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Project phases, budgets, and invoices from tracked time

Track time against project phases, watch the budget per phase, bill the client from the same workspace, and keep profit visibility per project.

🇪🇺 GDPR compliant · EU servers · No surveillance

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Architecture firm workspace overview
I-ARC-HEROHourvio dashboard for an architecture firm showing a project with phases, budget progress, and a branded invoice preview.

Built for phase-based architecture work

We built Hourvio for architecture firms that plan projects in phases and bill clients the same way. Concept, schematic, design development, construction documents, bidding, construction administration — every phase has its own budget, its own rate, and its own deliverable. If the hours on a phase drift and nobody notices until the next invoice, the margin on the whole project quietly disappears.

Hourvio keeps the whole picture in one workspace. A project bundles phases as tasks, members, a client, a rate card, and a budget. The timer captures hours against the right phase, budget alerts fire at fifty, eighty, and one hundred percent, and the profit summary shows revenue, cost, and margin per project on one screen. Finalize the period, pull unbilled hours into a branded PDF invoice per phase, and send.

Everything runs on European servers in Germany. No screenshots, no webcam monitoring, no keystroke logging. Your architects and drafters are professionals, and the product treats them that way.

Phase-based projects

Break every project into phases as tasks. Concept, schematic, design development, and CD each get their own hours, budget, and invoice line.

Per-phase budgets

Attach time or money budgets per phase with alerts at fifty, eighty, and one hundred percent, plus velocity forecasts on the burn rate.

Client billing from tracked time

Pull unbilled hours into a branded PDF invoice filtered by phase or by project with five templates and configurable letterhead.

Profit per project

Billable and cost rates side by side show revenue, labor cost, and margin per project so scope creep stops eating the bottom line.

Billable rate cards

Four-level rate hierarchy covers workspace, project, task, and per-user rates so principals, architects, and drafters bill at the right number.

Drawing-review time tracking

Pin review cycles as recurring tasks and track every markup, redline, and coordination session against the right phase without extra admin.

  1. Set up a project with phases

    Create a project per building or engagement. Add concept, schematic, design development, construction documents, and construction administration as tasks. Attach the client profile, contract value, currency, and a member list. The project is ready to carry hours and hit the invoice.

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    Project with phases
    I-ARC-01Architecture project with phases listed as tasks and a client profile attached with contract value.
  2. Configure rates for each phase

    Set billable rates per phase, per role, or per architect. The four-level hierarchy picks the most specific rate on every entry, so a principal on schematic design bills at one number while a drafter on CD bills at another. Rate changes carry an effective-from date.

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    Rate configuration per phase
    I-ARC-02Rate card panel showing phase-level rates with principal, architect, and drafter rates set for design development.
  3. Track time against phases

    Architects run the timer against a project and phase, or type hours into the weekly grid. Every entry snapshots the rate at creation, carries the description that lands on the invoice, and respects the phase budget as the project moves through design and construction.

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    Phase-based time tracking
    I-ARC-03Weekly timesheet grid with phases as rows and hours distributed per day for multiple architects.
  4. Monitor the budget

    Budget alerts fire at fifty, eighty, and one hundred percent of the phase budget. The project dashboard shows tracked time against every phase live, and velocity-based forecasts predict when the phase will hit its cap at the current burn rate, so the client conversation happens early.

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    Phase budget monitoring
    I-ARC-04Project dashboard with progress bars per phase, budget alerts at eighty percent, and a velocity forecast line.
  5. Invoice the client per phase or in total

    Pull unbilled billable hours for one phase or the whole project into a branded PDF invoice. Pick one of five templates, apply the firm letterhead, finalize, and record the payment when it arrives. Every line item traces back to a real time entry at the correct rate.

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    Phase-based client invoice
    I-ARC-05Invoice editor pulling unbilled hours from design development into line items grouped per phase.

Projects with phases and budgets

Every project bundles phases as tasks, members, a client, a rate card, and a budget. Threshold alerts and velocity forecasts catch drift early.

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    Project with phases
    I-ARC-01Architecture project list with phases listed as tasks and budget progress bars per phase.

    Invoices from tracked time

    Pull unbilled hours per phase or per project into branded PDFs with five templates, custom letterhead, payment tracking, and multi-currency billing.

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      Phase-based invoice
      I-ARC-05Invoice editor with line items imported from a design development phase and a PDF preview panel.

      Profit and utilization reports

      Summary and detailed reports with billable vs non-billable splits, margin per project, and CSV and Excel exports for client presentations.

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        Profit reports
        I-ARC-04Summary report showing revenue, cost, and margin per architecture project with phase breakdown.

        Your data stays in Europe

        We host every workspace on European servers in Germany, and we never watch your team work. Security is a default, not an upsell.

        GDPR by default

        Every workspace is GDPR-compliant on day one. No toggles, no add-ons, no separate EU edition.

        EU servers in Germany

        We run on servers in Germany. Your data never leaves the European Union.

        SSO and SAML

        Bring your identity provider. We support SAML 2.0 and OIDC for single sign-on on the Business tier.

        Multi-factor authentication

        Protect every account with TOTP-based MFA. Enforce it workspace-wide on the Business tier.

        Audit logs

        Every admin action is logged with actor, timestamp, and context. Export and review at any time.

        Isolated infrastructure

        Customers on the Professional and Business plans run on their own database and application server. Not shared multi-tenancy.

        We trust your team. Hourvio has no screenshots, no webcam monitoring, no keystroke logging, and no mouse tracking. Ever.

        Phase-based billing for architecture firms

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