Best time tracking software with invoicing in 2026

Most time trackers stop at the timesheet. The invoice — the part that actually collects the money — happens somewhere else, after an export and a rewrite. This guide compares five tools on the whole path from timer to paid invoice: Workspace369, Toggl Track, Harvest, Clockify, and Hubstaff.

Methodology: we publish Workspace369, which appears in this list. Every price below comes from the vendor's official pricing page, checked on September 23, 2026, with the sources linked at the top of the article. Where a page would not confirm a figure, the table says "See site" instead of guessing.

Quick answer

Pick by scenario:

• You want tracked hours to become invoice lines without exports. Workspace369 — timers, timesheets, and billable tracking on all plans, time-to-invoice from the $29/month Cadet plan, and team time tracking as a headline inclusion of Voyager at $74/month with 2 seats.
• You want the best pure tracker and already have invoicing. Toggl Track, billed from its reports.
• You want a tracker with native invoicing and a free tier. Harvest.
• You want the cheapest tracking plus invoicing for a team. Clockify.
• You want time tracking with productivity monitoring. Hubstaff.

Comparison table

Workspace369: hours, client, and invoice in one record

Workspace369 is a client-work operating system, so the timer does not live alone. Time is tracked against the client, project, and task; marked billable; reviewed in a timesheet; and converted into invoice line items through time-to-invoice — with the project context attached instead of retyped.

The pricing shape is flat plans rather than per-seat fees. Timers, timesheets, and billable time tracking are available on all plans, and time-to-invoice works on every plan from Cadet at $29/month with one seat. Time tracking is a headline inclusion of the Voyager plan at $74/month, which adds 2 seats, the shared inbox, and SMS; extra seats are $15 each. Annual billing drops each plan by roughly 20 percent, and there is a 14-day trial.

Because invoices, proposals, expenses, projects, and the client CRM share one record, the follow-up after sending — payment status, reminders, profitability — happens in the same place. The time tracking and invoicing software page walks through the full loop.

Where it falls short: there is no free plan, no per-user activity monitoring, and a solo operator who only wants a timer will find a dedicated tracker cheaper.

Toggl Track: the tracker specialists

Toggl Track is one of the most polished dedicated trackers: timers, manual entries, calendar integrations, idle detection, and strong reports. Billable rates and rounding live in its reporting layer from the Starter plan.

The gap for this list is structural: Toggl Track has no native invoicing. The invoicing path is a billable-hours report exported into a separate invoicing tool, which means a manual step — and a chance for drift between hours and bills — every billing period. Pricing checked September 23, 2026: Free at $0; Starter at $9 per user per month on the annual term or $12 month to month; Premium at $16 annual or $24 monthly.

Best for teams that already love their invoicing tool and want best-in-class tracking beside it. Skip it if the whole point is closing the gap between hours and the invoice.

Harvest: tracking with invoicing built in

Harvest pairs its well-regarded tracker with native invoicing on every plan, including the free one. The pricing page confirms invoicing, expense tracking, and project estimates across Free, Teams, and Enterprise tiers, with online payments through Stripe and PayPal integrations.

Pricing checked September 23, 2026: Free at $0 for 1 seat; Teams at $11 per seat per month, or $9 on annual billing ($108 per seat per year); Enterprise at $17.50 per seat per month, or $14 annually, adding profitability reporting, timesheet approval, and an activity log. For a deeper head-to-head, see our Harvest vs Workspace369 comparison.

Harvest is the strongest tracker-first option with real invoicing. The trade-off: the client record around that invoice is thin. CRM, communication, files, and the broader client workflow live in other tools, so a growing client-work business can outgrow it on the relationship side rather than the billing side.

Clockify: the budget path to both

Clockify's free plan is genuinely useful — unlimited users and unlimited tracking — which is rare. Invoicing enters from the Standard plan, which Clockify describes as its timesheet-and-billing tier, at $5.49 per user per month. Basic ($3.99) covers administration features; Pro ($7.99) adds profitability and productivity tools; Enterprise ($11.99) adds controls like SSO. Prices checked September 23, 2026 on the official pricing page.

For a cost-sensitive team that needs tracking plus basic invoicing and nothing else, Clockify is hard to beat on price. The invoicing itself is functional rather than deep: if you need payment plans, retainers, or the invoice tied to a full client record, you will hit the ceiling quickly.

Hubstaff: tracking with a monitoring layer

Hubstaff's center of gravity is time tracking plus workforce visibility — activity levels, apps and URLs, optional screenshots, GPS — with payroll-oriented workflows around the timesheets. Its own pricing page leads with those productivity features; the Team plan costs $10 per seat per month, and there is a 14-day free trial. Checked September 23, 2026.

For this list the caveat matters: invoicing was not listed on the pricing page we fetched, so verify Hubstaff's current invoicing support on its site before picking it for billing. Choose Hubstaff when monitoring a distributed team is the primary job; look elsewhere when the primary job is turning billable hours into a clean client invoice.

Where Workspace369 fits best — and where it doesn't

The shortlist above is fair on purpose, so here is the honest version for our own product.

A strong fit when you bill by the hour and want the timer, the client record, the project, the invoice, and the payment follow-up in one workspace — especially once two or more people track time. In practice that looks like this: the week's billable entries sit reviewed in the timesheet, time-to-invoice pulls them into line items with units and rates, and the client-facing preview shows amount due with a Pay Now button.

Not the best fit when you want a free timer (Harvest or Clockify), when you need employee activity monitoring (Hubstaff's territory), or when invoicing is the only thing you do — a simpler invoice-only tool will cost less in attention even if not in dollars.

Final recommendation

If hours should become revenue without an export in between, shortlist the tools where tracking and invoicing are one system. Workspace369 does that inside a full client-work workspace — start a 14-day trial on the Voyager plan (time tracking, 2 seats, $74/month) or compare tiers on the pricing page. Solo and want free? Start with Harvest. On a tight team budget? Clockify.

Once the tool is settled, the next skill is the handoff itself — our guide on converting billable hours to an invoice covers the review, rates, and line-item details clients expect. Setting or raising your rate first? The hourly rate calculator gives you the number to bill against.