Keito keeps client, engagement, service, billable status, approval, and delivery context together before time becomes WIP, a fee decision, or invoice evidence in the practice workflow.
Illustrative engagement review
Illustrative billing state
Review due
Submitted time
186h
Needs context
7
Ready to bill
92%
Engagement time
Client and service coded
Partner review
Exceptions resolved first
Billing handoff
Approved evidence only
An IRIS Practice Engine-led workflow still depends on the quality of the time record entering it. Keito gives delivery teams and partners a focused place to capture, review, and explain engagement work before it informs WIP, fees, invoices, or management reports.
Record client, engagement, service, contributor, duration, billable status, and a concise work explanation while the delivery context is still clear.
Give managers and partners a review queue for missing descriptions, incorrect engagement codes, non-billable work, scope questions, and entries that should not yet influence WIP or billing.
Produce a controlled summary of reviewed time and decisions for the firm's established IRIS Practice Engine, invoice, WIP, and reporting process without treating a raw timer export as final evidence.
A controlled practice-management handoff
Accounting practices evaluating IRIS Practice Engine workflows often focus on the destination: WIP, billing, fees, and management reporting. The preventable errors usually begin earlier. A recurring compliance entry is assigned to the wrong engagement, advisory work lacks a clear description, senior review is recorded after the billing cutoff, or a fixed-fee job absorbs extra client support without a scope decision. When those records enter the practice workflow unchecked, the partner review becomes a reconstruction exercise and finance has to decide whether the total is billable without enough context. Keito creates a controlled source record before that handoff. Staff keep client and service context attached to their work, reviewers resolve exceptions and write-off decisions, and only approved records become billing evidence or reporting inputs. Keito does not claim a native IRIS Practice Engine integration, automatic activity import, automatic WIP reconciliation, or replacement of the firm's practice-management and accounting systems. The firm chooses and validates its transfer method. The value is a traceable, reviewed delivery record that makes the downstream billing process easier to govern and explain.
Keep client, engagement, service, contributor, and billable status attached to every reviewed record
Resolve missing context, scope questions, and write-off decisions before time informs WIP or invoices
Hand approved billing evidence to the established practice workflow with clear ownership and traceability
Workflow fit
Keito keeps IRIS Practice Engine time tracking connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Keep client, engagement, service, contributor, and billable status attached to every reviewed record
Resolve missing context, scope questions, and write-off decisions before time informs WIP or invoices
Hand approved billing evidence to the established practice workflow with clear ownership and traceability
Structure work around the clients, engagements, services, contributors, and billing decisions an accounting practice needs, rather than sending undifferentiated hours into a downstream system.
Use approval state and exception ownership to distinguish complete evidence from records that still need a description, scope decision, rate check, or write-off review.
Prepare concise client and billing summaries from approved records while keeping the handoff explicit and preserving IRIS Practice Engine and the general ledger as separate established systems.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Record quality
Time stays connected to client, engagement, service, contributor, billable status, explanation, and approval.
Raw or late timesheets reach the practice workflow before missing context and incorrect coding are resolved.
Review timing
Managers resolve exceptions before records influence WIP, fee, invoice, or reporting decisions.
Partners reconstruct delivery context during the billing run when deadlines make corrections harder.
Billing evidence
Approved records support a concise, traceable handoff and client-facing explanation.
Finance rebuilds invoice support from timesheets, emails, spreadsheets, and separate scope notes.
System boundary
Keito supplies the reviewed delivery and billing-evidence layer beside the firm's established systems.
A practice-management platform is expected to correct incomplete source records after they arrive.
An IRIS Practice Engine time tracking workflow with Keito uses Keito to capture and approve client engagement records before the firm moves those records into its established WIP, fee, invoice, or reporting process. The goal is a controlled source record, not a claim that Keito replaces the practice-management system.
Buyers should compare client and engagement structure, time-entry quality, reviewer ownership, exception handling, write-off context, WIP and invoice evidence, reporting exports, transfer controls, and total workflow cost. Keito is the focused reviewed-record layer for firms that want clean delivery evidence before downstream practice management.
Yes, an accounting firm can migrate the capture and review stage while keeping IRIS Practice Engine in its established role. The firm should map active clients, engagements, services, contributors, billable rules, reviewers, open WIP, billing cutoffs, and transfer controls before changing the live workflow.
The handoff should preserve the client, engagement, service, contributor, duration, billable status, description, reviewer, approval state, write-off or scope decision, reporting period, and transfer status. Keito keeps those inputs traceable so finance and partners can explain the billing record without exposing internal management notes to clients.
No native IRIS Practice Engine integration or automatic synchronisation is claimed. Keito supports structured capture, review, reporting, API and agent-friendly options, and controlled exports; each firm must choose, test, and approve the transfer method that fits its systems and professional controls.
No, Keito does not automatically calculate or reconcile figures inside IRIS Practice Engine and does not replace the firm's general ledger or professional judgement. It organises reviewed time, approval, scope, and billing evidence so authorised users can make and document their own WIP, fee, invoice, and reporting decisions.
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