Time tracking for handymen
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include mounting TVs, shelving, and fixtures, patching drywall and repainting, replacing and adjusting interior doors. You might visit small residential repair calls, light carpentry and trim work, drywall patching and paint touch-ups in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- A full day is often 5–7 small addresses, each under 90 minutes, which is the exact pattern timer-based apps handle worst
- Clients push back on hourly invoices when they can't see what you were doing at each stop
- You forget which client got the 20-minute favor and which one was the 90-minute real job
- Multi-stop errand runs to the hardware store are hard to attribute honestly across clients
How TradesTimer handles it
- Every short stop is captured cleanly — a 20-minute call shows up exactly as 20 minutes
- Each address on the invoice preview gets its own line with a defensible arrival and leave time
- Clients see location-grouped time, which cuts down on 'why am I being billed for that?' emails
- Hardware store drives appear as their own trips you can assign or write off per client
Time-tracking experiences from handymen
Each quote links to its original public discussion.
A good amount of hours on and off site. What would you guys charge realistically. … I have made like 4 different invoices and some feel high and some feel low.
Four drafted invoices that all feel wrong is what six months of untracked hours looks like. With per-stop times on record, the invoice stops being a feeling.
at times I find either a job takes me longer then I feel it ls worth so I'll knock off a few hours from the invoice or at times I find a job takes no time at all but I feel I should at least be billing a set rate for it.
Billing multi-day punch lists from feel cuts both ways — and 'knocking off a few hours' is a quiet pay cut. Recorded stop times per visit make the list bill itself.
Typical hourly rates
Handymen in North America typically bill between $60–120/hr . Typical North American handyman rate; specialized work (tile, carpentry) bills meaningfully higher. Review recorded visits to check for missing billable time before preparing an invoice.
Rate range as of 2026-04-15.
Free time tracking
Record stops and trips, review your hours, and export reports without a subscription.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.