ll quote it. That page is Built for you.
That’s enough to know whether this is for you — and by the first of the month, the mileage report will come and find you. Two weeks free, no card, and if you go quiet you simply stop.
This is the short version of the site, cut down to what reads well on a small screen. The full thing — every instrument explained, the pricing configurator, the whole story — lives on the desktop site. So does the app: Cloudbase is meant to be worked from a real screen, at a desk, with your hands on it.