Billing for Consultants
Who'd Rather Be Consulting
You became a consultant to do expert work. Not to fight with invoice templates at 10pm on a Sunday. Track time. Bill clients. Get paid. Get back to work.
Admin work is eating your consulting hours
You became a consultant to do expert work. Not to fight with invoice templates. Not to chase payments. Not to spend Sunday night entering hours into a spreadsheet that doesn't even calculate the subtotals correctly.
The average independent consultant spends 5-8 hours per month on billing administration. At $200/hour, that's $1,000-1,600 in opportunity cost every month. You're literally paying yourself to do data entry. That's not what your clients hired you for.
The billing stack for one-person firms
Miru replaces your timer, your invoice template, your expense spreadsheet, and your payment reminders with one tool that does all of it.
Track billable vs non-billable
Tag every hour as billable or non-billable. See exactly how much of your week generates revenue and how much goes to admin, prospecting, and overhead. The ratio matters more than most consultants realize.
Professional branded invoices
Your invoice is the last thing the client sees before they pay you. Make it look like it came from a firm, not a freelancer with a Word template. Your logo, your colors, line items pulled straight from your tracked time.
Client portal
Clients log in and see their projects, hours, and invoices. No more "can you resend that invoice?" emails. No more "what's the status?" calls. Self-service for them, fewer interruptions for you.
Revenue by client reports
Know exactly which clients generate the most revenue, which eat the most non-billable time, and which ones you should fire. Revenue-per-hour-spent is the metric that matters. Miru calculates it automatically.
Expenses for tax time
Log business expenses against clients and projects as they happen. Software, travel, subcontractors — all categorized and exportable. Come April, you hand your accountant a CSV instead of a shoebox.
The math for consultants
Solo consultant? Miru is free forever. $0/month. No credit card. No trial expiration. Every feature — time tracking, invoicing, expenses, Stripe payments, reports, client portal — included.
Growing your practice? When you bring on a subcontractor or an associate, it's $1/member/month. That's $12/year per person. FreshBooks charges $55/month for their top tier. Harvest charges $10.80 per user. The comparison isn't even fair.
I used to dread end-of-month billing. Two evenings per month, just wrestling with spreadsheets and chasing payments. Miru cut that to 30 minutes. The Stripe integration means clients pay within a week instead of 45 days. My cash flow has never been better.
— Independent management consultant, 6 active clients
Bill like a firm. Pay like a freelancer.
Free for solo consultants. $1/member when you grow. No credit card required.