TaskTime Pro now has a better way to plan and track client work from early scoping through active delivery: Quote stage, task estimates, target amounts, project budgets, and deadlines.
This update helps with the part of freelancing where you are scoping the work, estimating hours, agreeing on a quote, and then keeping the project realistic once the work is underway. It gives you a cleaner way to move from planning into active delivery without splitting that context across different tools.
Start a project in Quote stage
A project can now be marked as being in Quote stage.
That makes the project feel more like a proposal or planned job instead of an active billing project. You can still add tasks, notes, dates, and estimates, but the workflow is focused on shaping the work before it turns into an invoice.
For freelancers, this is useful when a client asks, “How much will this take?” You can break the work into tasks, add estimated hours or quote amounts, and keep the planning inside the same place where the project will later be tracked.
Add estimates while creating tasks
Tasks and subtasks can now include estimates as you create them.
Depending on the project, that can mean:
- Estimated hours
- Quote amounts for flat-rate work
- Planned work before time is logged
- Task-level detail that supports a bigger project quote
This keeps estimating close to the work. Instead of writing a rough number in a note and forgetting where it came from, the estimate stays attached to the task.
That also makes it easier to compare estimated hours with actual tracked time later. If a task was expected to take three hours and it took seven, the project tells that story clearly.
Track targets, budgets, and deadlines
The project page now has a Planning & Progress section for client projects with planning data.
It can show:
- Estimated hours compared with tracked hours
- A target or budget amount
- Projected earnings
- Remaining amount to target
- Deadline status
The goal is not to turn TaskTime Pro into heavy project management software. It is to answer the practical questions freelancers ask while work is still moving:
- Are we still close to the estimate?
- Is this project drifting past the budget?
- Are we ahead of or behind the target?
- Is the deadline still realistic?
That is the kind of project budget tracking that is useful day to day.
Move from quote to invoice cleanly
The best part is that the planning data lives beside the actual work.
You can start with a quote, add estimates, organize tasks, track time, then generate invoices from the same project when the work is ready to bill. The project does not need to be recreated in another tool just because it moved from planning to delivery.
For searches like “quote to invoice workflow” or “freelance project budgeting tool,” this is the real need: a simple path from planned work to tracked work to invoiced work.
Why this helps freelancers
Freelance projects often go wrong quietly. A few small tasks take longer than expected, a deadline moves closer, and the original quote stops matching reality.
TaskTime Pro now gives you a lightweight way to catch that earlier:
- Estimate the work before it starts
- See actual hours as they accumulate
- Keep budgets and targets visible
- Use deadlines as part of the project status
- Turn planned work into invoices without copying data around
It is simple on purpose. The point is clearer freelance project planning, not more admin.
Try it
Open a client project in TaskTime Pro, set it to Quote stage, add a few estimated tasks, and use Planning & Progress to compare the plan with the work as it develops.
If you have been looking for a private freelance project planner with estimates, budget tracking, time tracking, and invoicing in one place, this update brings those pieces closer together. Open TaskTime Pro and try it.