Deel pays your global contractors and team; it does not tell you which client and project their hours should bill to. Keito captures time by client, project, and billable status so distributed delivery becomes reviewed billing evidence, not just payroll input.
Weekly review
Client hours billed
$19.8k
Active work
24
Reviewed
91%
Ready to bill
$18.4k
Time captured with context
deel time tracking
Billing review complete
Client and project checked
Invoice evidence ready
Approved summary prepared
deel time tracking needs more than a timer. The billing record has to keep client, project, approval, and invoice context together before the work reaches finance.
Group work by client, project, issue, branch, or repository reference so time reports explain what changed, not just who was online.
Use approvals and project summaries to catch unassigned work, non-billable research, and time that needs a clearer client note.
Export clean summaries that connect delivery activity to project budgets, retainers, and invoices without exposing internal noise.
Global delivery billing
Deel solves a real problem — paying contractors and employees compliantly across countries — and many teams capture some hours inside it for payroll. The mismatch appears when those same people deliver billable client work. Payroll time answers what someone should be paid; client billing asks how many hours a specific client owes, on which project, and whether that work has been reviewed and is ready to invoice. A payroll timesheet cannot answer that, so agencies using Deel for global delivery end up exporting hours and re-tagging them against clients and projects in a spreadsheet before anything can be billed. Keito gives that work a proper billing record. Time is captured against the client, project, and task as it happens, billable status is part of the entry rather than an afterthought, and a manager reviews entries before they become invoice evidence — while Deel keeps doing payroll and compliance. The result is a clean separation: Deel handles what the team gets paid, Keito handles what each client is billed, and the two reports stay aligned without blurring payroll and invoicing data together. For a globally distributed agency, that distinction is the difference between defensible invoices and month-end guesswork.
Capture client and project time separately from Deel payroll hours
Set billable status during delivery, not during reconciliation
Review hours before they become a client invoice
Workflow fit
Keito keeps deel time tracking connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Capture client and project time separately from Deel payroll hours
Set billable status during delivery, not during reconciliation
Review hours before they become a client invoice
Keito is designed for technical teams that need billing records to reflect real delivery work without pushing every developer into finance tooling. The Keito CLI, GitHub Action, and Agent Skill log time from the terminal, CI jobs, pull requests, and AI coding sessions directly.
Managers can separate billable implementation, non-billable discovery, support, and internal work before reports leave the team.
Use tracked engineering work for invoice backup, project profitability, and retainer reviews without stitching together several spreadsheets.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Payroll timesheet vs client billing record
Keito keeps deel time tracking tied to clients, projects, billable status, approvals, and billing summaries in one workspace.
Typical setups capture time in one tool and rebuild the billing explanation later from exports, comments, or spreadsheet cleanup.
Review before invoicing
Managers review entries before they become invoice evidence, so missing context is fixed internally rather than during a client dispute.
Raw timer exports usually reach finance before delivery leads have confirmed whether the work is billable, complete, or client-ready.
Predictable team pricing
Flat-rate plans let delivery staff, reviewers, contractors, and finance users participate without per-seat pricing friction.
Per-seat time trackers make teams choose between clean billing participation and controlling tool spend.
The best way to manage deel time tracking is to capture work at source, attach it to the right client and project, review it before invoicing, and use the reviewed record as billing evidence. Keito is built around that workflow so time, approvals, and invoice context stay connected.
Yes. Keito helps with deel time tracking by tracking work by client, project, task, person, billable status, and review state, then turning approved records into client-ready summaries. That makes the data useful for billing, profitability, and client reporting rather than just attendance.
Keito is different because it treats time as billing evidence, not just duration. A generic timer records how long something took; Keito records who did the work, where it belongs, whether it was reviewed, and how it should appear in client billing context.
Yes, deel time tracking can support client billing reports when the captured activity is tied to client, project, task, and approval context. Keito is designed to keep integration-driven work attached to that billing record, so delivery activity can become a client-ready summary instead of an isolated activity log.
A client-ready deel time tracking report should include the client, project, task, contributor, billable status, approval state, and a concise explanation of the work completed. Keito keeps those details connected so reports can answer client questions without exposing internal delivery noise.
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