Time tracking for plumbers
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include diagnosing and clearing drain blockages, replacing tank and tankless water heaters, running PEX, copper, and DWV for new construction. You might visit residential service calls for leaks and clogs, water heater replacements, new-build rough plumbing in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Emergency calls mean you might hit four addresses before lunch and remember none of the exact arrival times
- Water heater jobs stretch when the shutoff is corroded, and it's hard to prove the extra 90 minutes
- Parts runs to the supply house eat billable-looking time that is hard to account for honestly
- Same-day callbacks on a previous repair need to be billed separately but share the address
How TradesTimer handles it
- Every address and arrival time is captured without you writing anything down between calls
- Stretched jobs show as longer stops on the timeline — ground truth, not estimates
- Drives to the supply house land as their own trip blocks so you can see and label them
- Returning to the same address on the same day creates a distinct second stop you can invoice cleanly
The founder’s experience with plumber work
Straight up: I'm not a ticketed plumber. But I did the plumbing legwork on full-gut renos — rough-in for kitchens and baths, moving supply lines for cabinet runs, hooking up fixtures at the end. Enough to know a plumbing day is five addresses before 3 p.m. when service calls stack up.
What I know cold is where the hours go missing, because I also ran time tracking from the back office of an electrical contractor — same service-call chaos, different trade. Guys forgot to clock in between calls constantly. Not because they were careless — because they were driving, thinking about the next job.
That's why this app doesn't ask you to clock in between calls. Every stop gets logged with times automatically, and you sort out which call was which when you're back in the truck — or at the end of the week.
Typical hourly rates
Plumbers in North America typically bill between $90–200/hr . Typical North American residential service range; emergency and after-hours rates sit well above this. 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.